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6/4/2013
While global warming is a topic of conversation and news coverage every day around the world,? ?the basic raw materials that drive the global economy are rarely discussed as being involved.? ?But these materials play a key role in global ...
6/4/2013
Tens of thousands of gallons of radioactive water leaked from a large underground storage pool at Japan’s crippled nuclear plant, and thousands more gallons could seep out before the faulty pool can be emptied, the plant’s operator said ...
6/4/2013
Ready for a little comic relief? Check out this video clip from last week’s The Colbert Report highlighting the Exxon Mobil pipeline rupture in Mayflower, Ark.
6/4/2013
The economic benefits to Canada from oilsands industrial expansion may be “considerably less” than what the Canadian government and industry representatives predict, if the planet collectively takes action to slash the heat-trapping greenhouse ...
6/4/2013
With the public comment period for the State Department's draft environmental statement drawing to a close, debate over the approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline has started heating up again, not least because of two recent spills ...
6/4/2013
Thursday's report that the Alberta government will ramp up the stringency of its provincial climate change policy was almost certainly motivated at least in part by concerns over pipeline approval.If so, it wouldn't be the first time that ...
6/4/2013
Gary Price is a rarity among cattle ranchers these days. He's making money on his herd of 200 cows in this tiny town about an hour south of Dallas-Fort Worth.
The Starridge Land and Cattle Company in Texas. The persistence of the drought ...
6/4/2013
Britain will become a net importer of wheat for the first time in a decade this year because of bad weather, the National Farmers' Union has said.NFU president Peter Kendall said more than two million tonnes of wheat had been lost because ...
6/4/2013
For signs of just how exceptionally cold this spring has been, look to the fields of rural Britain.
Farmers are reporting stunted crops and ground that is still to hard to drill at a time when wheat is normally growing vigorously, oil ...
5/4/2013
Surface appearances can be so misleading: In most forests, the amount of carbon held in soils is substantially greater than the amount contained in the trees themselves.
If you`re a land manager trying to assess the potential of forests ...
5/4/2013
Peru's Olmos Valley might be a desert now, with rare rains and rivers that trickle to life for just a few months a year, but a radical engineering solution for water scarcity could soon create an agricultural bonanza here.
Fresh water ...
5/4/2013
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said Thursday he was struggling over whether to let Las Vegas pump massive amounts of groundwater from the Nevada-Utah border.
Herbert promised a decision within weeks, while saying he was reluctant to sign an ...
5/4/2013
UPDATE: After this story was published, ExxonMobil updated the joint command incident report for Friday. The report now says that approximately 5,000 barrels of oil spilled in Mayflower.
Since ExxonMobil’s Pegasus pipeline ruptured ...
5/4/2013
From lakes and grasslands with hippos and giraffes to a vast desert, North Africa's sudden geographical transformation 5,000 years ago was one of the planet's most dramatic climate shifts.
The transformation took place nearly ...
5/4/2013
Peasants and human rights defenders in Brazil are indignant over the acquittal of the man accused of ordering the May 2011 murders of two prominent Amazon activists, José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife Maria do EspÃrito ...
5/4/2013
Moscow's "first modern farmer's market" is on the fifth floor of Tsvetnoy, a luxury department store. It sells Italian olives, British jams, cashew nuts, dried pomelo, sushi and pasta, and organic hamburgers. As far as I can tell, there aren't ...
5/4/2013
Fair Oaks Farms in Indiana loves its manure. The farm has about 30,000 milk cows which produce more than a fair amount of manure every day. Several years ago the farm started putting that manure to good use, using it to power its barns and other ...
5/4/2013
With confirmation that a sixth person has died from a mysterious avian-borne virus, Chinese officials escalated their response on Friday, advising people to avoid live poultry, dispatching virologists to chicken farms across the country and ...
5/4/2013
“Nerve agent” pesticides should be banned until science has established whether they are to blame for the rate at which bumblebees and other insects are vanishing from the countryside, a committee of MPs has urged.
The All Party ...
5/4/2013
2.7 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions or 30 percent of the carbon associated with deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon between 2000 and 2010 was effectively exported in the form of beef products and soy, finds a new study published in the ...
5/4/2013
I am a third-generation farmer from north-central Montana. My wife, Sharla, and I farm the same land homesteaded by my grandparents a century ago, continuing a Montana tradition of making a living off the land. We've farmed this land for nearly ...
5/4/2013
Gary Price is a rarity among cattle ranchers these days. He’s making money on his herd of 200 cows in this tiny town about an hour south of Dallas-Fort Worth.“The market is very good, and we’ve been able to keep what we’ve needed to buy, ...
5/4/2013
Officials at a private game reserve in South Africa say they have injected into the horns of more than 100 rhinos a parasiticide that will make humans sick if they ingest the horns. As the rhinos’ death toll continues to escalate in South Africa, ...
5/4/2013
Just a decade ago, the wildest creatures in the Forest of Dean were deer, sheep, foxes and badgers. But today there are as many as 600 wild boars roaming the 111 sq km (43 sq miles) of ancient Gloucestershire woodland – and they are breeding so ...
5/4/2013
Further scientific improvements to famine forecasting will do little to save more lives without reforms to the way in which the humanitarian community uses them, according to a report published today (5 April).Despite being preventable ...