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21/5/2012
Poaching in Vietnam and Laos may be driving the "Asian unicorn" to extinction, warns the WWF on the twentieth anniversary of its discovery.
The saola is an antelope-like reclusive species that lives in remote regions of the Annamite ...
21/5/2012
Parts of the developing world, particularly India and countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, will suffer food shortages if their planned biofuels targets are implemented by 2020, a study has warned.
The study, which looked at 25 countries and ...
21/5/2012
One in 10 woodland flowers is under threat of extinction in Wales, according to a conservation charity.
Plantlife warns that a "radical shift" is needed in the way woodland is looked after to prevent the decline.
It is calling ...
20/5/2012
A new model aims to forecast future logging road development by estimating the value of timber stocks across the Brazilian Amazon. The research, published in PLoS One, could help prioritize areas for conservation to protect the maximum area of ...
20/5/2012
Massive extraction of groundwater can resolve a puzzle over a rise in sea levels in past decades, scientists in Japan said on Sunday.
Global sea levels rose by an average of 1.8 millimetres (0.07 inches) per year from 1961-2003, ...
20/5/2012
Who doesn't love a tree? Apparently, criminals. Researchers have found that leafier places in Baltimore tend to have lower crime rates than those with few or no trees.
A new study looking across Baltimore City and Baltimore County has ...
20/5/2012
DAY by day, months after months, the desert continues to encroach on vast lands in Nigeria, threatening the existence and surviving strengths of families, becoming deep gullies that consume the wealth of states and turning many away from their ...
20/5/2012
Global warming alone doesn`t account for a startlingly rapid northward expansion expansion of the tropics in the northern hemisphere, according to a new study from the University of California, Riverside.
It appears that black carbon ...
20/5/2012
Surprise, surprise. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced its plan to appeal a federal court ruling that overturned its earlier veto of a key water pollution permit for one of West Virginia`s largest mountaintop removal ...
20/5/2012
A new study on Eastern equine encephalitis shows the number of people in Massachusetts who have contracted the mosquito-borne virus has grown in recent years.
State health officials said nine people have contracted EEE since 2006, after ...
20/5/2012
They are some of the world's most threatened natural landscapes, devastated by decades of pollution and deforestation.
Now a major new project is aiming to restore some of the most damaged habitats on the planet to their former ...
20/5/2012
The world is turning into a strange place of paradoxes. On the one hand, there are an estimated one billion (100 crore) people - representing 14 per cent of the global population of seven billion -- undernourished, while on the other, millions ...
20/5/2012
The Government has rejected shale gas technology as a solution to Britain's energy crisis, conceding it will do little to cut bills or keep the lights on.
Supporters of the fracking technology – which blasts water, sand and chemicals at ...
19/5/2012
Omot Ochan was sitting in a remnant of forest on an old waterbuck skin and eating maize from a calabash gourd. He was lean and tall, wearing only a pair of combat pants. Behind him was a straw hut, where bare-breasted women and barefoot children ...
19/5/2012
What inspired you to write The Land Grabbers?
Over the last few years, I became aware of this hidden revolution taking place around the world: the buying up of vast swaths of land by foreign entities from beneath its occupiers. Soaring ...
19/5/2012
Along the murky waters of the Ene River, in a remote jungle valley on the verdant eastern slopes of the Andes, the rhythmic humming of an outboard motor draws the stares of curious Ashaninka children.With encroachment from settlers and ...
19/5/2012
The case of land use in Tripa Peat Swamp of Aceh’s Nagan Raya District is a small example of chaos in the Indonesian forest management. The government is urged to review the 4.8 million ha of forest excluded from the forestry moratorium map ...
19/5/2012
Environmentalists battling Canadian oil companies over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to the Gulf Coast and another link west to Asia are now girding for what they see as industry's Plan C: Move heavy crude to the East.
At issue is a ...
19/5/2012
Similar to the way a slather of sunscreen can help prevent sunburn, one of its ingredients--titanium oxide--could be injected into the stratosphere to help keep the Earth from overheating, according to a British chemical engineer.
Peter ...
19/5/2012
Taking a close-up look at thunderclouds enabled researchers to identify a new factor in the global warming equation -- high altitude air pollution that spreads out the top of anvil-headed thunder clouds and traps more heat, especially at ...
19/5/2012
The 18,000 litres of clean water that Jakarta consumes per second are expected to hit 26,000 litres by 2015. The solution? A 54-km stretch of toll road cut through prime paddy land to access the water resources of this salubrious hill ...
19/5/2012
The rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin are dying. While average inflows decline due to climate change, extractions for irrigation remain at environmentally damaging levels.
But the plan for management of the basin’s water resources drawn ...
19/5/2012
One problem with Treece, Kan., is that the ground keeps caving in. It has happened more than a hundred times over the last century. On most occasions, the subsidences — that’s what the scientists call them — are small, like when a sofa-size ...
19/5/2012
CLIMATE CHANGE has the potential to bring 20 new breeding species of birds to Ireland, according to a new book.Bird Habitats in Ireland is one of the most comprehensive attempts to date to document the location of the entire bird ...
18/5/2012
Large stretches of salmon-spawning streams and thousands of acres of wetlands would be wiped out if a large-scale mining project were to be built in southwestern Alaska's copper-rich Bristol Bay region, according to a report issued Friday by the ...