PLANET IN PERIL

United Nations News Centre - 14 May 2011  United Nations-backed events celebrating the annual migration of an estimated 50 billion birds are taking place this… Details here.  

13 May 2011 – UN News Centre Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed the need for fundamental changes in humanity’s resource consumption patterns and values. Details here.

guardian.co.uk 9 May 2011 UN's climate change science body says renewables supply, particularly solar power, can meet global demand. Details here.

By Bruce Robinson Daily Camera - 05/08/2011 The biotech industry, led by Monsanto, promotes the idea that the arguments about genetically modified crops should focus on the science and the economics as Monsanto sees them. Read more:

This is the CBC (aerial) video of the dike being deliberately breached at the Hoop & Holler Bend in the Assiniboine River, near Portage La Prairie.