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...Harvesting more nickel will also involve clearing vast swaths of Indonesia’s biodiverse rainforests....
...“I was raised on Indiana Jones,” he said, as he drove us in his battered Land Cruiser. “Now I am living it.” We stopped on a high granite outcrop, where David’s team held up a large antennae....
...The middle ground, which once yielded easy livings for active managers, has become a No Man’s Land. Meanwhile low-cost, index-based investments are luring trillions of dollars....
...They wanted to spend some of the proceeds of building world-changing technologies on clearing the final hurdle for humanity....
...A camp of royal-looking tents, brought from Oman by dhow, has been set up in a clearing on the Firmhin plateau....
...“We think it’s a more responsible and sustainable way to get these resources without actually clearing forest and digging.” But that argument is far from universally accepted....
...Since women give birth to the child, they are powerful in our culture. Women hold the clan. A mother divides the land between her daughters. If she only has sons, then it goes to her sister’s family.”...
...We fill and release a child’s balloon; after 90 seconds it is still visible, drifting in a five-knot, north-north-west breeze. We’re good to go....
...One fifth of the state’s 15 currently operating rigs are on MHA Nation land, Fox said....
...Related links:Digital Asset Holdings’ pivot raises doubt over blockchain future - FTMore trouble in blockchain-land - FT Alphaville...
...Its cocoa production has nearly doubled to 2m tonnes over the past decade as farmers clear new forest land....
...The tomb-clearing campaign comes as the area of land available nationally for use in agriculture fell for the fourth straight year in 2017 and is now perilously close to what Beijing sees as the “red line...
...Four dozen warriors, their headdresses made of yellow and red macaw feathers, stood in the village clearing, carrying shot guns and war clubs....
...One child needs to go somewhere, another must be picked up from school....
...Agencies were like “clearing-houses”. “But that was archaic....
...One banker said: “They [HKEX] want Xiaomi to be the poster child of its new regime.”...
...We walked into the forest and in a clearing came across two men sieving the pulp of the sago palm through mesh into a trough made from the tree trunk....
...Many consumer goods use palm oil, from ice cream and nut spreads to soap and shampoo, and environmentalists have blamed the clearing of land for its production for destroying vast tracts of forest in south-east...
...A sort of home-brew hooch — mulberry vodka — was being sipped by the village elders leaning on their sticks on the edge of the clearing....
...Throughout her long life, Wilder’s fidelity to the land she fell in love with as a child was her strongest drive....
...A Russian-made MI-8 helicopter with a polar bear painted on the fuselage, borrowed from a local airline for the occasion, lands on a snow-sodded clearing....
...(FT) What’s in a name Giving your child a “foreign” name in Egypt could land you in prison....
...Indonesian President Joko Widodo said in April that palm oil growers should boost productivity rather than clearing further forest land....
...Even if energy companies were forced to restructure their debt, investors would recover some value from the business or land, they reasoned....
...Under the Soviet regime, land continued to be put aside for wildlife....
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