By Ntungwe Elias Ngalame 26 Apr 2010 13:26:00 GMT YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AlertNet) – When visitors arrived in Yaounde recently for the 8th annual meeting of the African Road Maintenance Funds Association, they got an odd greeting from a Cameroon host delegate. “Yaounde, a city flanked by seven hills, is an environmentally friendly place with a […]
By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.comApril 26, 2010 The West African nation of Niger is facing an increasingly alarming food crisis as the UN announced it would double the number of people it was feeding today despite continuing budget shortfalls in its World Food Program (WFP). Failing rains have caused crop yields in Niger to decline, while […]
Reporting by David Ljunggren; editing by Peter Galloway (Reuters) – In what looks to be another sign the Arctic is heating up quickly, British explorers in Canada’s Far North reported on Tuesday that they had been hit by a three-minute rain shower over the weekend. The rain fell on the team’s ice base off Ellef […]
By Patrick Oppmann, CNNApril 23, 2010 8:03 a.m. EDT Hoh Indian Reservation, Washington (CNN) — For the Hoh, life centers on the silver waters just off their reservation. Throughout the tiny Native American tribe’s history they have lived and fished on the westernmost point of Washington state where the river that shares their name meets […]
By ELLIE HARVEYApril 27, 2010 NOT since the April days of 1922 has Sydney had such a run of warm weather so late in autumn. Last Friday, the temperature reached 30.7 degrees in the city – the hottest day this late in the season for 88 years. A Weatherzone.com.au meteorologist, Josh Fisher, said April typically […]
By AMY GOODMAN Published: Friday, April 23, 2010 at 3:00 a.m. COCHABAMBA, Bolivia Here in this small Andean nation of 10 million people, the glaciers are melting, threatening the water supply of the largest urban area in the country, El Alto and La Paz, with 3.5 million people living at altitudes over 10,000 feet. I […]
Scientists say carbon dioxide in oceans could mean curtains for shellfish By DARCY BONFILSApril 22, 2010 Mark Wiegardt and Sue Cudd have each dedicated about 30 years of their lives to bringing oysters to our tables. Now the two have found themselves in the forefront of one of the newest, most pressing environmental issues of […]
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent; editing by Sandra MalerWASHINGTONThu Apr 22, 2010 2:53pm EDT (Reuters) – Carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming are also turning the oceans more acidic at the fastest pace in hundreds of thousands of years, the National Research Council reported Thursday. “The chemistry of the ocean is changing at […]
By Staff WritersDhaka, Bangladesh (UPI) Apr 21, 2010 Soldiers are guarding water pumps in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, as the city of 7 million faces severe water shortages. While water shortages are typical during the April-May dry season, it has been especially bad this year, getting a start in March with unusually high temperatures. […]
By Staff WritersCanberra, Australia (SPX) Apr 22, 2010 Evidence that the world’s water cycle has already intensified is contained in new research to be published in the American Journal of Climate. The stronger water cycle means arid regions have become drier and high rainfall regions wetter as atmospheric temperature increases. The study, co-authored by CSIRO […]
