 16/5/2008 - | As food prices shoot up, so do backyard gardens, Christian Science Monitor
Think of it as a modern-day Victory Garden.
With gasoline prices soaring and food costs not far behind, the number of
Americans planning to grow their own backyard vegetables this year is up
sharply.
Gardening ... Archived Copy |
| 15/5/2008 - | Giant Study Pinpoints Changes From Climate Warming, Reuters
Human-generated climate change made flowers bloom sooner and autumn leaves
fall later, turned some polar bears into cannibals and some birds into early
breeders, a vast global study reported on Wednesday.
Hundreds of previous ... Archived Copy |
| 15/5/2008 - | Human intervention alters natural systems: NASA study, Indo-Asian News Service
Human intervention has caused widespread climatic alterations like permafrost
thawing, premature blooming of plants across Europe and declining lakes in
Africa, according to a NASA study. Cynthia Rosenzweig of NASA and co-author of
the ... Archived Copy |
| 15/5/2008 - | Lula Seen Putting Brazil Economy Ahead Of Amazon, Reuters
Hailed as Brazil's first "green president" when he took office, Luiz Inacio
Lula da Silva appears to have thinner environmental credentials than ever after
the resignation of Amazon defender Marina Silva.
The former rubber tapper ... Archived Copy |
| 15/5/2008 - | Mankind is the 'Earth's biggest threat', Telegraph
Researchers who analysed 30,000 academic studies dating back to 1970 said man
was responsible for changes that ranged from the loss of ice sheets to the
collapse in numbers of many species of wildlife.
"Humans are ... Archived Copy |
| 15/5/2008 - | Merkel Says Brazilian Biofuels Must Respect Amazon, Reuters
German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Brazil on Wednesday to adopt tougher
environmental standards in producing biofuels but said rich nations needed to
pay up to help protect rain forests and their biodiversity.
Brazil is the ... Archived Copy |
| 15/5/2008 - | Myanmar cyclone damage worsened by loss of mangroves: FAO, Agence France-Presse
The destruction of mangrove forests along parts of Myanmar's coast
contributed to the damage wreaked by cyclone Nargis, the UN food agency said
Thursday.
Farmland and fisheries have replaced many mangrove forests, and people have ... Archived Copy |
| 15/5/2008 - | Nitrogen pollution harming ecosystems and contributing to global warming, Mongabay
Nitrogen pollution of the world's oceans is harming marine ecosystems and
contributing to global warming, report two reviews published in the journal
Science.
The research, which involved dozens of scientists from around the ... Archived Copy |
| 15/5/2008 - | Prince Charles calls for rainforest protection to fight climate change, Mongabay
Ending the destruction of tropical rainforests is the simplest step to
helping address climate change, said Prince Charles in an interview with the
BBC.
Speaking on the BBC's Today program, Charles said he supported the ... Archived Copy |
| 15/5/2008 - | Seed giants see gold in climate change, Asia Times
First the biotech industry promised that its genetically engineered seeds
would clean up the environment. Then they told us biotech crops would feed the
world. Neither came to pass. Soon we'll hear that genetically engineered ... Archived Copy |
| 15/5/2008 - | Seeking an Amazon solution, BBC
Seen from a small boat emerging from Puraquequara lagoon into the full flow
of the Amazon River, this is a world reduced to water, trees and sky.
It's a full three kilometres to the other side and at that distance even the
forest ... Archived Copy |
| 15/5/2008 - | World's wildlife and environment already hit by climate change, major study shows, Guardian
Global warming is disrupting wildlife and the environment on every continent,
according to an unprecedented study that reveals the extent to which climate
change is already affecting the world's ecosystems.
Scientists examined ... Archived Copy |
| 15/5/2008 - | Kenya: 'Bio-diversity, solution to global food crisis', Afrique en ligne
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has touted the renewal of
agricultural diversity on crops and livestock, backed by a functional natural
support system, as a recipe for the international community's long term solution
to ... Archived Copy |
| 15/5/2008 - | Ocean nitrogen only limited help for climate: study, Reuters
Rising amounts of nitrogen entering the oceans from human activities are less
beneficial than previously thought as a fertiliser for tiny fertilizermarine
plants that help slow global warming, scientists said on ... Archived Copy |
| 15/5/2008 - | Fungal gene to help wheat and rice cope with climate change, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Researchers at the Australian National University have identified a gene in
algae that could help wheat and rice cope with climate change.
Carbon dioxide levels are rising, and Australia's grain growing regions are
getting ... Archived Copy |
| 15/5/2008 - | Global warming has changed behaviour of plants and animals over last 40 years, says NASA, Daily Mail
Global warming has altered the behaviour of thousands of species of plants
and animals in the last 40 years, the biggest study of its kind suggsts.
Scientists from the American space agency Nasa say there are now more than ... Archived Copy |
| 15/5/2008 - | Man-made nitrogen 'climate threat', Press Association
Up to a third of the nitrogen entering the world's oceans is man-made and
could have significant effects on the global climate, scientists said.
Nitrogen from agricultural fertilisers and the burning of fossil fuels entering
the ... Archived Copy |
| 14/5/2008 - | Australia: Aid boost to UN's world development goals, Australian
FOREIGN aid gets a $500 million boost to $3.7 billion in 2008-09,
fast-tracking the UN's Millennium Development Goals by putting money behind the
Rudd Government's symbolic embrace of the world body.
The aid budget provides ... Archived Copy |
| 14/5/2008 - | Global warming under way 'earlier', Australian
PLANTS, animals, ice and waters worldwide have all been significantly
affected by global warming triggered by human activity, says the first research
to link the phenomenon to changes in biological and natural systems.
Among the ... Archived Copy |
| 14/5/2008 - | In Spain, the Pain of No Rain, Time Magazine
On May 15, a tanker ship from Marseilles will pull into a specially equipped
dock in Barcelona's busy port, connect to a new pipeline, and discharge a liquid
cargo essential to the running of the city. The ship will not, however, be ... Archived Copy |
| 14/5/2008 - | Indonesia: Palm oil firms vow to stop using forests, Jakarta Post
Palm oil companies operating in Indonesia pledged to stop expanding
plantations into forests in response to growing global criticism about
deforestation and to promote more sustainable products.
Executive director of the ... Archived Copy |
| 14/5/2008 - | Indonesia: Papua signs REDD carbon deal to generate income from rainforest protection, Mongabay
The government of the Indonesian province of Papua has entered into an
agreement with an Australian financial firm to establish a forestry-based carbon
finance project on the island of New Guinea.
The project — which could ... Archived Copy |
| 14/5/2008 - | WWF says food supply at risk from species loss, Reuters
Governments are set to miss a self-imposed goal of slowing the rate of
extinctions by 2010 and as a result are putting long-term food supplies at risk,
a top environmentalist said before a U.N. biodiversity conference.
Jim Leape, ... Archived Copy |
| 14/5/2008 - | Amazon Defender Quits As Brazil Environment Minister, Reuters
Brazil's environment minister, hailed as a champion of the green movement but
scorned by powerful farming groups, resigned on Tuesday after losing key battles
in her efforts to protect the Amazon rainforest.
Marina Silva's ... Archived Copy |
| 14/5/2008 - | Burying trees might solve global CO2 problem, Indo-Asian News Service
Scientists have suggested that burying trees might solve the global carbon
dioxide (CO2) problem.
Of the current global environmental problems, the excessive release of carbon
dioxide from the combustion of fossil fuels and the ... Archived Copy |
