Friday, March 12, 2010

Melting Arctic Could Cost $2.4 Trillion by 2050 - Report

Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada - 02/05/2010

The Pew Environment Group today released a report that...

Primates on Brink of Extinction


National Geographic - A recent report, Primates in Peril: The World's 25 most Endangered Primates 2008-2010, shows staggering estimates that half of all primate species in the world are...

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Facing Threat of Empty Oceans


Winnipeg Free Press - By: Gwynne Dyer - 10/03/2010

Everybody in the business knows that the Atlantic population of bluefin...

Fresh Evidence Global Warming is Man-Made

John von Radowitz - The Scotland Herald - 4 Mar 2010
Climate scientists hit back...
EDITOR'S NOTE: Might there soon be too many "brushfires" like these for even our shrill gang of climate-deniers to put out? I certainly hope so! l.p.


Crabeater seals.
Courtesy of Coolantarctica

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Monsanto to Enforce Bt Corn Refuge Rules

MB Co-Operator -Staff - 3/2/2010

Monsanto Canada plans to give corn growers one warning...
EDITOR'S NOTE: As far as I'm concerned, farmers who accept this kind of bullshit deserve everything they get! l.p.

Our Brave New World of Globalization - Food and Water Drive an African Land Grab

John Vidal - guardian.co.uk - the Observer - 7 Mar. 201
An Observer investigation reveals...
Inside a greenhouse at a Saudi-financed farm in Ethiopia.
Courtesy of guardian.co.uk

EDITOR'S NOTE: Governments and corporate land-grabbers are spreading like a cancer around the world. Please also read here.