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Surfers Against Sewage: Warning for our beaches
Posted by Independent: Ian Burrell on April 28th, 2011
Independent: Celine Gehret has been asked to pose for photographs many times but never while wearing a pink colander for a hat and a plastic shopping bag for a face mask. But Gehret, one of Cornwall's most outstanding surfers, is anxious to make a point.
The campaign group Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) claims that Britain's beaches are being damaged by the "growing problem' of marine litter and the discharge of effluent into the ocean.
An unusually warm April has already led to packed beaches but to coincide...
Road-building plans threaten Indonesian tigers
Posted by Associated Press: Ali Kotarumalos on April 28th, 2011
Associated Press: Indonesia is preparing to greenlight the construction of several highways through a park that has one of the world's few viable populations of wild tigers, conservationists warned Thursday.
The move would be especially alarming, they said, because it would come just months after the government signed a deal in Russia promising to do everything possible to save the iconic big cats from extinction.
There are about 3,500 tigers left in the wild worldwide. The Kerinci Seblat National Park, which...
Link Between Crop Failure and Climate Change Often Missed
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 28th, 2011
Inter Press Service: Climate change has a profound effect on food security in Africa, as increasing temperatures and shifting rain patterns reduce access to food across the continent.
This transpired at a conference on global warming and climate change that started in Cape Town, South Africa, on July 21 and ends today.
The discussion was organised by South Africa’s Fynbos Foundation, which aims to realise investment in the media, publishing, arts and culture sectors, and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at...
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Comments Off on Link Between Crop Failure and Climate Change Often MissedIndia: Himalayan farmers point to climate change
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 28th, 2011
Agence France-Presse: Himalayan villagers have won the backing of climate science for their suspicions that snow cover, water resources and the ecosystem are changing in their region, a study published Wednesday said.
The authors of the research carried out by Britain's Royal Society say this is the first time that subjective perceptions about climate change have been put to a wide scientific test.
And, they argue, it shows that local knowledge, far from being snubbed or sidelined, can be a useful tool for combating...
Illegal rosewood bust in Madagascar
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 28th, 2011
Mongabay: Illegal rosewood bust in Madagascar
Illegal rosewood bust in Madagascar
Authorities in Madagascar seized several trucks carrying illegally logged rosewood timber, reports Asity Madagascar, a conservation group that aided in the seizure.
Asity Madagascar -- the island nation's branch of Birdlife International -- said more than more than 800 rosewood planks and 100 logs were recovered by the operation.
The rosewood is believed to have been cut in Tsitongambarika, the largest remaining area...
Obama proposes broadening EPA’s power over water
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 28th, 2011
Associated Press: The Obama administration proposed new guidelines Wednesday that would boost the government's ability to protect streams, wetlands and other sensitive waterways from pollution.
Business and property rights groups said the policy would stifle economic growth by generating more red tape for builders of homes and shopping centers, but environmentalists defended it as essential step to provide clean drinking water and protect waterfowl habitat.
Administration officials said their goal was to clarify...