| Reforestation captures more carbon than industrial plantations: Study Reforestation of damaged forests captures more carbon than controversial softwood monoculture plantations, says new... | |
| Tuna meltdown: is there an alternative? Numbers of bluefin tuna are so low that the species is heading for extinction. But there is hope for this magnificent red-fleshed, warm-blooded fish. Salvation may come in the form of Kona Kampachi,... |
| We must restart the fight against global warming Observer editorial Scepticism is a healthy attitude to adopt to many, if not all, untested propositions. Sceptics throughout history, by applying their reasoned judgment and hard-headed critical faculties, have exposed... |
| A dark ideology is driving those who deny climate change | Robin McKie Russian capital is sweltering in temperatures that reached a record 37.7C last week. Vast stretches of peat bog surrounding the city have dried out and caught fire covering Moscow with choking smog.... |
| Fire crews on high alert as B.C. forests become tinder boxes VANCOUVER — Forest fire crews were busy Saturday as the British Columbia Day long weekend got underway with dry weather turning forest floors into tinder boxes.On Friday, 64 new fires were sparked,... |
| Ocean Losing Its Green VIENNA, Jul 31, 2010 (IPS) - The oceans are the lifeblood of our planet and plankton its red blood cells. Those vital "red blood cells" have declined more than 40 percent since 1950 and the rate of... |
| New to Nature No 16: Selenochlamys ysbryda , is a species new to science discovered in a garden in Glamorgan, south Wales. Like about one-third of British species of slugs, this one may have been accidentally introduced to the UK by human... |
| Geoff Rowe's innovation: low-energy comedy The best live comedy gigs have a dangerous frisson about them. Imagine that transferred to the pitch black. "It's challenging for the performers," says comedy producer Geoff Rowe, whose idea it was... |
| Can I buy milk and be green? To pouch or not to pouch? The process of transferring cow juice from beast to breakfast table has been on a journey, from churns and glass bottles to milk pouches. Your first milk pouch comes with a... |
| Pipe break that caused Michigan oil spill is found Crews clean up oil, from a ruptured pipeline, owned by Enbridge Inc, near booms where Talmadge Creek meets the Kalamazoo River in Marshall Township, Mich., July 30, 2010. The Canadian company that... |
| Yellow lobster pulled from RI's Narragansett Bay In this July 30 2010 photo, Denny Ingram shows off a yellow lobster he caught last week in Newport, R.I. Experts say the genetic feature is very rare, occurring in about 1 in 30 million lobsters. (AP... |
| Wildfires devouring B.C. forests A campfire ban continues across most of British Columbia as wildfires ignited by lightning earlier in the week continue to devour tinder-dry forests. More than 240 wildfires that broke out across... |
| Chinese children turn to art in UN environment contest Millions of schoolchildren in China have demonstrated their concern for the environment by participating in a painting contest, using their artistic creativity to come up with images to illustrate... |
| Edmonton firm buys U.S. environmental consulting outfit has acquired Natural Resources Consulting Inc., a 60-person environmental consulting and ecological restoration firm based in Wisconsin.NRC, which has offices across Wisconsin and in Iowa, Illinois,... |
| House approves oil spill legislation The bill, passed 209 to 193, would impose new safeguards for offshore drilling, remove a liability cap for spill damages, and hit energy producers with a new tax to fund conservation... |
| BP pulls back oil spill cleanup operation BP is scaling back its massive cleanup effort, pulling out miles of protective orange boom from the coastline and cutting the number of ships scouting for oil and the hiring of crews scouring the... |
| China oil spill could be as high as 60,000 tonnes - Greenpeace As many as 60,000 tonnes of heavy crude oil could have been spilled into China's northeast coastal waters as a result of an explosion that rocked the port of Dalian on July 16, Greenpeace said. A... |
| Why no campus protest over Berkeley-BP connection? BP being BP, one would have expected the very snug relationship between the university and the corporation to have produced a major campus uproar by now.After... |
| Project to conserve environment, check pollution in Solan Solan, Jul 31 : The state government will start a pilot project to conserve environment and keep pollution in check in coordination with NGOs and voluntary organisations in the district, Additional... |
