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Bolivians demand controversial highway be built
More than 2,000 Amazon Indians on Monday called on Bolivian President Evo Morales to approve the building of a highway through a nature reserve, a project scrapped last year after widespread protests.
Jan 31, 2012 |
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Bolivia cancels controversial Amazon highway
Bolivian President Evo Morales announced Friday he was cancelling a controversial plan to build a highway through an Amazon ecological reserve that has triggered widespread protests.
Oct 21, 2011 |
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Bolivian natives enter La Paz after march from Amazon
Hundreds of indigenous people made a triumphal entry into La Paz Wednesday at the end of a two-month march from the Amazon to oppose the construction of a highway through their ancestral homeland.
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Bolivia: Colonialism understood as a sickness
When Evo Morales, Bolivia's first president of Indian origin, was appointed in 2006 he initiated a "decolonising revolution". In a new thesis in social anthropology at the University of Gothenburg, Anders Burman examines ...
Feb 27, 2009 |
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Forest plan hangs in balance at climate conference
(AP) -- Pedro Chuc May climbs a big zapote tree, braces himself against the trunk with a rope sling and uses his sharp machete to slash v-shaped cuts in the rough bark to let the tree's resin - the base for ...
Dec 10, 2010 |
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Intense climate talks stretch into final hours
(AP) -- Exhausted climate negotiators labored nonstop through the night and into their final day Friday, bargaining intensely over draft accords and seeking small, but essential steps to stem global warming.
Dec 10, 2010 |
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Bolivian says climate talks may commit 'ecocide'
(AP) -- Bolivia's President Evo Morales, addressing a U.N. climate conference with modest goals, said Thursday that governments will be committing "ecocide" if they fail to act decisively to halt global warming.
Dec 09, 2010 |
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UN weather agency: scorching heat soon routine
(AP) -- The brutal heat waves that killed thousands of Europeans in 2003 and that choked Russia earlier this year will seem like average summers in the future as the Earth continues to warm, the U.N. weather ...
Nov 30, 2010 |
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After 500 years Bolivian silver mountain risks collapse
The mountain holding one of the world's greatest silver deposits is at risk of collapse after five centuries of exploitation, Bolivian officials say, calling for moves to save the historic site.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 21, 2010 |
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Adult industry sees iPorn potential in new phone
(AP) -- It's a maxim of technology: Invent the newest gadget and the porn industry will find a way to cash in.
Jul 29, 2010 |
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Study indicates foreign investment influenced by voters choices at the ballot box
A new study by University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management professor Paul Vaaler indicates that when emerging-market countries hold elections they may be determining more than their new government.
Feb 28, 2008 |
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