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Recycled ink cartridges used for bike pathway

By Lemery Reyes | June 15, 2010

An Australian national park just got a little more green: it built a new bike pathway with recycled printer cartridges.

Way up north, another kind of oil controversy

South Africa braces for possible uptick in human trafficking

U.S., Viet 'Catfish Wars' heat up (again)

Urban planning in the Brazilian rainforest

Democracy & Civics

In advance of World Cup, South Africa electricity grid under pressure

By Newsdesk.org Staff | May 21, 2010

South Africa’s state-owned and fickle electrical grid is likely to come under intense pressure during the June 11-July 11 World Cup soccer tournament, as hundreds of thousands of fans pour into the country during the dead of the Southern Hemisphere winter.

Economy

Yosemite’s Range of Light goes solar

By Newsdesk.org Staff | May 19, 2010

Yosemite National Park, the gemstone of John Muir’s “Range of Light” in California’s Sierra Nevada, has agreed to a $4.4 million solar panel installation at its El Portal entrance.

Economy

Costa Rica ecotourism in trouble on Pacific Coast

By Newsdesk.org Staff | May 3, 2010

Hotel construction projects and a boom of vacation homes along Costa Rica’s Pacific coast is threatening the country’s famed bio-diversity and its ecotourism model, a newly published research project says.

Economy

Save the African forests; be a butterfly farmer

By Newsdesk.org Staff | April 28, 2010

People in the Kakamega Forest in western Kenya have found a way to save their shrinking woodlands and make a living at the same time, all on the wings of a butterfly. Literally.

Economy

Beijing stinks! Deodorant cannons to the rescue

By Newsdesk.org Staff | April 27, 2010

“At night we all wake up coughing. Even when you are sleeping soundly, you can wake up coughing. Everyone opens their windows in the summer and there is that smell.”

Economy

Issues resolved, a spectacular new National Park for Canada

By Newsdesk.org Staff | April 15, 2010

The Canadian government and the region’s northern aboriginal people, Lutsel K’e, hammered out a framework agreement for a new National Park in the Northwest Territories, nearly completing a contentious process that began 41 years ago.

Democracy & Civics

His crime? Giving away water

By Newsdesk.org Staff | April 13, 2010

The mayor of a Turkish resort town has been acquitted of misconduct charges in connection with his program of giving away drinking water.

Economy

Reduce livestock burps and farts to save the Great Barrier Reef

By Newsdesk.org Staff | April 5, 2010

Even as Australian salvagers struggle to stop a Chinese ship from spilling hundreds of tons of oil onto the Great Barrier Reef, scientists are working on another Reef relief angle—reducing livestock belches and farts.

Democracy & Civics

On the economy, women are dour, Gen Y not

By Newsdesk.org Staff | April 2, 2010

Women business owners are less optimistic about the economy than their male peers, and the young entrepreneurs of Gen Y seem to be downright upbeat compared to their senior generations.

Economy

The route to Machu Picchu is open again

By Newsdesk.org Staff | April 2, 2010

The route to Machu Picchu is open again, two months after devastating rains wiped out the main rail route from Cuzco and damaged the famous Inca Trail.

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