Review: A step back for the environment
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'Green Cross' to protect environment in wars
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Wells of conflict on the West Bank: For thousands of years, the land that is now Israel has been short of water. Today, this shortage has become a stumbling block to peace in the Middle East
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Acts of God, acts of man?: Poor people seem to bear the brunt of disasters, as in the Bangladesh catastrophe. If this is always true, should we be looking for technical or political solutions?
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Human lives shrugged off in flood plan
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Making Water Work: A dammed fine mess - Large reservoirs meet much of the world's demand for water and power. But they are clogging up with silt and, within two decades, could be useless
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Science: Where does all the atmosphere's carbon go?
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Sunken tanker fuels debate over dispersants
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Making water work:
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Making water work: Myth 1 - The Himalayan forest are everywhere being destroyed
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Africa at a watershed: Africa is a parched continent. Three decades of grand plans to water its fields and fill its taps have failed. What next? Some experts say that water from equatorial Zaire could make the Sahel bloom. Others want to abandon such eng
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Science: Naughty nylon creates a hot and bothered atmosphere
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