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Rural communities lead Nepal's green fightbackKavre, Nepal (AFP) Dec 15, 2009 Thirty years ago, Nepalese farmer Badri Prasad Jangam realised that the once thickly-wooded hillside that overlooks his home had been transformed into a barren slope. Decades of deforestation had taken their toll, stripping away the topsoil, affecting vital underground water sources and threatening to bring disaster to a community entirely dependent on farming for its livelihood. Now the ... read more |
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Taipei (AFP) Dec 13, 2009The haul of grey mullets Taiwan fishermen catch each year has plunged from a peak of 2.7 million 10 years ago to just 100,000 in a worrying sign of damaging climate change, it was reported Sunday. Fishermen on the west of the island used to look forward to the winter when cold currents from north Asia would bring huge shoals of mullets to the Taiwan Straits to lay eggs. Over the past few ... more 
Lima (AFP) Dec 12, 2009The most fished species in the world, anchovy stock is at historic highs in Peru that may be short-lived due to climate change and overfishing. Peru's fleet can catch around 20,000 tonnes each day in a four-kilometer (2.48-mile) radius. In contrast, a European zone where a ban is in effect through at least 2010, the catch level has been set at between 20,000 and 30,000 tonnes of adult ... more  
Jiuquan China (XNA) Dec 11, 2009China launched Wednesday a remote-sensing satellite, "Yaogan VII," from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gansu Province. The satellite was successfully launched into the space on a Long March 2D carrier rocket at 4:42 p.m., the center reported. It will be mainly used for scientific experiment, land resources survey, crop yield estimates and disaster prevention and ... more |
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 Half of Brazil greenhouse gases from ranches, cows: study   More than 120 wildfires hit southeastern Australia   Instant online solar energy quotes Solar Energy Solutions from ABC Solar |
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Yaounde (AFP) Dec 11, 2009Police in Cameroon have seized almost 100 tonnes of illegally-caught fish from two boats off the African country's southern coast, a government official said on Friday. Officers boarded the two trawlers on December 8 as they were fishing with a large net, David Seguy, an official from the ministry of trade, told AFP. They seized between "90 and 100 tonnes", he said, although none of the ... more
Shanghai (AFP) Dec 10, 2009The price of garlic has shot up 40-fold this year in China, the world's largest producer of the plant, in part due to an unexpected factor -- a popular belief that it can help ward off swine flu. Garlic has outperformed stocks, property and even gold after low demand due to the financial crisis late last year led Chinese farmers -- responsible for about three-quarters of world supply -- to p ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Dec 9, 2009China will resettle at least 440,000 people to make way for a massive and much-delayed project aimed at diverting water to meet growing demand in the parched north, state media said Wednesday. Authorities will move around 100,000 residents a year to allow construction of the South-to-North Water Diversion project, the Beijing News said, which aims to divert water from a tributary of the ... more |
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  Copenhagen hosts alternative climate summit   The 2009 Geminid Meteor Shower  NASA Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Passes Major Review |
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