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Sunday, February 14, 2010
Unravelling the “Miracle” of Malawi’s Green Revolution
GRAIN
- Feb 12 - 2010
Malawi farmers - courtesy of BBC News
Malawi’s green revolution success story has been...
Saturday, February 13, 2010
38% of World's Land in Danger of Turning into Desert
by
Brian Merchant, Brooklyn, New York
on 02.10.10 - treehugger
If you're not familiar with desertification, it might be time...
Friday, February 12, 2010
Cattle Pastures in Deforested Amazon Now the Size of Iceland
by Brian Merchant, Brooklyn, New York on 01.31.09 - Treehugger
The largest rainforest in the world is being chopped down almost entirely for...
Amazon Will Be Drier Because of Global Warming, But Won’t Turn to Savannah
by Matthew McDermott, New York, NY on 02.11.09 TreeHugger
Under some global warming scenarios….
The Right's Inability to Grasp Climate Change May Be Funny, But It's Also Very Dangerous
AlterNet / By Daniela Perdomo
The so-called Snowpocalypse has brought out the...
More Evidence of Link Between Parkinson's and Pesticides
OnEarth - Feb 4 - 2010
The evidence that environmental factors....
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Conservative MP Absent From a Child Poverty Forum in Southwestern Manitoba.
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A Candidate's Forum on Child Poverty Touches a Nerve in Manitoba.
by Larry Powell Planet In Peril has sorted through some of the confusion surrounding the absence of Robert Sopuck, the Conservative M...
The Bio of Larry Powell - publisher of this blog.
Larry Powell Powell is a veteran, award-winning journalist based in Shoal Lake, Manitoba, Canada. He specialize in stories about agriculture...