Two tiger cubs have been found dead in mysterious circumstances at the Ranthambhore national park in the northwest Indian state of Rajasthan. Wildlife officials say it appears the cubs had been poisoned. An inquiry has been ordered. The bodies of the cubs have been sent for post mortems. Poaching and loss of habitat in India […]
Contact: Tara Shyamt.shyam@irri.org656-773-0801International Rice Research Institute Singapore: Singaporeans consume around 275,000 tons of rice each year, which requires 688 billion liters of water to be produced – 2.5 times Singapore’s annual domestic water use. Competition for water is getting fiercer and water supplies are dwindling, yet Singapore can contribute to securing its rice supply by […]
Last Updated: Monday, March 8, 2010 | 3:03 PM ET CBC News Developed countries are “outsourcing” more than a third of their carbon emissions associated with products and services to other countries, researchers say. A study of trade data found that some countries in Western Europe have more than half of their total carbon dioxide […]
Blizzards have hit the French Mediterranean coast amid warnings of up to 20 inches of snow in Northern Spain on Tuesday. Nimes and Perpignan were among the cities hit by the bad weather near the coast in France. See Also Heavy snow in southern France (00.19) Snow hits Mediterranean coast Technorati Tags: global warming,climate change,Europe
By Staff WritersHanoi, Vietnam (UPI) Mar 8, 2009 Vietnam is struggling with its worst drought in more than 100 years. With practically no rainfall since September, the country is facing timber fires, plagues of rice-eating insects that are destroying millions of acres of rice paddies and dried-up rivers, Time magazine reports. For a country that […]
(Reuters) – Women hit hard by the effects of climate change — drought, floods, sea level rise and crop failure — gathered on Monday to plan a Capitol Hill push for U.S. legislation to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Climate “witnesses” from the United States, Peru, Senegal, Uganda and other countries aim to tell their […]
By BILL POOVEY Associated Press WriterMarch 5, 2010, 8:34PM CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — More than a year after a Tennessee coal ash spill created one of the worst environmental disasters of its kind in U.S. history, the problem is seeping into several other states. It began Dec. 22, 2008, when a retaining pond burst at a […]
Levels well below the CDC ‘threshold’ are linked to kidney damage and other harmful effects. By Tammy Worth, March 8, 2010 High doses of lead have for some time been linked to chronic kidney damage. But a recent study out of Johns Hopkins Children’s Center found that even small levels of lead exposure may be […]
By Kelsey Munro, March 6, 2010 MORE than 20 years after the campaign to get dolphin-friendly tuna into shopping bags, supermarket shelves are still stacked with tuna that has been fished unsustainably. That’s according to Greenpeace’s new report card on the canned tuna brands in supermarkets. John West ”lacks credibility”. Sirena is ”one of the […]
By Les Blumenthal, McClatchy Newspapers – Sun Mar 7, 12:01 pm ET WASHINGTON — Lower levels of oxygen in the Earth’s oceans, particularly off the United States’ Pacific Northwest coast, could be another sign of fundamental changes linked to global climate change, scientists say. They warn that the oceans’ complex undersea ecosystems and fragile food […]
