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Antarctica – the world’s last great wilderness – Aljazeera.com
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Antarctica – the world's last great wilderness
Aljazeera.com And that applies especially to one of the remotest regions on Earth – Antarctica. The Antarctic Ocean is one of the world's last great wildernesses, home to spectacular biodiversity from killer whales to starfish. But a warming climate and an ever … |
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What’s behind world’s recent extreme weather events? | Climate … – Aljazeera.com
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What's behind world's recent extreme weather events? | Climate …
Aljazeera.com The past few weeks have seen catastrophic weather events around the world. Is climate change to blame? |
Braving 15-metre high waves on board Antarctica research vessel – Aljazeera.com (blog)
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Braving 15-metre high waves on board Antarctica research vessel
Aljazeera.com (blog) Antarctica – It is the harshest, coldest and windiest continent on Earth. No journey there is ever uneventful. It comes as no surprise then that the day after I set sail from Hobart, Australia for a month on-board the research ship Akademik Treshnikov … |
Matthew highlights the human factor in extreme weather – Aljazeera.com
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Matthew highlights the human factor in extreme weather
Aljazeera.com Yet there was an inevitability about the impact of a severe storm on a country like Haiti. The country is the poorest in the world. There are many reasons for this, including its turbulent history – slavery, colonialism, revolution, and occupation are … Winds Continue to Diminish as Matthew Pulls Away |
Spanish court acquits oil spill defendants – Aljazeera.com
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Spanish court acquits oil spill defendants
Aljazeera.com Environmental groups and victims of the oil spill voiced anger at the outcome of the trial. "The sentence shows that in Spain we are not ready to judge an environmental catastrophe, neither to condemn it nor to defend the environment," said Greenpeace … Three Acquitted of Responsibility for 2002 Oil Spill Disaster Spanish court acquits accused in Prestige oil spill Crew, official acquitted of causing 2002 Spanish oil spill disaster |
BP accused at trial of lying about oil spill – Aljazeera.com
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BP accused at trial of lying about oil spill
Aljazeera.com In the frantic days after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, BP lied about how much oil was leaking from its Macondo well and took too long to cap it, plaintiffs' lawyers have said at the opening of the second phase of the company's trial. A lawyer for … As BP oil spill trial resumes, lying accusations bubble up Judge hears claims that BP lied to feds about Gulf oil spill Second phase of BP trial over the 2010 Gulf oil spill focuses on flow rates … |
Shell considers payouts for Nigeria spills – Aljazeera.com
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Shell considers payouts for Nigeria spills
Aljazeera.com The two oil spills that started in 2008 led to the largest loss of a mangrove habitat ever caused by a spill, affecting about 30,000 people in the Niger Delta area since then, according to London-based law firm Leigh Day. "These people, since 2008 they … Five Years After Devastating Oil Spills In Nigeria, Shell May Finally Cough Up … |
Kenyan poachers make a killing in ivory – Aljazeera.com
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Kenyan poachers make a killing in ivory
Aljazeera.com Throughout Africa, elephant and rhino poaching is reaching a level of frenzy. Tens of thousands of elephants are slaughtered each year, saws taken to their tusks as ivory prices soar, despite the trade being made illegal in 1989. In the Democratic … |
Poachers in Chad slaughter 89 elephants – Aljazeera.com
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Poachers in Chad slaughter 89 elephants
Aljazeera.com The governments of Cameroon, the Central African Republic and Chad will meet in Yaounde this week to develop a regional anti-poaching strategy after conservationists said that elephants in Central Africa risked being wiped out by such slaughters. Slaughter of the African Elephants Cites Convention ?Fails to Protect the African Elephant? 86 Elephants Killed In Chad |