Blogging the End of the World™
By Argaw Ashine, 22 October 2009 Addis Ababa — Ethiopian Government has appealed for an emergency food aid for 6.2 million people suffering from malnutrition and hunger due to drought. The Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Mitiku Kassa, today presented the government’s humanitarian requirement to donor Community in Addis Ababa. According to Mr […]
By Jeremy Hance, mongabay.com, October 22, 2009 In December of 2006 it was announced that the Yangtze River dolphin, commonly known as the baiji, had succumbed to extinction. The dolphin had survived on earth for 20 million years, but the species couldn’t survive the combined onslaught of pollution, habitat loss, boat traffic, entanglement in fishing […]
By Luke Harding in Marresale, on the Yamal peninsula For 1,000 years the indigenous Nenets people have herded their reindeer along the Yamal peninsula. But their survival in this remote region of north-west Siberia is under serious threat from climate change as Russia’s ancient permafrost meltsBy Luke Harding in Marresale, on the Yamal peninsula It […]
ScienceDaily (Oct. 22, 2009) — A new study in China has found that people with higher levels of pesticide exposure are more likely to have suicidal thoughts. The study was carried out by Dr Robert Stewart from the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London together with scientists from Tongde Hospital Zhejiang Province. The agricultural […]
Reporting by Jon Herskovitz, Editing by Dean Yates SEOUL (Reuters) – Vast forest fires have hit a large part of central North Korea, sending plumes of smoke over most of the country’s central and eastern regions, images provided by NASA show. … The U.S. space agency said multiple fires had been burning in the state […]
Arctic waters are rapidly turning acidic, even faster than originally thought. New research from oceanographer Dr. James Orr of the Laboratory for the Sciences of Climate and Environment in Paris predicts that the Arctic Ocean will be corrosive enough to dissolve shells of clams, mussels and others within the next decade. Host Jeff Young talks […]
Britain’s only polar bear has been moved to a colder climate in the Highlands where it will be less likely to feel the effects of global warming. By Auslan Cramb, Scottish Correspondent Mercedes, a 27-year-old sow, has spent the last 25 years in a small enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo. But she had now been moved […]
Environmental officials in Mexico are battling an unprecedented beetle infestation that threatens to destroy the forests of the monarch butterfly’s winter home. After decades of battling illegal logging in the monarch sanctuary, biologists and park workers have been forced to selectively cut down infected trees in an attempt to stop the beetles from spreading. Bark […]
By Vivian Nereim, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Thursday, October 22, 2009 An environmental group released a report yesterday chronicling the millions of pounds of pollutants released by industrial facilities into Pennsylvania’s waterways, saying that the state is the sixth-largest dumping ground for toxic discharges in the nation. The report, released by PennEnvironment, compiled data gathered in 2007 […]
By Emma Thomasson RHONE GLACIER, Switzerland (Reuters) – Standing on the glacier at the source of the Rhone river, glaciologist Andreas Bauder poses next to a 3-meter high pole sticking out of the ice, and gestures above his head. “This is about the melt of one month,” he says, as fellow scientists drill into the […]
