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9/3/2010
Wealthy and developing nations should be able to seal an agreement this year on deforestation, unlocking a key part of the next treaty on global warming, Indonesian negotiators said Monday.
At December's Copenhagen climate summit, six ...
9/3/2010
Four environmental groups have sued the European Union's executive for withholding documents they say will add to a growing dossier of evidence that biofuels harm the environment and push up food prices.The lawsuit, lodged with the EU's ...
9/3/2010
European biofuel developers are facing fresh uncertainty about the future of the industry, after four environmental groups yesterday launched legal action against the European Union, accusing it of withholding evidence that allegedly shows that ...
9/3/2010
Farm experts plan to track down wild relatives of crops such as rice or wheat with traits that make them able to resist global warming in a project costing perhaps $50 million, a leading expert said on Tuesday.
"The wild relatives of ...
9/3/2010
The star of the BBC's Gardeners' World has been drafted in by the Government as they try to persuade the public to stop using peat compost.
Ministers hope that Diarmuid Gavin will help them convince gardeners to stop using peat, which is ...
8/3/2010
Salt is precious in poverty-stricken coastal West Africa, but conservation experts say efforts to extract it are laying waste to mangrove swamps, causing erosion and ravaging fish stocks.
In Sierra Leone, one of Africa's poorest nations ...
8/3/2010
Despite hope that nature was fighting back, it appeared that the global wipeout of species was accelerating, they said.
Speaking ahead of two next week on the state of British and European wildlife, Simon Stuart, from the International ...
8/3/2010
With a single, concerted initiative, says Lakshman Guruswami, the world could save millions of people in poor nations from respiratory ailments and early death, while dealing a big blow to global warming -- and all at a surprisingly small ...
8/3/2010
An environmental group is accusing Congolese soldiers of killing more rare wild animals in a national park in Congo's volatile east.
Bantu Lukambo of Innovation for Development and Environmental Protection said Monday soldiers killed the ...
8/3/2010
Three species thought to be extinct have been found again, to the delight of conservationists.
In the UK, the rare ghost orchid, declared extinct in this country just last year, has been found in England, and a caddisfly – a small flying ...
8/3/2010
Dr. Mohammad Ibrahim, an eminent scientist of Bangladesh and nature lover notes that about 40 per cent of about 44 thousand species of the world are at stake due to climatic and other disasters. Human-induced climate change tends to reduce the ...
7/3/2010
For the first time since the dinosaurs disappeared, humans are driving animals and plants to extinction faster than new species can evolve, one of the world's experts on biodiversity has warned.
Conservation experts have already ...
7/3/2010
We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty land before we found what will soon be Ethiopia's largest greenhouse. Nestling below an escarpment of the Rift Valley, the development is far ...
7/3/2010
The numbers are not encouraging. Experts believe the global wild tiger population has fallen to below 3,000 -- less than 3 percent of what it was just 100 years ago. Today, their range has been reduced to small patches, isolating many of the ...
7/3/2010
The first in an interview series with participants in the 5th Frugivore and Seed Dispersal International Symposium.
There are few areas of research in tropical biology more exciting and more important than seed dispersal. Seed ...
7/3/2010
Brazil and the United States have signed an agreement to worth together to reduce deforestation as part of an effort to slow climate change.
The memorandum of understanding signed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Brasilia last ...
6/3/2010
At first glance, these questions will seem bizarre. Groups like Conservation International are among the most trusted "brands" in America, pledged to protect and defend nature. Yet as we confront the biggest ecological crisis in human history, ...
6/3/2010
Two of the world's most iconic endangered species, the bluefin tuna and African elephant, could be protected under a backroom deal being negotiated between Europe and Africa.
New rules restricting international trade in endangered ...
6/3/2010
The world, it is said, belongs to those with the most energy. And the search for alternative energy, for a number of reasons - from political to environmental - continues. The price spike in 2008, preceding the recession the world is now ...
5/3/2010
Amidst allegations that Canadian mining companies operating in Latin America have been complicit in the murders and harassment of activists, several positive developments in Canada are seen as a source of hope that firms may begin to be held ...
5/3/2010
A move by Unilever to stop buying palm oil from Indonesia's top supplier Sinar Mas and to blacklist another supplier PT Duta Palma was "unfair," Indonesian Agriculture Minister Suswono said on Friday.Green campaigners and consumers have ...
5/3/2010
The European Union's promotion of plant-based biofuels will raise EU farm incomes and agricultural commodity prices, but could create food shortages for the world's poorest consumers, draft EU reports show.
The EU has a legal target to ...
5/3/2010
Caribbean countries are considering options like desalination plants and cloud seeding to confront a drought that threatens the regional economy and which experts warned about years ago.
In St. Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago, the ...
5/3/2010
Like the vegetarian who can't resist the occasional burger, the otherwise herbivorous gorilla might succumb to cravings for its evolutionary cousins, a new study hints.
While some zoo specimens are known to eat meat, wild gorillas eat ...
5/3/2010
Bicycles burn calories, not carbon, so they’re considered among the cleanest forms of transportation. But most bikes are made of aluminum and steel which leave a large carbon footprint since the materials are mined and processed. Now a group of ...