They also said the likely energy generated by the turbines would "not outweigh the significant adverse effects on local environmental quality".

BBC: Llanllwni

Egypt's Minister of State for Environmental Affairs, Maged George, predicts that by the year 2020, the effects of global warming will threaten about 15 percent of the land in the Nile Delta.

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The editorial was written by Alexey Yablokov, a Russian scientist who edited a book about the public health and environmental effects of the Chernobyl disaster.

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The study was praised as offering "an important insight into potential effects of cell phone radiation on the human brain" by Renee Sharp, director of the Environmental Working Group California office.

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He claimed the abuse had significant long-term psychological effects on him but lawyers for the governors questioned his credibility and said his problems are caused by environmental and hereditary factors.

BBC: Patrick Raggett