Shock as Retreat of Arctic Sea Ice Releases Deadly Greenhouse Gas
Category: Climate Change

Russian research team astonished after finding 'fountains' of methane bubbling to surface

by Steve Connor
 
Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive survey of the region. More...
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Posted on 15 Dec 2011 by Bwana
The world at seven billion
Category: Population
BBC News
26 October 2011

The world's population is expected to hit seven billion in the next few weeks. After growing very slowly for most of human history, the number of people on Earth has more than doubled in the last 50 years. More...
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Posted on 30 Nov 2011 by Bwana
Ecuador's Imperilled Paradise
Category: Environment

One of the World's Most Important, If Least-Known Battles

In 2007, Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa proposed protecting his country’s biodiversity against huge oil revenue prospects...Read More...

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Posted on 28 Sep 2011 by Bwana
The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos
Category: Species Extinction

Source: grist

by Lester Brown

Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the last few decades we have created a food production bubble -- one based on environmental trends that cannot be sustained, including overpumping aquifers, overplowing land, and overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide. More...

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Posted on 15 Jan 2011 by Bwana
In Distrust of Movements by Wendell Berry
Category: Environment

The Greenhorns

The movements which deal with single issues or single solutions are bound to fail because they cannot control effects while leaving causes in place. More...

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Posted on 30 Jan 2010 by Bwana
Climate deal 'neither strong nor fair'
Category: Climate Change
BBC News
19 December 2009

Friends of the Earth has criticised the Copenhagen climate deal as ''neither strong nor fair''.Watch video....


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Posted on 19 Dec 2009 by Bwana
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