World environmental news

Australian trees still getting the chop

Antara News Agency (Indonesia) - 3 hours 28 min ago
Australia, a rich country, has frequently lectured Indonesia, its poor neighbour, on felling of its forests.

ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Illegal Trade Decimating Wildlife

Inter Press Service - 7 hours 8 min ago
BANGALORE, Oct 13 (IPS) - A great variety of endangered wildlife species end up feeding the illegal market for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) thanks to poor enforcement in stopping the trade, say experts and activists.

ENVIRONMENT-CHILE: Pedalling Against Pollution

Inter Press Service - 7 hours 8 min ago
SANTIAGO, Oct 11 (Tierramérica) - As greenhouse gas emissions drive global warming and fuel prices continue to soar, pedalling has come back in style in many cities of the industrialised world. In Chile, as well, public bicycle services, bike routes and special parking areas are some of the initiatives currently being developed.

ENVIRONMENT: Because Oil Is Not Green

Inter Press Service - 7 hours 8 min ago
BARCELONA, Oct 10 (IPS/Terraviva) - Several environmental organisations have asked the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to stop accepting funding from Shell, the giant international oil company.

ENVIRONMENT-US: Florida Hopes Energy Farm Will Be First of Many

Inter Press Service - 7 hours 8 min ago
TAMPA, Florida, Oct 10 (IPS) - 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.

AFRICA: Research and Tradition Could Save Environment

Inter Press Service - 7 hours 8 min ago
CAPE TOWN, Oct 10 (IPS) - Africa risks losing up to 50 percent of its indigenous species over the next century due to global warming.

ENVIRONMENT: Crises Likely to Spur Mass Migrations

Inter Press Service - 7 hours 8 min ago
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 9 (IPS) - As climate change, sea-level rise, earthquakes and floods threaten countries such as Bangladesh, Tuvalu, Vietnam and Tajikistan, the Tokyo-based U.N. University (UNU) warns that by 2050, some 200 million people will be displaced by environmental problems.

KENYA: Predicting Weather With Science and Spider Webs

Inter Press Service - 7 hours 8 min ago
JOHANNESBURG, Oct 9 (IPS) - When the magungu bird flies higher in the sky than usual and seems to float in the air in its passage from south to north, the Abasuba people living on the islands of Kenya's Lake Victoria and on the highlands near the lake know the rains are on their way and that it is time to plant.

ENVIRONMENT: 'Fertilising' the Ocean Could be a Cure That Kills

Inter Press Service - 7 hours 8 min ago
BARCELONA, Oct 9 (IPS/Terraviva) - Environmentalists are challenging dubious new proposals to reduce the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

CHILE: Native Community in Desert Oasis Threatened by Mines

Inter Press Service - 7 hours 8 min ago
ALTO DEL CARMEN, Chile, Oct 9 (IPS) - The Diaguita indigenous community in Huasco Alto, surrounded by rich gold, silver and copper deposits in the northern Chilean region of Atacama, are engaged in a struggle to prevent mining projects from infringing on their territory and destroying their way of life and ancestral identity.

ENVIRONMENT: Iceland Finds New Ways to Trap Carbon

Inter Press Service - 7 hours 8 min ago
REYKJAVIK, Oct 9 (IPS) - At the Hellisheidi geothermal power station, located about 30 km east of Reykjavik, Icelanders are developing novel ways of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen sulphide (H2S) that are emitted from the plant.

SRI LANKA: 'Rice Paddies More Valuable Than Int'l Airport'

Inter Press Service - 7 hours 8 min ago
HAMBANTOTA, Oct 9 (IPS) - Sri Lankan rice farmers who fought against President Mahinda Rajapakse and his powerful brothers, trying to construct an international airport on their paddies, say they won because their cause was just and enjoyed popular support.

ENVIRONMENT: Stepping Beyond Carbon Footprints

Inter Press Service - 7 hours 8 min ago
BARCELONA, Oct 8 (IPS/Terraviva) - Do those 8,000 tonnes of carbon footprints arising from participation in the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona show the way beyond Kyoto? Will the marathon congregation significantly reduce biodiversity loss and halt creeping desertification?

CLIMATE CHANGE: EU Could be Greener

Inter Press Service - 7 hours 8 min ago
BRUSSELS, Oct 8 (IPS) - The outcome of a crucial European Parliament vote on tackling climate change this week was not as negative as many green activists had feared. Yet it also suggested that the rhetoric of European politicians on how they must exercise leadership to ward off the threat posed by rising temperatures is not being matched with decisive action.

ENERGY: Governments Must Lead on Renewables, says Shell CEO

Inter Press Service - 7 hours 8 min ago
BARCELONA, Oct 8 (IPS) - Royal Dutch Shell, with an annual turnover of more than 350 billion dollars from extracting oil and gas, mainly in third world countries, says it is up to governments rather than companies like Shell to take the lead in finding solutions for a sustainable energy future.

HEALTH: WHO Warns Against 'Bird Flu Fatigue'

Inter Press Service - 7 hours 8 min ago
MANILA, Oct 8 (IPS) - So where is the pandemic? This is a question most often asked of health experts years after they warned about a pandemic influenza that could infect up to 35 percent of the world's population.

Thomas Cook promises investors it will outline its carbon footprint

Guardian Environment - October 13, 2008 - 10:05am
Leading travel group to provide carbon footprint details after 'naming and shaming' by investors

Patrick Barkham meets survival expert Ray Mears

Guardian Environment - October 13, 2008 - 10:05am
He admires David Cameron and thinks it's sometimes better to shoot wildlife than photograph it. Survival expert Ray Mears is full of surprises, Patrick Barkham discovers

Environment criminals build $10bn empire on ivory, timber and skins

Guardian Environment - October 13, 2008 - 10:04am
Environmental Investigation Agency names men it suspects of involvement in illegal operations

Country diary: Lake District

Guardian Environment - October 13, 2008 - 10:04am
Tony Greenbank: Lake District

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