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Eucalyptus Helps Reverse Erosion in Mali

April 21, 2008 – 2:48 am

TreeHugger
BBC News has a story out of Mali in West Africa that describes how a women’s co-operative in the village of Kabara, south of Timbuktu, is using underground aquifers to plant eucalyptus trees. In this region where the annual rainfall is less than 400mm, reforestation is essential to return nutrients to the soil, and to […]

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Sea Change: Alaska’s Shishmaref Village Tumbles into the Water

October 3, 2007 – 2:42 pm

TreeHugger
In a chilling photo essay by Julia Whitty and Robert Knoth of Mother Jones, the plight of a remote Alaskan village is underscored by images of buildings falling into the sea.
With what was once terra firma melting beneath Shishmaref, a village of 600 Inupiaq on the fragile barrier island of Sarichef, two houses have […]

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Replanting the Planet

July 13, 2007 – 6:57 am

Climate Crisis Coalition
Replanting the Planet
By Lester R. Brown, Inter Press Service, July 10, 2007
“In 1985, the U.S. Congress, with strong support from the environmental community, created the Conservation Reserve Programme (CRP) to reduce soil erosion and control overproduction of basic commodities. By 1990 there were some 14 million hectares of highly erodible land in permanent […]

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