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RUSSIA

Big cars, big money, big pollution in Moscow

Hummers are becomming a must-have for people willing to showcase their wealth in Moscow, causing a major pollution issue for the city. But the minor incentives for greener cars are too little to convince car-owners. (Report: Romain Goguelin)
ALGERIA

A highway threatens El Kala National Park

Home to a unique ecosystem in the Mediterranean basin, Algeria's El Kala National Park is threatened by the construction of a highway going through Morocco to Tunisia. (Report : A.Tazir)
KYOTO PROTOCOLE
Turkey ready to approve Kyoto Protocol
The Turkish authorities have decided to approve the Kyoto Protocol and will send a bill on the issue to Parliament, according to Cemil Cicek, a government spokesman. The pact, in place since 2005, has been signed by more than 170 countries.
ITALY - TRASH CRISIS
Police informant with links to mafia killed in Naples
A businessman who had been tipping the police on the crime ring that operates the waste disposal racket in Naples was shot on Sunday in what looks like a mafia hit. Naples is still grappling with piles of uncollected trash. A.Masciarelli reports.
DEFORESTATION
Papua New Guinea's rainforests face extinction
Satellite imagery of Papua New Guinea's rainforests has revealed that most of the accessible woodland could be destroyed by 2021, as commercial logging, agriculture and wood burning gnaw at the world's third-largest tropical rainforest.
BRAZIL
Untouched rainforest tribe photographed
A Brazilian government agency has released pictures of an isolated tribe to highlight threats to their way of life. Deforestation has been slowly destroying the community's habitat. (Report: R.Tompsett)
ENVIRONMENT - BIODIVERSITY
Ecosystem damage costs trillions per year
Ongoing damage to our ecosystem involves a cost of between 1.35 and 3.1 trillion euros every year, according to a report commissioned by the EU and the German government and released Thursday at a major UN conference on biodiversity.
JAPAN - WHALING

Greenpeace cries foul over whale meat smuggling

Japan’s factory whaling ship is back in Tokyo harbour after a five-month hunt in the Antarctic Ocean. However, the environmental watchdog Greenpeace suspects members of the crew of smuggling whale meat. (Report: N.Tourret)
POLAND - WASTE
Is Poland Europe's new rubbish dump?
While Italy struggles to cope with its own rubbish, Poland is having problems with its neighbours' trash. Authorities are trying to crack down on gangs who regularly cross the border from Germany to dump thousands of tonnes of waste.
ENVIRONMENT - BANGLADESH
Bangladesh to plant trees against natural disasters
With two major floods and one cyclone hitting Bangladesh in the last year, the head of the government decided to plant 100 million trees in the next three months to build a natural "wall as a strong deterrent to disaster."
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