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BREAKING NEWS Tubs and toilets: designers craft bathroom of tomorrow PARIS (AFP) Sep 10, 2003 In the ideal environmentally-correct home of tomorrow, toilets will flush water recycled from the washing-machine or dish-washer, and showers will emit clouds of mist rather than gush water. Italy braces for mudslides after sweltering summer ROME (AFP) Sep 10, 2003 Just as Italy is cooling off after baking in the summer heat wave, the country is bracing itself for a season of landslides as torrential rains return. Flood pressures fall in northern China, but evacuees look for aid BEIJING (AFP) Sep 10, 2003 A major flood crest on northern China's swollen Wei River has safely passed downstream, but officials cautioned 4.9 million people affected by flooding and landslides that water levels remain high, reports said Wednesday. |
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Anti-globalisation circus faces frustrating WTO summit CANCUN, Mexico (AFP) Sep 09, 2003 Thousands of demonstrators have arrived in Cancun to take up the anti-globalisation crusade around the World Trade Organisation conference that starts Wednesday. French heat wave death toll rises to 15,000: funeral directors PARIS (AFP) Sep 09, 2003 The number of people who died in France as a result of last month's exceptional heat wave is 15,000, according to a revised estimate from the country's largest company of funeral directors. World protected areas top 100,000 mark but climate change threatens many DURBAN, South Africa (AFP) Sep 09, 2003 The number of environmentally protected areas across the globe adds up to more than 100,000, the United Nations announced Tuesday, as leading environmentalists warned global warming was already causing irreparable damage to many sites. One-quarter of Portugal summer fire damage is in protected areas: minister LISBON (AFP) Sep 09, 2003 Roughly one quarter of the forests which were ravaged by the deadly wildfires that swept Portugal this summer were located in protected areas, Environment Minister Amilcar Theias said Tuesday. French heatwave death toll rises to 15,000: funeral directors PARIS (AFP) Sep 09, 2003 The number of people who died in France as a result of last month's exceptional heatwave is 15,000, according to a revised estimate from the country's largest company of funeral directors. Globe's protected areas top 100,000 mark but oceans lag behind: UN DURBAN, South Africa (AFP) Sep 09, 2003 The number of environmentally protected areas across the globe adds up to an impressive 100,000 but oceans remain poorly conserved, the United Nations said Tuesday. |
Top ten environmentally protected areas in the world DURBAN, South Africa (AFP) Sep 09, 2003 The UN Environment Programme on Tuesday released an updated list of the globe's environmentally protected areas at the fifth World Parks Congress in South Africa. Climate change threatens environment: WWF DURBAN, South Africa (AFP) Sep 09, 2003 A radical change in global climate patterns is causing irreversible damage to the environment, the WWF ecology group warned at an international conservation event in South Africa Tuesday. No butts -- Dubliners get 20,000 free portable ashtrays DUBLIN (AFP) Sep 09, 2003 Dublin's City Council began handing out 20,000 free pocket-sized ashtrays on Tuesday as part of a campaign to cut litter on the streets of the Irish capital. Fires increasingly damaging world's forests ROME (AFP) Sep 09, 2003 Forests covering an area the size of India were destroyed in environmentally disastrous fires in the past year, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said Tuesday. "Jurassic insects" breed in Australia zoo MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) Sep 09, 2003 What is believed to be the world's rarest insect has begun breeding at the Melbourne Zoo, officials said Tuesday. Brigitte Bardot has baby Thai elephant named after her BANGKOK (AFP) Sep 09, 2003 A baby Thai elephant has been named "BB" in honour of former sex symbol Brigitte Bardot after her animal rights foundation donated funds to help Thailand's endangered pachyderms, a Thai official said Tuesday. |
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