fires
deforestation; water pollution from industrial wastes, sewage; air pollution in urban areas; smoke and haze from forest fires
www.exxun.com/Indonesia/b_mp.html
fires
air pollution from industrial and vehicular emissions; water pollution from raw sewage; deforestation; smoke/haze from Indonesian forest fires
www.exxun.com/Malaysia/b_mp.html
fires
dust storms; grassland and forest fires; drought; "zud," which is harsh winter conditions
www.exxun.com/Mongolia/b_mp.html
fires
erosion caused by mining exploitation and forest fires
www.exxun.com/NewCaledonia/b_mp.html
fires
occasional severe storms and forest fires in the Darien area
www.exxun.com/Panama/b_mp.html
fires
... a major impediment to development; volcanic activity in the Kuril Islands; volcanoes and earthquakes on the Kamchatka Peninsula; spring floods and summer/autumn forest fires throughout Siberia and parts of European Russia
www.exxun.com/Russia/b_mp.html
fires
industrial pollution; limited natural fresh water resources; limited land availability presents waste disposal problems; seasonal smoke/haze resulting from forest fires in Indonesia
www.exxun.com/Singapore/b_mp.html
fires
... the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts; tornadoes in the midwest and southeast; mud slides in California; forest fires in the west; flooding; permafrost in northern Alaska, a major impediment to development
www.exxun.com/UnitedStates/b_mp.html
firewalls
... Internet without special authorization; foreigners may access the Internet in large hotels but are subject to firewalls; some Cubans buy illegal passwords on the black market or take advantage of public outlets ...
www.exxun.com/Cuba/f_cm.html
firewood
... such as DDT; the energy crisis of the 1990s led to deforestation when citizens scavenged for firewood; pollution of Hrazdan (Razdan) and Aras Rivers; the draining of Sevana Lich (Lake Sevan), a ...
www.exxun.com/Armenia/b_mp.html
firewood
... due to duty-free access to the US. Deforestation and erosion, aggravated by the use of firewood as the primary source of fuel, are serious concerns. President RAVALOMANANA has worked aggressively to ...
www.exxun.com/Madagascar/e_ec.html
firm
The government continues to balance the need for economic loosening against a desire for firm political control. It has rolled back limited reforms undertaken in the 1990s to increase enterprise efficiency and ...
www.exxun.com/Cuba/e_ec.html
firm
... and repairing war-damaged roads and bridges. Since the war ended, the government has maintained a firm grip on the economy, expanding the use of the military and party-owned businesses to ...
www.exxun.com/Eritrea/e_ec.html
firm
... larger markets for tourism in West Africa. The government's 1998 seizure of the private peanut firm Alimenta eliminated the largest purchaser of Gambian groundnuts. Despite an announced program to begin privatizing ...
www.exxun.com/Gambia/e_ec.html
firm
... the economy. Several interesting hydrocarbon and mineral exploration activities are ongoing and in 2007 a US firm signed an agreement with the Greenland Home Rule government to study the feasibility of building ...
www.exxun.com/Greenland/e_ec.html
