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Saturday, October 17, 2026
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CLIMATE CHANGE: The Challenge of the Century?
Climate change is already altering the Arctic, sub-Saharan Africa, small islands and Asia's river deltas, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported Friday in Brussels.CLIMATE CHANGE: Southwestern U.S. Becoming a Dust Bowl
The severe seven-year drought in the Southwestern United States is just the beginning of a new and even drier climate for the region due to climate change, scientists say.BIODIVERSITY: As Sharks Vanish, Chaotic New Order Emerges
Major declines in large sharks along the U.S. coast have in turn triggered declines in shellfish and reduced water quality, proof that the ocean's food web is collapsing, a groundbreaking new study reveals.ENVIRONMENT: Biofuels Boom Spurring Deforestation
Nearly 40,000 hectares of forest vanish every day, driven by the world's growing hunger for timber, pulp and paper, and ironically, new biofuels and carbon credits designed to protect the environment.IRAQ: Environmental Nightmare Drags On
Four years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and despite 22 billion dollars spent on recovery and reconstruction, Iraq's environment remains in disastrous shape.RIGHTS: Pacific Islanders Preyed on by Bio-Pirates
The Pacific region has long been a favourite target of gene hunters, unethical bio-researchers and "patent bottom trawlers" looking to profit from its unique flora, fauna - and human beings.
Iraq Yet to Escape Environmental Nightmare
At the four-year mark under U.S.-led military occupation, Iraq's environmental outlook is dark, despite the vast quantities of money spent on recovery and conservation efforts.WATER DAY: Thirstier World Likely to See More Violence
A strong link between droughts and violent civil conflicts in the developing world bodes ill for an increasingly thirsty world, say scientists, who warn that drought-related conflicts are expected to multiply with advancing climate change.ENVIRONMENT: E-Waste Dumping Needs International Solution
A global public-private partnership was launched this week to reduce the toxic mountains of electronic waste and recycle increasingly valuable metals and components.ENVIRONMENT-LATIN AMERICA: Frogs Fading Into Silence
Frogs and other amphibians are rapidly becoming extinct around the world and in Latin American countries in particular. In the Caribbean as many as 80 percent of these species are endangered, while in Colombia there are 209 and in Mexico 198 amphibians may soon disappear.ENVIRONMENT: Ocean Fisheries Maxed Out
Two-thirds of fish stocks in the world's high seas are overfished, while most of those closer to shore are failing or fished to the maximum, a new U.N. report said Monday.
Frogs Fading Into Silence
The extinction of amphibians in Latin America has reached alarming proportions: 209 species in Colombia and 198 in Mexico alone are in danger of disappearing foreverENVIRONMENT: Melting Ice Offers Window on Polar Ecosystem
The collapse of Antarctic ice shelves due to climate change is providing the first views of marine life hidden deep under the polar ice for more than 5,000 years.LATIN AMERICA: Protests Mount Against Mining Giant
Dangerous levels of lead and arsenic have been found in the blood of Honduran villagers living downstream from a controversial gold and silver mine owned by Canada's Goldcorp Inc., the world's third largest gold mining firm.HEALTH: Report Blames Factory Farms for Bird Flu
Factory farms are responsible for both the bird flu and emissions of greenhouse gases that now top those of cars and sport utility vehicles (SUVs), according to a report released Monday.BIODIVERSITY: DNA Bar-Coding Could Rewrite Book of Life
Fifteen new species of birds have been discovered in North America following the first ever genetic analysis of nearly all 690 known species. A similar DNA profiling or "bar-coding" of Guyana's 87 bat species revealed an additional six genetically distinct bats.
Protests Mount Against Mining Giant
The Canadian mining giant Goldcorp, which runs the largest gold mine in Mexico, is racking up complaints about its environmental violations. In Honduras, officials are considering legal action.ENVIRONMENT: Scientists Put an Ear to the Ocean Floor
Canada will spend 38 million dollars to install thousands of undersea listening posts along the continental shelves of North America, the Mediterranean, Gulf of Mexico and Australia.ENVIRONMENT: Recapturing Carbon Won’t Come Cheap
Putting climate-altering greenhouse gases back in the ground where they came from is an essential part of any global plan to avoid catastrophic climate change, scientists say.ENVIRONMENT: Climate Change, Yes – But How Fast?
The predictions in the new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which says the planet's average temperatures could increase four degrees Celsius by 2100, are seen as solid forecasts by some scientists, while others say they fall short.ENVIRONMENT: No Getting Around Emissions Caps, Experts Say
With the stark realisation that global warming is transforming our world, there will be crazy new era of "greenwashing", desperate "geo-engineering" schemes, "grandfathering" of newly-built coal power plants and carbon-credit "profiteering", environmentalists warn.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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