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Pamela Anderson speaks for seals and the environment

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:52:30 -0800

The Canadian-born actress, a vegetarian spokesperson for the organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), recently organized a media event in Vancouver, Cana ...

Captive dolphins suffer mistreatment and death in confinement

Sun, 7 Mar 2010 09:37:30 -0800

A recent report by the US-based Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society tracking 43 dolphins exported from Russia, Georgia and the Ukraine found that half had perished in captivi ...

Climate change to bring more intense tropical storms

Sat, 6 Mar 2010 09:31:30 -0800

A study by the United Nation’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has analyzed four years of peer-reviewed research on the ocean storms that are known as hurricanes in the ...

Dislodged Antarctic iceberg causes scientists concern

Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:10:30 -0800

An iceberg the size of the country Luxembourg was recently knocked loose from the Antarctic continent by an older iceberg known as B9B, which had split off in 1987. The ne ...

New film focuses on climate change in Formosa (Taiwan)

Thu, 4 Mar 2010 11:10:30 -0800

Young Indian girl speaking before UN delegates (F): I’m so much concerned about climate change, because I don’t want our future generations to question us, just as I’m questioni ...

History shows that sea levels can rise very quickly

Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:09:30 -0800

An article published in the February 12 issue of Science magazine describes a study led by US geoscientist Dr. Jeffrey Dorale, in which rock samples were collected from caves of ...

India halts genetically modified food crops

Tue, 2 Mar 2010 09:48:30 -0800

Citing concerns for human health and the environment, the government of India has decided not to introduce genetically modified brinjals (eggplant), the nation’s third most impo ...

The Philippines drastically impacted by drought

Mon, 1 Mar 2010 09:24:30 -0800

The Department of Agriculture's Central Action Center (DACAC) has reported that El Niño-induced drought has caused the loss of more than 144,000 tons of corn and 56,000 ton ...

Seychelles threatened by rising sea levels

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:35:30 -0800

In the Indian Ocean nation of 155 islands and 80,000 people, beaches have become noticeably more crowded as the ocean waters have crept inland within just a decade.

A ...

Ocean acidity rates could lead to mass extinction

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:32:30 -0800

A study led by Dr. Andy Ridgwell of the United Kingdom’s University of Bristol examined ocean sediment to determine how levels of acid have changed throughout history. Its findin ...

Media report: Irish celebrity spreads veg solution with Supreme Master Television

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:45:30 -0800

Recently in the Environmental Data Interactive Exchange, or Edie.net, Europe’s largest environmental website that has become a main news source for environmental professionals, ...

Studies show warming oceans driving Greenland ice loss

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:40:30 -0800

With melting of the country's massive ice sheet having more than doubled in the last decade, a study led by scientist Dr. Fiammetta Straneo of Woods Hole Oceanographic Instituti ...

UN recommends tax on livestock

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:18:30 -0800

A report issued by the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recommends levying fees for livestock as a way to reduce this sector’s emission of greenhouse gase ...

Copenhagen pledges will not stop planetary demise

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:47:30 -0800

US researchers report that the commitments made by governments so far to reduce greenhouse gases are not enough to avert runaway climate change.

A collaborative analy ...

Rising levels of fish contaminants linked to climate change

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:41:30 -0800

Scientists studying aquatic life in Canada's Mackenzie River have found that levels of toxic substances such as mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and the damaging insect ...

Slow Arctic ice growth foretells summer melt

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:39:30 -0800

US scientists have noted minimal ice formation this winter in the Arctic, with only 34,000 square kilometers' growth per day in January compared to more than twice that rate in ...

Evidence of global warming mounts in Australia

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:37:30 -0800

New research indicates that the drought gripping the southwestern part of the nation since the 1970s is rooted in climate change. Drs. Tas van Ommen and Vin Morgan of the Austra ...

Urban dwellers' meat consumption among the factors of increasing deforestation

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:35:30 -0800

In a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, US-based lead author Dr. Ruth DeFries discovered that along with an increased move to cities has been a rise in the cleari ...

Galapagos fur seals migrate to Peruvian waters

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:50:30 -0800

The Peru-based Organization of Research and Conservation of Aquatic Animals (Orca) recently reported that a colony of 30 fur seals had traveled some 1500 kilometers from their o ...

Tipping points could arrive suddenly

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:40:30 -0800

A recent study by Dr. Alan Hastings, professor at University of California, Davis in the USA and one of the world’s foremost mathematical model experts, forecasts that sudden sh ...