Environmental disaster stares in the face The deserts of Africa are poised to jump the Mediterranean and up to a third of could soon become desert, according to a United Nations report. Of ...
Variety of ocean's fish down by half, study says Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The variety of species in the world's oceans has dropped by as much as 50 percent in ...
Oceans Have Fewer Kinds Of Fish Overfishing Among Causes, Study Says By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, July 29, 2005 The variety of species in the world's ...
Brussels welcomes six-nation climate pact By Amy Kazmin in Vientiane, Fiona Harvey in London and Daniel Dombey in Brussels The agreement on climate change struck on Thursday by the and ...
Scientists decry loss of big ocean predators Washington — The variety of tuna, marlin, swordfish and other big ocean predators has declined up to 50 per cent over the past half-century due to ...
A grey nurse shark with an identity tag attached swims in the ocean off the southeast coast of Australia in this handout photo released July 22, 2005. The grey nurse is one of the ...
Australia seeks to breed test-tube sharks By Michael Perry SYDNEY (Reuters) - The endangered gray nurse shark is its own worst enemy, its young eat each other in the womb, so Australian ...
Elephants have emotions 'just like humans' By Duncan Guy Elephant conservation should be considered in much the same way humans consider plans for their own health and well-being, an elephant ...
Australia, US form climate change pact: report Australia and the United States , who have been criticised for remaining outside the Kyoto protocol on greenhouse gases, have now reportedly formed ...
U.S.-led climate plan won't supplant Kyoto –experts By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - A U.S.-led Asian-Pacific accord on spreading technology to fight global ...
Environmentalists condemn new global warming pact SYDNEY (AFP) - Environmentalists have condemned a new pact against global warming by the and five Asia-Pacific countries, saying it was ...
Darwin 's Tortoises More Diverse Than He Knew By Robert ROY BRITT LiveScience Senior Writer The giant tortoises of the Galapagos Islands inspired Charles Darwin to formulate his theory of ...
Tracking Typhoon Banyan. The red circle shows where winds are 50 knots or more, the yellow circle where they are 30 knots, and the black circles show the path the typhoon will take over the ...
Insurers Link Global Warming with Higher Cost of Storms TOKYO, , July 25, 2005 (ENS) - A powerful typhoon in the Pacific is heading straight towards eastern , according to the Japan ...
: Crackdown Not Enough to Stop Amazon Deforestation Mario Osava* RIO DE JANEIRO , Jul 20 (Tierramérica) - Operation Curupira looked like a spectacular triumph in defence of the Amazon forests. It ...
Wetland birds hit hard by drought Wading birds in south-east look set to be amongst the casualties of this year's drought, the RSPB has said. The numbers of lapwing, redshank and snipe have ...
Experts question science of elephant culls By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Experts questioned the wisdom of using culls to contain swelling populations of African elephants ...
Poaching making elephants evolve tuskless BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese elephants are evolving into an increasingly tuskless breed because poaching is changing the gene pool, a newspaper reported ...
Glacial Cover-Up Won't Stop Global Warming By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer EISGRAT, - It gets so cold up at this Alpine skiing station that the locals call it Eisgrat — "Icy ...
Wind farms: For and against A new wind farm is planned in . Local girls Angelica and Sarah have very different views on it. Angelica tells us why she thinks it's a good idea, and Sarah lets ...
Wind farms could meet energy needs Wind power could generate more than enough sustainable electricity to meet global energy needs, according to new research. Scientists at Stanford University ...
Hurricane Emily menaces Jamaica Category 4 storm passing south of Caribbean island CNN) -- Hurricane Emily -- an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm with maximum sustained ...
Sea birds are transporting industrial and agricultural pollutants to the Arctic , according to new research. Canadian scientists found that birds carry pollutants like DDT and mercury, and ...
How Hot Will the Greenhouse World Be? Richard A. Kerr Scientists know that the world has warmed lately, and they believe humankind is behind most of that warming. But how far might we push the ...
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