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 […]
Tue May 11, 12:08 pm ET OTTAWA (AFP) – The government extended its Atlantic coast seal hunt on Tuesday to the end of May as hunters shy away from the sea over a lack of sea ice and a European boycott of seal products. Canada’s Fisheries Minister Gail Shea announced the seal harvest in Newfoundland […]
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 […]
ScienceDaily (May 13, 2010) — For many lizards, global climate change is a matter of life and death. After decades of surveying Sceloporus lizard populations in Mexico, an international research team has found that rising temperatures have driven 12 percent of the country’s lizard populations to extinction. An extinction model based on this discovery […]
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 […]
May 11, 2010 (Reuters) — India’s greenhouse gas emissions grew 58 per cent between 1994 and 2007, official figures released on Tuesday showed, underlining the country’s growing importance in the fight against climate change. Emissions rose to 1.9 billion tonnes in 2007 versus 1.2 billion in 1994, with the industrial and transport sectors upping their […]
By Darren Goode Sen. Joe Lieberman, I/D-Conn., said today offshore oil and gas drilling provisions will remain in a draft Senate climate and energy bill he has coauthored, despite a massive Gulf Coast spill that has given fresh ammunition to drilling critics. “There were good reasons for us to put in offshore drilling, and this […]
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 […]
