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Colorado Towns, Farmers Battle Over Water Rights
2016-05-28 23:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The City of Thornton is one of many growing suburbs of Denver, Colo. On a day without much traffic, it's only a 20-minute commute into the state capitol, and its new homes with big yards make it an attractive bedroom community. Nearly 130,000 people live there, and the population is expected to keep booming. All that big growth comes with a big need for water. In the 1980s, Thornton placed its hopes in the Two Forks Dam project, which would have provided the city with enough water well into the...
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Bangladesh tightens focus on migrant labour rights
2016-05-26 12:48:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The International Labour Organization (ILO) and International Organization for Migration (IOM) are to work more closely together in Bangladesh on the issues of migration and labour rights.
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Now Gap accused of rights violations in supply chain
2016-05-25 18:27:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
A week after Swedish fashion retailer H&M was criticised for workplace violations in its supply chains in India and Cambodia, the knives have also come out for US speciality fashion giant Gap Inc.
Gap accused of rights violations in supply chain - update
2016-05-25 18:27:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
US speciality fashion giant Gap Inc has told just-style it is collaborating with unions, governments and industry associations to improve working conditions in the factories that make its clothes after a study found violations at suppliers in India, Indonesia and Cambodia.
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Forests re-grown on cleared lands in LatAm key for climate, land rights: study
2016-05-13 20:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Forests re-grown on lands that had been cleared for agriculture in Latin America could play a key role in trapping carbon from the atmosphere and mitigating climate change if they are managed properly, researchers said in a study published on Friday. Over the next 40 years, such second-growth forests have the potential to sequester greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to all fossil fuel and industrial emissions from Latin America in the past two decades, said the study by scientists at the University...
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