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BGSBU biodiversity centre gets ‘Lead Garden’ title  -  27 Sep 2008
GreaterKashmir.com (press release),...as important as it is to J&K whose economy is heavily dependent on plant and animal products, many of which are vanishing due to overexploitation,� it said.

City tightens controls on illegal wells  -  Sep 11, 2008
Viet Nam News,The overexploitation of ground water resources posed concern for water authorities about pollution and land sinking, Phuoc said, adding the industry still

Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? Salmon are  -  Sep 3, 2008
InTheNews.co.uk,..."There are multiple threats to salmon systems, including overexploitation by fisheries and the destruction of spawning habitats, as well as diseases from

Mangalore: Concern expressed over depletion of marine wealth  -  Sep 6, 2008
Mangalorean.com,MANGALORE Sept 7: The city-based Karavali Karnataka Traditional Fishermen’s Federation has sought an end to overexploitation of marine wealth.

Chiefs urged to protect natural resources  -  Sep 13, 2008
Newsnet,Addressing the chiefs’ council meeting in Bulawayo Cde Mugabe said the chiefs should also protect the natural resources from overexploitation.

A Green Wedding: Reducing Wedding Pollution with Native Trees  -  Sep 21, 2008
Al-Bawaba,...“This is mainly due to factors such as unrestricted development, overexploitation of natural resources, agricultural expansion and the introduction of

Rebuilding Vietnam’s war-torn forests  -  Sep 21, 2008
ScienceAlert,But conflict (and the infamous Agent Orange), overexploitation, and slash-and-burn cultivation have all taken their toll, reducing forest coverage to just

The real environmental issues  -  Sep 21, 2008
Times of Malta,...with a 270-km-long coastline and a marine area over 20 times our terrestrial resources, we need to safeguard our marine resources from overexploitation.

Taipei City wants panda ‘task force’  -  Sep 6, 2008
Taipei Times,...an international treaty that protects endangered and threatened plant and animal species from overexploitation by regulating their trade, Yeh said.

Giant Clams Fed Early Humans  -  Aug 29, 2008
U.S. News & World Report,..."These are all strong indications that T. costata may be the earliest example of marine overexploitation," said researcher Claudio Richter,

Evolution "for the Good of the Group"  -  Sep 17, 2008
RedOrbit,WynneEdwards interpreted a vast array of animal social behaviors as adaptations to prevent the overexploitation of resources.

Animal Migrations and Climate Change  -  Sep 16, 2008
CO2 Science Magazine,...four nonexclusive categories: habitat destruction, the creation of obstacles and barriers such as dams and fences, overexploitation, and climate change.

AquaReg Programme  -  Sep 9, 2008
Xornal Galicia.es,Overexploitation and depletion of traditional fisheries, has had a consequence in reduction in fishing quotas and re-structuring of the fleet all over

Review Plan to Unfreeze Permits  -  Sep 5, 2008
RedOrbit,The moratorium in 1982 was instituted due to the overexploitation of coastal fishery resources. The number of licensed vessels decreased from 41497 in 1982

Puzzled by shark policy  -  Sep 3, 2008
Shetland News,Popular for its fins, meat and liver oil as well as sport, the world's tope population risks overexploitation and depletion. It comes as no surprise that

Shattered Horizon Preview  -  Sep 3, 2008
bit-tech.net,That is, until their greed gets the better of them and overexploitation causes the largest mining accident in history. A massive explosion causes a large

Environmentally Corrected Development  -  Sep 2, 2008
GreaterKashmir.com (press release),This pressure on environmental resources (including air, water and land resources is in two forms ie overexploitation of resources and creation of wastes

SUNTHERM INFRARED HEATING - exploitation of fossil fuels could be ...  -  Sep 1, 2008
newsmax Medien Informationsdienst (Pressemitteilung),Globaly seen could be energy produced by Solar power or however by water power a coordinated uncoupling of the overexploitation and the soiling of our still

New species of giant clam discovered in the Red Sea  -  Aug 31, 2008
Wildlife Extra,..."These are all strong indications that T. costata may be the earliest example of marine overexploitation," said Claudio Richter of the

US Fish Farms Tap Former Coal Mines for Water  -  Sep 16, 2008
WorldChangingAs marine fish stocks struggle due to overexploitation, the volume of farmed fish has doubled in the past decade. Aquaculture now supplies 42 percent of

Hanoi underground water polluted  -  Aug 12, 2008
VietNamNet Bridge,Besides overexploitation of underground water, uncontrolled drilling affects the reserves and pureness of underground water resources.

Govt considers coal sector restructuring  -  Aug 8, 2008
China Daily,...coal industry in an effort to intensify the government's macroeconomic control and deal with overexploitation and over competition in the industry.

Vanishing Animal Migrations Need Saving, Experts Say  -  Aug 8, 2008
National Geographic,Habitat destruction, the creation of obstacles such as dams and fences, overexploitation of natural resources, and climate change are combining to make

Swallowed by sand: China`s billion-dollar battle against ...  -  Aug 6, 2008
Environmental Expert (press release),It is estimated that desertification, a process of land degradation that occurs in dryland ecosystems due to overexploitation and land mismanagement,

Parched land  -  Aug 7, 2008
South China Morning Post (subscription),It said that only severe overexploitation of underground water was making up for the shortfall between water from rain and rivers, and rapidly rising demand

Mass Extinctions And 'Rise Of Slime' Predicted For Oceans  -  Aug 13, 2008
Science Daily (press release)To stop the degradation of the oceans, Jackson identifies overexploitation, pollution and climate change as the three main "drivers" that must be addressed.

Farmers abandon land due to water salinity  -  Jul 24, 2008
Peninsula On-line,This has followed the overexploitation of resources in the country. A recently- published document by the UN says the groundwater reservoir in Qatar has

Conserving mangroves  -  Jul 30, 2008
PakTribune.com,It is, therefore, suggested that, besides other remedial procedures, strict legislation should be introduced to curb the overexploitation of mangroves and

BRAC poses threat of overexploitation of Deer Creek, study says  -  Jul 18, 2008
Baltimore Sun,By Mary Gail Hare | Sun reporter Deer Creek will be increasingly stressed by population growth in the next two decades, much of it caused by expansion at

State Government to come out with new mining policy  -  Aug 11, 2008
Hindu,BANGALORE: The State Government has decided to come out with a comprehensive mining policy to check illegal mining and overexploitation of the State’s

Extinct mangroves return to UAE  -  Aug 13, 2008
XPRESS,The Rhizophora mucronata mangrove used to be common in the Emirates a hundred years ago, but overexploitation is thought to have wiped them out.

Moveable Beasts: A Q&A with David Wilcove on Declining Animal ...  -  Jul 30, 2008
Scientific AmericanYou can divide the threats to migrations into four: habitat destruction, human-created obstacles, overexploitation and climate change.

Trend-setter in groundwater recharge  -  Aug 9, 2008
Times of India,Overexploitation of groundwater has led to deterioration in its quality across the state. There is an imbalance in input-output ratio as well.

Nicaraguan lobster divers risk lives for `red gold'  -  Aug 7, 2008
MiamiHerald.com,Amid widespread overexploitation, divers are heading farther out into the high seas, and diving deeper to bring in the harvest.

West Africa: Overfishing Linked to Food Crisis, Migration  -  Aug 11, 2008
AllAfrica.com,..."European fishery operators present in Senegalese waters contribute significantly to the overexploitation of fishing stocks and provide little long term

Humanity At crossroads: Attitudes And Climate Change  -  Jul 30, 2008
CounterCurrents.org,These influences, along with overexploitation of the resources, resulted in chaos, hatred and wars that negatively impacted humanity and nature alike.

Rainwater harvesting path to beat water shortage  -  Aug 5, 2008
Times of India,..."Overexploitation of upstream water and future climatic changes pose grave risks to river water supply. Mega water projects operating on the supply-side

CITY BLOGS  -  Aug 10, 2008
The Post,Scarcity of water in our country and particularly in places like Pindi is due to the overexploitation of ground water. Efforts have to be undertaken to

Phosphorous: Diminishing glow  -  Aug 3, 2008
Hindu Business Line,With the population continuing to grow and overexploitation continuing to degrade soil quality, the demand for fertilisers will not stop growing.

The Oceanic Crisis: Capitalism and the Degradation of Marine ...  -  Aug 3, 2008
RedOrbit,The life history characteristics of the upper trophic creatures suggest they are easily susceptible to overexploitation. Little room exists in the

Ocean Conservancy Urges Viewers of SHARK WEEK to Help Protect ...  -  Jul 22, 2008
MarketWatchOverexploitation through targeted fishing and accidental capture ("bycatch") is the number one threat to sharks today. Habitat degradation and pollution

Full Text  -  Jul 31, 2008
Science Magazine (subscription)Land degradation resulting from overexploitation of land resources takes the forms of soil erosion, desertification, and habitat fragmentation.

Armed Robbers Steal 15 Paintings Made by Antonio Berni in Buenos Aires  -  Jul 28, 2008
Art Daily...mainly overexploitation of the quebracho tree (for its tannin and its hard, durable timber) by a few landowners who exploited their workers.

The end of migrations: wildlife's greatest spectacle is critically ...  -  Jul 28, 2008
Mongabay.com...habitat destruction; climate change; and overexploitation of a species, particularly important in the case of oceanic and fresh-water migrants.

What to do about climate change  -  Jul 24, 2008
The Daily Star,...due to the poor management of aquatic and terrestrial resources, population growth, overexploitation, indiscriminate development of infrastructure,

Campos: Love versus selfishness  -  Jul 23, 2008
MetroWest Daily News,The tragedy of this circumstance is that, absent the introduction of some other factor, the perverse logic of the situation guarantees overexploitation of

EU-Mexico: Commission proposes Strategic Partnership  -  Jul 20, 2008
Mexidata.info,Environmental and energy security issues, such as climate change, natural disasters, fight against overexploitation of fish stocks; 4.

Fish Lose in Doha Round  -  Jul 29, 2008
MarketWatch...more than 75 percent of the world's fisheries are currently overexploited, fully exploited, significantly depleted or recovering from overexploitation.

Framing India's Hydraulic Crises: The Politics of the Modern Large Dam  -  Aug 3, 2008
RedOrbit,In one recent study, for example, it has been determined that overexploitation of groundwater has led to the rapid depletion of water tables,

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