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Louisiana 'way of life' at risk as oil spill threatens fishing groundsVenice, Louisiana (AFP) May 2, 2010 As a sea of crude oil threatens to wash away her livelihood, Margaret Legnon stares at the boats sitting idle in the docks and wonders how long her coastal Louisiana fishing town can get by. Not to mention what all those shrimp and crab lovers in New York and Detroit and Los Angeles will do if one of the nation's largest sources of wild seafood is poisoned. "It's going to be ugly," Legnon says of the looming environmental and economic disaster. Louisiana's fragile wetlands are prime breeding ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) April 28, 2010Authorities in China have seized more than seven million toxic disposable food containers, state media reported Wednesday, in the latest product safety scare to hit the nation. Seven companies in the eastern province of Jiangxi were busted for manufacturing the long-banned foam boxes using plastic waste and fluorescent whitening agents, the official China Daily newspaper said. Disposable ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Apr 28, 2010These ESA Envisat images capture the oil that is spilling into the Gulf of Mexico after a drilling rig exploded and sank off the coasts of Louisiana and Mississippi, USA, on 22 April. In the black-and-white radar image the oil spill is visible as a dark grey whirl in the bottom right, while in the optical image it is seen as a white whirl. The Mississippi Delta is at top left, and the Delt ... more  
New York NY (SPX) Apr 28, 2010The seasonal monsoon rains in Asia feed nearly half the world's population, and when the rains fail to come, people can go hungry, or worse. A new study of tree rings provides the most detailed record yet of at least four epic droughts that have shaken Asia over the last thousand years, from one that may have helped bring down China's Ming Dynasty in 1644, to another that caused tens of millions ... more |
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Agriculture no longer Doha sticking point: AustraliaSao Paulo (AFP) April 23, 2010 Long-stalled world trade talks may still be making little evident progress, but at least the issue of agricultural tariffs that sank a 2008 accord is not as insurmountable as it used to be, Australia's trade minister said Thursday. "I don't think in the end agriculture will be the sticking point. It's really the balance between what we do on agriculture and industrials, and what we're trying to do within that balance to address services" that is key, Simon Crean told AFP in an interview during a vis ... read more |
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