 27/1/2006 - | Thailand: Illegal logs auction popular, Bangkok Post
The state auction of more than 10,000 illegal logs yesterday drew many
bidders, including monks, from across the country as worries about deforestation
grew, officials said yesterday. A warehouse was transformed into an auction
house ... Archived Copy |
| 26/1/2006 - | Al Gore wants to save planet with 'Truth', Reuters
There are two agendas behind Davis Guggenheim's "An Inconvenient Truth."
One is to bring to a much larger audience former Vice President Al Gore's
fascinating multimedia presentation of the facts and issues arising from ... Archived Copy |
| 26/1/2006 - | Banks failing environment and social standards, WWF
A new study released by WWF and BankTrack has found that there is a growing
commitment to sustainable banking within the international banking sector.
However, the report also highlighted the need for the sector to adopt more ... Archived Copy |
| 26/1/2006 - | Champion for Brazil's indigenous gets fired, Christian Science Monitor
The legendary Brazilian explorer in charge of finding and protecting remote
indigenous tribes has been fired from his job after criticizing government
officials who said Brazil's native peoples have too much land.
Sydney ... Archived Copy |
| 26/1/2006 - | Deforestation rates jump in Uganda and Burundi, fall in Rwanda, Mongabay.com
Tropical deforestation rates have skyrocketed in Uganda and Burundi, while
declining significantly in Rwanda according to mongabay.com's analysis of data
from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
In ... Archived Copy |
| 26/1/2006 - | Earth could warm up fast, Christian Science Monitor
Recent studies of some of nature's environmental "records" show that global
warming can penetrate deep into the ocean faster than scientists have realized.
In fact, some such penetration may have already begun.
The ... Archived Copy |
| 26/1/2006 - | Ethanol Fuel More Advantageous Than Thought, Live Science
Producing a gallon of ethanol gas from corn requires 95 percent less
petroleum than producing a gallon from fossil fuels, a new study finds.
This method might also slightly reduce the production of greenhouse gases that
speed up ... Archived Copy |
| 26/1/2006 - | First Report on North American Children Finds High Asthma Rates, Environment News Service
MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, January 26, 2006 (ENS) - The first report on
children's health and environment indicators in North America by a NAFTA
Commission shows a rising number of childhood asthma cases across the region,
but ... Archived Copy |
| 26/1/2006 - | Indonesia: Questions raised over plantation project, Jakarta Post
The government's proposal to turn over 1.8 million hectares to oil palm
cultivation in Kalimantan is not economically feasible, with only 10 percent of
the land actually suitable for growing oil palms, a government official ... Archived Copy |
| 26/1/2006 - | California: Watershed redwoods saved from logging, Mercury News
The Sempervirens Fund, the venerable Los Altos-based conservancy, has
apparently ended the most contentious logging dispute in recent Santa Cruz
County history by securing an option to buy two redwood-studded properties in
the Santa ... Archived Copy |
| 26/1/2006 - | Al Gore on fire at Sundance, Reuters
Former Vice President Al Gore, often accused of being stiff throughout his
unsuccessful 2000 presidential campaign, was full of anger and passion as he
visited the Sundance Film Festival this week. Since losing the presidency, the ... Archived Copy |
| 26/1/2006 - | Al Gore, Sundance's Leading Man, Washington Post
Has ever a little indie film faced a greater hurdle? Imagine this sales
pitch: Babe, it's a movie about global warming. Starring Al Gore. Doing a slide
show.
With charts.
About "soil ... Archived Copy |
| 26/1/2006 - | Australia's poor report card on environment, Sydney Morning Herald
AUSTRALIA has failed to commit adequate resources and effort towards
environmental protection and is trailing other developed nations in providing
its citizens with clean water and sustainable energy, a study by researchers at
Yale and ... Archived Copy |
| 26/1/2006 - | Bush Administration to Seek Salmon Harvest Cuts and Hatchery Reforms, Associated Press
Conceding that using hatcheries to supplement dwindling salmon populations is
harming wild salmon species in some cases, the Bush administration plans to move
away from the practice in favor of a more direct solution: Catch fewer fish. ... Archived Copy |
| 26/1/2006 - | Bush Seeks to Jump-Start Nuclear Power, Wall Street Journal
The Bush administration plans to announce a $250 million initiative to
reprocess spent nuclear fuel, a first step toward reversing a 1970s policy that
rejected reprocessing as too dangerous to pursue.
The administration's ... Archived Copy |
| 26/1/2006 - | Laos: Forests in Indochina receive FSC certification, WWF
Two natural forest areas in central Laos have been certified under the Forest
Stewardship Council (FSC) certification scheme, the leading international
standard of good forest management.
Covering approximately 50,000ha in the ... Archived Copy |
| 26/1/2006 - | Global warming may cause sea levels to rise 34 cms by 2100, Pravda
Global warming will cause sea levels to rise up to 34 centimeters (11 inches)
by the end of the century, causing increased flooding and coastal erosion,
according to a new study by Australian researchers. The study, published in this ... Archived Copy |
| 26/1/2006 - | Idaho: Idaho wilderness bill strikes the right balance, Idaho Statesman
Wilderness debates always come down to numbers.
One number in the Boulder-White Clouds wilderness issue trumps them all:
300,011.
That's how many acres of wilderness Rep. Mike Simpson's Boulder-White Clouds
bill ... Archived Copy |
| 26/1/2006 - | Indonesian Govt Staff Involved in Illegal Logging: Official, Asia Pulse
Soenarno, head of the forest protection service in the West Kalimantan
Forestry Office, believes that personnel of government institutions, including
law enforcers, have been involved in illegal logging in West ... Archived Copy |
| 26/1/2006 - | Indonesian scientists find world's tiniest vertebrate, China Daily
The smallest animal with a backbone known to science, a fish from the carp
family, has been discovered in the peat swamps of Indonesia.
Mature females of the fish species Paedocypris progenetica reach just 7.9
millimetres in ... Archived Copy |
| 26/1/2006 - | Keeping watch on endangered rhinos, Malaysian Star
The WWF together with the Sabah Wildlife Department and the Sabah Foundation,
plan to set up a monitoring and survey team to gather information on rhinos in
the state.
WWF International special adviser for Heart of Borneo ... Archived Copy |
| 26/1/2006 - | Mouse Frustrates Endangered Species Policy, Associated Press
An acrobatic mouse is threatening Bush administration efforts to give Western
developers an upper hand over endangered species.
The Preble's meadow jumping mouse is in fact a distinct creature, according to a
U.S. Geological ... Archived Copy |
| 26/1/2006 - | Oregon `McMansion' Fight Tests Limits of Urban Sprawl, Land Use, Bloomberg
Oregon pear farmer John Benton owns 53 acres (21 hectares) of land beside the
Columbia River windsurfing resort of Hood River. He says it should be worth $11
million. Instead, he is broke.
Oregon's strict land-use rules were ... Archived Copy |
| 26/1/2006 - | Indonesia: Quotas endangering Aceh forests: NGO, Jakarta Post
Tsunami-hit Aceh will soon face an environmental disaster if the government
keeps on issuing logging concessions in the province's forests, an environmental
group says.
Greenomics executive director Elfian Effendi said the quotas ... Archived Copy |
| 26/1/2006 - | Study Reveals Nature Encourages Diversity in Tropical Forests, Newswise
An analysis of seven tropical forests around the world has found that nature
encourages species diversity by selecting for less common trees as the trees
mature. The landmark study, which was conducted by 33 ecologists from 12
countries ... Archived Copy |
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