Archive for November 14th, 2007

World Fishing Confab Meets Here

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

by Rod Hughes
Representatives of 38 countries are meeting here to discuss ways and means of promoting sustainable commercial fishing and reducing the numbers of marine turtles and seabirds killed by current practices. And it comes, ironically, almost simultatiously with the release in U.,S. movie theaters of a documentary highly critical […]

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Percentage Using Public Transit Declines

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

by Rod Hughes
Due to obsolete bus routing, the percentage of the population commuting by public transit has declined in the past 13 years, according to a report published today in the newspaper La Nacion.
The result is increased traffic glut and pollution resulting from any […]

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