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This week’s top stories
* Speaking of New York… it just had its safest summer ever
* New York Fashion Week officially goes fur-free
* Across the pond, Londoners think their city is far more dangerous than it
really is
* Hungary’s new government promises to scrap the ban on same-sex adoption
* The latest Ebola outbreak appears to be slowing, and a vaccine is coming too
* Uzbekistan managed to cut poverty by a third in a single year
* Thailand eliminates rubella as a public health problem
* In 1992, Canada declared a strict moratorium on Northern cod fishing. 30,000
jobs were lost almost overnight, devastating Newfoundland’s economy
* Malawi launches a digital ID, after national coverage hits 99%
* Cambodia has cleared 750 km² of landmines in six months
* India’s coal generation has levelled off for the first time in more than 50
years
* Iceland ends its blanket ban on gay blood donors
* Iceland is also moving to end commercial whaling for good
* How protecting one bird created a conservation network in Ecuador
* New Zealand’s first jointly run marine reserves have opened under combined
Indigenous and government control
* Tanzania’s first official wildlife corridor is working, providing safe
passage between two national parks
* Schemes that pay to leave forests alone are lifting incomes in Vietnam’s
Annamite mountains, the ‘Lost World’ we covered in Edition 320
* Chile eliminates dog-transmitted human rabies as a public health problem, a
first for South America
* Amidst the rubble, Gaza’s students head back to school"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
