Reuters: World food prices are rising faster than they have for more than 30 years,…
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Indonesia: Farmers suffer from booming palm oil
Jakarta Post: The Indonesian Farmers’ Union criticized the government Wednesday for mismanagement in the food…
What to do when oil hits $100 a barrel
Christian Science Monitor: For the first time, oil prices have nosed above $100 a barrel….
Northern plants ‘losing carbon’ due to warming
SciDev.Net: Global warming could cause plants in northern regions to lose carbon to the atmosphere…
China closes over 10,000 coal mines in last three years
China View: China closed 10,412 coal mines in the last three years amid efforts to…
Pop goes the solar bubble?
Salon: Moore’s law giveth, and Moore’s law taketh away. A little more than a year…
Grass could help save the world
Sydney Morning Herald: WITH new research showing that the world’s forests are absorbing less man-made…
Saving the Continent’s Forests – The ‘Lungs of the World’
Africa Renewal: From the air the forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)…
United Kingdom: Nuclear power consultation flawed
Reuters: The government’s public consultation last year on the need for new nuclear power plants…