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30/7/2010
A massive simulation of soot`s climate effects finds that basic pollution controls could put a brake on global warming, erasing in a decade most of the last century`s temperature change.
Compared to the larger, longer term task of ...
30/7/2010
Greenpeace says key wildlife habitats are being destroyed
Greenpeace has accused a major Indonesian conglomerate of continuing to log in high conservation-value rainforests.
The environmental activists' group said subsidiaries ...
29/7/2010
Greenpeace made fresh allegations Thursday that units of Indonesian paper and palm oil giant Sinar Mas are clearing high conservation-value forests including habitats of endangered orangutans.
Greenpeace Indonesia forest campaigner ...
29/7/2010
Not so for Gillian Galford, a recent graduate of the Brown-MBL Graduate Program in Biological and Environmental Sciences (and now a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University's Earth Institute) and her colleagues, who take a big-picture approach ...
29/7/2010
The UN has withdrawn the Galápagos Islands from its world heritage danger list, citing improved efforts by Ecuador to protect the archipelago's unique biodiversity.
The world heritage committee of the United Nations Education, Scientific ...
29/7/2010
Ecuador: Galápagos islands taken off threat list |
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29/7/2010
With 18,000 islands spanning two major bigeographic realms (and a curious outlier in Sulawesi) across an area of nearly 2 million square kilometers, Indonesia is one of the world's most biodiverse countries. It has the world's third largest ...
29/7/2010
Greenpeace said on Thursday it had fresh evidence that palm oil firms linked to Indonesian agribusiness giant Sinar Mas have bulldozed rainforest and destroyed endangered orangutan habitats in Kalimantan.
The charges were denied by palm ...
29/7/2010
Indonesia's largest palm and pulp group is still destroying critical habitats, claims Greenpeace in an investigation published today.
The non-governmental organisation (NGO) has published new photographic evidence, aerial monitoring and ...
28/7/2010
MARK COLVIN: The story of Papua New Guinea's sinking Carteret Islands has made headlines around the world.
The locals are known as the world's first climate change refugees but the publicity hasn't translated into help.
A ...
28/7/2010
Peru canceled the operating license of US-based Doe Run for a large smelter complex in La Oroya after the firm failed to meet a deadline for submitting a new environmental protection plan, President Alan Garcia said Wednesday.
"The ...
28/7/2010
Given the epidemic of rhino poaching across Africa and Asia, which has placed four out of five species in jeopardy of extinction, one fed-up game manager wants to take the fight beyond the poachers to the consumer. Ed Hern, owner of the Lion and ...
28/7/2010
Researchers have confirmed that cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) and African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) have become essentially extinct in Cameroon. A three year study by the Institute of Environmental Sciences at Leiden University in the Netherlands ...
28/7/2010
"Three-quarters of the fields are still under water. Maize, plantains, okra and pasture are all lost," José Asencio told IPS at the village of Santa Ana Mixtán in southern Guatemala, the area worst affected by tropical storm Agatha.
The ...
28/7/2010
Planting biofuel crops in Africa need not damage capacity to grow food and could even enhance food security, according to a controversial review prepared for the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA).The report, with case ...
27/7/2010
An ambitious development partnership aimed at strengthening agricultural collaboration between Africa and Brazil was launched at the 5th African Agriculture Science Week in Burkina Faso last week (21 July).
The initiative -- the ...
27/7/2010
A deadly infectious disease once thought to be exclusively tropical has gained a toehold in the Pacific Northwest, and health experts suspect climate change is partially to blame.
Last week the CDC issued a report warning U.S. doctors to ...
27/7/2010
Greenpeace said it shut off the flow of petrol at around 50 service stations in central London on Tuesday morning.
The environmentalists claimed to have stopped the fuel supply by flipping safety switches on the forecourts and then ...
27/7/2010
With offices in 40 countries and some three million supporters, Greenpeace is unquestionably one of the world`s most influential environmental groups.Yet its origins are humble, tracing back to a chaotic and impulsive boat journey into ...
27/7/2010
A proposed overhaul of Brazilian forest policy being considered in Congress is raising concern that the world's largest forest could be left more vulnerable than in decades to razing by farmers despite recent progress in protecting ...
25/7/2010
Brazilian native Indians on Sunday took 100 workers hostage at the construction site of a hydroelectric plant in the southern Amazon region, local media reported.As many as 400 Indians from several different tribes occupied a power plant ...
25/7/2010
The last time the hairy-nosed otter (Lutra sumatrana) was seen in Borneo it was road-kill, but researchers have now photographed a living individual of this elusive and endangered species. Photos were taken by camera trap in the Dermakot forest ...
25/7/2010
The astounding array of species that call the tropics home is the result of the near-constant year-round temperatures found in these areas, a new study suggests.
The study, which surveyed insect diversity at a variety of latitudes and ...
23/7/2010
When Bill McKibben first sounded the alarm about global warming 20 years ago, he was something of a voice crying in the wilderness. Now McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy, is issuing an even more dire warning. His new book, ...
23/7/2010
Scientists convening at the annual Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) meeting in Sanur, Bali urged Indonesia's leaders to strengthen measures to protect the country's biologically-rich ecosystems.
In a resolution ...