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Australia: Coalition misled UN over bid to strip heritage listing from Tasmanian forest
2014-03-13 04:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The government has been accused of misleading the UN in its bid to strip world heritage protection from tracts of Tasmanian forest, after the release of pictures purportedly showing that ecologically pristine areas will be delisted. Bob Brown, the former Greens leader, has released a tranche of photos from the Weld Valley, one of several areas where the government wants to remove a total of 74,000 hectares of the world heritage protection. Brown said the images were evidence that 90% of the...
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Social Pow Wow is a celebration of tribal heritage
2014-03-10 02:30:10| Beverages - Topix.net
Men and women in traditional Native American regalia danced, sang and drummed in the 12th annual Social Pow Wow at Willamette University Saturday.
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Social Pow Wow is a celebration of tribal heritage
2014-03-09 21:31:05| Agriculture - Topix.net
Men and women in traditional Native American regalia danced, sang and drummed in the 12th annual Social Pow Wow at Willamette University Saturday.
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Democratic Republic of Congo: Soco International's oil activity in world heritage park raises tricky questions for investors
2014-03-04 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A war of words between WWF and UK-listed oil company Soco International about its plans to explore for oil in a world heritage site in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has come to a head after a ruling by an international tribunal. Soco, whose preliminary results for 2013 are published tomorrow, has a permit to explore in part of the Virunga National Park, Africa's oldest national park and home to the critically endangered mountain gorillas made famous by the film Gorillas in the Mist. ...
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Former Dow Chemical CEO Frank Popoff to Receive Petrochemical Heritage Award
2014-02-24 18:24:00| Chemical Processing
Popoff served as president and CEO from 1987 through 1995.
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