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Norway to Help Protect Guyana’s Forests
For the past year, President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana has traveled the world offering to place his nation's forests under international supervision if other countries paid his citizens not to deforest the tropical landscapes. The campaign received major support last week when  ...
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Worldwatch Launches Vital Signs Online
Washington, D.C.- Worldwatch Institute announced today the launch of Vital Signs Online , an interactive, subscription-based tool designed to provide busy decision makers and researchers with data-driven analysis on the most important sustainability trends that are shaping our future. The ...
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North American Governments Agree to Protect Wilderness
The United States, Canada, and Mexico agreed this week to work together to protect wilderness areas across North America. The cooperation agreement establishes an intergovernmental committee to exchange research and approaches that address challenges such as climate change, fire control, ...
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Aid Groups, Farmers Collaborate to Re-Green Sahel
Disastrous droughts crippled Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali in the early 1970s and more severely in the early 1980s. More than 100,000 people died. "The soil dried up. Everything dried up. All the trees died," said Yacouba Savadogo, a sorghum and millet farmer from the village of Gourma in ...
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Not What the Doctor Ordered: Rapid Environmental Change Threatens the Foundations of Human Health
Washington, D.C.- Changes to the Earth's land cover, climate, and ecosystems are endangering the health of hundreds of millions, possibly billions, of people worldwide and now represent the greatest public health challenge of the 21st century. The scale of these global changes is rapidly ...
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