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Photo: Bangladesh may lose up to one-fifth of its surface area if the sea level rises by one metreJOHANNESBURG, 29 September 2008 (IRIN) - The October issue of the Forced Migration Review (FMR), a journal published three times a year by Oxford University's Refugee Studies Centre, is a 38-article buffet on climate change and displacement, a hot topic according to Jean-Francois Durieux, a lecturer at the centre.

The environmental and migration disciplines have been wrangling over the real numbers of people fleeing natural disasters as the impact of climate change intensifies; how to define a person displaced by environmental factors; what kind of protection can be afforded to such persons; whether those affected should be relocated; whether they should rather be helped to adapt to their changed environment, among various other issues.

"Generally speaking, the former, who tend to isolate environmental factors as a major driving force of migration, can be described as 'alarmists' and the latter, who tend to insist on the complexity of the migration process, as 'sceptics'.



Source: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80646

Bouygues obligé de démonter une antenne-relais, une "première"

"C'est une vraie victoire, on est vraiment très heureux", a déclaré mercredi à Reuters Florence Lagouge, l'une des plaignantes de Tassin-la-Demi-Lune, en banlieue lyonnaise.

La cour d'appel de Versailles a en effet condamné Bouygues Télécom à démonter l'antenne-relais du Rhône dans un délai de quatre mois, sous astreinte de 500 euros par jour de retard.

"Si nous avions perdu, de toute façon, nous aurions déménagé", assure Florence Forget, indiquant que les fenêtres des chambres de ses enfants étaient recouvertes de papier aluminium censé atténuer le rayonnement.

Elle devrait selon lui multiplier le nombre de plaintes, mais surtout "obliger les opérateurs de téléphonie mobile à se mettre autour d'une table et de discuter de la baisse des normes".



Source: http://fr.news.yahoo.com/4/20090204/tts-france-telecoms-antenne-ca02f96.html

Latest Through the Grapevine

A good Riesling can be the perfect ending to a meal, the perfect accompaniment to a seafood dish, or the perfect accent to a pork dinner.

So we've reviewed a couple of red wines now and I figured it was time to suggest a native white to tickle the palettes of those who prefer the paler shades of the grape....

There are some things that should never be done on the cheap; national security for instance...as well as the war in Iraq, the lack of body armor for our soldiers...bad decision.

Known to France and most of the world as Syrah, the Australians put their own down-under twist on a long established and favored French varietal.



Source: http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=SC2470605