 9/5/2008 - | 8 Ways to Fix the Global Food Crisis, US News and World Report
The world food crisis has two faces. Here in the United States, shoppers
stare in disbelief at the rising price of milk, meat, and eggs. But elsewhere on
the globe, anguish spills into the streets, as in Somalia last week when tens of ... Archived Copy |
| 9/5/2008 - | Europe Grapples over Biofuels, Time Magazine
Like much of the rest of the world, Europe has invested heaps of money and
even more hope in the promise of biofuels to provide secure supplies of
environmentally friendly energy. But now rising food prices, trade tensions and
social ... Archived Copy |
| 9/5/2008 - | Germany Warns Of Economic Risks From Species Loss, Reuters
Nations must act to slow extinction rates, German Environment Minister Sigmar
Gabriel said on Thursday, arguing the loss of species threatened food supplies
for billions of people.
Just 10 days before the start of a UN summit on ... Archived Copy |
| 9/5/2008 - | Peru's Tribal Land Protected From Gas Concessions, Reuters
Indigenous rights groups praised Peru's petroleum agency on Thursday for
excluding areas where isolated tribes live from an auction of oil and gas
concessions.
Rights groups say the decision is a turnaround for Perupetro, which ... Archived Copy |
| 9/5/2008 - | Conservationists Win Battle On Key California Land, Reuters
Conservation groups and a California real estate company on Thursday reached
a long-fought deal to conserve and protect an area eight times the size of San
Francisco from developers.
The Tejon Ranch Co, owner of California's ... Archived Copy |
| 9/5/2008 - | Food Summit Declares Regional Emergency, Inter Press Service
The presidential summit on "Food for Life", held in Nicaragua, has ended with
16 Latin American countries agreeing to produce more food and sell it at low
prices through strategic alliances, amid criticisms of free markets and ... Archived Copy |
| 9/5/2008 - | Go Easy On Biofuels Until More Clarity - World Bank, Reuters
A senior World Bank official said on Thursday that countries should not
greatly increase biofuels production until there is more clarity about how much
they have contributed to the global food price crisis.
Juergen ... Archived Copy |
| 9/5/2008 - | Australia: Industry moves to quell public outrage at forest burns, Mercury
FORESTRY Tasmania and the Forest Practices Authority have moved to dampen
public outrage over forestry burn-offs.
Forestry Tasmania and Wine Industry Tasmania have agreed to talk when grape
picking and forestry burn-offs ... Archived Copy |
| 9/5/2008 - | Australia: Murray-Darling drought may be permanent, AAP
There is no end in sight to the drought afflicting the Murray-Darling Basin
and the big dry could become a permanent feature of eastern Australia, experts
warn.
The latest Murray System Drought Update contains nothing but bad ... Archived Copy |
| 9/5/2008 - | Sugarcane Alcohol Tarnished by U.S. Maize Ethanol, Inter Press Service
Recent efforts by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to clearly mark the
difference between Brazilian ethanol and the agrofuels produced by the United
States are an admission that signing an agreement with Washington to promote a ... Archived Copy |
| 9/5/2008 - | United Kingdom: Birds make easy weather of climate change, Times
British great tits have proved themselves to be far more adaptable to climate
change than their counterparts in the Netherlands.
In the past half century the great tits living in Wytham Woods (also known as
the Woods of Hazel) ... Archived Copy |
| 9/5/2008 - | Brazil launches sustainable development plan for Amazon, Deutsche Welle
The Brazilian government has introduced a plan to sustainably develop the
Amazon rain forest. Environment Minister Marina Silva said the sustainable
development plan includes easy-term credit for reforestation and emergency
measures to ... Archived Copy |
| 9/5/2008 - | Australia: Climate change to permanently reduce autumn rain in Murray Darling Basin, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The latest climate change science suggests Australia's food bowl should plan
for permanently reduced autumn rainfall.
The Murray Darling Basin Commission's May drought update also shows little
prospect of an improvement in the ... Archived Copy |
| 9/5/2008 - | Drill for oil in Alaska? No: Save energy, invest in renewables instead, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the United States'
largest wildlife refuge made up of more than 19 million acres, would not only
wreak environmental havoc on the land and the 160 different wildlife species
that ... Archived Copy |
| 9/5/2008 - | Australia: Koalas Under Threat From Climate Change, Science Daily
New research shows increased temperatures and carbon dioxide levels are a
threat to the Australian national icon, the koala.
Professor Ian Hume, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, and his
students from the University of ... Archived Copy |
| 9/5/2008 - | United Kingdom: Renewable energy plans due, Press Association
Environment Minister Michael Russell is announcing measures to boost
Scotland's renewable energy production as he visits a new biomass boiler.
He will reveal the results of a year-long project looking at ways to increase
the ... Archived Copy |
| 9/5/2008 - | Tasmania poised for oil, gas bonanza, Australian
TASMANIA may be on the verge of a multi-billion-dollar onshore oil and gas
boom.
US exploration company Empire Energy Corporation yesterday unveiled a $31
million program to drill up to eight test wells at key locations in an ... Archived Copy |
| 8/5/2008 - | Biofuels backlash in US as food costs hit home, Agence France-Presse
A biofuels backlash has erupted in major ethanol producer the United States,
as lawmakers and experts debate the merits of converting food to fuel to support
America's age-old love affair with the automobile.
With gasoline at ... Archived Copy |
| 8/5/2008 - | Bush signs Wild Sky wilderness bill, Associated Press
Nearly six years after it was first introduced, a bill to create a Wild Sky
Wilderness northeast of Seattle has become law.
President Bush signed a bill Thursday making Wild Sky the first new wilderness
area in Washington state ... Archived Copy |
| 8/5/2008 - | Myanmar: Cyclone 'is a sign of things to come', Australian
A TOP Indian advocacy group that monitors climate change in south Asia warned
last night that the Nargis cyclone that devastated Burma was "a sign of things
to come", as climate change caused extreme weather to increase in ... Archived Copy |
| 8/5/2008 - | German environment minister warns UN biodiversity bid could fail, Deutsche Presse-Agentur
German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel warned Thursday of the dangers of
failing to halt the loss of threatened species. Speaking to parliament 11 days
before a major UN biodiversity conference opens in Bonn, Gabriel said that the ... Archived Copy |
| 8/5/2008 - | Global free market for food and energy faces biggest threat in decades, Telegraph
The global free market for food and energy is facing its biggest threat in
decades as a host of countries push through draconian measures to hold down
prices, raising fears of a new "resource nationalism" that could endanger ... Archived Copy |
| 8/5/2008 - | India Plans to Spend $2.4 Billion on Rejuvenating Forestland, Bloomberg
India, the world's fourth-largest emitter of carbon dioxide, plans to spend
100 billion rupees ($2.4 billion) on rejuvenating three million hectares of
degraded forests to increase the green cover and soak up emissions.
The ... Archived Copy |
| 8/5/2008 - | Panel OKs bill to protect Wyo Range, Casper Star-Tribune
Despite protests by some senators worried about world energy production, the
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved a bill Wednesday putting
1.2 million acres of the Wyoming Range off-limits to future oil and gas ... Archived Copy |
| 8/5/2008 - | Return of the population timebomb, People and Planet
It has become taboo over recent years, but population, not consumption,
really is the key to managing our use of the world's resources, says John
Feeney,
Only since 1800, in the last 0.01 per cent of the history of Homo sapiens, has ... Archived Copy |
