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Too many conventions hurting environment: experts

Growing environmental awareness over the past two decades has resulted in the adoption of a plethora of some 500 conventions, which paradoxically has hindered saving the planet, experts said Thursday.

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Appeal over ‘seal killings’ in NI

Environment minister Edwin Poots appeals for information following the deaths of five seals in Northern Ireland in the past week.

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Appeal over ‘seal killings’ in NI

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Age writer wins Environment Day honour

The Age’s environment reporter Adam Morton is the joint winner of this year’s World Environment Day media award for environmental reporting over the past year.

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Peru’s new gold rush damages environment (Seattle Times)

The price of gold has increased 50 percent in the past two years and tripled in the past five, as global investors look to hedge against a falling dollar.

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Poland’s Environment Minister Resigns (INO News)

(RTTNews) – Poland’s environment minister Maciej Nowicki announced Tuesday that he has resigned from the post, describing his ministerial job as “difficult and thankless.”

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Savings Trumps Environment for Making Homes Greener (Gallup)

The majority of Americans, 68%, say they have taken steps in the past year to make their homes more energy efficient. Those making this effort say they were much more likely to do so to save money (71%) than to help improve the environment (26%).

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Savings Trumps Environment for Making Homes Greener (Gallup)

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Living in balance with environment (The Republican)

Living in balance with the environment For the past 35 years, Americans have tended to rally around a series of “issues de jour,” only to lose interest when the problems aren’t easily or quickly solved.

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Kuwait: Premier faces grilling threat over ‘polluted environment’ (Zawya)

30 October 2009 KUWAIT CITY – MPs Saadoun Al-Otaibi, Dr Mohammad Al-Huwaila and Khalid Al-Tahous have threatened to grill HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah if he fails to solve the environment problem some 45,000 residents of Ali Sabah Al-Salem Area have been facing over the past nine years, reports Al-Qabas daily.

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FOCUS: ENVIRONMENT (Aljazeera)

The World Wildlife Fund has resumed its bluefin tuna tagging project to map fish migration in the Mediterranean off southern Spain. WWF scientists hope to work with traditional Spanish fishermen, who have seen catches fall by more than 80 per cent in the past 20 years.

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DC teens learning about environment on Sanibel (CaptivaSanibel.com)

Sanibel’s wealth of natural resources, wildlife and even scat are a lure to a group of high school students hoping to learn about the environment. have been calling Sanibel home for the past couple of weeks.

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DC teens learning about environment on Sanibel (CaptivaSanibel.com)