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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Bill Clinton goes nuclear Former prez helped a rich guy get uranium-mining rights in Kazakhstan	Tom Philpott	31 Jan 2008	Gristmill
From Wednesday's New York Times: Late on Sept. 6, 2005, a private plane carrying the Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra touched down in Almaty, a ruggedly picturesque city in southeast Kazakhstan. Several hundred miles to the west a fortune awaited: highly coveted deposits of uranium that could fuel nuclear reactors around the world. And Mr. Giustra was in hot pursuit of an exclusive deal to tap them. Unlike more established competitors, Mr. Giustra wa ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, energy, Kazakhstan, mining, nuclear power (all these topics)

Dry As a Slightly Moist Bone Aral Sea restoration project nets $126 million more from World Bank		10 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Dry As a Slightly Moist Bone Aral Sea restoration project nets $126 million more from World Bank When is a sea not a sea? When it's a desert. Over the last five decades, the inland Aral Sea -- which straddles the border of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan -- has shrunk to a fraction of its original size, thanks to Soviet policies that diverted its feeder rivers for farming. But a dam funded by the World Bank has beg ...
Topics: desertification, Kazakhstan, news, Uzbekistan (all these topics)

Is It Frogs Next, or Locusts? Warmer climate could lead to increased bubonic plague		23 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Is It Frogs Next, or Locusts? Warmer climate could lead to increased bubonic plague Ever feel like we live in End Times? Well, you may be right. Apparently, in coming years we can expect more bubonic plague -- yes, plague, as in "bring out your dead!" Researchers publishing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that a rise of just 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit in the springtime temperature led to a 59 pe ...
Topics: climate, Kazakhstan, news (all these topics)

Out of the Lab, Into the Fire Kaisha Atakhanova fought to keep nuclear waste out of Kazakhstan	Michelle Nijhuis	18 Apr 2005	Main Dish
Kaisha Atakhanova. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. The Republic of Kazakhstan bears the scars of its Soviet past. Intensive agriculture has drastically shrunk the inland Aral Sea, creating one of the world's worst ecological disasters, while decades of nuclear testing have poisoned the landscape and its people. The country -- which is dominated by vast stretches of s ...
Topics: Kazakhstan (all these topics)

Is the Sea Half-empty or Half-full? Kazakh Dam Could Save Northern Aral Sea, But Kill Southern Portion		29 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Is the Sea Half-empty or Half-full? Kazakh Dam Could Save Northern Aral Sea, But Kill Southern Portion A seven-mile dam now under construction could mean total devastation for a large southern section of the already beleaguered Aral Sea, which straddles the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia. Once the world's fourth largest inland sea, the Aral has lost half its depth and 90 percent of its volume o ...
Topics: Aral Sea, dams, energy, Kazakhstan (all these topics)

Caspian's Unfriendly Ghost		04 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Caspian's Unfriendly Ghost The discovery of what may be one of the world's largest oil fields under the Caspian Sea near Atyrau, Kazakhstan, has western oil companies excited, but environmentalists deeply concerned. The field, estimated to contain about 40 billion barrels of oil, 10 billion of them recoverable, is being developed by a consortium including British Gas, ExxonMobil, S ...
Topics: air pollution, Caspian Sea, energy, health, Kazakhstan, West, wildlife (all these topics)

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