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Environmentalists to fight against Denmark-Germany bridge
Berlin - Environmentalists plan to continue their resistance to a mega-bridge crossing the strait between Denmark and Germany despite the signing of a treaty to forge ahead with the project, a nature-protection group, NABU, said Wednesday. They fear ...
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Activists storm logging ship in Papua New Guinea
Sydney - Four activists from the environmental group Greenpeace International stormed a logging ship at Paia Harbour in Papua New Guinea, the organization said in a statement released Wednesday in Sydney. The action prevented the Harbour Gemini from ...
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Tropical storm Hanna floods Haitian city, 19 dead
Mexico City - After being battered by Hurricane Gustav the Caribbean is now being hit by tropical storm Hanna, which left at least 19 dead in Haiti on Tuesday, according to local media. Hanna, which has been nearly stationary for the past few hours, ...
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Berlin mulls cash giveaways to promote freezer sales
Berlin - The German government considering giving up to 150 euros (220 dollars) in cash to shoppers to encourage them to replace power-hungry freezers and refrigerators, a senior Berlin official said on Tuesday. This would imitate a highly successful...
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At least 25 dead in southern African wildfires, bad weather
Maputo - The death toll reached at least 25 by Tuesday as the mop-up after three days of storms that fanned wildfires got underway in South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique. In Mozambique, at least four people were killed and 20 injured after a wildfire...
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Rising rivers flood Bangladesh lowlands
Dhaka - Rising rivers driven by late monsoon storms in northern Bangladesh Tuesday flooded hundreds of homes and forced the rescue of thousands of people stranded in muddy villages, officials said. The swollen Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers breached t...
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Philippine official faces criminal charges for cutting trees
Manila - The Philippines' environmental agency said Tuesday that it was studying filing criminal charges against a national park administrator whose office oversaw the cutting of 29 decades-old trees from a historic site in Manila. The Department of ...
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