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Wilted Greens
The Mexican Green Environmental Party (PVEM) has become the nation’s fourth largest political party and recently increased its clout by forming an alliance with Mexico’s biggest opposition party, the pro-business National Action Party. Many Mexican enviros say the Greens have done little to fight the nation’s serious environmental problems, and they accuse the PVEM of […]
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But It Gives Strip-Mall Developers a Nice Head Start
Africa lost more than 9 million acres of forest each year between 1990 and 1995, primarily because of logging, overgrazing, conversion of land for agriculture, and civil unrest, according to a new study by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. Africa had an annual deforestation rate of 0.7 percent between 1990 and 1995, more than […]
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Get Wind of This
Wind power is beginning to gain ground in Japan, and the public is paying more attention to clean energy in the wake of a series of nuclear accidents that have left many Japanese mistrustful of nuclear power. In October, Tomen Corp. opened Japan’s largest wind-power farm, and next month Tokyo Electric Power Co., the nation’s […]
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Or We Could Just Put Them All Up at the Hilton
More than a third of the planet’s plant and animal species exist on a mere 1.4 percent of its land surface, according to a new study published in today’s issue of the journal Nature. The British-American research team that produced the report said the findings indicate that saving a large share of the world’s species […]
