Sunday, February 21, 2010

Warming Climate May Devastate Major U.S. Crops

Study Suggests Tipping Points for Corn, Soybeans, Cotton

posted: 2009-09-11 Earth Institute - Columbia University

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Sierra Club Files Complaint Over Unlabelled Canwest Oilsands Ad Features

The Canadian Press - ONLINE EDITION - By: Bob Weber - 11/02/2010 An environmental group has filed an official….



Courtesy of
BeautifulDestruction

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Covering Climate Change

by Ben Block - This article appears in the March/April 2010 issue of World Watch magazine.

News coverage of global climate change is on the rise worldwide, but more in-depth international reporting is needed...

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Yemen's Water Crisis Eclipses al Qaeda Threat

Feb 17-2-10 - by Ulf Laessing

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni water trader…





(REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah)

Endangered Species on the Grill: The Black Market in Illegal Meat Flourishes in the US

AlterNet / By Anneli Rufus

Millions of fork-twirling gourmands -- many of them in the U.S. -- are eating...

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

A Quarter of U.S. Nuclear Plants Are Leaking a Radioactive Material Linked to Cancer


Alternet - Harvey Wasserman feb 12 -2010


At least 27 of America's 104 aging atomic reactors are known to be leaking….

Oil Groups Mount Legal Challenge to Schwarzenegger's Tar Sands Ban

guardian.co Feb 16-2010

• Californian legislation branded 'unconstitutional'...

U.S. Press Digs Into IPCC Story

The Observatory — February 15, 2010 - By Curtis Brainard
Articles still fall short of ambitious work in the U.K.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

The Day After Tomorrow Might Have Been Yesterday

Matthew Berger - Inter Press Service - Feb. 14 - 2010

WASHINGTON, 12 Feb (IPS) - When the 2004 film "The Day After...

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...

A Beloved Canadian Chocolate Bar Disappears From the Market. By Ian Austen

The New York Times The rush to buy Canadian products that was set off by President Trump’s  trade war  shows little sign of abating. But sho...