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...rain in Spain turns golf greens brown. In the last year, national reservoir levels have dropped to 52.4% of capacity, indicating severe drought. As a result, local governments have had no choice but to announce water-saving measures; prohibiting golf superintendents from giving grasses a good soaking with drinking water is one of them. However, rationing doesn't cause the slightest bit of trouble for the Quijorna Golf Club, located 40 km outside Madrid. Here only rainwater is used to keep the 18-hole course green. And if nature doesn't cooperate in irrigating Spain's first ecological golf course...
...splashed city of Cebu (a place better known for its azure ocean and impossibly sweet mangos). Now the big time beckons. Brad Pitt recently bought Cobonpue's Voyage bed, pictured; Warner Brothers asked Cobonpue to furnish a casino set for the forthcoming Ocean's Thirteen; and distributors from Spain to Singapore are clamoring to stock Cobonpue's sexy, curvaceous designs, most of which are consummate expressions of rattan's versatility. The skin of the lowly vine is used as a weaving material and for binding (some fastening techniques are borrowed from traditional boat building), while rattan's surprisingly sturdy core...
...shipped off to Japan - the market for nearly 80% of the Mediterranean bluefin catch. The new large-scale ranches have wreaked havoc with the traditional fishermen's earnings. "The European market has totally changed in just two or three years," says Sevilla, director of Almadrade Capo Plata, one of Spain's few remaining traditional tuna-trapping companies. To combat the tuna ranches, Sevilla and other trappers need to halt their prey long before it reaches the Mediterranean's open water. From late May, shoals of tuna begin their annual migration from the Atlantic through the Strait of Gibraltar, before spending...
...skirt quota rules by transferring tuna directly from industrial ranches in the Mediterranean to Japan-bound ships, without ever touching land and without reporting the size of their catch. "We cannot monitor it," says a European Commission official in Brussels. Tuna-ranching companies have become sensitive to environmental criticism. Spain's largest company, Ricardo Fuentes and Sons, declined to speak to Time, as did Azzopardi Fisheries in Malta, which controls some of the Mediterranean's richest breeding grounds. A.J.D. Tuna Limited, which Azzopardi owns with Japanese partners, says on its website that since industrial fish farming is essential to feed...
...insists Martin May, spokesman for Swedish power company Vattenfall. Not that coal ever exactly disappeared. During the cold months of last winter, both Germany and Britain relied heavily on coal to meet power requirements. And coal remains a key power source in many other countries, including Poland, Israel and Spain. But coal use is on the rise, thanks largely to a building spree of coal-fired plants in China and India. World consumption jumped from 3.5 billion tons to 4.6 billion tons between 1994 and 2004. Part of coal's appeal is relative security of supply. Most natural gas reserves...