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Scientists: Brazil's wetlands threatened
Mar 21 2005 7:25PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - The boom in agribusiness in Brazil's midwest threatens to destroy the world's largest freshwater wetland, scientists said Monday.
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Asians, Iraqis to get recycled water
Mar 21 2005 7:06PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - There are plenty of wells in Iraq, but the dead animals dumped there when Saddam Hussein was in power have contaminated them. There are plenty of streams in southeast Asia, but the recent tsunami polluted them with salt from the ocean. How do you quench someone's thirst when there is plenty of water, but not a drop of it is drinkable?
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Groups work to save rain forest palms
Mar 21 2005 8:11AM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - With a sprinkling of holy water, a priest blessed thousands of palm seedlings in a ceremony in Bogota's main park, sealing an unusual Palm Sunday pact between the Roman Catholic Church and environmentalists to save a critically endangered parrot.
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