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Volume 11, No.94, January 2006
CONTENTS

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Seeking technology in China (editorial by Najib Saab)

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2005 breaks disastrous climate records (special report featuring largest losses ever as a result of floods, hurricanes and other weather-related disasters)
20 What did the Arabs do to save their environment? (Cover story: progress achieved in energy, air pollution, climate change and industrial development, to be presented in CSD-14 in New York)

24

Energy, tourism and chemicals management (Cover story: global civil society statement to UNEP's 9th governing council/global ministerial environment forum in Dubai)

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Hot environmental issues in Iraq (conference in London)

34
Clean-up campaign in the United Arab Emirates
38
Out of the blue (a journey through the world's oceans)
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Holy land of colours (plants and landscapes in Palestine)
50 Life in an ecovillage (glimpses from Ithaca, NY)
54 Saving Mont Saint Michel (project to raise tides back up)
56 Mountain dams in Morocco


Letters to the editor 8 - Environment in a month 14 -UNEP news 28 - The young environmentalist 57 -Environment market 62 - Green library 64 - Calendar 66