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2/9/2010
21 percent of African freshwater plant and animal species are threatened with extinction, according to a five year assessment of 5,167 freshwater species by 200 scientists.
The IUCN study cites pollution, invasive species, increased ...
2/9/2010
UN climate chief Christiana Figueres on Thursday warned that a string of weather calamities showed the deepening urgency to forge a breakthrough deal on global warming this year.
Speaking before some 40 countries were to address finance, ...
2/9/2010
The Amazon, the world's biggest river, is at its lowest level in over 40 years near its source in northeastern Peru, causing havoc in a region where it is used as the only form of travel, authorities said.According to officials in Loreto ...
2/9/2010
The United States Geological Survey in its report -- published in collaboration with 39 international scientists -- says that glaciers throughout the Asia region -- Russia, China, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, ...
2/9/2010
Michigan and Wisconsin plan to work together to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and determine the best strategies to adapt to climate change as part of an effort to protect the Great Lakes region.
The Michigan Department of Natural ...
2/9/2010
Scientists from universities in Montana, Colorado and Idaho announced today the start of a 5-year, $3.85 million research project into how a changing climate will influence wildfires.
The project is being pursued in partnership with the ...
2/9/2010
Dr Samar Mubarakmand Wed-nesday warned that the country might experience unprecedented floods every year because of global warming, saying in case of not building more dams and adopting precautionary measures, it could prove more ...
2/9/2010
Several species of southern Australian crayfish have been named on a threatened species list.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has included more than a dozen burrowing crayfish species on its updated Red List, ...
2/9/2010
Nigeria is susceptible to climate change-induced disasters, Minister of Environment, Mr. John Odey has warned. Odey said yesterday in Minna that climate induced disasters may soon affect the country as he maintained that research had revealed ...
2/9/2010
Ahead of the launch of World Water Week on Monday, new research suggests rising water risks around the world are presenting huge commercial opportunities for water infrastructure firms and investors.
The latest results from Standard ...
2/9/2010
One of the most important gases affecting the global climate is both incredibly familiar and persistently mysterious--water vapor. Researchers know that atmospheric water traps heat and insulates the earth, but even after years of intensive ...
2/9/2010
Smart meters capable of measuring and managing a building's electricity use in real time are becoming increasingly common, but to date there has been little progress in the development of smart devices for managing the use of heat.
That ...
1/9/2010
Enbridge Energy Partners, the company whose pipeline caused a major oil spill in the Kalamazoo River five weeks ago, said Wednesday its plan to reinforce its oil pipelines under Lake Michigan is part of a routine maintenance ...
1/9/2010
Could pollutants from the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico end up as far north as New England?
That could happen if a hurricane or tropical storm hits the Gulf region and moves northward.
Siddhartha Mitra, Geochemist, East ...
1/9/2010
Not a light bulb's worth of solar electricity has been produced on the millions of acres of public desert set aside for it. Not one project to build glimmering solar farms has even broken ground.
Instead, five years after federal land ...
1/9/2010
U.S. government officials urged residents of a Wyoming farming community near natural gas drilling sites not to use private well water for drinking or cooking because of chemical contamination.
"Sample results indicate that the presence ...
1/9/2010
Some 57,000 people have been forced from their homes because of dramatic floods in south-western Sudan over the past month, health officials say.
Heavy rains have left Aweil, the main town of Northern Bahr al-Ghazal province, largely ...
31/8/2010
Environmentalists are alarmed: fires have destroyed close to 100,000 hectares of forest in Portugal this summer, releasing one million tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Worst of all, the forests are losing their ability to absorb ...
31/8/2010
Rural folk across Zimbabwe are beginning to experience the effects of climate change, with crop yields declining as prolonged droughts and erratic rains start taking their toll.
The changing climatic patterns have resulted in food ...
31/8/2010
Hawaii is suffering through an unprecedented drought -- El Nino conditions in the Pacific have added new misery to a half-century of declining rainfall on the tropical island chain. A two-year dry spell has fueled wildfires and destroyed crops ...
31/8/2010
Scientists have published a study concluding that oil extraction and processing operations in the Alberta tar sands are polluting the nearby Athabasca river.
The study, produced by University of Alberta biological scientists Erin Kelly ...
31/8/2010
LAST September, David Barber was on board the Canadian icebreaker CCGS Amundsen (pictured), heading into the Beaufort Sea, north of Alaska. He was part of a team investigating ice conditions in autumn, the time when Arctic sea ice shrinks to its ...
31/8/2010
Blasting off mountaintops to reach coal in Appalachia or churning out millions of tons of carbon dioxide to extract oil from sand in Alberta are among environmentalists' biggest industrial irritants. But they are also legal and ...
30/8/2010
Native Canadians living downstream from the oil sands mines in Alberta have long contended that their high cancer rates were related to the expanding excavation of bitumen for the production of synthetic crude. Their assertions have been disputed ...
30/8/2010
Every year Vancouver resident Stephen Ottridge takes hamburgers or steak to his street's annual summer block party.
This year, against the backdrop of what looks to be the biggest sockeye salmon run in almost a century in the nearby ...