Climate change, pollution, over extraction of water and development are killing some of the world’s most famous rivers including China’s Yangtze, India’s Ganges and Africa’s Nile, conservation group WWF said on Tuesday. The Geneva-based group said many rivers could dry out, affecting hundreds of millions of people and killing unique aquatic life.
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/ 29 January 2007
Anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela joined top leaders, Nobel laureates and elder statesmen in calling on the world to reinvent non-violent approach to solving conflicts.