Mongabay: Many rivers around the world are losing water due to global climate change, according…
Month: April 2009
G8 countries must take lead on global warming: Oxfam
Agence France-Presse: The Group of Eight nations meeting in Italy must take the lead in…
Air pollution helps plants blunt climate change: study
Agence France-Presse: Cleaning up skies choked with smog and soot would sharply curtail the capacity…
Plants absorb more carbon under hazy skies
Physorg: Plants absorbed carbon dioxide more efficiently under the polluted skies of recent decades than…
China to meet 2010 pollution targets: minister
Reuters: China is on track to meet its pollution targets by 2010 even though it…
Study warns global rivers are drying up
Business Green: Some of the world’s largest rivers, including the Ganges, the Niger and the…
One step forward, two steps back in addressing the food crisis
Greenpeace: Commenting on the declaration published today following the first G8 meeting dedicated to agriculture,…
Parched Southern California puts squeeze on water supplies
Business Green: Southern California has imposed price increases on its water supply as it battles…
G8 ministers gather for global warming talks
Agence France-Presse: The environment ministers of leading industrialised and developing nations gathered in Sicily Wednesday…
House climate hearings put Obama team on hot seat
Associated Press: Top members of President Barack Obama’s energy and environmental team are weighing in…