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13/3/2010
Around 60 countries pushed ahead on Thursday with a multi-billion-dollar scheme to reduce climate-changing emissions from deforestation, to which Germany added its support, British minister Joan Ruddock said on Thursday.
“There was a ...
13/3/2010
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13/3/2010
Sales of ivory and a possible ban on trading bluefin tuna top the agenda for the two-week CITES meeting that opens this weekend in Doha, Qatar.
CITES - the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species - will set a precedent if ...
13/3/2010
A new report says birds that live in and visit Louisiana's badly damaged and eroding coast are threatened by climate change.
On Louisiana's coast, sea level rise and the loss of habitat will threaten migratory songbirds, ocean bird ...
13/3/2010
Government has called on farmers to adjust to changing weather patterns and become more scientific in their approach to agriculture.
In a speech read on his behalf by Mr Collins Mungate, a senior official in the Ministry of Media, ...
13/3/2010
Using green algae to produce hydrocarbon oil for biofuel production is nothing new; nature has been doing so for hundreds of millions of years, according a Texas AgriLife Research scientist.
“Oils from the green algae Botryococcus ...
13/3/2010
As a global agreement on climate change gets closer to becoming reality, and Singapore gears up to deliver on its domestic commitments, a single body will now coordinate two key aspects - the international and the domestic - of the country's ...
12/3/2010
As climate change transforms the acidity and oxygen levels of the world's waters with devastating effects for some marine species, others are facing an even more immediate threat from human consumption.
To reverse that unsustainable ...
12/3/2010
YOUNG: Thirteen years ago, the negotiators of the Kyoto Climate Accord decided there should be some way for rich countries to pay for clean, low-carbon development in poor countries. The CDM or Clean Development Mechanism was born. Now the World ...
12/3/2010
Kenya Friday underlined its strong opposition to any move to lift a ban on trading ivory ahead of a meeting on endangered species.
The Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) is due to meet on March 13 in ...
12/3/2010
Wildlife experts convene next week in the city of Doha in Qatar to consider how to control the trade in rare animals and plants.
Their means to that end is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), a treaty ...
12/3/2010
China's coastal waters are increasingly polluted by everything from oil to pesticides, contaminating the nation's marine life including the shellfish supply, state press reported Friday.
Most shellfish in offshore areas contained ...
12/3/2010
SOME time in 2014 natural gas will be condensed into liquid and loaded onto a tanker docked in Kitimat, on Canada's Pacific coast, about 650km (400 miles) north-west of Vancouver. The ship will probably take its cargo to Asia. This proposed ...
12/3/2010
Nearly three years after the US Supreme Court found that carbon dioxide was a pollutant that fell under the purview of the Clean Air Act, the US Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to explore approaches for tightening its regulations ...
12/3/2010
Changes in the global climate are imposing additional stress on hundreds of species of migratory birds in the United States that are already threatened by other environmental factors, according to a new Interior Department report.
The ...
12/3/2010
Climate change is pushing some bird species "towards extinction," US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar warned Thursday as a new report on the threats facing North American birds was released.
"For well over a century, migratory birds have ...
12/3/2010
Major European polluters are buying their way out of making big cuts to greenhouse gas emissions by purchasing carbon offsets that pay for environmental programs in developing nations, a nonprofit group said Friday.
To avoid the high ...
12/3/2010
More than 50 people have been charged after a climate change protest on the roof of the Houses of Parliament.
Fifty-four are accused of trespassing on land designated a protected site, while the other person is charged with helping to ...
12/3/2010
British Columbia has given the green light to 19 private-sector clean energy projects that will generate enough power to supply nearly 218,000 homes in Canada's Pacific Coast province.
The approvals, announced late on Thursday by BC ...
12/3/2010
Climate change is here and scientists need to do a better job of explaining it to the public, the director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday.
"We are no longer constrained by talking about some possible ...
12/3/2010
Eleven rare Siberian tigers have died over the last three months at a zoo in north-eastern China.
The local authorities believe that a lack of food contributed to their deaths, according to media reports.
The news is bound to ...
12/3/2010
Despite restrictions on taking the species from European waters, the spiny dogfish is still imported into the UK and other EU countries. Most of the meat in Britain ends up in fish and chips without consumers knowing what they are ...
12/3/2010
Marathon negotiations on protecting the planet's endangered species open on Saturday in Qatar with tensions bubbling over efforts to ban trade in bluefin tuna and to reopen exports of elephant ivory from Africa.
Kenyan officials ...
12/3/2010
Facing legal challenges and growing deficits, South Florida water officials on Thursday gave themselves six more months to finance a controversial $536 million purchase of land from United States Sugar for the Everglades.
The unanimous ...
12/3/2010
The Japanese coastguard has arrested an activist from New Zealand for illegally boarding a whaling ship last month.
Peter Bethune, a member of the US-based group Sea Shepherd, is accused of jumping aboard the vessel from a jetski in the ...