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- Mexican Fishers Throw a Lifeline to Lobsters September 7, 2010Faced with the voracious international demand for lobsters from the Mexican Pacific and Atlantic, fishers and environmental organisations have come together to institute sustainable lobstering practices -- although the financial benefits are slow in coming. […]
- ENVIRONMENT: South Still Battling to Stop North's Biopiracy September 7, 2010The United Nations declared 2010 the Year of Biodiversity. But 17 years after the Convention on Biological Diversity was adopted at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the issue of biopiracy is still pitching North against South. […]
- PAKISTAN: Floods Leave Afghan Refugees Down and Out September 7, 2010When they are not looking forlornly over what used to be their homes or trying to find help for relatives who have fallen ill, many Afghan refugees chase after vehicles that pass through the Great Trunk Road connecting Peshawar to Islamabad, the Pakistani capital. […]