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Starting April 26, the Institute will occupy 15,000 square feet of currently vacant building space at 114 Western Ave., which formerly housed WGBH’s public media headquarters...
...April 26, the Earthwatch Institute—an international nonprofit environmental organization—is set to occupy 15,000 square feet of space in the building that formerly housed WGBH’s media headquarters on 114 Western Avenue, University officials announced today. The institute will have a five-year lease with an option to renew for another five years...
...adopt "coalition of the willing" sanctions in conjunction with European allies - and, they hope, with support from Arab countries, although it's unclear whether such support would be forthcoming. The purpose of such measures would be to punish third-country companies doing business with Iran. A number of Western oil companies have recently stopped supplying gasoline to Iran in anticipation of such measures, suggesting they could be more effective than U.N. sanctions. But the Administration is also concerned about hurting ordinary Iranians, or shattering whatever international consensus currently exists on dealing with the Iran issue. And opposition to sanctions...
...China, the annual sandstorms have been exacerbated by desertification. Agricultural expansion, overgrazing and population growth starting in the 1950s strained already dry regions in western China. By 2004, 27% of the country's landmass suffered from some degree of desertification, according to the Chinese Meteorological Administration. China has invested heavily in planting trees and small shrubs over former croplands to prevent the spread of arid land eastward. The government has reported the rate of desertification has slowed after 2000, but says climate change and other environmental pressures means more than 186,000 square miles (300,000 sq km) of land...
...Jiabao spent the weekend touring drough-stricken villages in Yunnan province, where many areas have received half the usual rainfall. Sixteen million people in the region are now suffering drinking water shortages, according to state media. The Dai ethnic group, which is concentrated near the Burmese border in western Yunnan, has even been encouraged to cut back on the amount of water used during the upcoming Water Splashing Festival it celebrates each year to mark the arrival of spring...