September 11,
2002 -
U.S. Car Buyers Stall on Hybrids
- Reuters, ROME -- Hybrid
electric vehicles, or HEVs, are
gaining popularity, but their
fuel economy and environmental
benefits are not yet enough to
win over price-conscious buyers
in the key U.S. market, industry
officials said...
September 01,
2002 -
The Great Thirst
- By Jeff
Howe, Wired Magazine, Drought and
disease threaten to set off a water
war in volatile Central Asia. US
scientists are fighting back with a
data-crunching system that could
pump fresh hope into the region.
Call it the New Hydronomy. The
plight of Karakalpakstan is a boon
to medical science. This arid
stretch of territory provides
epidemiologists a rare look at what
happens when mankind rapidly alters
the ecosystem of an area twice the
size of Texas. What happens is that
nearly everyone — 80 percent of its
2 million people — gets sick...
September 01,
2002 -
A plan to save the Dead Sea
- ASSOCIATED PRESS, JOHANNESBURG,
South Africa, The sea is sinking
and could disappear in a few
decades, hurting tourism in both
Israel and Jordan. Israel and Jordan
announced their largest joint
project ever, a $800 million
pipeline intended to save the
shrinking Dead Sea from
environmental devastation. ‘This
sends a message that we do live in
one area with a common destiny. The
environment, ecology and nature know
no boundaries and no political
conflicts.’ THE LEVEL OF THE SEA,
shared between the two countries
that signed a peace agreement in
1994, is sinking at the rate of
nearly a yard a year and could
disappear in a few decades, damaging
tourism in both countries and
indirectly draining scarce water
supplies in the region, Cabinet
ministers from both countries said
Sunday at the World Summit...
September 04,
2002 -
Powell
heckled at Earth Summit - MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS,
A protestor is taken from the hall by security Wednesday after heckling
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell at the World Summit on Sustainable
Development in Johannesburg. Secretary of State Colin Powell addresses
the plenary meeting of the World Summit on Sustainable Development as
he is interrupted by activists' jeers and protests...
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2002
