The magnificent Torres del Paine national park in southern Chile, has been devastated by a wild fire. The environmental disaster began just two days after Christmas and it is reported that more than 21,000 acres of pristine habitat have been decimated. This represents about 6 per cent of the area of the park.
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They got there in the end – 36 hours after the two week talks were due to have ended. A final marathon 60 hour negotiating session with barely a break saw a “result” at dawn on Sunday after the climate change talks had looked inconclusive – a result that still leaves lots of work to be done.
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The world’s governments are fiddling while Rome burns. Self-interest and bickering between nations at the 2011 UN climate talks in Durban (COP17 – Conferences of the Parties 17) is stopping the world from acting as a human family with international agreement looking almost impossible to achieve.
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A report in Saudi Arabia has warned that if Saudi women were permitted to drive, it would have dire consequences with the end of virginity cited as the main issue. The report submitted to the all male Saudi Arabian legislative assembly, the Shura Council, also warns that in addition to pre-marital sex, increased prostitution, pornography, homosexuality and divorce would also result from any relaxation in the prohibition on women driving.
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