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Headline	Author	Published	Section
A Slow-Down Dirty Shame World's forests disappearing slightly less quickly		15 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
A Slow-Down Dirty Shame World's forests disappearing slightly less quickly Good news! The world's forests are being destroyed at a slightly-slower-if-still-alarming rate. That's the chipper assessment of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's new report on global deforestation. It compared trends in 229 countries over the past five years with data from the 1990s, finding that on average, just over 18 ...
Topics: deforestation, news, United Nations, wilderness (all these topics)

Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened		10 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened The world's cloud forests, which strip moisture from clouds and supply millions of poor people in developing nations with fresh water, are in danger of being wiped out by climate change, claims a report released Monday by the U.N. and the Wor ...
Topics: ... climate, Ecuador, food and agriculture, Indonesia, logging, Malaysia, Mexico, renewable energy, South America, United Nations, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Raging Kabul		29 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Raging Kabul Twenty years of war in Afghanistan have not only taken an appalling human toll; they've laid waste to the nation's environment, according to a survey just completed by the United Nations Environment Programme. The survey found that more than 50 percent of the forests in three Afghan provinces have been destroyed in the last quarter-century, and w ...
Topics: Afghanistan, energy, land degradation, renewable energy, United Nations, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

To Summit Up		14 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
To Summit Up A global report card issued by the United Nations just two weeks before an international environmental summit has given low marks to the world's ecological condition. Among the report's more shocking findings: Three million people die annually from air pollution, while more than 1 billion people -- a sixth of the world's population -- lack access to safe drinking water. The report ...
Topics: air pollution, health, politics, United Nations, wilderness (all these topics)

Go Get 'em, Tigers		13 May 2002	Daily Grist
Go Get 'em, Tigers The world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarban, spans the border between Bangladesh and India, but the countries don't have a joint plan to manage the 3,700-square-mile area. The United Nations is hoping to change that. Two U.N. entities, the International Partnership Fund and the Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, are p ...
Topics: Bangladesh, deforestation, India, land stewardship, national forests, United Nations, wilderness (all these topics)

15 Is Enough		20 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
15 Is Enough The U.N. Environment Programme says forest-protection efforts worldwide should focus on just 15 countries that contain more than 80 percent of the most-intact forests left. UNEP says 88 percent of the targeted forests face little pressure from human activities. The 15 countries are Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Papua-New Guinea, Peru, ...
Topics: United Nations, wilderness (all these topics)

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