Full Coverage: Environment

28.07.2005 An Environment Agency call for more ASBOs to be issued against environmentally damaging businesses is no substitute for prosecution and heavy punishment, Friends of the Earth said today.

27.07.2005 Rock ‘n Roll has a new partner: Sunshine. Throughout Austin, Texas outdoor events are tapping into the sun, and skeptics--who argued solar-power would diminish sound quality--are being proven wrong: the stages provide sound for up to five-thousand people and are receiving rave reviews from the music industry.

26.07.2005 Ce que proposent les journées Alternatives 2005 : Créer des espaces pour débattre des luttes et des solidarités qui nous animent, en démontrant comment chacune de ces batailles, aussi locale soit-elle, s’inscrit dans une résistance globale pour le bien commun. Parce qu’en renforçant notre mouvement social ici, en préparant nos batailles et en consolidant nos solidarités au Québec et au Canada, c’est à un mouvement global que nous contribuons.

25.07.2005 The environment-rich state in the north east of India - Arunachal Pradesh - has decided not to undertake or allow construction of any new reservoir-based mega-dams in the state.

25.07.2005 Fifteen years ago, after discovering carcinogenic solvents in their drinking water, Wisconsin citizens began demanding that nearby Badger Army Ammunition Plant--which was polluting the regionÂ’s water, land, and air--be closed. Today, the clean up continues and the volunteers remain a steady voice for human health.

22.07.2005 Ce que proposent les journées Alternatives 2005 : Créer des espaces pour débattre des luttes et des solidarités qui nous animent, en démontrant comment chacune de ces batailles, aussi locale soit-elle, s’inscrit dans une résistance globale pour le bien commun. Parce qu’en renforçant notre mouvement social ici, en préparant nos batailles et en consolidant nos solidarités au Québec et au Canada, c’est à un mouvement global que nous contribuons.

22.07.2005 The Communal Services Enterprise “Park” will open today its new office building with an Environmental Centre at the recreation and enternatinment park “Pionirska Dolina”, near Sarajevo.

21.07.2005 A land management debate is heating up within the Maya Biosphere, a 2.1-million-hectare (5-million-acre) protected area in the northern Guatemalan department of Peten, considered the largest tropical forest north of the Amazon.

21.07.2005 Women's rights advocates, civil rights groups, and environmentalists are all voicing their concern with President Bush's Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' record. Roberts argued for an extreme anti-abortion group, against Roe v. Wade, and against affirmative action, reports the Feminist Majority Foundation.

20.07.2005 MPs will today be told that the CBI routinely exaggerates the costs of environmental regulation, ignores the benefits and falsely presents its anti-regulatory position as if it has consensus support across the business community.

20.07.2005 Rep. Richard Pombo is about to introduce a bill that will dramatically alter the criteria a species must meet to qualify for protections under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Critics charge the new legislation would contradict the goal of the ESA--to prevent endangered species from going extinct.

20.07.2005 Europeans will be hearing a lot more about sustainable energy; the Sustainable Energy Europe campaign was launched Monday by the European Commission. Aiming to raise awareness about renewable energy, the campaign will also work to stimulate economic growth by increasing private investment in sustainable energy technologies.

19.07.2005 The decision by G8 leaders to organise formal talks with leading developing countries on limiting global warming is more significant than it might appear. But it does not compensate for the continued shortsightedness of the United States, says David Dickson.

19.07.2005 The campaign to replace the plastic with shopping bags made of cloth, sponsored by the Ministry of Environment, started last week with distribution of textile bags to the shoppers in front of “Vero” supermarket and “McDonalds” restaurant in Skopje.

19.07.2005 The U.N. World Heritage Committee added seven natural sites to UNESCOÂ’s World Heritage List last Thursday. The sites include South Africa's Vredefort Dome, part of a meteorite impact structure; Egypt's Wadi Al-Hitan Whale Valley; and the islands of Baja California.

18.07.2005 The Federal Government has wrapped the news on the signing of a death penalty and execution for the Neretva River with a Slovenian-Austrian group in imported wrapping paper made of lies and trickery. Of course, the execution will be helped by several “traitors” from Sarajevo. The greatest treasure was sold for peanuts.

18.07.2005 Chinese researchers say they have invented a cheap and eco-friendly way to keep city-dwellers warm in winter and cool in summer — using untreated sewage.

15.07.2005 Seven non-governmental organizations from Montenegro founded the “Green Circle” as a response to the environmental protection and conservation needs, and to counter the inadequate approach to nature, both by individuals and legal entities.

15.07.2005 The challenge of agriculture in the 21st century requires a systemic integration of the environmental, social, and economic pillars of development to meet the needs of present generations without sacrificing the livelihoods of future generations. Read a special report on Climate Change and Agricultural Vulnerability prepared by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD).

15.07.2005 Dalits and indegenous communities in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu are up in arms against the coca-cola company for trying to set up a soft-drinks unit in Gangaikondan village of Tirunelveli district in southern Tamil Nadu. Freelance journalist and campaigner Nityanand Jayaraman writes from Tamil Nadu.