Environment
A cleanup of trash (and bodies) in Everest’s Death Zone
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A team of 20 Nepalese Sherpas will work above 26,240 feet in the “Death Zone,” hoping to bring back five bodies and begin a cleanup of an estimated 10 tons of trash.
Environment
Icelandic animals are feeling the hurt
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Livestock, birds and other animals are enduring extreme hardship in southern Iceland, where the cloud of Eyjafjallajökull’s toxic volcanic ash threatens their very lives.
Democracy & Civics
Paraguay Amerindians get their day in court
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Seething members of the Xákmok Kásek indigenous community in Paraguay asserted before an international court this month that they were slowly being squeezed out of existence.
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.
Environment
Aussies talk tough on shipping near reef
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In the wake of two troubling incidents regarding shipping near the Great Barrier Reef, including one in which a ship spilled oil when she ran hard aground, Australian officials delivered tough responses.
Environment
China and Nepal agree on height of Mt. Everest, or whatever the heck it’s named
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China and Nepal did little to demystify the tallest mountain on earth on April 8, when the two countries finally—finally—agreed how tall Mt. Everest actually is.
Featured
Hey you! Give us back our stuff already!
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Delegates representing 22 countries aren’t mincing words about their efforts to recover illegally looted antiquities.
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.
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.