An earthquake that killed 31,000 people in the Iranian city of Bam and a heat wave in Europe that killed 35,000, accounted for the higher toll, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said.

In all, a quarter of a billion people were affected by drought, floods and earthquakes, which caused at least $56 billion in damage in 2003, twice the cost of the previous year, the Federation said in its annual “World Disasters Report.” Continue reading Disaster Toll Tripled in 2003 Amid Quakes, Heatwave

De la inceputul anului 2004 si pana in prezent, RNP- Romsilva a receptionat 78 kilometri de drumuri forestiere noi, dintre care 31 au fost ?inantati in contrapartida cu masa lemnoasa pe picior. Pana la sfarsitul acestui an vor fi receptionate drumuri forestiere noi, in lungime totala de 317 kilometri.

The group of ecological organisations had been considering mutual co-operation and exchange of information since 1989 and finally turned to Econnect to fulfill their needs. From the very beginning Econnect wanted to cover all areas of the Czech and Slovak Republic and in order to do this it created a network consisting of ten organisations based in the big towns. The selected networking organisations were considered to be the most prominent supporters of the ecological movement at the time when many of the organisations had just been founded. Continue reading Econnect – Czech NGO presentation

The plan to build a nuclear waste dump on the Trgovska gora was prepared a few years ago, but the issue became hot at the beginning of 2003 when Croatia and Slovenia signed agreement on Nuclear power plant Kr?ko. NPP Kr?ko is situated on the Croatian-Slovenian border. In socialist Yugoslavia it was owned by both Croatia and Slovenia (then Yugoslav republics), but a few years ago disputes started over the management of the NPP. As a result, Croatia stopped receiving electricity from Kr?ko. The new agreement gives Croatia its share in NPP again and a possibility to use its electricity, but at the same time obliges Croatia to store half of the nuclear waste. Continue reading Croatian and BiH NGOs together against nuclear waste dump in the Una river region

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Presedintele Parlamentului European l-a declarat validat pe domnul Barroso drept Presedinte a? Comisiei Europene.

Luind cuvintul imediat dupa aprobarea numirii sale, domnul Jose Barroso a declarat ca s-a simtit mindru ca este portughez si ca natiunea sa va fi mindra ca un cetatean portughez a devenit Presedintele Comisiei. El se simte "incintat, onorat si mindru" sa poata servi Uniunea Europeana. Dl. Barroso a spus ca va construi punti peste vechile diviziuni politice stinga -dreapta. Va construi punti intre cei care au dorit sa modernizeze si care nu au dorit si intre cei pro Uniunea Europeana si cei contra acesteia, precum si punti intre el si cei care nu l-au votat. Jose Manuel BARROSO a subliniat credinta sa in Europa si puternicele sale convingeri europene.

Canalul Bastroe, construit de Ucraina in Delta Dunarii, pune in pericol existenta plaurilor, insulele plutitoare care au un rol bine determinat in ecologia deltei, ne-a declarat Cristian Lascu, redactorul sef al revistei National Geographic Romania si presedinte al Grupului de Explorari Subacvatice si Speologice (GESS). Plaurul are un rol esential in filtrarea apei Dunarii si in retinerea sedimentelor. Realizarea unui canal ca Bastroe duce la o scadere a nivelului apelor, astfel incat din insula plutitoare, plaurul devine o insula fixa, lipindu-se de solul subacvatic. Continue reading National Geographic – Romania intra in campanie

Academia Romana reaminteste in context ca distrugerea comunitatii Rosia Montana, veche de peste 2000 de ani, prin stramutarea unei parti a populatiei, demolarea de cladiri, unele avind calitatea de monument istoric, mutarea de cimitire si alte actiuni similare este inacceptab?la. Potrivit comunicatului Academiei Romane, exploatarea proiectata pentru o perioada de 17 ani nu reprezinta o solutie de dezvoltare durabila, pe termen lung, problemele sociale si economice ale zonei raminind nerezolvate sau agravindu-se dupa aceasta perioada. De altfel, si numarul locurilor de munca in perioada operationala a exploatarii, estimat la circa 300, este nesemnificativ in raport cu nevoile locale, care ar cere o solutie de durata bazata pe resurse regenerabile, mai sustine Academia Romana.

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The ASA-programme is aiming to send young germans (or people who study and work in Germany)and people from estonia, latvia, lithuania, poland, slovak and czech republic in the above mentioned regions. Some of these work-study-stays are bilateral, meaning that the cooperation partners in southeastern europe, asia, afria, latinamerica come as well for an exchange to germany, a so called south-north-project. Continue reading Co-operation Partners in South / Eastern Europe

Participantii la mars au primit binecuvantarea Prea Sfintiei Sale Bartolomeu Anania, Arhiepiscopul Vadului, Feleacului si Clujului, car? a adresat cu aceasta ocazie un mesaj “catre pelerinii Rosiei Montane”: “Voi, cei ce plecati acum din inima Clujului intru apararea pasnica si demna a Rosiei Montane , spuneti tuturor ca doua institutii fundamentale ale poporului nostru, Biserica Ortodoxa si Academia Romana, s-au pronuntat ferm impotriva otravirii si desfigurarii Muntilor Apuseni. Duceti cu voi acest mesaj si amintiti-le tuturor motilor ca ei sunt mostenitorii cei mai apropiati ai stramosilor daci si ca a lor este mosia muntilor. Indemnati-i, impreuna cu mine, sa vi se alature si sa invinga”. Continue reading COMUNICAT DE PRESA – Marsul de Solidaritate cu Rosia Montana, Ziua I, 23 august 2004

The United States renewed its concern Monday about a controversial Ukrainian canal project in the Danube delta. Environmentalists say the canal will cause irreparable harm to important bird breeding areas.

The United States is joining the European Union and major environmental groups in expressing concern about the project by Ukraine, which is digging a three-kilometer long, deep water channel through an internationally-protected part of the Danube delta. Continue reading US Warns of Environmental Harm from Ukraine Canal Project