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12/10/2008
A Bush administration plan to let U.S. agencies decide for themselves whether their actions put wildlife at risk is drawing fire from environmental groups, which say this is like letting a fox guard a henhouse.
The Interior Department, ...
12/10/2008
Everyone professes a love of trees. I cannot find anybody who'll admit to hating them, or the lesser charge of finding their gnarled trunks, light-blocking canopies or autumnal tendency to drop leaves everywhere even vaguely irksome. Ostensibly, ...
12/10/2008
Climate change may soon cause the extinction of coral in the Ogasawara Islands and amphibious animals in Kagoshima and Okinawa prefectures, a recent report by the Swiss-based International Union for Conservation of Nature says.
Coral ...
12/10/2008
The Indonesian government and WWF have announced a bold commitment to protect the remaining forests and critical ecosystems of Sumatra.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said the historic agreement had represented the first-ever island-wide ...
12/10/2008
ON AN OVERCAST, late-July morning, a five-car caravan of environmentalists arrived at a patch of North Carolina forest in the Smoky Mountains. Armed with shovels and 3-gallon buckets for watering, they unloaded several 2-foot specimens of Torreya ...
12/10/2008
National forests and parks - long popular with Mexican marijuana-growing cartels - have become home to some of the most polluted pockets of wilderness in America because of the toxic chemicals needed to eke lucrative harvests from rocky ...
12/10/2008
The economies of southern Europe and the Mediterranean, including Malta, are forecast to suffer the most adverse effects of climate change, according to a new report drawn up by the European Environment Agency, the European Commission’s Joint ...
11/10/2008
Deforestation and degradation is costing the world economy $2 to $5 trillion per year -- an amount greater than Wall Street losses during the current financial crisis -- said the lead author of a study that estimated the cost of environmental ...
11/10/2008
THE PARADISE FORESTS OF INDONESIA, PAPUA New Guinea and the Solomon Islands are falling at an alarming rate. Every year 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from the logging of natural and ancient forests.
Illegal and ...
11/10/2008
Ecuador has become the first nation in the world to grant constitutional rights to the natural environment.On Sept. 28, the country voted for a new constitution that - among changes to education, social security and elections - gives many ...
11/10/2008
A tortoise, a hare, a mouse and a half-dozen mussels are some of the creatures that a conservation group hopes to save through a "Western Ark" project aimed at petitioning the government for federal protection.
WildEarth Guardians filed ...
11/10/2008
More than 7,000 species in the world - 35 per cent of birds, 52 per cent of amphibians and 71 per cent of warm-water reef-building corals - are likely to be particularly susceptible to climate change, the International Union for Conservation of ...
11/10/2008
He is famous for his macho stunts - which have included stripping to his waist during a Siberian fishing trip, skiing down a volcano and doing judo.
But yesterday Vladimir Putin, Russia's answer to Action Man, went one step further when ...
11/10/2008
Global warming is forcing animals to higher elevations, causing them to intrude on established populations, a U.S. scientific journal says.
Some mountain animals, left with smaller ranges to forage for food, face extinction while others ...
11/10/2008
MR. Joe Ackah, Brong-Ahafo Zonal Plantation Manager, has called for the enforcement of laws on illegal felling of tress, to help check the practice, especially in the country's forest reserves.
He said the laws were flexible and ...
10/10/2008
Illegal loggers in the forests of Ndoumbie, Ndongo, Ndemba and Guekong in the Lom et Djerem Division of the East Province have reportedly fled as government forces stormed the region to track them down and confiscate the logged wood.
A ...
10/10/2008
If you can't stand global warming, get out of the tropics.
"Many lowland tropical species could be in trouble," a team of researchers said.
While the most significant harm from climate change so far has been in the polar ...
10/10/2008
Several environmental organisations have asked the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to stop accepting funding from Shell, the giant international oil company.
IUCN signed an agreement with Shell in October last year ...
10/10/2008
As Earth's climate has warmed in recent decades, the geographical ranges of well-studied bird, butterfly, and plant species in the US and Europe have moved northward, following the gradual northward shift of their familiar climates. Other studies ...
10/10/2008
The global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the current banking crisis, according to an EU-commissioned study.
It puts the annual cost of forest loss at between $2 trillion and $5 ...
10/10/2008
Legislate against pollution all you like, but don't expect nature to tow the line. Recent research on the wildfires that raged in California in 2007 shows that ground ozone levels were probably pushed significantly past legal "safe" ...
10/10/2008
Using state-of-the-art observational datasets and results from computer model simulations archived at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, LLNL researchers and colleagues from 11 other scientific institutions have refuted a recent claim that ...
10/10/2008
If an experiment to plant sweet sorghum in rural Florida and convert it to fuel ethanol pans out, it could herald a fundamental change in how the U.S. and other countries create and use renewable bio-energy, researchers say.
Biofuels, ...
10/10/2008
Africa risks losing up to 50 percent of its indigenous species over the next century due to global warming.
Flooding and droughts are already causing millions of the continent's people to leave their homes, and land gets degraded as ...
10/10/2008
A "lost" type of deer has been found on a remote mountainside in Indonesia's Sumatra island 80 years after the last confirmed sighting, experts said Friday.
The Sumatran muntjac, about the size of a large dog, was photographed and ...