2 July 2009
BBC News
Much of the wildlife in one of Africa's most important reserves is nearing extinction, according to a study of key animal species.
Giraffe numbers are down by 95% in the Masai Mara reserve in south-west Kenya because of an increase in people living around the park, and there are concerns the trend might be irreversible. More...
BBC News
1 June 2009
Texan cattle rancher Mike Baca seems an unlikely evangelist for the American green revolution. More...
Nature
26 June 2008
Africa’s lion population appears to be declining at an alarming rate. NATURE’s The Vanishing Lions searches for explanations and solutions to the troubling trend. More...
The Times
October 26, 2007
The speed at which mankind has used the Earth’s resources over the past 20 years has put “humanity’s very survival” at risk, a study involving 1,400 scientists has concluded. More....
Some 25 percent of Earth’s plants and animals may be lost forever by the year 2050, primarily due to habitat loss and climate change. Scientists estimate that today, nearly one species is pushed to the brink of extinction every 20 minutes - about the time it takes to watch a single television episode. More...
The current administration is relentlessly pursuing environmental policies to allow coal companies to continue to bury hundreds of miles of streams in Appalachia under piles of rubble created by mountaintop removal coal mining. These large scale projects have already buried over 1,000 miles of streams, and flattened more than 400 mountains...more
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The Times (U.K.)
Lewis Smith
May 18, 2007
The oceans are losing the capacity to soak up rising man-made carbon emissions, which is increasing the rate of global warming by up to 30 percent, scientists said yesterday. Read More...
Reuters
Nita Bhalla
May 17, 2007
New Delhi -- India must not support a Chinese campaign to lift a ban on trading tiger parts as any relaxation could wipe out the endangered cats, conservation group WWF-India said on Wednesday. Read More...
Associated Press
Sarah DiLorenzo
May 17, 2007
Increasing global temperatures and land degradation are forcing more people to migrate, creating a wave of environmental refugees who need U.N. protection, a professor at the United Nations University said. Read More...