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Greenpeace two get suspended jail in Japan whale meat caseTokyo (AFP) Sept 6, 2010 A Japanese court Monday sentenced two Greenpeace activists to suspended one-year jail terms for stealing a box of whale meat that the environmentalists said was proof of embezzlement in "research whaling". Junichi Sato, 33, and Toru Suzuki, 43, were found guilty of theft and trespass by the Aomori district court and were each sentenced to a one-year jail term, which was suspended for three years, Greenpeace said. "Despite the sentences being suspended, it was wholly disproportionate given that t ... read more |
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Brasilia (AFP) Sept 5, 2010Film director James Cameron said Sunday he will return to Brazil this year to make a 3D film on indigenous people of the Amazon who oppose construction of a huge dam for fear it could flood tribal lands. "I want to return to meet some of the leaders of the Xikrin-Kayapo tribe who invited me," the Canadian director said in an interview published in the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper. "I wan ... more  
Copenhagen (AFP) Sept 5, 2010Bjoern Lomborg, the bad boy of the climate debate who has rejected for years "alarmist" prophecies from environmentalists, stresses in a new book the need to invest billions to fight global warming. In "Smart Solutions to Climate Change," Lomborg lashes out at current policies to curb greenhouse gas emissions but also highlights the need to spend 100 billion dollars a year on intelligent re ... more  
Dhaka (AFP) Sept 5, 2010Bangladesh plans to build a series of dams to reclaim 600 square kilometres (230 square miles) of land from the sea over the next five years, officials said Sunday. The government has approved the ambitious project under which dams would be built in the Meghna estuary to connect islands and help deposit hundreds of millions of tonnes of sediment, project chief Hafizur Rahman said. "The p ... more |
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Rice advice: Philippine farmers get tech-savvyLos Banos, Philippines (AFP) Sept 3, 2010 The mobile phone may soon replace the centuries-old straw hat as the Filipino rice farmer's must-have accessory. Already responsible for helping to topple a government in the Southeast Asian archipelago, mobile phone text messaging could now help launch a neat little agricultural revolution. "Precision agriculture could become available to small-scale farmers at their fingertips within a few minutes," says Roland Buresh of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). The institute devel ... read more |
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