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The Fortnight
Zimbabwe pits currency against food price
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2008
In the face of an economic meltdown, Zimbabwe has suspended import duty on basic commodities for 90 days, with effect from May 12.
First dino tracks found in Arabian Peninsula
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2008
For the first time, scientists have discovered dinosaur footprints made some 150 million years ago on the bedrock of the Arabian Peninsula.
Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva resigns
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2008
Brazil's environment minister, Marina Silva, quit her post on April 13 in despair over the obstacles she faced in reining in destruction of the Amazon rainforest. In the resignation, Silva said she stepped down because of the difficulty she had been having for some time in carrying out the national environment agenda.
Malawi suspends tobacco sales in fluctuating market
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2008
The Malawian government has suspended domestic tobacco sales in major markets following a price dispute between growers and merchants.
Eskom takes a sceptical U-turn
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2008
Following indications that the National Energy Regulator of South Africa will consider Eskom's requests to allow a 60 per cent increase in electricity tariffs, Eskom has suspended its controversial load shedding programme.
Locust outbreak in Afghanistan
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2008
Caution
India-Pakistan border at risk
Swarms of locusts that were in Tajikistan in the last week of April, have moved into Afghanistan.
South Asia
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2008
Pakistan introduces daylight saving time to battle power shortage: In a bid to reduce load shedding, the Pakistani government on May 14 announced that the country will forward its clock by an hour from June 1 for the next three months. The plan will also force commercial centres to close by 9 pm. The other measures that the government announced include shutting down air conditioners in government offices, including secretariats, between 8 am and 11 am; lighting up 50 per cent of the street lights; and installing a million CFL bulbs in the country.
Brazil launches carbon reporting programme
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2008
The Brazilian government has launched a Greenhouse Gas Proto-col Program, under which 12 major companies in the country have committed to publicly disclose their greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions.
Rare pygmy hogs released into wild
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2008
After over 10 years of captive breeding, scientists have released 16 wild pygmy hogs--the world's smallest wild pig with a height of 25-30 centimetres--into the grasslands of Sonai Rupai wildlife sanctuary in Assam.
Alaska off the hook
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2008
In a reversal of its earlier plan, the Bush administration now wants to keep Alaska's potentially oil-rich wetlands off-limits to oil and gas drilling.
The Bureau of Land Management has proposed a 10-year leasing moratorium for 174,000 hectares wetlands near Teshekpuk Lake in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, saying that the region is ecologically sensitive. The area is potentially rich in oil and gas as well as a critical habitat for migrating birds and caribou. Green groups and local Inuits have hailed the decision.
