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2/9/2010
21 percent of African freshwater plant and animal species are threatened with extinction, according to a five year assessment of 5,167 freshwater species by 200 scientists.
The IUCN study cites pollution, invasive species, increased ...
2/9/2010
A sweep of restaurants in Vietnam's Lam Dong Province turned up hundreds of pounds of illegal wildlife products, reports the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).
More than 100 officers from the Lam Dong Forest Protection Department ...
2/9/2010
The Amazon, the world's biggest river, is at its lowest level in over 40 years near its source in northeastern Peru, causing havoc in a region where it is used as the only form of travel, authorities said.According to officials in Loreto ...
2/9/2010
More than 80 percent of agricultural expansion in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came at the expense of forests, reports research published last week in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...
2/9/2010
The number of threatened vultures in Cambodia is on the rise according to a new survey by Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and other members of the Cambodia Vulture Conservation Project.
The annual census found 296 birds among the ...
2/9/2010
There's a new, scalier lord of the jungle: Tarzan the chameleon.
Five-inch-long (13-centimeter-long) Calumma tarzan was found recently in a tiny patch of forest on the vast African island of Madagascar, a new study says.
The new ...
2/9/2010
A species of acacia tree found in Eastern Africa seems to be protected from elephant damage - by the ants that live on it.
Researchers from the Universities of Wyoming and Florida, in the US, carried out a series of studies in Laikipia ...
2/9/2010
Nigeria is susceptible to climate change-induced disasters, Minister of Environment, Mr. John Odey has warned. Odey said yesterday in Minna that climate induced disasters may soon affect the country as he maintained that research had revealed ...
2/9/2010
US fast food giant Burger King said Thursday it would no longer buy palm oil from Sinar Mas or its subsidiaries after Greenpeace campaigned against the Indonesian group's land-clearing practices.
Burger King joins the likes of Unilever, ...
1/9/2010
A proposed road through the Serengeti could jeopardize one of the largest migrations of land animals in the world, conservationists warn.
The proposed Arusha-Musoma highway would slice through the northern portion of one of the world's ...
1/9/2010
Burger King announced it would no longer source palm oil from Sinar Mas, an Indonesian conglomerate, after an independent audit showed one of the company's subsidiaries had destroyed rainforests and carbon-dense peatlands in Borneo and Sumatra, ...
1/9/2010
Mankind has a problem. We're heating the Earth and destroying its ecosystems so fast that we're killing off life as we know it. The fragile world around us, from rainforest canopies to marine life in our oceans, is the life support system we all ...
1/9/2010
An international coalition of environmental groups says European demand for biofuels has driven local communities off their land in Africa and curbed the production of staple foods.
In an effort to protect communal land in Africa,Friends ...
1/9/2010
Although the mining consortium, United Khmer Group, has been drawing up plans to build a massive titanium mine in a Cambodian protected forest for three years, the development did not become public knowledge until rural villagers came ...
31/8/2010
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is down significantly since last year, according to preliminary estimates released by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and Imazon, a Brazil-based NGO that tracks forest loss and ...
31/8/2010
Scientists have discovered a new species of chameleon in a small block of rainforest in Madagascar.
The color-changing lizard, which is described in the current issue of Salamandra Journal, is named Calumma tarzan after the nearby town ...
31/8/2010
Blasting off mountaintops to reach coal in Appalachia or churning out millions of tons of carbon dioxide to extract oil from sand in Alberta are among environmentalists' biggest industrial irritants. But they are also legal and ...
30/8/2010
For the humble chopstick, life is predictable. Start off as a tree, one of the 25 million felled each year for the purpose. Spend a brief few weeks, newly-whittled, encased in paper. Then wind up on someone's plate, where you are expertly used to ...
30/8/2010
Climate change now reveals itself on a weekly basis. Scientists this month identified a colony of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which carries both yellow fever and the dengue virus, in the Netherlands. This African insect had not been seen in ...
30/8/2010
China's decision to slash export quotas of rare earth elements was a necessary step to protect the country's environment, commerce minister Chen Deming said following criticism from Japanese officials.
"Mass extraction of rare earth will ...
30/8/2010
The decision last week by the Brazilian government to move forward on the $17 billion Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu river will set in motion a plan to build more than 100 dams across the Amazon basin, potentially turning tributaries of the world's ...
30/8/2010
Although the last few months have been some of the warmest worldwide on record, including 17 countries reaching or breaking all-time highs, temperatures have not been above average everywhere. Cold air from Antarctica has brought chilling ...
30/8/2010
An Indonesian NGO has reminded the government to make sure Indonesia`s sovereignty in managing its own forests in its forest preservation cooperation with Norway.
Executive Director of Greenomics Indonesia Elfian Effendi here Monday said ...
29/8/2010
NORWAY’S Ministry of Finance has withdrawn comments that seemed to express concern over operations of the Barama Company Limited (BCL) here and has reaffirmed support for this country’s low carbon development thrust.
“Norway strongly ...
29/8/2010
The European Union's renewable fuels target is driving land grabs in Africa that threaten the environment and local communities, claims a new report from Friends of the Earth (FOE).
Africa: up for grabs - The scale and impact of land ...