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Kenya Believe It?



Kenya Believe It?

Feb 20, 02 at 9:00 am.
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by Grist Reprinted by permission from Grist. For more environmental news, humor, and inspiration, visit www.grist.org. If Kenya gets its way, water distribution in east Africa could change dramatically: The nation's energy minister, Raila Odinga, has called for a review of the 1929 British colonial treaty that grants Egypt the right to veto projects involving use of the headwaters of the Nile. Odinga called the treaty outdated and said it fails to take into account the interests of countries other than Egypt that also depend on the Nile as their main water source. Ethiopia, whose catchment areas account for 86 percent of Nile waters, has echoed Kenya's demands by calling for an end to a 1959 water-sharing treaty between Egypt and Sudan. Odinga said that countries that use the water downstream should compensate those nations that protect and conserve catchment areas and other parts of the river system. Related Links: How a river went from diversity to dumpsite Of course population is still a problem Seven reasons BP would like to forget last weekend... ...
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Not Sharky’s Day

Feb 11, 02 at 8:00 am.
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by Grist Reprinted by permission from Grist. For more environmental news, humor, and inspiration, visit www.grist.org. The cruel practice of shark-finning -- in which the fins are sliced off of living sharks to make soup -- has found its way into the heavily protected waters of Egypt's Red Sea. The discovery of illegal shark-fin fishing in the region has alarmed both environmentalist and tourism operators in the region. Underwater tourism in the Red Sea is a multi-million dollar industry, and every shark is estimated to be worth as much as $10,000 in income brought in by tourists. Trouble is, shark fins fetch a substantial wad of cash, too -- as much as several thousand dollars per fin, which makes eliminating the trade difficult. Related Links: We need a declaration of independence from foreign oil Most oil-struck birds and marine life die alone and uncounted Four oil-spill questions scientists can’t answer... ...
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Area 51

Feb 04, 02 at 8:00 am.
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by Grist Reprinted by permission from Grist. For more environmental news, humor, and inspiration, visit www.grist.org. Fair-to-middling was the U.S. ranking in a new study, presented at the World Economic Forum last week in New York, that rated the environmental health of 142 countries. In the study, conducted by the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University, the U.S. came in at number 51, behind Botswana (15) and Cuba (47) but ahead of Japan (62) and Great Britain (98). The top-ranking countries were (can you guess?) Finland, Norway, Sweden, Canada, and Switzerland, while the worst were Haiti, Iraq, North Korea, and the United Arab Emirates. Interestingly, the study found no clear correlation between economic wealth or degree of industrialization and environmental health. Related Links: U.S. should follow Europe and put the brakes on nanotech food and other products G20 makes itsy-bitsy progress on fossil-fuel subsidies A Salon debate on cap-and-trade and energy politics: day one... ...
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