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BIODIVERSITY: Lucrative Shark Trade Under Scrutiny
By Matthew Berger
WASHINGTON - As climate change transforms the acidity and oxygen levels of the world's waters with devastating effects for some marine species, others are facing an even more immediate threat from human consumption.
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BIODIVERSITY: CITES Faces Political Storm over Tuna Ban
By Matthew Berger
WASHINGTON - The vast majority of the species protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES, live on land, but as marine species come under increasing pressure from unsustainable fishing and a range of climate change-related threats that focus is beginning to shift.
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CLIMATE: The Thirsty Caribbean
By Peter Richards*
PORT OF SPAIN - Caribbean countries are considering options like desalination plants and cloud seeding to confront a drought that threatens the regional economy and which experts warned about years ago.
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ENVIRONMENT-LEBANON: Coastal Pollution Threatens Fisherfolk
By Mona Alami
BEIRUT - Pollution, oil spills and difficult living conditions are some of the challenges that fishermen in this eastern Mediterranean country face daily.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Preparing for Flood Season
Ignatius Banda interviews FARID ABDULKADIR, Red Cross disaster management coordinator
BULAWAYO - Southern Africa is entering flood season. Governments and policy makers have been challenged to adopt a more preventive approach to disaster management by the Red Cross - what measures are in place?
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ENVIRONMENT-LATIN AMERICA: Glass Half Empty
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - The countries of Latin America have made progress in terms of access to clean water and sanitation, but have failed to curb greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation, says a new United Nations report.
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BIODIVERSITY: Companies Push Hard to Halt Tuna Collapse
By Stephen Leahy*
VICTORIA, Seychelles - In the Seychelles' only cannery, the din of thousands of empty tuna cans rattling on narrow metal troughs is incredible as they bustle along, soon to be filled with Skipjack tuna that only days ago were swimming freely in the inky blue Indian Ocean.
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Q&A: ''There's a Limit to Fish Harvesting''
David Cronin interviews ISABELLA LÖVIN, Swedish fisheries policy activist
BRUSSELS - The perilous state of the world’s fish stocks has received less media attention than the more visible, palpable environmental problems like air pollution. Isabella Lövin is seeking to redress that balance. Her 2007 book ‘Tyst hav’ (Silent Seas) hit the best-seller list in her native Sweden, garnering her three awards, including the title of 'Journalist of the Year'.
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ETHIOPIA: Dam Critics Won't Go Away
By IPS Correspondents
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia is building a 240-metre high dam on the Omo River that is intended to end the country's electricity shortage and supply power to neighbouring countries. Not everyone's happy.
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ENVIRONMENT: Keeping Wetlands from Becoming Wastelands
By Stephen Leahy
VICTORIA, Seychelles - Swamps, marshes and other wetlands are beginning to be recognised as a country's 'green jewels', even in a tropical paradise like Mahé Island here in the Seychelles, with its stunning beaches and dramatic granite outcrops.
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EUROPE: Privatised Services Back in Public Hands
By Julio Godoy
BERLIN - After the wave of de-privatisation of water services facilities that started across the world two years ago, municipalities in Europe are now buying back the electricity utilities they sold to private investors in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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MAURITIUS: These Women Chose the Sea
By Nasseem Ackburally
PORT-LOUIS - She cannot swim, but Marie-Claite Hector is not afraid of the ocean. The 53-year-old pushes her small boat with all her strength towards the blue lagoon, starts the engine, and sets out to sea.
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CHILE: Water a Matter of National Security
By Daniela Estrada*
SANTIAGO - In its proposed constitutional reform, the Chilean government recognises that the availability of freshwater is a matter of national security. Environmentalists applaud the initiative, but some business groups are worried it will hurt their bottom line.
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From drought to floods, from privatisations to citizen-led management, from toxic spills and devastation to sanitation and conservation, from water wars to water as a human right, IPS correspondents track the issues surrounding this precious liquid.

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By Hazel Henderson

MOSCOW AND HAVANA: FRIENDS FOREVER?
By Leonardo Padura

THE DECLINE OF SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
By Ignacio Ramonet

TURKEY: DEEPENING DEMOCRACY OR NEW AUTHORITARIANISM?
By Ilter Turan

CHINA'S NEOCOLONIALISM
By Walden Bello

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