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• Tel Aviv Bids for Artificial Island International Airport At Sea | Green Prophet

  "There has been talk for a couple of years already that Tel Aviv’s international airport will move to the sea, literally. A proposal has been submitted to create an artificial island off the city’s coast to replace the Ben Gurion Airport, one that services local, domestic and international flights. A couple months ago I interviewed a geologist helping to develop feasibility studies for such a structure. And according to media reports it looks like the crazy plan is going ahead despite environmental risks to the fragile Mediterranean Sea, and security risks of sabotage."

  tags: tel aviv israel transportation airplanes travel

• Why Germany doesn’t want to kick Greece out of the euro

  "There are heated arguments on both sides. But a new report from Der Spiegel suggests that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is now leaning toward bailing out Greece yet again. The prospect of a Greek exit and a euro zone implosion has become too frightening — German officials call this the “domino theory.” "

  tags: greece germany eurozone europeanunion monetaryunion politics

• BBC News - Germany Jews and Muslims protest at circumcision ruling

  "Jewish and Muslim organisations have staged a joint protest in the German capital Berlin over a regional court's ruling that the circumcision of young boys constituted bodily harm. "

  tags: germany religion tolerance europe europeanunion

• NYT: Struggle for Water in Colorado

  "GREELEY, Colo. - A new race for water is rippling through the drought-scorched heartland, pitting farmers against oil and gas interests, driven by new drilling techniques that use powerful streams of water, sand and chemicals to crack the ground and release stores of oil and gas. A single such well can require five million gallons of water, and energy companies are flocking to water auctions, farm ponds, irrigation ditches and municipal fire hydrants to get what they need. That thirst is helping to drive an explosion of oil production here, but it is also complicating the long and emotional struggle over who drinks and who does not in the arid and fast-growing West. Farmers and environmental activists say they are worried that deep-pocketed energy companies will have purchase on increasingly scarce water supplies as they drill deep new wells that use the technique of hydraulic fracturing."

  tags: fracking agriculture colorado unitedstates politics economics

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