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22/11/2009
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JAKARTA (AFP) -- Hundreds of Greenpeace activists rallied Saturday in support of a commitment by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation.
About 200 ...
21/11/2009
Thawing permafrost caused by global warming is costing Russian energy firms billions of dollars annually in damage control and shrinking Russia's territory, Greenpeace warned in a new study Friday.
According to the report by the ...
21/11/2009
Foreigners have come to Anjandobo village, a cluster of wooden huts on the desolate red dust of southern Madagascar. They're vaza -- outsiders.
The vaza are sweating. They wear hats and carry cameras and plastic bottles of ...
21/11/2009
Oh, don't get too excited -- or aggravated, depending on how you feel about North America's biggest, messiest industrial project.
The oilsands boom isn't coming back anytime soon. At least, not in its original, chaotic form.
No ...
21/11/2009
The mysterious Monarch butterfly, which migrates en masse annually between Canada and Mexico, is now facing a new peril: another insect thriving in Western Mexican forests.
Some 8,000 oyamel fir trees -- the butterflies' unique mountain ...
21/11/2009
BRITAIN should brace itself for more tropical-style deluges of the kind that wreaked havoc on Cockermouth, according to climate experts.
They warn that, although no single event can be attributed to climate change, the warming of the ...
21/11/2009
The record rainfall that caused yesterday's devastating floods cannot be blamed directly on climate change, experts said.
But they warned we were likely to see more extreme weather of this kind in the coming years as a result of global ...
20/11/2009
A computer model that predicts future changes in the world's forests could strengthen the case of Central African nations that are calling for compensation in exchange for protecting their natural resources.
Forest management is expected ...
20/11/2009
Do felling forests, slaughtering wildlife, cramming animals into inhuman factory farms, and the general trashing of the natural world make you sick? There's growing evidence that environmental degradation increases the spread of killer diseases ...
20/11/2009
Advances made in genetic profiling could be used to fight illegal timber trading, provide authentication of herbal medicines and map entire food chains, according to experts at a conference of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
"It's taken ...
20/11/2009
Siamese crocodiles once ranged far and wide across South-east Asia, from Indonesia to Vietnam, Laos to Thailand. But habitat loss and poaching virtually wiped out the three-metre long animals. Twenty years ago they were classified as effectively ...
20/11/2009
Uruguay must start focusing on efforts against global warming, and work in a coordinated manner with its South American neighbours, said one of the scientists consulted for the First Regional Report on Climate Change produced by Tierramérica, ...
20/11/2009
YOUNG: It's Living on Earth – I'm Jeff Young. This year the European Union passed ambitious new energy standards -- 20 percent of total power from renewable sources by 2020. That's a challenge for the United Kingdom, which is one of Europe's ...
20/11/2009
The full and devastating impact of England's worst recorded day of rain was still emerging last night as tributes were paid to a policeman swept away by floodwaters while trying to save others.
PC Bill Barker was helping motorists ...
20/11/2009
Although it is the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases in Latin America and the Caribbean, after Brazil, and will be hosting next year's United Nations climate meeting, Mexico is heading to the Cophenhagen summit practically ...
20/11/2009
Thailand’s capital, dubbed the ‘City of Angels’ and the ‘Venice of the East’, is threatened by long-term flood inundation as rising sea waters triggered by global weather change and monsoonal rains combine.
The 240-year-old Thai capital, ...
20/11/2009
Dell will start shipping two of its products padded with bamboo cushioning, a part of the company's broad plan to reduce its packaging while using more recyclable material.
The Dell Inspiron Mini 10 and Mini 10v netbooks will be cradled ...
19/11/2009
Future firefighters have their work cut out for them. Perhaps nowhere does this hit home harder than in Australia, where in early 2009 a persistent drought, high winds, and record high temperatures set the stage for the worst wildfire in the ...
19/11/2009
The idea of wilderness is "an interesting concept; it is a Western concept. Our people have always lived and interacted in the environment," said Illion Merculieff, an environmental activist from the Aleut community in the north-western U.S. ...
19/11/2009
Federal agents from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service raided Gibson Guitar's factory Tuesday afternoon, due to concerns that the company had been using illegally harvested wood from Madagascar, reports the Nashville Post.
No one from ...
19/11/2009
Nearly 3,000 miles from the U.S. Capitol, where lawmakers are debating landmark climate legislation, a crucial aspect of the national campaign to limit greenhouse gas emissions is taking shape at the headquarters of Sierra Pacific ...
19/11/2009
The sun is setting slowly over Dar es Salaam's Tabata Changombe neighbourhood. Ameenah and Skukulu Juma lean against the corrugated iron walls of their makeshift charcoal shop.The earth is black. Charcoal layers every surface and crevice. ...
19/11/2009
The prospect of a hungry century looms. On our present course, we are caught in a pincer. Climate change is likely to turn much farmland around the globe into desert. And the growth of the global population will increase demand for food. Yields ...
19/11/2009
There's a 'high chance' a heatwave sweeping Australia's southern and eastern states is related to climate change, a scientist at the Bureau of Meteorology says.
Climate Meteorologist Harvey Stern says the scorching weather effecting ...