je.st
news
Tag: flee
Kenyan families flee Embobut forest to avoid forced evictions by police
2014-01-07 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Families in Kenya were reportedly fleeing their homes and taking what possessions they could on Tuesday after police gathered near the Embobut forest to evict thousands of indigenous Sengwer people and others said to be threatening urban water supplies. The forest, in the Cherangani hills near the town of Eldoret in western Kenya, has been the ancestral home of marginalised hunter-gatherer Sengwer communities for centuries, but the area has been invaded in the past 20 years by many thousands of...
Tags: avoid
police
families
forest
Many Amish selling land to flee encroaching oil boom in Ohio, cashing in on royalties
2013-12-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Farmers in the close-knit Amish community who eschew electricity and most technology, are among landowners capitalizing on a new financial trend in the United States energy boom - selling decades of future oil and natural gas royalties for an immediate pile of cash. Gulfport Energy Corp, Chesapeake Energy Corp , Anadarko Petroleum Corp and others have spent billions developing oil and gas reserves on land in Ohio's Utica shale formation - often by agreeing to give landowners years of royalties,...
Is Bangladesh unrest forcing garment buyers to flee?
2013-12-20 16:11:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Bangladesh's garment makers could face a drought of summer 2014 orders as western retailers have begun fleeing the South Asian nation after recent political violence and a physical attack on Spanish buyers.
Tags: buyers
bangladesh
forcing
garment
Urbanites Flee Chinas Smog for Blue Skies
2013-11-23 04:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: A typical morning for Lin Liya, a native of Shanghai transplanted to this ancient town in southwest China, goes like this: See her 3-year-old son off to school near the mountains; go for a half-hour run on the shores of Erhai Lake; and browse the local market for fresh vegetables and meat. Song Yan, 31, held a meeting of a book club in the cafe bookstore, Song's Nest, she opened in Dali in the spring. She finished her run one morning beneath cloudless blue skies and sat down with a visitor...
Teens flee name brands as phones top malls
2013-11-17 17:27:18| Apparel - Topix.net
Where young consumers with spare cash once thronged the likes of Abercrombie & Fitch and American Eagle Outfitters for clothing that telegraphed their identities, the new generation is poorer, shuns logos and socializes more on the Internet than at the mall.
Sites : [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] next »