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IPS Inter Press Service - Environment

ALBANIA: Raising the Blue Flag (Mar 01 2008 04:45 GMT)

- TIRANA, Feb 29 (IPS) - The quality of Southern Albania's pristine beaches may well receive Blue Flag recognition soon -- if the government addresses growing problems with solid and wastewater treatment in the region.

IPS Inter Press Service - Environment

HEALTH: 'Chronic Diseases Bigger Threat Than Terrorism' (Mar 01 2008 04:45 GMT)

- SYDNEY, Feb 29 (IPS) - International health experts and activists are calling for immediate global action to avert the looming epidemic of preventable chronic diseases which will kill 388 million people in the next decade, threatening economies in the developed and developing worlds.

IPS Inter Press Service - Environment

DEVELOPMENT-ZIMBABWE: Full Dams Do Not Translate Into Water Supplies (Mar 01 2008 04:45 GMT)

- HARARE, Feb 28 (IPS) - Heavy rains in Zimbabwe and in the catchment areas of its major rivers in December and January have filled most of the country?s dams to capacity. Yet, many urban households do not have water.

IPS Inter Press Service - Environment

LEBANON: No One Helps the Fisherman (Mar 01 2008 04:45 GMT)

- TYRE, Lebanon, Feb 28 (IPS) - On the afternoon of his grandfather's funeral, Ismael waded out to the sea rocks near the old Tyre lighthouse and looked out over the choppy water. He greeted his friends passing by in a fluka --- a small, handcrafted wooden fishing vessel -- and lit the dynamite fuse in his hand.

IPS Inter Press Service - Environment

ENERGY: Investors Warned Against Coal-Fired Power Plants (Mar 01 2008 04:45 GMT)

- WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (IPS) - Prospects for coal-fired power plants have dimmed amid soaring construction costs, regulatory uncertainty and concern about global warming, say energy economists.

IPS Inter Press Service - Environment

BIODIVERSITY: Life Under the Macroscope (Mar 01 2008 04:45 GMT)

- BROOKLIN, Canada, Feb 27 (IPS) - Free, authoritative and online: 1.8 million species.

IPS Inter Press Service - Environment

ENVIRONMENT: Household Chemicals Wreaking Havoc in Fish (Mar 01 2008 04:45 GMT)

- BOSTON, United States, Feb 26 (IPS) - When people take their daily doses of birth control pills, antidepressants and antibiotics, fish are being dosed too.

IPS Inter Press Service - Environment

ENERGY-MEXICO: PEMEX in Death Throes Amid Political Squabbling (Mar 01 2008 04:45 GMT)

- MEXICO CITY, Feb 26 (IPS) - Mexico?s state oil company, PEMEX, is broke, and the country?s crude oil reserves will run out in less than 10 years. But although local politicians agree on the diagnosis, few are proposing solutions, while recriminations, by contrast, are flying thick and fast.

IPS Inter Press Service - Environment

Q&A: "Simply Not Enough People Committed to Proper Water Management" (Mar 01 2008 04:45 GMT)

- GRAHAMSTOWN, Feb 25 (IPS) - Following several incidents that have raised questions about water quality and distribution in South Africa, Water Affairs and Forestry Minister Lindiwe Hendricks has tried to allay fears about her department's ability to provide potable water to all South Africans.

IPS Inter Press Service - Environment

HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Too Few Trained Personnel. Too Much Aluminium? (Mar 01 2008 04:45 GMT)

- GRAHAMSTOWN, Feb 22 (IPS) - The precarious state of water distribution in Grahamstown, a city in the south-east of South Africa, was highlighted again this month when taps ran dry for almost two days (Feb. 8 and 9) in a large section of the city. Grahamstown's reticulation system has failed residents several times over the last fourteen months in terms of water quality and reliability of supplies.

IPS Inter Press Service - Environment

CLIMATE CHANGE: Lula Calls for Flexibility from Rich Countries (Mar 01 2008 04:45 GMT)

- BRASILIA, Feb 21 (IPS) - Industrialised nations must live up to their Kyoto Protocol commitments and be flexible in trade negotiations in order for the world to make progress towards solutions to climate change and to prevent the poor from being steeped in poverty for a long time to come, Brazilian President Luiz In�cio Lula da Silva said Thursday.

IPS Inter Press Service - Environment

CLIMATE CHANGE: Canada's Polar Bears Beset on All Sides (Mar 01 2008 04:45 GMT)

- VANCOUVER, Feb 21 (IPS) - Melting sea ice caused by climate change and government inaction is putting polar bears at extreme risk in Canada as a species over the next 50 years, according to local environmental groups.

IPS Inter Press Service - Environment

BULGARIA: Challenge to Pipeline Grows (Mar 01 2008 04:45 GMT)

- BUCHAREST, Feb 21 (IPS) - The Bulgarian government is committed to building an oil pipeline through the seaside town of Burgas, but local people are starting to complain they were not consulted before a potentially harmful deal was made in their name.

IPS Inter Press Service - Environment

ENVIRONMENT-PHILIPPINES: Locals Oppose Open Pit Mining For Copper, Gold (Mar 01 2008 04:45 GMT)

- TAMPAKAN, Mindanao, Feb 20 (IPS) - Under the fertile farmland and forests of southern Mindanao sits what may be one of the biggest copper deposits in South-east Asia. But whether the owners of the Tampakan Copper-Gold Project should be permitted to tap the mineral lode is under question.