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2/9/2010
21 percent of African freshwater plant and animal species are threatened with extinction, according to a five year assessment of 5,167 freshwater species by 200 scientists.
The IUCN study cites pollution, invasive species, increased ...
2/9/2010
A sweep of restaurants in Vietnam's Lam Dong Province turned up hundreds of pounds of illegal wildlife products, reports the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).
More than 100 officers from the Lam Dong Forest Protection Department ...
2/9/2010
Side-by-side comparisons of organic and conventional strawberry farms and their fruit found the organic farms produced more flavorful and nutritious berries while leaving the soil healthier and more genetically diverse.
"Our findings ...
2/9/2010
The Amazon, the world's biggest river, is at its lowest level in over 40 years near its source in northeastern Peru, causing havoc in a region where it is used as the only form of travel, authorities said.According to officials in Loreto ...
2/9/2010
The humble hardworking elephant is not an animal that usually likes to complain. But over the years, while higher-profile, more urgently threatened species have been the subject of widescale conservation efforts, elephant numbers have been ...
2/9/2010
More than 80 percent of agricultural expansion in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came at the expense of forests, reports research published last week in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...
2/9/2010
The number of threatened vultures in Cambodia is on the rise according to a new survey by Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and other members of the Cambodia Vulture Conservation Project.
The annual census found 296 birds among the ...
2/9/2010
The China Timber and Wood Products Circulation Association (CTWPCA) is seeking to establish a body to help importers navigate new environmental regulations in the United States and Europe that restrict trade in illegally logged timber, reports ...
2/9/2010
Midwest farmers who sold corn to bankrupt ethanol producer VeraSun Energy Corp. have been receiving official letters asking for most of that money back.
Although the request carries legal precedent, trade association groups say growers ...
2/9/2010
There's a new, scalier lord of the jungle: Tarzan the chameleon.
Five-inch-long (13-centimeter-long) Calumma tarzan was found recently in a tiny patch of forest on the vast African island of Madagascar, a new study says.
The new ...
2/9/2010
Like generations of Tibetan nomads before him, Phuntsok Dorje makes a living raising yaks and other livestock on the vast alpine grasslands that provide a thatch on the roof of the world.
But in recent years the vegetation around his ...
2/9/2010
New varieties of drought-tolerant maize could deliver a US$1.5 billion gain in food and income in Sub-Saharan Africa as well as helping smallholders cope with the effects of climate change, according to a study carried out in 13 countries in the ...
2/9/2010
The world cannot afford escalating disasters of the kind recently witnessed in Pakistan and Russia, the top United Nations climate change official said today, underscoring the need for governments to take swift action to lead the world towards a ...
2/9/2010
"California is the state with the highest number of humans coexisting with the highest number of mountain lions," said Tim Dunbar, executive director of the Mountain Lion Foundation.
The appearance of a mountain lion Tuesday near ...
2/9/2010
A species of acacia tree found in Eastern Africa seems to be protected from elephant damage - by the ants that live on it.
Researchers from the Universities of Wyoming and Florida, in the US, carried out a series of studies in Laikipia ...
2/9/2010
Nestle has revealed that it is to invest CHF500m (£321m) over the next decade to reduce the environmental impact of its leading coffee brands, Nescafe and Nespresso.
The Swiss food giant said the investment programme would build on the ...
2/9/2010
Scientists from universities in Montana, Colorado and Idaho announced today the start of a 5-year, $3.85 million research project into how a changing climate will influence wildfires.
The project is being pursued in partnership with the ...
2/9/2010
Dr Samar Mubarakmand Wed-nesday warned that the country might experience unprecedented floods every year because of global warming, saying in case of not building more dams and adopting precautionary measures, it could prove more ...
2/9/2010
Nigeria is susceptible to climate change-induced disasters, Minister of Environment, Mr. John Odey has warned. Odey said yesterday in Minna that climate induced disasters may soon affect the country as he maintained that research had revealed ...
2/9/2010
US fast food giant Burger King said Thursday it would no longer buy palm oil from Sinar Mas or its subsidiaries after Greenpeace campaigned against the Indonesian group's land-clearing practices.
Burger King joins the likes of Unilever, ...
1/9/2010
Enbridge Energy Partners, the company whose pipeline caused a major oil spill in the Kalamazoo River five weeks ago, said Wednesday its plan to reinforce its oil pipelines under Lake Michigan is part of a routine maintenance ...
1/9/2010
Environmental Protester Takes Hostages in Discovery Channel Building Environment News Service (ENS)
Environmental Protester Takes Hostages in Discovery Channel Building
SILVER SPRING, Maryland, September 1, 2010 (ENS) - A man ...
1/9/2010
Could pollutants from the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico end up as far north as New England?
That could happen if a hurricane or tropical storm hits the Gulf region and moves northward.
Siddhartha Mitra, Geochemist, East ...
1/9/2010
A proposed road through the Serengeti could jeopardize one of the largest migrations of land animals in the world, conservationists warn.
The proposed Arusha-Musoma highway would slice through the northern portion of one of the world's ...
1/9/2010
Not a light bulb's worth of solar electricity has been produced on the millions of acres of public desert set aside for it. Not one project to build glimmering solar farms has even broken ground.
Instead, five years after federal land ...