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July 24, 2008
Animals and Animal Rights
Mission to Conserve African Wildlife Reaches New Milestone
EU proposes ban on seal products
New wildlife research station opens up on Bioko Island - Equatorial Guinea
Five Hen harrier chicks fledge in Northumberland
Dolphin harassment – Dolphin watch guidelines
Remote hot springs closed in Australia after croc sighting
Red kites released in Mourne Mountains
"Greenhouse" bees spread disease to wild bees
Child Labor and Abuse
US Department of Labor to investigate work accident involving teen
Zimbabwe: Ways to Eliminate Child Labour Sought
Bridgestone/Firestone Rubber Company in Liberia Accused of Rights ...
Audit finds that Michigan let hundreds of criminals provide child care
Coral Reefs and Oceans
New Geoengineering Scheme Tackles Ocean Acidification, Too
Plankton changes Atlantic into carbon sink
Shell Revives Age Old Lime To Oceans Project In A Bid To Combat ...
Coral reefs collapsing in more acid oceans
World's coral reefs face serious risk of degradation
Social Changes are Needed to Halt Destruction of Maui’s Coral Reefs
Corporate News
Private equity hot for infrastructure
Private equity favours Asian stakebuilding
Yahoo's Second-Quarter Profit Falls 18 Percent
AT&T profits jump by 30 per cent
Costco warning adds to US retail gloom
Boeing misses earnings forecasts
McDonald's gets lift from overseas business
Crime
Rising price of recyclable metals spawns poachers stealing your junk
Cash point scammer took picture of baby surrounded by banknotes
Karadzic Aims to Defend Himself Before Hague War Crime Tribunal
Deforestation and Desertification
Brazil: The South American Tiger Is No Black Sheep Anymore
Guyana Lone Caribbean Nation To Be Paid For Forests
Environmental Destruction And Poverty
Brazil harnesses space tech to monitor deforestation
The World Bank and the IIED propose a solution to global deforestation
World Bank lags in factoring ecology into project plans
WWF holds demonstration on reducing carbon emission in Indonesia
Economy
Budget Analyst Weighs Odds, Cost of Bailout
McCain credits Bush for drop in oil price
7 trading powers meet to seek breakthrough in WTO trade talks
Stocks rise on upbeat profit reports, drop in oil
Analysts divided on SunTrust Banks' capital position
Brinkmanship, not breakthroughs, dominate WTO talks
Carmaker rally helps Europe higher
Drop in oil prices sets the tone on Wall Street
Stocks mostly rise following drop in oil prices
In oil-rich Norway, petrol prices most expensive in Europe
House to vote on foreclosure rescue measure
Emerging Diseases
Travellers warned of yellow fever, dengue in Brazil
Red Cross launches massive Africa AIDS appeal
AIDS spreads across state, Montgomery, South
HIV/Aids prevalence in prisons on the high side
'Humans guilty of fuelling malaria'
Kenya study proves malaria drugs side effects
Dark days for Arsenal as Koro Touré brings malaria into camp
Dengue cases in Philippines rise by 43 percent: government
Alert up as dengue cases rise in Manila, north NCR
At least 3000 people infected with dengue fever in Myanmar this year
Immigrants to US From Africa, Asia Should Be Screened for TB
TB's rise blamed on austerity cuts
Goats are slaughtered in TB scare
NFU: Industry joins forces in fight to stamp out bovine TB
Endangered Species
Court finds harm to salmon, sets remedies hearings
California drought endangers Endangered Species Act
When more isn't better — gambling with extinction
State's growth leaves turtle little room to roam
RP wildlife threatened or endangered
Environment
Environmental Destruction And Poverty
New York’s Gas Rush Poses Environmental Threat
Former environmental officer: TVA violated law
Pa. parents sue FirstEnergy over girl's illness
Cuomo suing junkyard owners over environmental damage
Famine and Food Shortages
UN agencies warn of looming famine in Africa's Horn
UN officials say Congo prisoners dying of hunger
Fish famine is a recurrent problem
15m Africans on brink of hunger
Floods
Floods could push up state's jobless count
MedAssist aids Indiana flood victims
Floods a sign of aging infrastructure
Genetics, Genetic Engineering, Biotech, and Nanotech
Professor urges Wales to embrace GM crops
EU agency to express doubts on cloning
Nanotech: A Regulatory Blueprint for the Next Administration
Global Warming
Illawarra faces climate threat: council
Ritter Returns From Arctic, Talks Climate Change
Climate changes may have promoted the formation of new species in the Amazon
Global Warming Forces Innovative Sea Turtle Protection
How about an atmospheric trust to slow global warming?
Global Water Supply and Drought
ACCESS TO CLEAN WATER IS A HUMAN RIGHT STRESSES THE VATICAN, by ...
Drought, moisture stress threat to kharif crops
California could face major drought
Federal Government Discusses Drought in Fresno
Spectre of drought looms large over Marathwada region
Congressional Hearing in California on Drought Brings Dire Predictions
Government and Politics
Ex-EPA Official Says White House Pulled Rank
President Bush drops opposition to housing bill
US Senate Advances Bill On Oil Speculation
Senate leader wants housing bill passage today
Berlusconi pushes through law granting himself immunity from ...
Privacy breaches on the rise in BC
Momentum Building for US Privacy Policy
Pakistan government pressed on missing persons
Health
Border campaigners lash out at 'Cocaine' in a Can
Viagra helps women using antidepressants
Kids Living Near Nuclear Power Plants Have Much Higher Rates of Cancer
Pill-Pushing Doctor Allegedly Kills 56 Patients with Prescription Drug Overdoses
Foreign-born TB cases need better control, US says
Human Rights
How Many More Workers Will We Let Die in the Fields This Summer?
Iran Activist Risks Jail for Women's Rights Work
Myanmar opposes Asean rights body
Human Rights abuse cases decline
Amnesty urges Pakistan resolve 'enforced disappearances'
"North Korean Human Rights Record Depository Should Be Established"
Obama Should Urge End to Human Rights Abuses While Touring Middle East
Invasive Species
Missouri Landowners Asked to Beat Back Invasive Species
20 new invasive pests in Oregon
Micro Chips and RFID
Security Of RFID Systems In Spite Of Hacked Mifare-Classic RFID
Research and Markets: Examine RFID for Postal and Courier Services ...
Mining and Mining Pollution
Vale Inco plan to dump mine tailings in Sandy Pond meets opposition
‘N-deal will help India invest in uranium mining elsewhere’
China's Guangxi region orders all coal mines shut
Mine safety citations increase, MSHA says
AngloGold says four SAfrican mines hit by strike
Rescuers revise up death toll from S China coal mine flood
China Defies Peru Rescue of Miners Afflicted With Lung Disease
Misc and Odd News
Beaches plagued by stinging jellyfish
Natural Disasters
Second volcano erupts in Alaska's Aleutian chain
CHIILE UPGRADES VOLCANO MONITORING EFFORT
Inquirer Northern Luzon Learning to live with disasters
Poor planning blamed for natural disasters
High risk of 'mega-disasters' in Asia-Pacific
Culver: Iowa needs $1.2 billion in disaster aid
Natural Disasters In US Cost Insurers $6 Billion In Quarter
M6.8 quake hits northeastern Japan, no fear of tsunami
Nuclear and Depleted Uranium
Air Force must regain public's trust, nominees say
India-US Nuclear Deal Is in Sight
Iran talks 'colossal game of chicken'
Bush Administration Warns Iran, Republic Of Korea To Abandon ...
G8's concern over Nigeria's nuclear programmme
The Story of Orphan Uranium Mine
Pesticides and Chemical Pollution
Colony Collapse Disorder Debunked: Pesticides Cause Bee Deaths
Crop spraying under the spotlight
Nigerian farmers want government to buy off banned pesticides
Pollution and Toxic Waste
Despite the ‘luck of the eights,' pollution worries mar excitement ...
Beijing orders half its cars off roads to clear smog for Olympics
Pollution feared in mystery seagull deaths
Beijing pollution could be deadly to Olympic spectators
Old industrial base shakes off pollution amid Olympic enthusiasm
Politicians, labor leaders urge tighter controls on diesel ...
Railway worker files FELA lawsuit over noise exposure
U.S. Rushes to Change Workplace Toxin Rules
Ghana dumping site for Western waste
Twenty four years on Bhopal cleanup begins
Product Recalls
Indoor Lighting Fixtures Recalled by Lithonia Lighting Due to Fire Hazard
It's MY Binky Recalls Personalized Pacifiers Due to Choking Hazard
Electra Bicycle Company Recalls Amsterdam Bicycles; Chain Can Derail and Pose Injury Risk to Riders
Slavery and Human Trafficking
The Justice Department and Sex Trafficking
Human Trafficking: Recognize the victims
Our ‘tough but fair’ laws apply to trafficking offences too, says ...
Abolishing Tibetan feudal serfdom equates to ending ...
Woman's idea saves thousands of Nepalese girls
The Fight to Abolish Human Trafficking Within the United States
Space, Science, and Technology
Culberson apologizes for calling NASA waste of funds
NASA Hopes to Move Up Shuttle Launch Dates
Watch discarded NASA coolant tank zip across your night sky
Extraterrestrial trash visible with naked eye Saturday night
Wars and Conflicts
Iraqis Take A Key Step On Electoral Legislation
A Wake-Up Call From Afghanistan
Zimbabwe talks are starting at secret location
Civilian Risks Curbing Strikes in Afghan War
Thailand Assails Cambodia in Dispute Over Temple
Beijing setting up designated protest zones during Olympics
Senator: Waste, fraud hurting soldiers
Sudan leader contemptuous of genocide charge
Obama grilled on whether 'surge' cut Iraq violence
Iraq elections risk delay after Talabani rejects bill
'Security in Iraq improved' - Barrach Obama
Consensus May Be Nearing on Iraq Pullout
Blackwater's Iraq exit strategy
More US troops may help but not solve Afghanistan
Taliban arrest in Pakistan raises Western hopes
One British soldier killed in S Afghanistan
Zimbabwe rivals to start full talks tomorrow
Angola urges EU to drop Zimbabwe sanctions
Zimbabwe business confidence slumps as talks begin
South African authorities prepare to deport hundreds of immigrant ...
Soldiers await pay as Zimbabwe runs out of paper to print money
Opposition reprisals in Zimbabwe
Weird Weather
Dolly lashes Texas coast as Category 2 hurricane
Dolly brings wild weather to Texas
Wild Qld weather continues to whip up waves
High tide on the highway as wild weather wreaks havoc
Severe Weather Hits Texas As Hurricane Dolly Nears
Wildfires
Firemen battle forest fire in Lebanon amid munitions
Fire rages amid cluster bombs and mines
End in sight for this round of Calif. wildfires
Distant Wildfires Cause Arctic Cooling
Wildfires mostly contained, heat continues
Northwest could have its share of wildfires this summer
A lack of forestry management in the state becomes fuel for wildfires
Union Pacific to pay $102 million for 2000 fire north of Sacramento