An Australian national park just got a little more green: it built a new bike pathway with recycled printer cartridges.
Democracy & Civics
In advance of World Cup, South Africa electricity grid under pressure
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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
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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
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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
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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
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“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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.