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2006 Nov 6 |
In Kenya thousands of delegates from around the world opened a UN conference on next steps to ward off the worst effects of climate change. Links: Environment, UN, Kenya 
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2006 Nov 8 |
A Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner called on people around the world to plant 1 billion trees in the next year, saying the effort is a way ordinary citizens can fight global warming. Links: Environment, Kenya, Trees
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2006 Nov 13 |
The China Daily reported that Zhou Shengxian, the head of China’s State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), said that the degradation of China's environment is reaching a critical point where health and social stability are under threat. Links: China, Environment, Labor
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2006 Nov 14 |
The SF Board of Education voted 4-2 to phase out the JROTC from schools over the next two years because of the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding gay service members. The SF Board of Supervisors mandated foot patrols by city police, in a 9-2 vote overriding a veto by Mayor Newsom. The board also voted to ban the use of plastic foam to-go containers by city restaurants and to effectively decriminalize the use, sale and cultivation of marijuana by adults. Links: USA, Environment, SF, Food, Education
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2006 Nov 16 |
A state regulatory board approved Gov. Ed Rendell's proposal to make deeper cuts in mercury emissions from Pennsylvania's coal-fired power plants, despite opposition from power plants and mining companies. Links: USA, Environment, Pennsylvania
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2006 Nov 16 |
The Vermont based Conservation Fund partnered with the state of California to purchase 16,000 acres in northern California from the Hawthorne Timber Co. for $48.5 million. Links: USA, California, Environment, Vermont
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2006 Nov 16 |
In Kenya the UN conference on climate change ended. The participating 180 countries reached no agreement on how to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Links: Environment, UN, Kenya
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2006 Nov 21 |
The US Environmental Protection Agency announced that pesticides can be applied over and near bodies of water without a permit under the federal Clean Water Act. Links: USA, Environment
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2006 Nov 23 |
An environmental activist alleged that highly toxic chemicals had accidentally spilled from weapons being reprocessed at the Maradykovsky reprocessing plant, 450 miles northeast of Moscow. The plant is a focal point of the push to meet an April 2007 target set by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons for Russia to destroy 20 percent of its stockpile. Links: Russia, Environment
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2006 Nov 28 |
Noxious fumes from chemical waste dumped into a Philippine creek forced thousands to flee their homes and sickened dozens. Men told police they had loaded chemical waste from a plastic factory and dumped the cargo in Marilao, 15 miles north of Manila. Links: Philippines, Environment
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2006 Nov 28 |
Beijing’s environmental protection agency reported that water from the Guanting reservoir, Beijing's fourth-largest drinking source, was not fit for human consumption or irrigation during the month of October. Links: China, Environment
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2006 Nov 28 |
The intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations unveiled GEONETCAST, a one-stop-shop for environmental data. Links: Environment, World
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2006 Dec 2 |
China’s Xinhua news said underground water reserves in around 9 out of every 10 Chinese cities are polluted or over-exploited, and could take hundreds of years to recover. Links: China, Environment
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2006 Dec 4 |
China’s state media said Ying Fuming, a manager at the Fanchang Grease Factory in Taizhou in east China, has been arrested for using grease from swill, sewage, pesticides and recycled industrial oil to make lard for human consumption. 6 children died of possible food poisoning at a boarding school at the school in Nanyao, a village in northern Shanxi province. Links: China, Environment, Food
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2006 Dec 8 |
Scientists said that the forests of the American West are under siege from bark beetles, miniscule but mighty foes that are ravaging the region's leading trees in record numbers. Experts said the region has failed in recent years to register the sustained periods of sub-zero temperatures that once dealt a fatal blow to beetle populations. Links: USA, Environment
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2006 Dec 9 |
It was reported that Lake Victoria, the greatest of Africa's Great Lakes and the biggest freshwater body after Lake Superior, has dropped fast, at least six feet in the past three years. The Uganda government cited the outflow through two hydroelectric dams at Jinja as part of the problem along with drought and rising temperatures. At 27,000 square miles the lake matched size of Ireland. Links: Environment, Uganda, Drought
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2006 Dec 12 |
A new environmental report said fertilizer and sediment runoff from sugarcane, banana and pineapple plantations are threatening tourism by damaging a coral reef stretching along the Caribbean coasts of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras. Links: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Environment, Mexico, Agriculture
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2006 Dec 12 |
Eritrea said it aims to become the 1st country in the world to turn its entire coast into an environmentally protected zone to ensure balanced and sustainable development. Links: Environment, Eritrea
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2006 Dec 12 |
South Korea opened the world's largest garbage-fuelled power plant and expects to reduce its imports of heavy oil by 500,000 barrels a year as a result. South Korea currently relies heavily on nuclear power plants which supply 40% of demand. Links: Environment, South Korea
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2006 Dec 13 |
Idaho officials tested tissue samples to find out why more than 1,000 mallard ducks have died along Land Springs Creek near Oakley, about 180 miles southeast of Boise. Links: USA, Environment, Idaho
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2006 Dec 13 |
An international expedition declared that a rare, nearly blind white dolphin that survived for millions of years, is effectively extinct after ending a fruitless six-week search of its Yangtze River habitat. Links: China, Environment, Extinction
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2006 Dec 18 |
Thirteen US states sued the EPA to force it to cut fine-particle air pollutants. Links: USA, Environment, Lawsuit
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2006 Dec 26 |
A 21,000 gallon oil spill off the Texas coast resulted when a ship anchor hit an oil line. Links: USA, Oil, Environment, Texas
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2006 Dec 27 |
China’s state media reported that temperatures in China will rise significantly in coming decades and water shortages will worsen, citing the government's first national assessment of global climate change. Links: China, Environment
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2006 Dec |
America’s first tidal project became operational after 2 underwater turbines were installed in New York’s East River by Verdant Power, a Canadian-American company. 14 other countries already operated tidal or wave-power stations, but most were tiny, experimental and expensive. Links: Canada, USA, Environment
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David Blackbourn authored “The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany.” He covered water management in Germany over the past 250 years. Links: Germany, Environment, Books
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Fred Pierce authored “When the Rivers Run Dry: Water – The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century. Links: USA, Environment, Books
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Roger S. Gottlieb authored “A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet’s Future.” Links: USA, Environment, Religion
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China commenced the building of an eco-city called Dongtan at the northern boundary of Shanghai on the island of Chongming at mouth of the Yangzi River. The 1st phase, expected to be completed in 2010, would accommodate 25,000 people. The British engineering firm Arup helped in the design. Chen Liangyu, Shanghai Communist Party chief, was a big promoter, but was sacked and later convicted for property-related corruption. In 2009 construction on the development was put on hold. Links: China, Environment
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Johan Eliasch and Frank Field, a British Labor MP, formed Cool Earth to allow regular citizens to contribute to rain-forest land purchases. Links: Britain, Environment
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California’s EPA chief asked the San Mateo Housing Dept. to help relocate concerned residents of Daly City’s Midway Village. Links: USA, California, Environment, SF Bay Area, Daly City
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Mike Strizki of New Jersey began to live off the grid without emitting an ounce of carbon or paying a penny to the local utility. The civil engineer turned green energy evangelist used fuel cells to convert the power generated by about 150 solar panels so that it can be stored in 11 hydrogen tanks about 100 yards from his house. Links: USA, Environment, New Jersey
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2007 Jan 10 |
A new report alleged that Myanmar's military junta is allowing gold mines to pollute the world's largest wild tiger reserve and has promoted development that is destroying ethnic Kachin communities. Links: Environment, Myanmar
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2007 Jan 11 |
In California the Alameda County Board of Supervisors agreed to develop a long-term conservation plan in a deal to settle a lawsuit over bird deaths due to wind turbines in the Altamont Pass. Some 4,88 windmills in the area killed up to 4,700 birds every year. Links: USA, Environment, Technology, SF Bay Area, Birds
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2007 Jan 12 |
State media said China will have 30 million more men of marriageable age than women in less than 15 years as a gender imbalance resulting in part from the country's tough one-child policy becomes more pronounced. In northern China an underground gas explosion struck the Niuxinhui Coal Mine in the province of Shanxi killing 13 people with 9 injured. Police in southern China arrested 10 farmers in Botang in the impoverished region of Guangxi embroiled in a dispute with a paper mill over pollution they say is killing their crops and fouling their water sources. Links: China, Environment, Labor, Sociology
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2007 Jan 20 |
Richard Vollenweider (1922-2007), Swiss scientist, died. He developed methods for quantifying the eutrophication of freshwater. His methods were used to save Lake Erie and helped form the basis of the 1972 Great Lakes Water Quality Act. Links: USA, Switzerland, Environment
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2007 Jan 21 |
Oil leaked from the Napoli, stricken freighter beached on the England’s southwest coast, Two containers of hazardous chemicals fell into the sea as salvage crews struggled to operate. Links: Britain, Oil, Environment, Ship
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2007 Jan 21 |
Canada announced it will spend $25 million to protect, the Great Bear Rainforest, a 16-million-acre preserve that stretches 250 miles along British Columbia's rugged Pacific coastline, one of the largest intact temperate rainforests left in the world. Links: Canada, Environment
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2007 Jan 22 |
Scientists warned that glaciers will all but disappear from the Alps by 2050, and that most would be gone by 2037. Links: Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Environment
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2007 Jan 24 |
A study released about the trade in Malaysia found that catches of some grouper species and the endangered Napoleon wrasse fell by as much as 99% between 1995 to 2003, a period coinciding with soaring economic growth in countries where the exotic fish are a delicacy. Links: Malaysia, Environment, Fish
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2007 Jan 31 |
Officials said Vietnam's ruling Communist Party and the military will relinquish control of dozens of companies, ranging from hotels to telecoms, as part of an ongoing government overhaul. An oil spill from an unidentified source hit Vietnam's central coast, blackening popular resort beaches as thousands of local people help with the cleanup. Links: Oil, Vietnam, Environment
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2007 Feb 1 |
Russia's Emergency Ministry planned to fly a chemical laboratory to the Omsk region in southern Siberia to analyze oily yellow and orange snow which has covered an area home to 27,000 people. Omsk is a heavily industrial city with a number of oil and gas refineries. Links: Russia, Environment
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2007 Feb 2 |
Scientists from 113 countries issued a report saying they have little doubt global warming is caused by man, and predicting that hotter temperatures and rises in sea level will "continue for centuries" no matter how much humans control their pollution. The 4th report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was published in Paris. Links: France, Environment, Earth
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2007 Feb 9 |
In London airline tycoon Richard Branson announced a $25 million prize for the first person to come up with a way of scrubbing greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere in the battle to beat global warming. Links: Britain, Environment
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2007 Feb 9 |
In Vietnam the US ambassador said the US government will give Vietnam $400,000 toward cleaning up a former US military base contaminated by Agent Orange, its biggest step yet toward resolving one of the most contentious legacies of the Vietnam War. Links: USA, Vietnam, Environment
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2007 Feb 13 |
Officials in the Ivory Coast said that Trafigura, a Dutch-based oil trading company, agreed to pay $197 million to secure the release of three executives from an Ivory Coast prison and settle claims that it dumped toxic waste that killed at least 10 people in the West African nation. Links: Ivory Coast, Environment, Netherlands
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2007 Feb 15 |
Officials warned of a potential environmental disaster in Antarctica after fire erupted on a Japanese whaling ship, as the search continued for a missing crewmen from the crippled ship. The next day Japanese officials said the ship posed no environmental threat. Links: Japan, Environment, Antarctica, Whales
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2007 Feb 15 |
Scientists gathered in Atlanta, Ga., to find a way to stop a fungus killing the world’s frogs. Up to 170 species have gone extinct in the past decade. Links: GeorgiaUS, Environment, Animal, Frogs, Extinction
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2007 Feb 20 |
Claiming a world first for a national government, Australia’s Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull said incandescent lightbulbs would be phased out by 2010 in favor of the more fuel-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs. Links: Australia, Environment
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2007 Feb 20 |
EU ministers agreed to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 20% below their 1990 level by 2020. Links: EU, Environment
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2007 Feb 22 |
The US General Accountability Office said it will cost at least $ 12 billion to clean up contamination from tens of thousands of gasoline storage tanks that were leaking underground. Links: USA, Environment
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2007 Feb 23 |
In India the Toxics Link environmental group said India has generated 150,000 tons of electronic waste each year for the last 3 years, with no laws to regulate its disposal. Links: India, Environment, Technology
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2007 Feb 25 |
State news media reported that Cuba has opened an experimental wind farm, hoping alternative energy sources can one day ease occasional power shortages while reducing the island's dependence on oil. Links: Environment, Cuba
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2007 Feb 26 |
Five Western US states (Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington) announced an agreement to create a regional effort to lower greenhouse gas emissions. Links: USA, California, Environment, Arizona, New Mexico, Washington, Oregon
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2007 Feb 27 |
A report said Malaysian environmental and residents' groups are joining forces to buy swathes of forest in a desperate bid to save them from developers. Links: Malaysia, Environment
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2007 Feb 28 |
An official report said China's population grew by almost 7 million people last year. China's National Bureau of Statistics said that the country's population was 1,314,480,000 at the end of 2006, an increase of 6.92 million people. Numbers also showed that China will overtake the US this year or in 2008 as the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Links: China, Environment
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2007 Feb |
A UN report said all lowland forests on Indonesia’s Borneo and Sumatra islands could be lost by 2022 at current logging rates of 2.8 million hectares a year. Links: Indonesia, Environment, UN, Trees
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2007 Mar 2 |
Brazilian police arrested 18 people accused of allowing illegal logging in the Amazon rain forest and were searching for 19 others, including environmental protection agents. Links: Brazil, Environment
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2007 Mar 6 |
Researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that pollution from Asia is helping generate stronger storms over the North Pacific, according to new research. Satellite measurements have shown an increase in tiny particles generated from coal burning in China and India in recent decades. Links: USA, China, India, Environment
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2007 Mar 8 |
President Bush opened a weeklong tour of Latin America in Brazil. Police clashed with students, environmentalists and left-leaning Brazilians protesting Bush’s visit and his push for an ethanol energy alliance. Local news media said at least 18 people were hurt and news photographs showed injured people being carried away. Links: Brazil, USA, Environment, BushGW
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