By Johann HariMonday, Jan. 10, 2011, at 6:51 AM ET When Jonathan Watts was a child, he was warned: “If everyone in China jumps at exactly the same time, it will shake the earth off its axis and kill us all.” Three decades later, he stood in the gray sickly smog of Beijing, wheezing and […]
By David Fogarty, Climate Change Correspondent, Asia; Editing by Robert BirselWed Jan 12, 3:01 am ET SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Climate change has likely intensified the monsoon rains that have triggered record floods in Australia’s Queensland state, scientists said on Wednesday, with several months of heavy rain and storms still to come. But while scientists say […]
By Staff WritersBuenos Aires (UPI) Jan 10, 2011 Buenos Aires (UPI) Jan 10, 2011 – Argentine fisheries’ production of squid this year is at risk after crews found the stock already low outside the country’s exclusive economic zone. Low yields of the Illex argentinus variety of squid could spell trouble for this branch of the […]
By Roland Buerk, BBC News, Tokyo 5 January 2011 A tuna has sold at auction for a record 32.49m yen in Tokyo, nearly $400,000 (£257,320). The fish was a blue fin, a variety prized for making the finest sushi. It was bought by a joint Japanese and Chinese bid. The first auction in January at […]
By Rudy RuitenbergJan 5, 2011 4:24 AM PT World food prices rose to a record in December on higher sugar, grain and oilseed costs, the United Nations said, exceeding levels reached in 2008 that sparked deadly riots from Haiti to Egypt. An index of 55 food commodities tracked by the Food and Agriculture Organization gained […]
Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Created by Daniel MagnowskiTue Jan 4, 2011 BEIJING Jan 4 (Reuters) – At the current rate of progress it will take 300 years to turn back China’s advancing deserts, a senior official said on Tuesday, bemoaning the low level of investment in fighting a serious environmental problem. Over a quarter of […]
By Karen Allen29 December 2010 The trade in exotic shellfish is part of a trade which is earning criminals some $70m a year. The smuggling of the giant sea snail – known as abalone – is being linked to the Chinese Triads and international drug gangs – who capture the fish from the deep and […]
[Desdemona has a new respect for Chef Ramsay. For more on the fishing mafia, see Sharkwater and SSCS Defending Sharks.] By WENN.COMLast Updated: January 3, 2011 3:56am Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay was doused in gasoline and held at gunpoint as he tried to uncover the dark world of illegal shark fin trading for a new […]
By Tom Whipple Wednesday, December 29 2010 01:32:34 PM Wall Street is getting nervous. As oil prices continue to creep up and as more evidence accumulates that the age of ever-growing energy production and economic growth is coming to an end, a specter is haunting the great investment banks and brokerage houses of New York. […]
By Staff WritersDec 26, 2010 Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 26, 2010 – The US Senate’s move to toughen laws on shark finning is unlikely to have much impact in Hong Kong, dubbed the “Grand Central Station” of the controversial trade, environmentalists say. The new legislation passed last week is aimed at protecting the ancient fish […]
