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...Murray river, and the Coalition touting a $A2 billion water fund to expand water recycling and efficient irrigation infrastructure. But to the concern of many scientists, crises like salinity and biodiversity loss have barely been mentioned. And despite Labor's promise to sign Australia up to the Kyoto protocol on greenhouse emissions and increase renewable energy use, climate change has also struggled to stir voters. "I think once they've done water and the Tasmanian forests, they're almost exhausted," says one senior scientist. After leading the world in climate-change awareness in the late 1980s, Australians now lag behind...
Dorm Crew workers manned the stations until the start of the academic year, when they turned the job over to outside contractors. Despite being swamped, the distributors say they work to cater to students’ demands and busy schedules, and have developed modes of organization and protocol necessary for efficiently retrieving articles. Some even stay open past regular hours of operation...
...opportunity" for all Australians through his commitment to education, health care and a more enlightened social policy. We'll soon know if the voters wish to climb on. - By Lisa Clausen Going Green RUSSIA After years of deliberation, the Cabinet of President Vladimir Putin endorsed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate change and sent...
...parliament for approval, expected in three months. The move paves the way for the treaty to finally come into force, which can only happen when nations accounting for 55% of the world's greenhouse-gas emissions sign up to it. Although 120 countries have ratified the protocol, the U.S. - the world's largest emitter - rejected it in 2001, meaning the only way the threshold could be met was for Russia to join. The treaty requires industrialized countries to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 2012. Unbroken Circle MIDDLE EAST The Palestinian Cabinet declared a state of emergency as Israel continued...
...physics concentrator in Quincy House, still thinks everyone should know what the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol can do for them. To that end, “Bits and Bytes,” his column on technology policy at Harvard and in the world at large, will continue to appear on alternate Mondays...