PLANET IN PERIL

Carey Gillam - Reuters - KANSAS CITY - Tue Nov 17, 2009 KANSAS CITY (Reuters) - The rapid adoption by U.S. farmers of...

Posted: 15 Nov 2009 09:58 PM PST Report Calls for Global Climate Talks to Consider Boreal’s Impact OTTAWA, Ontario—When the world thinks of forests and their value to offset global warming, tropical forests come to mind. A report released today shows that the global impact of Canada’s boreal forest, which stores nearly twice as much carbon per hectare as tropical forests, has been vastly underestimated. “The Carbon the World Forgot” identifies the boreal forests of North America as not only the cornerstone habitat for key mammal species, but one of the most significant carbon stores in the world, the equivalent of 26 years of global emissions from burning fossil fuels, based on 2006 emissions levels. Globally, these forests store 22 percent of all carbon on the earth’s land surface. “Past accounting greatly underestimated the amount and depth of carbon stored in and under the boreal forest,” said Jeff Wells, an author of the report. In addition to carbon storage i

07 Jan 2010: environment 360 In the past dozen years, three new...

Shared by: F. Los on January 7, 2010 Ottawa - Sierra Club Canada is calling on the Canadian Government… ========== Editor's note: Were they listening? On Dec. 30-'09, I sent the message below to the Sierra Club. Today, they issue a release, calling for action! While it may not be the kind of action I had asked for, you won't hear me complaining. An immovable object like our federal government needs all the persuasion which can be mustered from any and all quarters! Yaaaaay Sierra! l.p. From: Larry Powell ... View Contact To: Green Peace ; Greenpeace ; Greenpeace International ; Prairie Sierra Club ; Sierra Club ; Sierra Club ... more Dear Greenpeace/Sierra Club, I am passing on the news release, below. Might there be a chance for a similar lawsuit in Canada to succeed? I know that groups such as Eco-Justice and Environmental Defense sometimes take on such things, on behalf of groups such as yours. Many thanks for your considerat

"better dying through chemistry" 7 Jan 2010 - by Tom Laskawy - Grist Please also read - Plight of the Humble Bee and Poisoning Nature's Pollinators. photo courtesy Natural Resources Defense Council Editor's comment - To corrupt and heartless (are there any other kind?) pesticide regulators everywhere - I hope you can sleep at night. Instead of doing the decent, honourable thing by protecting our precious planet and the creatures in it, you have lost your souls up the asses of the corporations who make these god-damndable poisons and, instead of doing the honest jobs you get paid by the people to do, you are letting the Bayers and Monsantos of the world get away with their dirty work. You belong in jail! l.p.

  by Larry Powell      It was a fateful decision.      One year ago tomorrow, Stan Struthers, who was then Manitoba's Minister of Conservation, said "yes" to a request from Louisiana Pacific Canada Ltd (LP).      As a cost-cutting measure, the corporation wanted to permanently do away with devices called regenerative thermal oxidizers, or RTOs, which have helped control toxic emissions from its plant at Minitonas since it opened in the mid '90s.      The plant makes "oriented strand board," a type of sheeting used in house construction. It is made from hardwood trees the corporation harvests over a wide area of western Manitoba, including the Duck Mountains.      That permission from the government, first said to be temporary, set in motion a series of events which has now dragged on for a full year. Yet the central question, should the equipment be shut-down permanently or put back online, has yet to be answered. "Evening in Duck Mountains."

Institute of Science In Society Report 06/01/10 ############################################## The largest wave of farmer suicides and ecological nightmare unfolding around Bt cotton Dr. Mae-Wan Ho exposes the “fudged” data and false claims of ‘successes’ that have perpetrated the humanitarian disaster The Bt cotton killing fields As the cotton growing season drew to a close in the state of Andhra Pradesh, farmer suicides once again became almost daily occurrences. Officially, the total number of suicides within a six-week period between July and August 2009 stood at 15, but opposition parties and farmers’ groups said the true total was more than 150 [1]. Opposition leader N. Chandrababu claimed in a speech that he had the names and addresses of 165 farmers who ended their lives because of the distress caused by the drought. By November, similar reports were coming from another cotton growing state Maharashtra. Farmers of Katpur village in Amravati district sowed Bt cotton four years