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Up to 100 dead in Amazon clashes: activist – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Up to 100 Amazon natives have been killed after Friday’s military crackdown on protesters in Peru and the situation is expected to worsen, says a Canadian Indigenous rights activist.
Twenty-two-year-old Ben Powless is working alongside Peru’s national organisation of Amazon Indigenous people, AIDESEP, and fears more lives will be lost, with the government now labelling protesters as “terrorists”.
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Johann Hari: Could We Be the Generation that Runs out of Fish?
In my parents’ lifetime, we have killed 90 percent of the world’s fish. In my lifetime, we will finish off the rest — unless we change our ways, fast. We are on course to be the people who wiped fish from the earth.
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Mobile phone company Sony Ericsson has two “green” handsets with a carbon footprint 15% lower than current models. By cutting packaging, using recycled plastics and reducing the use of solvents in the paints, the electronics company claims to have made the handsets more environmentally friendly.
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