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May 14, 2013
6:12 am
PHNOM PENH — Five-months pregnant, Im Chanthy was told that her husband's body had been found in the trunk of his car, brutally hacked to death for reporting on illegal logging and land concessions in Cambodia. Most of these concessions, a new report by environmental watchdog Global Witness found, are owned by two Vietnamese rubber companies, which, with the financial support of Deutsche Bank, an arm of the World Bank and local governments, have acquired more than 500,000 acres of land in Cambodia and neighboring Laos.
May 12, 2013
8:42 am
Urban aquaponic farms have the potential to curb food insecurity in the Gaza Strip, experts say.
May 12, 2013
6:01 am
With much of Gaza's farmland swallowed by Israel's buffer zone, experts say urban aquaponic farms can curb food insecurity in the cramped territory.
May 10, 2013
2:58 pm
Carbon dioxide levels, one of the main culprits of global warming, have topped 400 parts per million.
May 8, 2013
6:18 am
Thousands are still displaced in the town of Rikuzentakata.
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Apr 29, 2013
2:34 pm
3 different kinds of pesticides linked to bee deaths by researchers.
Apr 25, 2013
12:53 pm
Managers at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn., released 72,000 ladybugs into the enclosed shopping center this week to protect the mall’s plants.
Apr 22, 2013
2:01 pm
New York City is getting six all-electric Nissan Leaf cabs in a pilot project.
Apr 22, 2013
6:01 am
Shale gas riches tempt cash-strapped continent.
Apr 17, 2013
6:21 am
Commentary: Global markets will continue to control gas prices at the pump.
Apr 17, 2013
6:01 am
“The government has announced that it plans to kick thousands of our families off our lands so that wealthy tourists can use them to shoot lions and leopards.”
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