Blogging the End of the World™
By David Fogarty, with additional reporting by Gerard Wynn in London, Erik Dela Cruz in Manila, and Naveen Thukral in Singapore; Editing by Bill Tarrant10 Jun 2011 CANBERRA (Reuters) – Charlie Bragg gazes across his lush fields where fat lambs are grazing, his reservoirs filled with water, and issues a sigh of relief. Things are […]
By Don Melvin11 June 2011 Tuna fishermen confronted environmentalists on the Mediterranean on Saturday, as activists attempted to disrupt illegal tuna fishing under the no-fly zone north of Libya. The fishermen attacked the Steve Irwin, owned by the U.S.-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, by hurling heavy metal chain links aboard. They also attempted to lay […]
The human-caused Wallow Fire began on May 29. This progression map shows the daily movement of the fire, which remains 100 percent uncontained. Wallow Fire Progression Technorati Tags: wildfire,forest fire,North America,drought,heat wave,global warming,climate change,habitat loss,ecosystem disruption
By Sean Mattson10 June 2011 CERRO SAPO, Panama (Reuters) – The harlequin frog that hops and swims the rocky streams of a damp niche of Toad Mountain in eastern Panama’s dense tropical jungle has probably been on Earth for around 3 million years. Within a few more years, the black-spotted orange-and-white amphibian with dazzling green-tinged […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera10 June 2011 They’re going to fit 3-year-olds with dosimeters. If the radiation is such a worry, shouldn’t they evacuate small children out of the city first? Or are they planning something else? From Nikkei Shinbun, quoting Kyodo News (6/10/2011): 福島県伊達市は９日、福島第１原発事故で子供がいる親の不安が高まっているとして、市内の小中学校と幼稚園、保育園に通う児童、生徒、園児約８千人全員に小 型線量計を配布すると発表した。７月上旬にも始める方針。福島県内では、町の一部が計画的避難区域となっている川俣町も小中学生と園児1500人全員に近 く線量計を配布する予定。 Date City in Fukushima Prefecture announced on June 9 that they […]
June 10 (NHK) – The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says radiation levels in one of the reactor buildings remain too high for workers to do their jobs. Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, sent 9 workers into the No.3 reactor building for about 20 minutes on Thursday, in a bid to […]
Contact: George KourousFAO Media Relations (Rome)(+39) 06 570 53168(+39) 348 141 6802george.kourous@fao.org 9 June 2011, Rome – Climate change will have major impacts on the availability of water for growing food and on crop productivity in the decades to come, warns a new FAO report. Climate Change, Water, and Food Security is a comprehensive survey […]
By Larry Elliott, economics editor, www.guardian.co.uk 8 June 2011 A fresh surge in oil prices and a rise in the cost of food pose the biggest threats to the recovery of poor countries from the global recession of 2008 and 2009, according to the World Bank. In its latest economic health check, the Washington-based Bank […]
By Peggy Hollinger in Paris, Chris Bryant in Vienna, and Gerrit Wiesmann in BerlinJune 8 2011 Europe is in the grip of a new north-south divide. Yet this time the gap is not about economic competitiveness but rainfall, and it is the north, not the south, that is lagging behind. While southern Europe experienced a […]
By Gerard Wynn; Editing by Jonathan Lynn8 Jun 2011 BONN, Germany (Reuters) – Canada confirmed on Wednesday that it would not support an extended Kyoto Protocol after 2012, joining Japan and Russia in rejecting a new round of the climate emissions pact. The current Kyoto Protocol binds only the emissions of industrialized countries from 2008-2012. […]
