This week: Earth Day - 24 cities around the world turn their lights off for an hour to highlight the problem of climate change
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Pic of the Week – 5 February 2007
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by Pablo González Vargas © 2006
A powerful image from Pablo, who’s based in Mexico. For all society’s (still fairly superficial) attempts to green up its act, there’s still a lot of wasted effort, resource and energy – not least on the television…
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"It used to be that backpacking trips to Fiji involved a bus ride from Nadi to Suva, then a ferry to somewhere like Ovalau, Savusavu, Taveuni or Kadavu. No more." The Fijian islands are no longer the preserve of luxury cruise holidaymakers...
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This week: Water - an increasingly scarce resource all over the world.
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World Environment Day 2009
Held every year on 5 June, World Environment Day is a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) initiative to stimulate worldwide awareness of the environment and enhance political attention and action.
The host this year is Mexico, which as an emerging economy faces a whole range of environmental challenges – and, encouragingly, seems to be willing to do something about them. But there are events all round the world, including showings of a feature-length film, HOME, in cities including Paris, New York
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