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Climate change and a starfish outbreak have shrunk coral reefs near Fiji, forcing locals to change their lifestyle. A new study, published in Global Change Biology, has found that from 2000-2006 the size of coral reefs around Fiji’s remote Lau Islands contracted by about 50 percent. Dr Nick Graham from James Cook University, who took […]
Earthworms have long been considered a friend to farmers and home gardeners, playing a vital role in soil quality. However, recent studies have shown that glaciated forests in North America — forests that evolved without native earthworms — now face the invasion of European earthworms from agriculture and fishing. This underground invasion has compounding impacts […]
BEIJING (Reuters) – Over a third of China’s land is being scoured by serious erosion that is putting its crops and water supply a risk, a three-year nationwide survey has found. Soil is being washed and blown away not only in remote rural areas, but near mines, factories and even in cities, the official Xinhua […]
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 […]
