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8/9/2008
The rise of organic farming and rejection of GM crops in Britain and other developed countries is largely to blame for the impoverishment of Africa, according to the government's former chief scientist.
Sir David King, who left the job ...
8/9/2008
Almost a quarter of the population will be in fuel poverty by next year and those on low incomes will be especially badly hit, new figures have showed.A report published by the National Housing Federation shows that by the end of 2009 5.7 ...
8/9/2008
Plans to pay tropical countries to protect forests under a UN pact to fight climate change are flawed and risk alienating voters in rich nations, Britain's top adviser on forests told Reuters.
Clearance of forests to create farmland in ...
8/9/2008
Africa's carbon market community wrapped up three days of intense networking and deal-making Saturday, keener and better able to take part in the fast-growing global carbon market.
The Carbon Forum attracted more than 600 participants ...
8/9/2008
Climate change, future city development and sanitation services would be the three main topics of the 6th World Water Congress, which opened here on Sunday evening.
The traditional mode of water resource management must be changed, and ...
8/9/2008
The Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens says climate change is starting to take its toll on the state's native flora.
It is established a seed bank which now has 12 million seeds covering 600 plant species struggling to ...
8/9/2008
Stressing the need to employ new mining technologies, a top PSU official said India is likely to run out of its 60-70 billion tonnes of coal reserves by 2040-41 if the demand continues to grow at the present pace.
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8/9/2008
Monsanto Co, the leader in biotech crops, said on Thursday it has received regulatory approval in China to import Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybeans.
Monsanto noted that China's imports of soybeans accounted for about 38 percent of US ...
8/9/2008
Britain is meeting its 2.5 percent target for biofuels use in motor fuel but is relying heavily on imports, government data issued on Friday showed.
A Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) came into force on April 15. It requires ...
8/9/2008
Nigeria will spend 251 million naira (US$213,339) to spray farmlands in its arid northern region that are being ravaged by thousands of tiny grain-eating quela birds and locusts, the agriculture minister said on Sunday.
Massive swarms of ...
8/9/2008
Honda Motor Co is counting on hybrid cars and the soaring Russian market to enter its next phase of expansion in Europe, where an economic slowdown in Western Europe is hurting sales more than expected, an executive said.
Japan's No.2 ...
8/9/2008
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday called for a decision on where to store radioactive nuclear material after a scandal over leaks at a depot this week sparked a row about what to do with atomic waste.
Environment Minister Sigmar ...
8/9/2008
As the world’s oceans get warmer, the strongest tropical storms get stronger, climate scientists reported on Wednesday as the remnants of Hurricane Gustav spun out over the central United States.
“If the seas continue to warm, we can ...
8/9/2008
GREENHOUSE-exposed businesses have suggested they would accept the 10 per cent cuts in emissions urged by Ross Garnaut depending on the final shape of an emissions trading scheme.
The hint comes as debate within the cabinet over the ...
8/9/2008
When Professor Ross Garnaut released his draft report on climate change in May, his approach justified optimism. Garnaut gave us hope that his recommendations would follow the science.The following month, Minister for Climate Change ...
8/9/2008
The Government's former chief scientific adviser will criticise anti-GM advocates such as Prince Charles today in an outspoken attack on those who believe organic farming will be able to feed the growing population of the developing ...
8/9/2008
Britain will give Bangladesh at least £50m to adapt to climate change in the first big attempt by a rich nation to stave off environmental catastrophe in one of the world's poorest countries
Other European countries such as Denmark and ...
8/9/2008
General Motors Corp said on Friday it aims to convert all waste from more than half of its manufacturing plants around the world by 2010.
The struggling No.1 US automaker, which has posted total losses of US$51 billion in the past three ...
8/9/2008
The following factbox compares national goals for fighting climate change, from the United States to India, after Australia's top climate adviser proposed 2020 greenhouse gas emissions targets on Friday.
The data compares the widely ...
8/9/2008
When the icebreaker Aurora Australis left Hobart in March this year, the voyage heralded a step-change in science's ability to explore the Southern Ocean -- a vast area of the roughest and wildest waters on the planet.
The sailing was ...
8/9/2008
ON Friday, Ross Garnaut recommended a starting price of $20 a tonne on greenhouse emissions, at least until a global deal could be brokered.
Three days earlier he recommended that Australians focus more on capturing greenhouse emissions ...
7/9/2008
California farmers can grow more food more profitably if they switch to water-saving crops and change their irrigation practices in response to the state's ongoing drought, according to a study released Monday.
A report issued by the ...
7/9/2008
By growing less thirsty crops and investing in more efficient irrigation technology, California farmers could save billions of gallons of water each year - the equivalent of 3 dams to 20 dams, according to a controversial new report by an ...
7/9/2008
Mobile phones, Wi-Fi systems, electric power lines and similar sources of "electrosmog" are disrupting nature on a massive scale, causing birds and bees to lose their bearings, fail to reproduce and die, a conference will be told this ...
7/9/2008
A new set of United Nations laws may be needed to regulate new Arctic industries such as shipping and oil exploration as climate change melts the ice around the North Pole, legal experts said on Sunday.
They said existing laws governing ...