Positive news from French Guiana
A ‘miracle tree’ that could feed sub-Saharan AfricaFrench Guinea, West Africa - As a child growing up in India, I greeted the appearance of one particular vegetable on my plate with exaggerated distaste: tender seedpods from the moringa tree, locally known as "drumsticks."
"... Its nutritional value, newly 'discovered,' has been known for a long time."
- Lowell Fuglie, moringa-tree proponent |
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More positive news from French Guiana
A ‘miracle tree’ that could feed sub-Saharan AfricaFrench Guinea, West Africa - As a child growing up in India, I greeted the appearance of one particular vegetable on my plate with exaggerated distaste: tender seedpods from the moringa tree, locally known as "drumsticks." |
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Skies to be swept for alien lifeHat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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News from South America
- Brazil says Amazon deforestation at record low
- new mammal menagerie uncovered in remote Peruvian cloud forest
- Brazil humpback population on the rebound
- Human Rights Court Rules in Favor of Community Over Ecuadorian Government
- Venezuela Ends Shark Finning, Creates Protected Area
- Peru Aims To End Child Labour
- Indigenous group and NGO establish crucial corridor in vanishing Atlantic Forest
- Peru is latest developing nation to adopt climate change initiative
- GM crops banned in Peru
- New rainforest and indigenous reserve established in Peru