Reclamation
This term has been used environmentally in two distinct ways. The more historic use refers to making land productive for agriculture. The current usage refers mostly to the restoration o...
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SEOUL, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Land reclamation in South Korea
is taking a heavy toll on shore birds by destroying the habitat
that once served as a main source of food to sustain their
global migratio...
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KOIDU, Sierra Leone, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The battle for
Sierra Leone's eastern diamond fields fuelled its 11-year civil
war, but now the muddy pits are being returned to farming under
a scheme fund...
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Queen Elizabeth 2, one of the world's most famous cruise ships, is on its final global voyage, after which it will be transformed into a floating hotel in the United Arab Emirates.A fireworks displ...
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SIDON, Lebanon, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Every day bulldozers pile
more garbage on to a mountain of waste on the Sidon seafront in
a symbol of Lebanon's environmental problems, aggravated,
activists say...
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Hong Kong (dpa) - It is dusk in Hong Kong and as the sun sets on
one of the world's most famous skylines a group of protestors set up
camp for the night on the waterfront of...
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AMSTERDAM, Dec 10 (Reuters) - The Netherlands wants to
redraw the map of Europe -- literally. Dubai has built Palm Island. Now the world leaders in land
reclamation are considering an island in th...
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JERUSALEM–As if cribbed from a page in a Passover Haggadah, the real estate pitch sketches a "Next Year in Jerusalem'' vision for the well-heeled: a gated community nestled in a bucolic hills...
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Reclamation
South Korea land grab hurting shore birds-study
