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3/7/2009
The early hours of the morning in the Pantanal can be an almost deafening experience, as this beautiful wetland area wakes up to a symphony of natural sounds.There are said to be more species of birds here than in the whole of Europe, ...
3/7/2009
Reporting in Nature Geoscience, two coastal scientists write that rising sea levels, combined with slow Mississippi Delta growth, could drown the Louisiana coast by 2100. Delta expert Ivor van Heerden, who is not involved with the research, ...
3/7/2009
INEFFICIENT hot water systems will be phased out and all appliances will be properly labelled under new national energy efficiency standards as part of a 10-year energy efficiency plan adopted by the Council of Australian Governments ...
3/7/2009
Drought conditions in western Saskatchewan have left producers thinking they won't see any fruits of their many efforts this year and at least one expert pointing to billions in costs to Canada's economy.
"There's next to no crop at ...
3/7/2009
MILLIONS of euro worth of damage was caused yesterday after Dublin was swamped by a record two weeks' worth of rain in one hour.
Residents were evacuated from their homes, patients in one of the capital's busiest hospitals had to be ...
2/7/2009
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) produce a list every year of species under threat or in danger of dying out known as the Red List.
The list is recognised as the most comprehensive picture of the state of ...
2/7/2009
Nearly 17,000 plant and animal species are known to be threatened with extinction, while more than 800 have disappeared over the past 500 years, reports the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The group warns that governments ...
2/7/2009
Turkey today announced plans to resume a controversial £1bn dam project in the face of environmental protests that it would displace thousands of people, destroy habitats and drown priceless archaeological treasures.
The environment ...
2/7/2009
The world's seagrass meadows, a critical habitat for marine life and profit-maker for the fishing industry, are in decline due to coastal development and the losses are accelerating, according to a new study.
Billed as the first ...
2/7/2009
Farming on river-fed floodplains cuts their carbon storage, suggests a new study. These floodplains are highly productive ecosystems covering more than 1.3 per cent of the Earth's surface, but little is known about the quantities of carbon ...
2/7/2009
In the West Midlands dead fish were found floating in a park due to oxygen depletion from the algae and the fountains in Trafalgar Square had to be closed because of the green slime. It has also caused trouble for gardeners and ...
2/7/2009
Going by this year’s rainfall performance and outlook reports issued by the meteorology department, most areas in Uganda have received poor rainfall.
Statistics show that most parts of the country have received rainfall within the near ...
1/7/2009
Serious allegations of human rights abuses caused by oil companies in the Niger Delta, the oil-producing region in southern Nigeria, have been published today.
A 141-page report by Amnesty International quotes sources suggesting that in ...
1/7/2009
India said on Tuesday it was working with Pakistan to evolve a common stance on the issue of climate change at international level.
Expressing concern at the US move to impose trade penalties on countries not accepting limits related to ...
1/7/2009
How long will Cape Town's water supplies last? It depends on which level of government you ask.
The City of Cape Town says the Berg River Dam will provide enough water until 2020. The national Department of Water and Environment Affairs ...
1/7/2009
For 150 years, Phragmites – known as the common reed – have overgrown US wetlands, crowding out other plants with dense stands that can grow more than 15 feet high.
At first, scientists thought that the tasseled reed, which spreads by ...
30/6/2009
Satellite images released by NASA show a gradual recovery of forests affected by massive fires during the summer of 1988 in Yellowstone National Park. Fires during that hot and dry summer burned nearly 36 percent of the park -- some 793,000 of ...
30/6/2009
New NASA research shows a sharp decline in the amount of smoke over the Amazon during the 2008 burning season, coinciding with a drop in deforestation reported last week by Carlos Minc, Brazil's Environment Minister.
Analyzing the ...
30/6/2009
China faces an increase in weather disasters which will threaten crops and economic growth, the country's most senior forecaster has warned.
He Lifu, of the National Meteorological Centre, told the China Daily newspaper that events such ...
30/6/2009
Mounting loss of seagrass in the world's oceans, vital for the survival of endangered marine life, commercial fisheries and the fight against climate change, reveals a major crisis in coastal ecosystems, a report says.
A global study of ...
30/6/2009
Africa's farmers need help to access loans, fertilizer and export markets to avoid future food supply crises caused by climate change and commodities speculation, a top agricultural expert said on Tuesday.
Wheat, rice and maize prices ...
30/6/2009
The Environmental Protection Agency has released a list of 44 “high hazard potential” coal ash waste dumps across the country. The “high hazard” rating applied to sites where a dam failure would most likely result in a loss of human life, the ...
30/6/2009
Nigeria has failed to regulate its oil industry adequately, fuelling anger in the Niger Delta by leaving communities exposed to the effects of oil spills, gas flaring and waste dumping, Amnesty International said.
Weak government ...
30/6/2009
Developing countries like Rwanda need to conserve as much water as it can sustain so as to counteract the problems of global warming and maintain its agriculture at a level commensurate to the needs of the whole population.Rwanda being a ...
30/6/2009
Canadian geothermal firm Magma Energy last week announced that it is set to raise around C$100m after pricing its Initial Public Offering (IPO) of pricing of 66,667,000 common shares at C$1.50 per common share.
Initial indications are ...