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- Expert speaks out on impact of logging in PNG
Radio Australia: One of the world's leading tropical biologists says clear felling of forests on Papua New Guinea's controversial Special Agricultural and Business leases is likely to have profound impact on PNG's environment.
As you heard earlier in the program, logging on SABLs has pushed PNG's log exports into record territory.
In 2011, 650,000 cubic metres of logs were exported from SABLs.
A prominent scientist in tropical biology says the environmental impact of this sort of logging is very significant....
- India: Why Jog Falls have been reduced to a trickle
Daily News and Analysis: "It should be called Joke Falls, not Jog Falls,' says a disgusted Yoav Masiach. The 31-year-old Israeli tourist had visited India's largest waterfall in the Western Ghats around the same time in the mid 90s and was enthralled by the four waterfalls -- Raja, Roarer, Rocket and Lady. This year, he brought his 22-year-old girlfriend Dianne Solares all the way from Goa on a motorcycle, but they were shocked to see what had become of one of the top ten falls in the world.
Locals like Siddhaiah Gowda,...
- New transportation bill proposes big changes
Living on Earth: Congressman John Mica(FL-R)(in shirt sleeves) chairs the House Transportation Committee.(Courtesy of the House Transportation Committee)
The chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has proposed a sweeping, new transportation bill. The legislation would encourage private companies to build their own toll roads and pay for infrastructure with money from oil companies. The author of the 800 page-long bill, Congressmen John Mica, highlights some of the bill's biggest proposals...
- United States: A solar farm's slow going
Philadelphia Inquirer: When Bob Keares proposed building Pennsylvania's largest solar farm in the heart of Chester County, he expected a warm reception, certainly from environmentalists.
With 35,000 panels arrayed on a steep slope in Caln Township, the farm would generate 10 megawatts of energy, pollution-free. It could power 2,000 homes, he asserted, while reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 200,000 tons over 40 years - equivalent to planting eight million trees.
Keares' green dream did not end there.
He envisioned...
- Planes, trains, automobiles; but bicycles?
Living on Earth: The House transportation bill currently on the table cuts bicycling and walking infrastructure. Democrat Congressman Earl Blumenauer is an avid cyclist. He tells host Bruce Gellerman why he believes the bill is an assault on twenty years of progress.
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GELLERMAN: From the Jennifer and Ted Stanley Studios in Somerville, MA, it's Living on Earth, I'm Bruce Gellerman.
[MUSIC: THEME to LEAVE IT TO BEAVER]
GELLERMAN: The "Hi Mom, hi Dad, hi Beaver,' era wasn't all that long ago......
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