Welcome to Eco. This section is dedicated to our many environments around the globe. Ever changing contributions, reverence and demands. Observing and managing our "home."
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Article Source: Bloomberg.com
The Pacific nation of Palau is creating the first shark sanctuary, banning commercial fishing of all sharks in its waters from vessels that hunt the predators for their fins, coveted in soups as an Asian delicacy.
Johnson Toribiong, president of the island republic, will formally announce the ban today at the United Nations General Assembly, said Carl-Gustaf Lundin, head of marine conservation at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Shark populations are in danger of collapse along with salmon and tuna commercial fisheries because of scant protective measures.
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Article Source: InterPress Service
RIO DE JANEIRO: The electric vehicle - pure or hybrid - will trigger an energy and industrial revolution worldwide in the coming decades, dealing a blow to liquid fuels. But plant-based ethanol will survive and grow, say Brazilian experts consulted for this report.
Today's automotive industry "will be buried within 15 years" if China meets its goals for electric vehicle production, says economist Gustavo dos Santos, of Brazil's National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES).
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China's President may well surprise many Americans at the opening of the UN's all day Climate Summit Tuesday morning by announcing voluntary and sweeping policy measures to fight global warming. Over coffee and mini-Danish Monday morning in midtown Manhattan, chief UN climate negotiator Yvo De Boer told a small group of journalists that the expected announcement "could well make China a world leader on climate change."
President Obama is also expected to speak at the Summit's opening -- his first speech ever to the United Nations, and his first major speech on global warming as president.
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Article Source: Bloomberg.com
Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Tree houses, which many a Westerner played in as youngsters, are getting a modern update from Germany: Willows are being grown to form the root of “live” buildings.
Rows of willow trees growing nine meters high (30 feet) will form a square-shaped tower after a bridge was completed earlier using the same technique. The trees, bended and molded, will be intertwined with cables and metal supports, making them strong enough to eventually support people and furniture, said Ferdinand Ludwig, designer of the “living” structure.
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Article Source: Breitbart.com
LONDON (AP) - Giving contraceptives to people in developing countries could help fight climate change by slowing population growth, experts said Friday.
More than 200 million women worldwide want contraceptives, but don't have access to them, according to an editorial published in the British medical journal, Lancet. That results in 76 million unintended pregnancies every year. If those women had access to free condoms or other birth control methods, that could slow rates of population growth, possibly easing the pressure on the environment, the editors say.
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