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771.Natural disasters costing Australia 50% more than estimated (2016-03-02)
... Reports find increases in family violence and mental health problems due to stress of natural disasters outweighs cost of rebuilding infrastructure ...
772.St. George square park – the place for making money and the place for manipulation with community or wise administration of municipal space? (2016-02-28)
... Can we avoid problems in administering city space instead of heroic overcoming them? On 26 February 2016 at 15.30, Lviv municipality will consider the issue of opening the new road for private transport. If this happens, there will be traffic jams, if such a decision is declined, there will be 1 thousand of unhappy car... ...
773.St. George square park – the place for making money and the place for manipulation with community or wise administration of municipal space? (2016-02-27)
... Can we avoid problems in administering city space instead of heroic overcoming them? On 26 February 2016 at 15.30, Lviv municipality will consider the issue of opening the new road for private transport. If this happens, there will be traffic jams, if such a decision is declined, there will be 1 thousand of unhappy car... ...
774.Only inside the European Union can the UK help fight global poverty (2016-02-26)
... Homs has been destroyed by years of conflict. ‘Cooperation within the EU will be essential to tackling the humanitarian emergency in Syria, the migration crisis, and the wider issues of peace, security and development in the Middle East and north Africa,’ write Valerie Amos, Mark Malloch Brown and 22 others. Photograph: Andrew McConnell/UNHCR Letters The... ...
775.Rare ‘superbloom’ blankets Death Valley in millions of yellow wildflowers (2016-02-26)
... Heavy autumn rains have transformed the California park from salt flats and sand dunes to a colorful floral landscape not seen to this extent since 2005 ‘At first glance you are blown away by the sheer numbers of flowers, then on closer inspection the diversity of species will draw you in,’ said Alan Van... ...
776.Tasmania’s bushfires: a human-made calamity on par with the razing of Palmyra’s temples Karl Mathiesen (2016-02-26)
... Unesco says it is “not in a position to speculate about the extent to which global warming is responsible for this particular fire”. Earlier this month the Tasmanian premier, Will Hodgman, attacked “activists” for “almost gleefully capitalising” on the fires, which he said were “naturally caused”. But this ignores the unnatural rarity of these particular... ...
777.UK fracking traffic would increase local air pollution, finds study (2016-02-24)
... Number of tankers taking water to and from drilling sites would increase hourly levels of nitrogen oxide emissions by as much as 30%, says research A test drilling site for shale gas on the outskirts of Southport, Lancashire. Photograph: Alamy Shares Save for later The traffic generated by fracking in the UK would increase air... ...
778.Heathrow 13 likely to become UK’s first climate change protesters to be jailed (2016-02-24)
... Activists will be sentenced on Wednesday and have been warned of likelihood of jail time despite support of leading politicians ‘It is in the tradition of this country over centuries that people have taken direct action and it should not be one which receives a custodial sentence,’ said shadow chancellor John McDonnell. Photograph: Plane Stupid/Amer... ...
779.The second chance for the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (2016-02-23)
... The Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on Environmental policy, Nature Use and Liquidation of Consequences of Chornobyl disaster issued a positive conclusion on the draft law 2009a “On Environmental Impact Assessment” that introduces an European model of preliminary assessment of environmental impact of various types of activities that cause adverse environmental impact. ...
780.Lost sites and areas of nature and reserve fund. Part 1. Volyn region (2016-02-23)
... Ecologists and volunteers of the ICO «Environment-People-Law» (EPL) started studying the losses of nature and reserve fund (NRF) in the regions of Ukraine. Besides present NRF areas, a lot of others were established not long time ago. Still for some reasons these sites were cancelled. ...
