Is Sudan the only place to save those refugee?! Is that the right choice?! Do UNCHR fully aware about the safety for those refugee?!"Palestinian refugees along the Iraq-Syria border are so desperate, they may accept...
What is Mount Everest? The highest mountain in the world you will answer. Well it is that, but dismayingly, what Mount Everest is now increasingly being known as is The Worlds’ Highest Garbage dump. It is hard to...
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In the Nertherlands this campaign was started recently to solve the garbage problem in streets, parcs and recreation area's. See more in Dutch:
http://www.stichtingmilieunet.nl/andersbekekenblog/?p=4511
Goa needs care. For some reasons which I do not want to go into right now, our environment management systems are down. Nature in our pretty little state has taken a beating. Our political system is unable to...
MARGAO: Margao’s 7.5 mld sewage treatment plant commissioned in the year 2000 may have hardly treated any sewage during the last eight years.But, believe it or not, the Sewage Corporation of Goa has...
"In January, The Italian army started clearing up the piles of waste in Naples. Local waste dumps, however, were not able to handle the amounts of garbage people generated, and train loads of Napolitana trash went...
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Curitiba has an integrated bus system that carries 2.4 million passengers a day and a population whose children have led the way in garbage disposal. That is an interesting article about this visionary Brazilian...
WA$TED! premiered on Discovery Channel's Planet Green June 4 at 8 p.m. ET. Hosted by Annabelle Gurwitch, with “green” handyman Holter Graham, WA$TED! audits households' carbon footprint, confronting them...
They say a picture is worth a thousand words,
but it can't quite describe the smell that must be emanating from
Naples, Italy and the surrounding area during this epic garbage strike.
Apparently the garbage is...
"Nairobi's Kibera slum is home to as many as a million people, struggling to survive in a community of tin huts, dirt roads, and garbage. To make matters worse, ethnic tension periodically boils over, adding violence...
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My recent visit to Kochi the Queen of the Arabian Sea had an environmental surprise. We had gone to a well known supermarket to buy some local sweets. Once the required quantity of sweets was selected the sales...
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UPDATE: 17:20 GMT PM rolls out emergency measures against garbage crisis.Following his Cabinet meeting, Berlusconi announced emergency measures to tackle the rubbish problem, describing it as a "natural...
Angry Naples residents torched piles of garbage that have grown to crisis proportions. They are fed up with government inaction that has allowed tens of thousands of tonnes of piled up garbage.Apparently,...
The British Columbia government is setting aside funds for two organizations with the aim of providing education for people on how to treat the bears that share their environment properly, so that many are not killed...
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The Mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom, is a competitive mayor. As a city, San Francisco has managed to keep about 70% of its disposable waste out of the landfills, but Mr. Newsom wants more. He will be introducing a proposal that will make the recycling of cans, bottles,...
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