By Gerard Wynn BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) – Draining and burning of the world’s peat bogs accounts for about 5.5 percent of global carbon emissions but are currently excluded from governments’ climate targets and U.N. talks, a study found on Wednesday. Peat stores around twice as much carbon as all the world’s trees, but compared with […]
Taipei (AFP) Nov 3, 2009 – Coral reefs off Taiwan will need up to 100 years to recover from Typhoon Morakot, which lashed the island in early August killing more than 600 people, a scientist said Tuesday. Latest research shows the reefs, near volcanic Orchid Island southeast of Taiwan, have sustained even worse damage than […]
Conservation groups warn of ‘alarming’ loss of biodiversity as thousands of animals face imminent extinction By Andy McSmith, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 Six years ago, these tiny mustard-coloured toads could be found in their thousands, living under the spray from an African waterfall. No one even knew they existed until 1996. Yet today the Kihansi […]
Shanghai (AFP) Oct 31, 2009 – China on Saturday opens a new bridge over the Yangtze that will pave the way for rapid development of the country’s “last virgin island,” Chongming — now just an hour’s drive from booming Shanghai. With a surface area 50 percent bigger than Singapore, the island has captured the imagination […]
Since the animals were first listed as endangered, the human population of Florida has more than tripled, and efforts to help the Florida’s state animal recover have had limited success By The Editors One of more than 20 subspecies of cougar and native to the southeastern United States, the Florida Panther is most certainly still […]
By DARREN CARTWRIGHT, November 1, 2009 NEW Queensland Government planning laws to protect dwindling koala numbers in the state’s south-east are laughable, the Australian Koala Foundation says. Climate Change and Sustainability Minister Kate Jones yesterday announced measures to protect the marsupials’ habitats. The measures include spending $15 million to buy new habitats or rehabilitate existing […]
Farmland birds like skylarks and grey partridges have declined by more than half in the last 30 years according to new Government statistics. By Louise Gray, Environment CorrespondentPublished: 7:00AM GMT 30 Oct 2009 The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) English farmland bird index, which covers 19 birds including yellowhammer and woodpigeon, […]
We have been following events since the catastrophic fly ash spill that took place last December in Tennessee in which an unimaginable 5.4 million cubic yards of toxic coal sludge was dumped into the Emory and Clinch rivers and the 300 acres surrounding the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Kingston plant. Now, an emerging Environmental […]
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Tigers could become extinct in the wild in two decades unless the world ramps up conservation efforts to halt the decline in their population, wildlife experts said on Wednesday. Barely 3,500 tigers are estimated to be roaming in the wild in 12 Asian countries and Russia compared with about […]
By Ben Cubby, October 27, 2009 AUSTRALIA must create a new, expanded network of protected wetlands around its coastline or see many bird, animal and plant species become extinct as sea levels rise, the House of Representatives report says. It recommended that the Government should urgently assess the vulnerability of Kakadu National Park to the […]
