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Global Warming to Speed Up as Carbon Levels Show Sharp Rise
 Geoffrey Lean
Global warming is set to accelerate alarmingly because of a sharp jump in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Preliminary figures show that levels of the gas - the main cause of climate change - have risen abruptly in the past four years.more »»»
Reishee Sowa: A Man and His Island Dream
 Suzanne Bandick
It looks like an island, it feels like an island, it has the beautiful vegetation of a tropical island, but it just happens to be made of spiraling pop bottles. Who would have known, and more importantly, who would have thought it possible?more »»»
Republican Gold-Diggers Hit the Wall
 Kelpie Wilson
Believe it or not, the looting of a continent and its people that began with Columbus more than 500 years ago is not done yet. Today's gold-seekers may look different from Spain's conquistadors, but they are of the same breed.more »»»
UN Moves To Block 2006 Caspian Sea Caviar Exports
 Reuters
The United Nations said on Tuesday it would not approve 2006 caviar export quotas for the Caspian Sea basin, where most of the delicacy is produced, until it had more information on stock levels and illegal sales.more »»»
Authorities Hunt for 'Bigfoot' in Malaysia
 Yahoo! News
Authorities began searching the jungles of southern Malaysia on Friday for the mythical "Bigfoot" following a reported sighting of three giant human-like beasts, officials said. Wildlife authorities may set up cameras in the 309 sq.mile Endau Rompin National Park in Johor state to see if the creatures do exist.more »»»
Climate Shock: We're on Thin Ice
 Kelpie Wilson
Climate shock comes from the realization that climate change is not only real, but huge; it is not only huge, but it is now; and it will affect your life very shortly. Not your grandchildren's lives. Not your children's lives. Your life. Soon - if it hasn't already.more »»»
Conservationists Take Legal Action To Save Polar Bears
 Allison Langfelder
Survival of the world's remaining polar bears is increasingly jeopardized by rapid disappearance of the arctic sea ice according to three conservation groups that announced they are taking legal action to have the bears listed as "threatened" under America's Endangered Species Act. more »»»
Wildlife Biologist Octavio Rosas Fights For the Big Cats
 Richard Mahler
Wild jaguars in the U.S.? What sounds implausible was proven true in 1996 when two male jaguars were photographed, in southern New Mexico and Arizona. Until that time, experts had concluded that our hemisphere’s biggest cat had disappeared forever from the U.S.more »»»
Study: Climate Change Could Melt Permafrost in Alaska
 Associated Press
Climate change could melt the top 11 feet of Alaska permafrost by the end of the century, according to a new study. The federal study applied one supercomputer climate models to the future of permafrost.more »»»
Dangerous Times on Brazil's Amazon Frontier
 Andrew Hay
Amazon land activist Deurival Santiago has the look of a hunted man. Unshaven, his eyes bloodshot and his head bowed, the 53-year-old sits in the back room of a safe house near Brazil's muddy Trans-Amazonian highway as logging trucks roll by outside.more »»»
Pressure Mounts on Japan's Whaling Fleet
 Andrew Darby
The Japanese whaling fleet threw off attempts to stop it operating yesterday, as pressure rose against the Antarctic hunt. Greenpeace activists in high-speed inflatables spent hours trying to put themselves between chaser boats and minke whales south of Tasmania and claimed some whales got away.more »»»
Arctic Victory - Senate Votes to Protect Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
 Sarah Wilhoite
In a hard-won environmental victory for every American who cares about protecting Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Senate voted today to reject attaching oil exploration in the pristine refuge to the massive Defense Appropriations bill.more »»»
House Opens Way for Oil Drilling in Artic
 Associated Press
House lawmakers opened the way for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as one of their last acts of an all-night session Monday bringing their legislative year to a close. The ANWR provision was attached to a major defense bill, forcing many opponents of oil and gas exploration in the barren northern Alaska range to vote for it.more »»»
Climate Change Major Environmental Challenge for Europe
 Associated Press
Climate change is Europe's biggest environmental challenge, as the temperature on the continent is rising a third faster than the global average, according to a report by the EU's environmental agency.more »»»
GOP May Harness Arctic Drilling to Pentagon Budget
 Carl Hulse
With a budget-cutting measure stymied by stiff resistance to opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, Congressional Republicans began exploring Wednesday a new tactic to win approval of both $45 billion in cuts and the drilling plan.more »»»
America's Shame in Montreal
 The New York Times
The best that can be said of the recently concluded meeting on climate change in Montreal is that the countries that care about global warming did not allow the United States delegation to blow the whole conference to smithereens.more »»»
UN Talks Set Road Map for Kyoto Beyond 2012
 David Fogarty & Mary Milliken
Environment ministers agreed on Saturday to a road map to extend the Kyoto Protocol climate pact beyond 2012, breaking two weeks of deadlock at UN talks aimed at curbing global warming.more »»»
Mexico Addressing GHG Emissions Despite No Kyoto Obligation
 World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Mexico, a country that has no emission reduction obligatons under the Kyoto Protocol, is acting on its own to assist companies in managing their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.more »»»
Clinton Says Bush Is 'Flat Wrong' on Kyoto
 Charles J. Hanley
Former President Clinton told a global audience of diplomats, environmentalists and others Friday that the Bush administration is "flat wrong" in claiming that reducing greenhouse-gas emissions to fight global warming would damage the US economy.more »»»
US Farmers Use Pesticide Despite Treaty
 Associated Press
Shoppers rifle through store shelves brimming with succulent tomatoes and plump strawberries, hoping to enjoy one last round of fresh fruit before the Western growing season ends. There is no hint of a dark side to the blaze of red.more »»»
Activists Gather for Climate Change Marches
 Associated Press
The Arctic Inuit who are losing their ice caps and activists demanding urgent action on global warming were among thousands taking to the streets in cities around the world Saturday to raise awareness of climate change.more »»»
Melting Arctic Ice Risks Canada-US Territorial Dispute
 AFP
Global warming is melting the Arctic ice so fast that a new sea route is opening up between the Atlantic and the Pacific - and with it the risk of a territorial dispute between Canada and the United States.more »»»
Canada Urges Wider Global Warming Fight
 Reuters
Host Canada urged a wider fight against global warming at the start of 189-country talks on Monday that will try to enlist the United States and poor nations in UN-led schemes to fight climate change beyond 2012. more »»»
U.N. Talks Seek to Ease Global Warming Dispute
 Alister Doyle
A U.N. conference opening in Canada on Monday will try to step up a fight against global warming by drawing the United States and developing nations into U.N.-led agreements beyond 2012.more »»»
Core Evidence that Humans Affect Climate Change
 Usha Lee McFarling
An ice core about two miles long — the oldest frozen sample ever drilled from the underbelly of Antarctica — shows that at no time in the last 650,000 years have levels of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane been as high as they are today.more »»»
Hurricane Helper
 David Helvarg
The Federal Emergency Management Agency said last week that it has run out of money to pay insurance claims from this year's hurricanes. Not counting Wilma, the claims top $22 billion. So you'd think the troubled agency would be eager to reduce future disaster damage. more »»»
Genetically Altered Food Protested
 Associated Press
Greenpeace on Sunday tethered a hot-air balloon over the sprawling, historic city center of Mexico's capital to grab the public's attention as part of an educational campaign about the use of transgenetic crops by major food producers.more »»»
Mexico Steps Up Control Over Imports of Foreign Christmas Trees
 Ioan Grillo
Nearly 100 special inspectors will be positioned along Mexico's 2,000-mile border with the US, scrutinizing the leaves and branches of the 800,000 Christmas trees it expects to flow south this season, said Hector Gonzalez, Assistant Attorney General of Natural Resources.more »»»
'Gas Muzzlers' Challenge Bush
 Roger Harrabin & Steve Hounslow
President George W Bush is facing a rebellion over his softly-softly approach to climate change. Nine north-eastern states are poised to sign an agreement setting Kyoto-style legal limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power stations.more »»»
Population Resurgence Could Bring 200 Million Monarch Butterflies to Mexico
 Will Weissert
As many as 200 million Monarch butterflies may migrate to Mexico this year – a nearly tenfold increase over 2004, when unfavorable weather, pollution and deforestation caused a drastic decline in the population, environmental officials said Tuesday.more »»»
Activist Ends Flight Along Butterfly Migration Route
 Wire services
A conservation activist trying to draw attention to the fragility of the Monarch butterflies' winter habitats in Mexico ended a 3,000-mile (4,500-kilometer) flight along the insects' migration route Thursday.more »»»
Business Faces Pressure on Climate Change Stance
 Gerard Wynn
Businesses are feeling the heat as the world warms up and investors demand to know what companies are doing to curb greenhouse gases - adding a new element to financial risk that analysts say industry can no longer ignore.more »»»
Naked Chicken Protesters Ruffle Feathers
 AFP
Two naked animal rights protesters attracted hundreds of onlookers in one of Hong Kong's busiest shopping streets causing the closure of a main road and a heated exchange with police.more »»»
Energy Failure
 NYTimes
Bush's habitual response to energy-related problems like oil dependency is to try to increase supply rather than to cut demand through energy efficiency. The imbalance is getting worse as Congress rushes to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration.more »»»
New Drive to Save Wetlands
 Brad Knickerbocker
In the wake of hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and now Wilma - wetlands have suddenly become a hot political, scientific, and legal issue. Preserving wetlands along the Louisiana coast might have lessened the hurricane damage, scientists say. So some planners are looking at how to restore them around New Orleans and other Gulf Coast communities.more »»»
Owners to Limit Growth at Oasis
 Sandra Dibble
It is one of Mexico's most remote regions, a vast landscape of water and earth where migratory birds feed, mangroves thrive and gray whales migrate to breed and bear their young. For years, conservation groups from both sides of the border have fought to preserve the Laguna San Ignacio and its surroundings.more »»»
Study Finds Brazil's Amazon Rainforest Twice as Deforested as Estimated
 AFP
Stealthy selective logging under the dense canopy of Brazil's Amazon rainforest has left twice the amount of the fragile forest degraded by human activities as previously estimated, a US study said.more »»»
Rain Forest Jekyll and Hyde?
 Bob Herbert
Please welcome the latest entry to the Chutzpah Hall of Fame: the mighty Chevron Corporation. On Oct. 28, during a gala ceremony at its headquarters in San Ramon, Calif., the company, which until May was known as ChevronTexaco, will honor the latest recipients of the annual Chevron Conservation Awards.more »»»
Man Will 'Wipe Out' Rare Creatures of the Deep
 Severin Carrell
The deep ocean is one of the world's last great wildernesses. But not for long. Two kilometres below the surface, scores of rare and exotic species are being wiped out at a dramatic rate.more »»»
Clone-Generated Milk, Meat May Be Approved
 Justin Gillis
The US Food and Drug Administration is expected to rule soon that milk from cloned animals and meat from their offspring are safe to eat, raising the question of whether Americans are ready to welcome one of modern biology's most controversial achievements to the dinner table.more »»»
US Congress Poised to Gut Environmental Laws
 Chris Baltimore
House Republicans will launch a rapid-fire assault against environmental protections on the pretext of helping the US oil and gas industry recover from hurricane damage, environmental groups charge.more »»»
Scientists Capture Giant Squid on Camera
 Reuters
Japanese scientists have taken the first photographs of one of the most mysterious creatures in the deep ocean - the giant squid. Until now the only information about the behavior of the creatures which measure up to 59 feet in length has been based on dead or dying squid washed up on shore or captured in commercial fishing nets.more »»»
Global Warming 'Past the Point of No Return'
 Steve Connor
A record loss of sea ice in the Arctic this summer has convinced scientists that the northern hemisphere may have crossed a critical threshold beyond which the climate may never recover.more »»»
Scientists: Cut Air Travel for Environment
 Michael McDonough
Britain should drastically reduce the growth of air travel to bring greenhouse gas emissions within levels that will avoid dangerous climate change, a report by leading environmental scientists said.more »»»
Report Says Global Warming Could Spark Conflict
 Reuters
Rising world temperatures could cause a significant increase in disease across Asia and Pacific Island nations, leading to conflict and leaving hundreds of millions of people displaced.more »»»
Democrats Savage Justice Department over Apparent Attempt to Blame Environmentalists for Flood
 John Byrne
An email message which suggested the Bush Justice Department was looking to blame environmentalists for a break in the New Orleans levee and the ensuing flood has sparked vehement responses among the Democratic caucus in Congress, RAW STORY has learned.more »»»
Mexican Sea Turtles Get Armed Escorts in Fight Against Poachers
 Patrick Harrington
Laws barring the killing of protected sea turtles and the sale of their eggs have been as effective as anti-drug trafficking programs: driving the practice underground but failing to stop it.more »»»
Environmental Activist Released From Prison
 Natalia Parra
A judge in Guerrero on Thursday ruled there was insufficient evidence and dismissed all charges against a Mexican environmentalist whose dubious imprisonment for murder sparked international outcry.more »»»
Cover-Up: Toxic Waters 'Will Make New Orleans Unsafe for a Decade'
 Geoffrey Lean
Toxic chemicals in the New Orleans flood waters will make the city unsafe for full human habitation for a decade, a US government official has told The Independent on Sunday. And, he added, the Bush administration is covering up the danger.more »»»
Mexico Beats Deadline for Eliminating Ozone-Depleting Chemicals
 Olga R. Rodriguez
Mexico has stopped producing ozone-depleting chemicals four years before a deadline set by an international agreement. The last chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, were produced last month in Monterrey, Mexico.more »»»
Official: E. Coli Bacteria Detected in New Orleans Floodwater
 CNN
Floodwater in New Orleans is contaminated with E. coli bacteria, a city official told CNN Tuesday. The failures of the levee system after Hurricane Katrina's onslaught left about 80 percent of the city flooded with water up to 20 feet deep - water that became a toxic mix of chemicals, garbage, corpses and human waste.more »»»
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