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Save the World
30.07.2006 from RealClimate:
'We knew that this stuff [disinformation campaigns] goes on but it's rare that we get such a close look at how it happens.'
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Related topics/regions: [United States] [Climate change] [Science]
Image: Save the World © Rakhee Sharma, Year 8 student, UK
27.07.2006 The announced availability of the news pre-accession EU funda – IPA, was received by NGOs with much joy. On the other hand, it increases their fears of a pull-out or reduction of foreign aid coming into the country. Foreign representatives in Macedonia warn that it is only a matter of time before the pull-out of foreign donors, writes Zaklina Gjorgjevic in “Utrinski vesnik”.
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Related topics/regions: [Macedonia (FYROM)] [Aid] [Finance] [Civil society]
22.07.2006 NEW YORK, July 22 (OneWorld) - A prominent rights advocacy group has launched a worldwide campaign this week against "big brothers" trying to block information on the Internet.
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Related topics/regions: [China] [Freedom of expression] [ICT] [Internet] [Activism] [Governance]
20.07.2006 The Coca-Cola company has severely polluted groundwater around its bottling plant in Plachimada in the south Indian state of Kerala, says a new report Indian NGOs - The Hazards Centre and the People's Science Institute - that was released in New Delhi on Wednesday.
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Related topics/regions: [India] [Agriculture] [Water/sanitation] [Ethics & value systems]
Image: © Aaron Couch / India Resource Center
 The G-8's energy plan is noticeably light on wind and solar.
18.07.2006 NEW YORK, Jul 18 (OneWorld) - Leaders of the world's industrial nations have drawn fire from international civil society groups after they embraced an energy plan that favors continued reliance on oil and other fossil fuels with no hint of any solid steps to deal with the impending threat of climate change.
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Related topics/regions: [Energy] [Climate change] [Environmental activism] [Nuclear Issues] [Renewable energy] [Geopolitics]
Image: The G-8's energy plan is noticeably light on wind and solar. © Peter Armstrong
Production platform in shallow seas
15.07.2006 from The Oil Drum:
A critical review of the push to open up areas of the US Outer Continental Shelf to oil and gas exploration and production.
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Image: Production platform in shallow seas © Global Witness
07.07.2006 NEW YORK, Jul 7 (OneWorld) - Increasing attempts by governments and corporations alike to decrease the share of taxes paid by multinational companies could lead to a crisis situation for public funding in many parts of the world, warns a new study released by one of the leading international trade union organizations.
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Related topics/regions: [Labour] [Business] [Credit and investment]
04.07.2006
Life expectancy is way up, but not everywhere.




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Related topics/regions: [Poverty] [Disease] [Infant mortality] [Nutrition/malnutrition]

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