How Foraging Albatrosses Put Plastic On The Menu in an Ocean of Plastic

ScienceDaily (Oct. 29, 2009) — The North Pacific Ocean is now commonly referred to as the world's largest garbage...

What Lies Beneath the Rainforest?

The Independent - UK - Saturday, 31 October 2009
You want the Amazon to survive? Then pay us not to pump the oil, says Ecuador. Huw Hennessy in Quito reports on a bold initiative...

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Activist's Message: End Needless Waste of Food

The Herald-News - October 31, 2009

JOLIET -- Vandana Shiva is giving new meaning to the old metaphor, "You reap what you...

Global Warming Cycles Threaten Endangered Primate Species

ScienceDaily (Oct. 29, 2009)

Two Penn State University researchers have carried out one of the first-ever analyses of the effects of...

Scientists Discover Influenza's Achilles Heel: Antioxidants

ScienceDaily (Oct. 30, 2009)

As the nation copes with a shortage of vaccines for H1N1 influenza, a team of Alabama researchers have raised hopes that they have found an Achilles' heel for all strains...

Climate Leadership, Economic Prosperity: Suzuki

October 30, 2009 - the Green Pages
Wind turbines, southwest SK. l.p. photo

Ottawa - Canada can succeed economically while meeting targets to reduce global...

Canada Sets Aside its Boreal Forest as Giant Carbon Vault

Suzanne Goldenberg, guardian.co.uk, 29 Oc'09

By banning logging, mining and oil drilling in an area twice the size of California, Canada is ensuring its boreal forests continue to soak up carbon...

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Organic Farming Yields Tougher Crops

by Max Ajl - Solve Climate - Sep 22nd, 2009

The future is now. What used to be scientific predictions of climate change are now upon us. This makes a major switch to organics even more urgent...

Who’s Investigating the CAFO-Swine Flu Link?

Oc 29'09 - by Tom Philpott - Grist

6 months after the outbreak, is anyone?

Who Contaminated Canada's crops?

Martin Mittelstaedt, Globe and Mail-Wed. Oct. 28, 2009
Prairie whodunit has flax farmers baffled.

A prairie flax crop, itself contaminated with GM canola "weeds!"
What a tangled web have GMOs woven! l.p. photo

Climate Change Could Push up Insurance Premiums: Exec

Winnipeg Free Press - By: Andy Blatchford - 27/10/2009

(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Harsh weather whipped up by climate change has caused insurance claims to...