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 Editorials | Environmental
Rejection of Biotech Corn Praised, Chided
 El Universal
Mexico has refused requests from several multinational companies seeking to start experimental planting of genetically modified corn, a move praised by environmentalists but criticized by biotech supporters.more »»»
Study: Mexican Fires Hurt U.S. Air Quality
 UPI
A National Aeronautics and Space Administration-funded study found that during April-May 2003, large amounts of smoke from biomass burning in the Yucatan Peninsula and southern Mexico reached Texas, Oklahoma and other areas in the southeastern United States.more »»»
Porpoises Dying Off
 Kaitlin Manry
Unusually high numbers of harbor porpoises are dying in Washington waters. It's unclear what is causing the trend, but necropsies have confirmed that some of the porpoises died of Cryptococcus gattii, a fungus that has killed four people in British Columbia.more »»»
The Century of Drought
 Michael McCarthy
Drought threatening the lives of millions will spread across half the land surface of the Earth in the coming century because of global warming, according to new predictions from Britain's leading climate scientists.more »»»
US-Mexico Border Fence May Harm Animal Migration
 Tim Gaynor
A plan to fence off a third of the U.S. border to stop illegal immigration from Mexico may harm migration routes used by animals including rare birds and jaguars, environmentalists and U.S. authorities warn.more »»»
Nature Trumps Border Seal
 Stephanie Innes
Altering the landscape is one way to secure the international line, a boundary that crosses miles of rugged canyons and more than a dozen mountain ranges, with peaks reaching 7,800 feet.more »»»
Crime Against Nature
 ENVIRONMENTAL-BYLINE
Drug production and trafficking can damage sensitive ecosystems, and some projects, such as those run by Nichols, are undermined by epidemics of addiction among local people. In other cases, biologists and officials who should be enforcing environmental laws are kept away by the threat of violence.more »»»
Branson Promises $3 Billion to Fight Global Warming
 Michelle Nichols
British billionaire Richard Branson committed to spending all the profits from his airline and rail businesses - an estimated $3 billion over the next 10 years - on combating global warming.more »»»
California Sues Carmakers Over Global Warming
 Michael Kahn
California on Wednesday sued six of the world's largest automakers, including General Motors Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp., over global warming, charging that greenhouse gases from their vehicles have caused billions of dollars in damages.more »»»
More than 50 New Species off Indonesia's Papua
 AFP
Scientists have found at least 52 new marine species off the western coast of Indonesia's Papua, deeming the waters there to be one of the richest in the world. A new reef shark species, various prawns, corals and anemones were among the "extraordinary and important" findings on expeditions this year.more »»»
One More Failed US Environmental Policy
 Kristin S. Schafer
Back in 2001, two global toxics treaties offered a rare opportunity for U.S. leadership in the international environmental policy arena. Today not only is the opportunity for leadership lost, but the U.S. seems bent on undermining the effectiveness of these important treaties while the rest of the world moves ahead on implementation.more »»»
Meeting Tries to Bring Poor Nations Onboard Climate Change Pact
 AFP
About 40 countries have begun a meeting in Switzerland to discuss bringing developing nations on board emissions curbs and international measures to control climate change.more »»»
Old Farmer's Almanac Sees Harsh US Winter
 Jason Szep
The Old Farmer's Almanac is embracing new technology - from Internet podcasts to a 24-hour Web cam - as the 215-year-old Yankee oracle warns of a harsh North American winter with a chance of snow even in Las Vegas.more »»»
Scientists See New Global Warming Threat
 Seth Borenstein
New research is raising concerns that global warming may be triggering a self-perpetuating climate time bomb trapped in once-frozen permafrost. As the Earth warms, greenhouse gases once stuck in the long-frozen soil are bubbling into the atmosphere in much larger amounts than previously anticipated, according to a study.more »»»
The Man Who Fed the World
 Ronald Bailey
"The Man Who Fed the World" describes, in a workmanlike way, how a poor Iowa farm boy trained in forestry and plant pathology came to be one of humanity's greatest benefactors.more »»»
Canadian Scientist Receives Stockholm Water Prize
 Canadian Press
A Canadian who heads a water management group in Mexico City received the $150,000 USD Stockholm Water Prize from Swedish Crown Princess Victoria at a ceremony in the Stockholm City Hall.more »»»
French Fishermen Use Greenpeace's Own Tactics Against It
 Ouerdya Ait-Abdelmalek & Eric Bernaudeau
Fishermen in the southern French port city of Marseille have used Greenpeace's own tactics against it by preventing the environmental activist group's flagship from docking.more »»»
Fixing Leaks Can Avert World Water Woes: Expert
 Alister Doyle
Fixing leaky pipes in conurbations from Mexico City to New Delhi is a better way to avert water shortages as the world population grows than costly schemes such as dams, a leading expert said on Monday.more »»»
Billions Face Water Shortages: Agency
 James Grube
A third of the world is facing water shortages because of poor management of water resources and soaring water usage, driven mainly by agriculture, the International Water Management Institute said this weekmore »»»
Changes in Our Solar System: Is Trouble Coming?
 ABC News
For the first time in recent memory, the universe is under scrutiny and the solar system we all learned in grade school may be turned upside down. Astronomers are now reassessing what makes a planet a planet, so curiosity about our existence in this solar system is peaking. Could the human race go extinct?more »»»
Clouds of Monarch Butterflies Descend on Mexico Sanctuaries
 Judy Wiley
They travel thousands of miles, unerringly, every year between Canada and Mexico. No one knows how they find their way. "Las mariposas" - the butterflies - come by the millions. They arrive in Mexico's heartland, the Sierra Madre in the state of Michoacan, every November.more »»»
'More Disasters' for Warmer World
 BBC News
Rising temperatures will increase the risk of forest fires, droughts and flooding over the next two centuries, UK climate scientists have warned. Even if harmful emissions were cut now, many parts of the world would face a greater risk of natural disasters.more »»»
Mexican Crop Circle Asks the Question
 Greenpeace.org
John Lundberg, a professional cropcircle maker talks about his latest work, a giant question mark in a maize field in Mexico and working with Greenpeace.more »»»
Pacific "Dead Zone" Worse Than Thought
 Associated Press
The oxygen-starved "dead zone" along the Pacific Coast that is causing massive crab and fish die-offs is worse than initially thought, scientists said. Weather, not pollution, appears to be the culprit, scientists said, and no relief is in sight.more »»»
Dirty Beaches a Health Hazard, Says Report
 Elisabeth Leamy
The Natural Resources Defense Council's eye-opening annual report on the state of the nation's beaches is due out later today. It will show contamination caused health warnings and beach closings at least 20,000 times in 2005, more than ever before.more »»»
22 Cities Join Clinton Anti-Warming Effort
 Juliet Eilperin
Twenty-two of the world's largest cities announced yesterday that they will work together to limit their contributions to global warming in an effort led by former president Bill Clinton.more »»»
Developer, Environmentalists Clash in Puerto Penasco
 Sandra Dibble
The future of a prime beachfront parcel in the booming Gulf of California community of Puerto Peñasco has brought a showdown between a well-respected environmental group with strong U.S. ties that is housed on the site and a U.S. developer who wants to build condominiums there.more »»»
Canadian, Mexican Hazmat Screening Set
 Associated Press
Truck drivers carrying hazardous materials from Canada and Mexico will begin Monday undergoing government background investigations before they can enter the United States.more »»»
Global Warming Disputes Heat Up US Congress
 John Heilprin
As a heat wave baked the capital, global warming dominated a number of conversations in and around the government Thursday. The House Government Reform Committee began an inquiry into allegations that White House officials edited reports on global warming to play down the threat it poses.more »»»
Next Victim of Warming: The Beaches
 Cornelia Dean
When scientists consider the possible effects of global warming, there is a lot they don't know. But they can say one thing for sure: sea levels will rise. Though most of the country's ocean beaches are eroding, few coastal jurisdictions consider sea level rise in their coastal planning, and still fewer incorporate the fact that the rise is accelerating.more »»»
Jump to Prevent Global Warming
 Alexandra Leo
Hans Peter Niesward, from the Department of Gravitationsphysik at the ISA in Munich, says we can stop global warming in one fell swoop - or, more accurately, in one big jump.more »»»
Endangered Turtles Returning
 Bill Hanna
This is the story of a remarkable comeback. A rejuvenation that many experts considered all but impossible 20 years ago. But on the remote beaches of northern Mexico, the most endangered of all sea turtles is marching back from the brink of extinction.more »»»
Fossil Fuels Said to Damage Ocean Life
 Associated Press
Corals and other marine creatures are threatened by chemical changes in the ocean caused by the carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels, a panel of scientists warned Wednesday.more »»»
Mexico Plans Controls for the Sea of Cortez and its Bordering Land Areas
 Barnard R. Thompson
The “Notification of the Proposal of the Marine Ecological Ordinance of the Gulf of California” refers to a 168-page Spanish language document that is now available for review and comment, part of a Mexican government public consultation mechanism.more »»»
Number of Gray Whales Increases Along Calif. Coast
 Sadia Latifi
While many whale species remain endangered, the gray whale calf count along the California coast rose sharply this spring, marine scientists reported Monday. The increase probably reflects the whales' greater access to their Arctic Ocean feeding grounds.more »»»
A Call to Revitalize Once-Lush Estuary
 Sandra Dibble
Claiming Mexico's Colorado River Delta as a shared legacy of the United States and Mexico, an eclectic group of scholars, environmentalists, government officials, volunteers and local residents are searching for ways to keep it alive.more »»»
Greenland's Ice Sheet Is Slip Sliding Away
 Robert Lee Hotz
The Greenland ice sheet - two miles thick and broad enough to blanket an area the size of Mexico - shapes the world's weather, matched in influence by only Antarctica in the Southern Hemisphere.more »»»
A Symbolic Victory for Whaling Advocates
 Carol J. Williams
The International Whaling Commission declares by a narrow vote that a 20-year ban on commercial hunting no longer is necessary because the marine mammals have recovered from near extinction.more »»»
Bush to Create World's Largest Marine Protected Area Near Hawaii
 Kenneth R. Weiss
President Bush today will create the world's largest marine protected area, a total of 140,000 square miles of Pacific Ocean surrounding a necklace of islands and atolls that stretch from the main Hawaiian Islands to Midway Atoll and beyond, senior administration officials said.more »»»
India, Mexico to Jointly Study Water Issues
 Indo-Asian News Service
India is planning a major research collaboration with Mexico to study ways to tackle water issues in both urban and semi-urban areas, Minister of Science and Technology Kapil Sibal said on Tuesday.more »»»
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