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9/1/2009
The warming climate is likely to put stress on crops and livestock alike and could cause serious food shortages for half the world's population, U.S. researchers predicted on Thursday.
The worst effects will be in the regions where the ...
9/1/2009
These days, digging some holes and planting a little lettuce or a few beets is a political act. Just ask Julie Stern, who shares a backyard organic garden with her neighbor in Topanga Canyon. Stern worked at the polls on election day. "There's a ...
9/1/2009
China is aiming to increase its coal production by about 30 per cent by 2015 to meet its energy needs, the Government has announced, in a move likely to fuel concerns over global warming.
Land and Resources Ministry chief planner Hu ...
9/1/2009
Torrential rains have deluged several Brazilian states since November, causing nearly 200 deaths so far and reinforcing environmentalist campaigns calling for urgent climate change adaptation measures.
At least 136 people have been ...
9/1/2009
When searing temperatures blasted Western Europe in 2003, more than 50,000 people died and harvests of wheat, animal fodder and fruit fell by up to a third.
Imagine that heat being the norm over much of the world, and you'll have an idea ...
9/1/2009
There is a 90% chance that 3 billion people will have to choose between going hungry and moving their families to milder climes because of climate change within 100 years, says new research.
The study forecasts that temperatures at the ...
9/1/2009
When searing heat waves blasted Western Europe in 2003, more than 50,000 people perished and harvests of corn, wheat and fruit fell by up to a third.
Imagine those temperatures being the norm over much of the world, and you'll have an ...
8/1/2009
When extremes of drought and flood come in rapid succession, the extent of damage to vegetation may depend in part on the sequence of those events, according to a new study published in The American Naturalist.
The study, which focused ...
8/1/2009
After more than a decade of research, a team of scientists has found that by releasing one pollutant into the environment, we might help capture another.
Findings from one of the National Science Foundation's longest-running studies show ...
8/1/2009
Many tributaries of the Thames have been affected in the past by the building of heavily engineered concrete channels to combat flooding and allow urban development.
But the London Rivers Action Plan aims to restore 9.3 miles (15km) of ...
8/1/2009
NASA scientist links Australian coal exports to species destruction Greens MP and mining spokesperson Lee Rhiannon said today that the warning from leading NASA scientist James Hansen that Australian coal exports "guarantee destruction of much of ...
8/1/2009
During summer 2007, professional explorer Jim McNeill travelled to Ellesmere Island with a BBC Natural History Unit crew, to capture the elusive Arctic wolf on camera.
With his reputation as the "wolf finder", he recently returned to the ...
8/1/2009
"Drowned puppies, stinking sprats all drenched in mud, dead cats and turnip-tops come tumbling down the flood" - Jonathan Swift's A Description of a City Shower leaves no room to doubt that the 18th-century Fleet river was a horrid place. No ...
8/1/2009
Townsville-based tropical disease expert Peter Leggat believes dengue fever is likely to become more prevalent in North Queensland as global warming pushes temperatures up.
The region is dealing with two separate dengue fever outbreaks ...
7/1/2009
Plantlife, the conservation charity, point out that traditional medicine is the primary source of health care for more people worldwide than western medicine -- often because it is the only affordable treatment available. For example plants in ...
7/1/2009
I HAVE a problem with the polar bear - or at least with its status as an icon for the perils of global warming. Sure, this magnificent animal is being assailed by rising temperatures and vanishing habitat. But when it comes to convincing people ...
7/1/2009
A report revealed "environmental stress" had increased the risk of conflicts over food and resources in the region. It predicted warmer temperatures would change the location of South East Asian fishing grounds, leading to conflict over fishing ...
7/1/2009
A four-hour drive from the Peruvian capital, the town of Morococha ("coloured lake" in the Quechua language) is a living example of what the mining industry has brought to many poor rural villages and towns in this country.
The town’s ...
7/1/2009
The oil that is extracted from Canadian dirt is being portrayed as saving America from energy dependence on the unstable Middle East, or an environmental catastrophe in the making — depending on the perspective.
As Barack Obama prepares ...
7/1/2009
The environment and forestry lobbies have slammed the Federal Government's conditional approval of the Gunns pulp mill.
The company has the green light to build the controversial $2.2 billion mill in Tasmania's Tamar Valley.
But ...
7/1/2009
Continental Airlines on Wednesday became the first U.S. commercial carrier to conduct a demonstration flight powered in part by alternative fuels, though large-scale use of such fuel is forecast to be several years away.
The ...
7/1/2009
Anyone paying any kind of attention has a deep-gut feeling that things aren't going well for Earth. No matter how fancy or technologically advanced we get, everything humans make and break is fashioned from the resources at hand -- water, air, ...
7/1/2009
An ambitious attempt to rank future energy sources according to myriad repercussions of their use has found biofuels to be the most undesirable option.
Use of ethanol caused the most climate damage, air pollution, damage to land and ...
7/1/2009
Just below the equator, on the island of Borneo, a tropical rain forest is rising out of a logged, charred wasteland. Dawn mists cling to the leaves of ginger and mango trees erupting out of a tangle of ferns, rattan and yam vines. A sparse ...
7/1/2009
Monsanto Co said Wednesday it filed for U.S. regulatory approval for what could be the world's first drought-tolerant corn, a product that agricultural companies around the globe are racing to roll out amid fears of global warming and the needs ...