By MICHAEL BURNHAM AND NATHANIAL GRONEWOLD of GreenwirePublished: May 17, 2010 NAKURU, Kenya — The wooded ridge rising to the west of this bustling provincial capital is the home of one of Kenya’s greatest natural resources and one of Africa’s biggest environmental crises. The Mau Forest Complex encompasses almost 1 million acres of wilderness, interspersed […]
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children exposed to pesticides known as organophosphates could have a higher risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a new study. Researchers tracked the pesticides’ breakdown products in kids’ urine and found those with high levels were almost twice as likely to develop ADHD as those with undetectable levels. The […]
BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 14, 2010 (ENS) – Clean drinking water is an increasingly scarce resource for millions of people in Iraq, according to a new report released today by the International Committee of the Red Cross. The agency says its engineers are doing their best to improve access to safe water in the face of […]
Swaths of the gulf near Louisiana are oxygen-starved, or hypoxic. An annual surge in farm runoff, carried by the Mississippi into the Gulf, feeds algae blooms, which consume available oxygen as they decay. Fish leave the area and bottom-dwelling sea life is stressed or dies. The Gulf, Before the Spill Technorati Tags: ocean anoxia,dead zone,pollution,algae […]
Four East African states have signed an agreement to seek more water from the River Nile – a move strongly opposed by Egypt and Sudan. Under colonial-era accords, the two countries get 90% of the river’s water. Upstream countries including Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and Ethiopia say it is unfair and want a new deal […]
SANAA (Reuters) – Two people died in a southern Yemeni village where the military intervened to end a dispute over water rights, underscoring tensions sparked by a looming water crisis in the impoverished Arabian peninsular state. Twenty homes were damaged and unarmed residents were forced to flee Shara’ab, in the southern province of Taiz, during […]
By Bob BealeMay 4, 2010 (PhysOrg.com) — The slow death of one of Australia’s iconic wetlands is causing dramatic upheavals in its bird populations, with species from surrounding farmland moving in to replace many small woodland birds as they lose their habitat, a new study has found. Their loss is adding to the widespread decline […]
Yunnan’s worst drought for many years has been exacerbated by destruction of forest cover and a history of poor water management. By Jane Qiu in Beijing Born into a farming family in south Yunnan province, China, Zhu Youyong’s life has always been tied to the soil. At the age of 54, however, Zhu — now […]
By Jargal Byambasuren, Lucy Hornby, and Tyra Dempster; Editing by Sanjeev MiglaniWed May 12, 2010 9:38am EDT DUNDGOBI, Mongolia (Reuters) – The winter camps of southern Mongolia are quiet during this year’s breeding season, after an unusually harsh winter wiped out herds and left nomadic families with little but debt to their name. The […]
By TOM ARUP AND BEN CUBBYMay 12, 2010 JUST 25 per cent of flood plains in the Murray-Darling Basin were inundated with water during the devastating drought that gripped the nation during the past decade, detailed environment modelling by the CSIRO has found. The long-term effects of the lack of water means that the ecological […]
