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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Blue Monday Russia's going nuclear, the U.S. is going nowhere, and Cambodia's going wild		19 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Blue Monday Russia's going nuclear, the U.S. is going nowhere, and Cambodia's going wild We hope you had a chance to relax this weekend, to cast aside your cares and spend hours soaking in the jasmine-scented bubble bath of life. Because now it's back to the putrid mudbath of reality. From Russia comes news that the country is planning to build two nuclear reactors a year through 20 ...
Topics: Cambodia, climate, energy, G8, news, nuclear power, Russia, wildlife (all these topics)

CF-Seized Illegal Trading of CFCs Imperils Ozone Layer		11 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
CF-Seized Illegal Trading of CFCs Imperils Ozone Layer Smuggling of CFCs and other ozone-depleting chemicals is on the rise, interfering with efforts to repair the Earth's protective ozone layer, the London-based Environment Investigation Agency said in a report released yesterday. As deadlines approach for phasing out CFCs, which are used in ...
Topics: air pollution, Cambodia, China, climate, Nepal, pollution and waste, Russia, toxics, United States, Vietnam (all these topics)

Earth Angelina		15 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Earth Angelina Actress Angelina Jolie, who played a tough-chick adventurer in the movie "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider," is taking on a new role: eco-crusader. She has pledged to donate at least $1.3 million over the next few years to establish a wildlife sanctuary in northwest Cambodia, a region that until five years ago was controlled by remnants of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. Known as the "100 Elephants Fore ...
Topics: Cambodia, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

Khmer Green?		18 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Khmer Green? A new kind of battle is taking place in Cambodia, this one between conservationists and international paper companies. Cambodia's central Cardamom Mountains were a stronghold of the Khmer Rouge, and as such were avoided by timber companies and others who feared being kidnapped or killed. With the Khmer Rouge largely subdued, however, timber companies have started to make good on current logg ...
Topics: business, Cambodia, logging, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Elephants: Never Forget		26 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Elephants: Never Forget A shocking 80 percent of wild elephants in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam fell victim to the ivory trade between 1988 and 2000, according to a report issued yesterday by Save the Elephants. The report blamed French, Spanish, Italian, German, Japanese, and Chinese tourists for driving ...
Topics: Cambodia, China, France, Germany, Indonesia, international government agencies, Italy, Japan, Laos, Nepal, Spain ... (all these topics)

Trunk Driving		15 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Trunk Driving A plan to save one of the last remaining wild herds of elephants in Vietnam got off to an inauspicious start earlier this week, with the deaths of two elephants. A team of elephant experts spotted the two on Monday and shot them with tranquilizer darts, hoping to sedate them for the long trip from their deforested home to a nature reserve near Cambodia. One of the elephants was captured and chained ...
Topics: Cambodia, deforestation, Vietnam, wildlife (all these topics)

Hot Food		03 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Hot Food A sting operation by Cambodian wildlife officials uncovered 137 restaurants dishing up endangered species in the country's capital city of Phnom Penh. The officials rescued more than 1,300 critters, including wild boars, rare turtles, scaly anteaters (called pangolins by those in the know), and a sun bear. Although no one was arrested as a result of the endangered species dragnet -- Cambodian law only allows fines in such cases ...
Topics: Cambodia, wildlife (all these topics)

Tusk, Tusk		01 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Tusk, Tusk Decades of war, poaching, and habitat destruction have decimated Vietnam's Asian elephant population, a trend the Vietnamese government is belatedly trying to reverse. Following a September agreement between Vietnam and Cambodia to cooperate on elephant conservation, a herd of elephants in Vietnam will be moved by truck from the southern coastal province of Binh Thuan to Dak Lak on the Cambodian border. There are onl ...
Topics: Cambodia, Vietnam, wildlife (all these topics)

Sen and Sensibility		23 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Sen and Sensibility Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has thrown his weight behind legislation to protect the country's remaining forests. The measure would set stricter logging regulations and allow courts to jail illegal loggers for up to 10 years. Illegal logging operations have been common in the past, supported by the Cambodian military and former Khmer Rouge members. But Hun Sen has been on the hot seat to rein in the logging, becaus ...
Topics: Cambodia, logging (all these topics)

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