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RAN Pushes Companies and Governments to End Indonesia Deforestation Crisis
2013-06-26 22:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Rainforest Action Network: On my way to Jakarta yesterday for a series of meetings with the Tropical Forest Alliance--a consortium of government and corporate leaders from around the world working to confront the world`s deforestation crisis--I stopped for a layover in Singapore. I was immediately hit over the head by the urgency of our task. There, just outside the airport windows, the once rich rainforests of Sumatra hung suspended as a thick, sickly smoke polluting the tropical air. While the historic haze engulfing...
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Japan firm behind nuke crisis faces investors
2013-06-26 20:28:29| Energy - Topix.net
Shareholders angry at the utility company behind Japan's nuclear catastrophe peppered executives with questions Wednesday about leaking radioactive water and demanded a phase-out of atomic power.
As Gaza heads for water crisis, desalination seen key
2013-06-26 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A tiny wedge of land jammed between Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean sea, the Gaza Strip is heading inexorably into a water crisis that the United Nations says could make the Palestinian enclave unliveable in just a few years. With 90-95 percent of the territory's only aquifer contaminated by sewage, chemicals and seawater, neighborhood desalination facilities and their public taps are a lifesaver for some of Gaza's 1.6 million residents. But these small-scale projects provide water for...
Jobs crisis: Europe's great migration
2013-06-26 03:10:27| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Migration of Europe's young jobless fuels brain-drain fears
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Greek leader set for crisis talks
2013-06-17 14:06:04| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras faces crisis talks with coalition allies over his decision to shut down the national broadcaster.
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