ISTJ – The Duty Fulfillers The responsible and hardworking type. They are especially attuned to the details of life and are careful about getting the facts right. Conservative by nature they are often reluctant to take any risks whatsoever. The Duty Fulfillers are happy to be let alone and to be able to work in […]
The fate of the world’s few remaining western grey whales now rests on the outcome of appeals to Russian authorities and courts following the refusal of an oil consortium to consider alternatives to a proposal to lay an oil pipeline through a shallow lagoon crucial to the whales’ food supplies. Trouble In The Pipeline For […]
LAGOS (Reuters) – Millions of people in Nigeria could be displaced by rising sea levels in the next half century, as ocean surges swamp some of Africa’s most expensive real estate and its poorest slums, scientists say. Sea surges could uproot millions in Nigeria megacity Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:48:24 GMT Technorati Tags: sea level,Nigeria,global […]
Paris (AFP) Nov 19, 2008 – Runoff from ice caps in Antarctica and Greenland along with melting mountain glaciers have replaced expanding oceans as the main driver of rising sea levels, according to a new study. Melting ice now main driver of rising sea levels: study Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:59:58 GMT Technorati Tags: Antarctic,Greenland,ice […]
You may not need to write your last will and testament after all. Now a group of pessimistic scientists from the U.S., the UK and France say humanity has reached the point of no return and has little hope of continuing life on Earth. A new study published by The Open Atmospheric Science Journal says […]
In a contest between a toad and a crocodile, it seems obvious the croc will win. Not, though, if its adversary is a cane toad – the poisonous pests laying waste to Australian wildlife. Researchers have found that, in some waterways in the Northern Territory, numbers of freshwater crocodiles have more than halved over the […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Half the world’s population could face a shortage of clean water by 2080 because of climate change, experts warned Tuesday. Wong Poh Poh, a professor at the National University of Singapore, told a regional conference that global warming was disrupting water flow patterns and increasing the severity of floods, droughts and […]
Story by Joe Bavier KINSHASA – Poachers in Congo have killed a fifth of the elephants in Africa’s oldest national park this year as China buys more ivory, the park’s director said on Friday. Rwandan rebels have killed seven Savannah elephants in the past 10 days alone in the Virunga National Park, along Congo’s eastern […]
Rivers in Australia’s most important farming region are in critical condition thanks to the long-running drought, with no sign of an end to the ‘big dry,’ officials said Tuesday. The Murray-Darling Basin Commission, which monitors the east coast region that accounts for some 40 percent of the nation’s farming production, said the level of water […]
By MICHAEL CASEY, AP Environmental Writer BAN LOMTUAN, Thailand – Preecha Jiabyu used to take tourists on a rowboat to see the banks of the Mae Klong River aglow with thousands of fireflies. These days, all he sees are the fluorescent lights of hotels, restaurants and highway overpasses. He says he’d have to row a […]
