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.

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...