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The Mohammed VI Foundation for the protection of the environment ,has awarded the international "blue flag" icon to 20 beaches out of 64 listed in the national program "clean beaches''
The beaches are: Baladi Saidia, the Straits, Fnideq, Sool, Ohacar, Asilah Skhirat, Bouznika, Alsabelit (Mohammedia), Ein Diab, Syda Shawwal (Ain Diab Supplement), Hawza, parenting, Sydi Rahal, Safi city, Suwayra old, Essaouira, Agadir, foam Wade (Alayoon) and Miralfatt,
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The regal Arabian Oryx (Oryx leucoryx), which was hunted to near extinction, is now facing a more secure future according to the latest update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Its wild population now stands at 1,000 individuals.
“To have brought the Arabian Oryx back from the brink of extinction is a major feat and a true conservation success story, one which we hope will be repeated many... |
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FAO today announced the launch of a major new initiative intended to produce more food for a growing world population in an environmentally sustainable way. FAO's call for sustainable crop production intensification, more than half a century after the Green Revolution of the 1960s, is contained in a new book, Save and Grow published by FAO's Plant Production and Protection Division. ... |
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Climate change will have major impacts on the availability of water for growing food and on crop productivity in the decades to come.Climate Change, Water, and Food Security is a comprehensive survey of existing scientific knowledge on the anticipated consequences of climate change for water use in agriculture. An acceleration of the world's hydrological cycle is anticipated as rising temperatures increase the rate of evaporation from land and sea. Rainfall... |
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Forests provide jobs, shelter and medicine for over one billion people…and are home to half of the land-based species on Earth. A new UN report shows that stepping up investment in forests could halve deforestation rates and generate around 10 million new jobs.
This increased funding – estimated at 40 billion dollars per year – would also help tackle climate change, with more trees removing more carbon from the atmosphere.
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The drought gripping stretches of central and eastern China has dried Lake Honghu into an expanse of exposed mud, stranded boats and dying fish farms, threatening the livelihoods of residents in Hubei Province who call this their "land of fish and rice."
Dry spells and floods blight various parts of China nearly every year, and officials are prone to call each the worst in 50 years or longer.
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High levels of radioactive substances were found in seaweed and other seafood products near a damaged nuclear power station in north-eastern Japan, environmentalists said Thursday, DPA reported.
Greenpeace Japan said it found radioactive substances above the legal limits for consumption in 14 of 21 samples of products that included seaweed, shellfish and fish caught 22 to 60 kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.
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Forest fires, storms, unsustainable management and mass tourism are major causes of forest fragmentation The 'State of Europe's forests 2011' report aims at catalyzing action at ministerial meeting in June where negotiations commence on first legally binding instrument for sustainable management of forests in Europe Geneva 31 May 2011 - European forests may be expanding by around 7,000 hectares a year but many are still under threat from 'fragmentation' as... |
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2011/5/25
It is worth mentioning that the port of Alexandria suffered from this problem several times the latest one was the spill of the oil from an anchored vessel from Malta during loading operations which led to the appearance of an oil slick over an area up to 1600 m2 causing several environmental problems and hindrance of maritime traffic.
The Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs has taken the necessary legal action against the vessel... |
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Green Week - the largest annual environmental policy conference in Europe attracting around 4,000 participants, is taking place in Brussels this week. In its 11th year, this year's meeting will focus on the theme of "Resource Efficiency: Using less, living better " and there will be over 40 sessions, addressing the problem of resource depletion and scarcity, and the challenges and opportunities presented by constraints on resources.
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