Word: greenes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rich Abu Dhabi, home to the U.A.E.'s rulers, stepped in with $10 billion to prop up its ailing neighbor. Abu Dhabi could step in again, though next time it will probably demand a greater say in the way Dubai Inc. operates. (Read: "Abu Dhabi: An Oil Giant Dreams Green...
...Proboscis monkeys are not the park's only drawcard. There are long-tailed macaques, shy silver-leaf monkeys, bearded pigs and grass-green whip snakes. But although this enclave bursts with color, the land beyond is becoming increasingly monochromatic. Massive palm-tree plantations are destroying Borneo's habitats. The proboscis-monkey population has dropped between 50% and 80% in the last three generations and now stands at about 7,000 across the island. Junaidi Payne, the chief technical officer of the WWF's Borneo Malaysia Program, says that we owe a moral responsibility to the animals. "The human species...
...Ashraf did express frustration at the international response to the Green Movement...
...brought digital activists together who didn’t know each other but who had a common interest,” he said. “The Green Movement took a hydra-like approach to this, which is brilliant—everybody was a leader...
...planning committee of the Jerusalem Municipality last week approved the expansion of Gilo, an Israeli suburb that straddles the pre-1967 West Bank border. The decision threatens to cover the green valley that includes Wallajeh with a new housing development. That would destroy Abed-Rabbo's dream of returning to his farm full of olive trees overlooking the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo and most likely deprive him of his patrimony forever. "I am one small man," Abed-Rabbo tells TIME. "All I want is to live on my land in peace...