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Listen to our planet in distress:
Arthur C Clarke’s Last Call
Author and underwater explorer Sir Arthur C
Clarke who died recently aged 90, may not have been a
placard-carrying, greener-than-green environmental activist. But in
his own unique style, he supported a range of environmental concerns
- from the conservation of gorillas
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UN poverty goals face new threats
The U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),
aimed primarily at reducing poverty, hunger, disease and illiteracy,
are being undermined by a rash of new problems threatening to
cripple the ongoing efforts by developing nations to reach their
targets by 2015.
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The international community should support Government and people
of Sri Lanka
Reply to Paul Williams, Ex-MP Netherlands:
The only context for international mediation is
to impress on the LTTE that it should give up terrorism, lay down
arms and negotiate in good faith rather than use every attempt at
negotiation to further its goal of dividing Sri Lanka.
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Biofuel: End or beginning?
Though biofuel is touted as one of the better
and cheaper environment-friendly alternatives for motor vehicles, it
has been attracting a rash of negative publicity particularly after
corn-derived ethanol produced in the US has driven up corn prices as
a result of which tortilla
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