40 years ago on the 24th of February 1966, some officers of the Ghanaian armed forces ousted Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the first post independence leader of Ghana and firebrand pan Africanist, whilst he was on his way to Hanoi mediate peace between America and Vietnam. That coup set the pace for the instability and underdevelopment [...]
Continue reading...16. March 2006
Social, economical, geopolitical, environmental aspects Wednesday 15 March 2006, by Maria Shilina The oil terminal capacity in the Russian territory of the Baltic Sea is constantly increasing. Primorsk is developing to the biggest oil terminal around the Baltic Sea. The question is, how to make this development sustainable. Summary The problems of sustainable oil transportation [...]
Continue reading...14. March 2006
Paper by Shawel Betru , KAJI Mikio, Institute of Environmental Studies, The University of Tokyo, presented at the Annual Meeting 2005 if the WSC-SD at MIT, Cambridge USA. Abstract Access to clean water has always been very important and this is one of the major issues addressed by ï½”he Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for developing [...]
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by Jorge Porras Large scale, field experiments were conducted for the removal of arsenic from the groundwater of a well located in Guanajuato, Mexico region using non-immobilized sorghum biomass (NISB) as a sorbent, which was found highly efficient to adsorb As in previous laboratory experiments. The columns were run under gravity and pump flow conditions. [...]
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22. March 2006
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