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WASHINGTON (AP) -- NASA's press office "marginalized or mischaracterized" studies on global warming between 2004 and 2006, the agency's own internal watchdog concluded.
SHASHAMANE, Ethiopia (AP) -- Like so many other victims of Ethiopia's hunger crisis, Usheto Beriso weighs just half what he should. He is always cold and swaddled in a blanket. His limbs are stick-thin.
GRIFFIN, Ind. -- In a year when global harvests need to be excellent to ease the threat of pervasive food shortages, evidence is mounting that they will be average at best. Some farmers are starting to fear disaster.
Watchdog proposes a special tax as the foot-dragging by G8 nations undermines a decade of progress
Politics killed a 1990s plan to recycle, but drought, technology and Orange County's success offer hope.
Aid groups are trying to curb child labor and reconnect families - without the help of surnames.
Sex trade traffickers are preying on child survivors of Burma's devastating Cyclone Nargis, writes Edward Loxton for The First Post. At least two suspected traffickers have been arrested in Rangoon since the cyclone hit, according to UNICEF's child protection officer in Burma, "A broker came to a shelter and tried to recruit children," she told the French news agency AFP. "The police intervened and made arrests."
Global warming is disrupting wildlife and the environment on every continent, according to an unprecedented study that reveals the extent to which climate change is already affecting the world's ecosystems.
The world's species are declining at a rate "unprecedented since the extinction of the dinosaurs", a census of the animal kingdom has revealed. The Living Planet Index out today shows the devastating impact of humanity as biodiversity has plummeted by almost a third in the 35 years to 2005.
There is an interesting article in the February 9, 2004 edition of Fortune Magazine - CLIMATE COLLAPSE - The Pentagon's Weather Nightmare (UTJ Permalink - by David Stipp. The Pentagon is apparently taking "climate change" seriously even if the White House is not. The Pentagon called in Andrew Marshall, who has been the Defense Department's "sage" for over thirty years, to look at the scenarios.
Population, pollution, and climate put the squeeze on potable supplies - and private companies smell a profit. Others ask: Should water be a human right?
Stealth growers seed or plant on land that doesn't belong to them. The result? Plants that beautify or yield crops in otherwise neglected or vacant spaces.
BRASILIA, May 8 (IPS) - The legal status of an indigenous territory in the far north of Brazil, and biofuels, are two hot potatoes at the Third National Conference on the Environment being held in the capital city, which is focusing on climate change.
PICHER, Okla. | A tornado did what the federal government could not.
Ellis Jones had been a holdout in the government's quest to pay everyone to leave Picher, contaminated from its long-closed lead mines.
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania Even before he took a butcher knife to the she-goat's throat, Likbir Ould Mohamed Mahmoud knew it would only make things worse.
For decades, wheat was king on the Great Plains and prices were low everywhere. Those days are over.
Climate change is already affecting the prospects for children in the world's poorer countries, according to Unicef.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Arctic will remain on thinning ice, and climate warming is expected to begin affecting the Antarctic also, scientists said Friday.
Like Kiribati and Tuvalu, the islands of the Torres Strait are slowly being submerged. But unlike their Pacific neighbours, the plight of their inhabitants is being overlooked.
DHAKA - Abdul Majid has been forced to move 22 times in as many years, a victim of the annual floods that ravage Bangladesh.
The results of a painstaking examination of global agriculture are being formally presented Tuesday with the release of the final report for the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD).
It was the first day in a long week of the consultations, PowerPoint presentations and high-level cocktail parties that accompany the World Bank's Spring Meetings in Washington, D.C. Already tensions were running high in a tightly-packed conference room downtown. Bank staff huddled on one side and non-profit groups on the other. The topic that drew so much attention first thing Monday morning: Climate change and the Bank's plans for plunging its fingers deeper into the expanding multi-billion-dollar carbon-trading pie.
Rising food prices could spark worldwide unrest and threaten political stability, the UN's top humanitarian official warned yesterday after two days of rioting in Egypt over the doubling of prices of basic foods in a year and protests in other parts of the world.
Danny Bloom, a freelance writer, translator and editor living in Taiwan, is on a one-man campaign to get people to seriously consider a worst-case prediction of the British chemist and inventor James Lovelock: life in "polar cities" arrayed around the shores of an ice-free Arctic Ocean in a greenhouse-warmed world.
One of the biggest questions about climate change is: What will it cost to fix? Figuring that out is a huge challenge.
HANOI -- Rising prices and a growing fear of scarcity have prompted some of the world's largest rice producers to announce drastic limits on the amount of rice they export.
Rising sea levels threaten to flood many of the islands in the fertile Ganges delta, leading to an environmental disaster and a refugee crisis for India and Bangladesh
Bangkok, Thailand - - Rice farmers here are staying awake in shifts at night to guard their fields from thieves. In Peru, shortages of wheat flour are prompting the military to make bread with potato flour, a native crop. In Egypt, Cameroon, and Burkina Faso food riots have broken out in the past week.
· Malnourished millions at risk of cut in supplies
· 'Perfect storm' of rising prices and biofuel boom
Food rationing will shortly be imposed on millions in desperate need unless donor countries make good a $500m (£250m) shortfall, the United Nations agency that combats starvation warned yesterday.
Where an ancient tribe and modern Africa meet, bare-breasted women in animal-skin skirts and men with spears join the urban flow of traffic, supermarkets, and pool halls.
Opuwo, Namibia - As the sun drops behind the dusty main street here, the crowd at the informal market behind the OK Grocer gets bigger. Twenty-somethings in Western clothes slap hands in greeting, older men sit in the red dust drinking home-brewed beer out of plastic buckets, women haggle with stall merchants for the last best price on tomatoes and T-shirtsMany of today's conflicts around the world are being fuelled or exacerbated by water shortages and climate change is only making the situation worse, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the General Assembly today.
Leaked UN report says pollution three times higher than previously thought.
The true scale of climate change emissions from shipping is almost three times higher than previously believed, according to a leaked UN study seen by the Guardian.
The rising price of cereals such as wheat and maize is a "major global concern", the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says.
The task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures may be far more difficult than previous research suggested, say scientists who have just published studies indicating that it would require the world to cease carbon emissions altogether within a matter of decades.
"What's a nice black guy like me doing in a movement like this?"Van Jones strides the stage at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, a charismatic lawyer who grew up in rural Tennessee, graduated from Yale Law, and founded the Ella Baker Center for jobs and justice in Oakland.
Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt of Chapter 5 in Maude Barlow's latest book, Blue Covenant. She is touring with her book across the country; see Food and Water Watch for her full schedule.
The three water crises - dwindling freshwater supplies, inequitable
access to water and the corporate control of water - pose the greatest
threat of our time to the planet and to our survival. Together with
impending climate change from fossil fuel emissions, the water crises
impose some life-or-death decisions on us all. Unless we collectively
change our behavior, we are heading toward a world of deepening
conflict and potential wars over the dwindling supplies of freshwater -
between nations, between rich and poor, between the public and the
private interest, between rural and urban populations, and between the
competing needs of the natural world and industrialized humans.The Future of Water
· Pressures from population growth and affluence
· ‘Profoundly stupid’ to cut down forests for biofuels
Food security and the rapid rise in food prices make up the “elephant
in the room” that politicians must face up to quickly, according to the
government’s new chief scientific adviser.Dr. Ralph Keeling is a climate change expert who explores how rises in carbon dioxide influence global oxygen levels.
Many of today's conflicts around the world are being fuelled or exacerbated by water shortages and climate change is only making the situation worse, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the General Assembly today.
LAKE NORMAN, N.C. (AP) — Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply power plants with the awesome amounts of cooling water they need to operate.
Bill Reinert, who helped design Toyota Motor Corp.'s Prius hybrid, hovers in a helicopter 1,000 feet over Fort McMurray, Alberta. On this clear November morning, he's craning for a look at one of the world's largest petroleum reserves where there's not an oil well in sight.
Climate change may spark conflict between nations. John Reid. Independent. 2/28/2006.
John Reid warns climate change may spark conflict between nations - and says British armed forces must be ready to tackle the violence
Climate scientists issue dire warning. David Adam. Guardian. 2/28/2006.
The Earth's temperature could rise under the impact of global warming to levels far higher than previously predicted, according to the United Nations' team of climate experts.
Arctic summers ice-free 'by 2013'. Jonathan Amos. BBC. 12/12/2007.
Scientists in the US have presented one of the most dramatic forecasts yet for the disappearance of Arctic sea ice.
World food stocks dwindling rapidly, UN warns. Elisabeth Rosenthal. International Herald Tribune.
In an "unforeseen and unprecedented" shift, the world food supply is dwindling rapidly and food prices are soaring to historic levels, the top food and agriculture official of the United Nations warned Monday.
Oregon seems to be a viable spot for solar companies to settle in. Is it because Oregon is so much more cheaper than say California? Peak Sun, a silicon photovoltaic manufacturing company, will choose Millersburg with an $18 million dollar investment.
Abstract
The global movement of populations is going through an
increasingly tumultuous and conflicted period. While the processes of
globalization have in some ways made a smaller world, they have also increased
the awareness of global inequality. The push and pull factors of migration have
become complex and shifting as global economic streams shift, political
conflict increases, and competition over shrinking resources intensifies. These
changes raise the question of whether people are "immigrants" or
"refugees." As climate chaos expands, so does the number of "climate
refugees." This paper explores the economic, political and environmental
sources of contemporary migration patterns; the ways immigrants are perceived
and received, and poses suggestions for addressing the problems and
possibilities.
Abstract
The global movement of populations is going through an
increasingly tumultuous and conflicted period. While the processes of
globalization have in some ways made a smaller world, they have also increased
the awareness of global inequality. The push and pull factors of migration have
become complex and shifting as global economic streams shift, political
conflict increases, and competition over shrinking resources intensifies. These
changes raise the question of whether people are "immigrants" or
"refugees." As climate chaos expands, so does the number of "climate
refugees." This paper explores the economic, political and environmental
sources of contemporary migration patterns; the ways immigrants are perceived
and received, and poses suggestions for addressing the problems and
possibilities.
The International Forum on Globalization has released a short video on the false solution of going "green" while maintaining or increasing consumption. It does an excellent job of addressing a number of myths.
At YouTube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ft5SSIfmeKU
