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Cost of Deforestation is Vastly Greater than that of the Current Financial Crisis (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-11-2008 at 10:00:59
| While your 401K smolders in ruins, take a gander at this BBC article and it might give you some perspective. Unfortunately, it's not immediately an optimistic perspective: We are actually losing more money through deforestation than through the current financial meltdown. The reasoning behind this is clear when we start calculating the often overlooked value ofNatural Capital - resources provided by our environment including minerals, water, air, sunlight, heat, plants, animals, and other organic matter.
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Global Warming Triggers an International Race for the Arctic (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-10-2008 at 09:00:59
| A new epoch is beginning at the top of the Earth, where the historic melting of the vast Arctic ice cap is opening a forbidding, beautiful, and neglected swath of the planet. Already, there is talk that potentially huge oil and natural gas deposits lie under the Arctic waters, rendered more accessible by the shrinking of ice cover. Valuable minerals, too. |
Sea-level to rise by one-metre this century: scientists (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-09-2008 at 10:00:54
| Global warming calculations have been too optimistic, and the sea level round the globe is likely to rise a full metre this century, two senior German scientists warned Wednesday.Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, who heads the Potsdam Institute for Research on Global Warming Effects and Jochem Marotzke, a leading meteorologist, said UN-backed data on climate change, predicting a rise of 18 to 59 centimetres, was out of date. |
Fisheries losing $50 billion a year: World Bank (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-09-2008 at 10:00:54
| Thomson Financial News Super Focus, October 9, 2008 Thursday 6:08 AM GMT - As more and more fishermen chase fewer and fewer fish, $50 billion is lost each year in potential economic benefits to the fishing industry, a report released Wednesday said.
Released by the World Bank and the United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organization, the report blamed poor management, inefficiencies and overfishing for more than $2 trillion of avoidable economic losses over the last three decades. |
Old-growth Sierra junipers felled amid warming debate (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-08-2008 at 12:01:09
| ALTURAS mdash; Moments after he saw the centuries-old junipers on the ground, Glenn Fair felt sick to his stomach. |
MADAGASCAR: Seasonal food shortages on the doorstep (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-08-2008 at 12:01:09
| The price of rice, the staple food of Madagascar's 19 million people, has stabilised, but the country's southern regions, where remote communities are vulnerable to chronic food insecurity, are preparing for the onset of seasonal food shortages that usually start in October.
For the time being, prices in Madagascar are stable, but we cannot say we have overcome the problem, Marco Falcone, emergency coordinator of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Madagascar, told IRIN. The situation remains very fragile and any change could have a big impact.
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Business and Ecosystem Services are Inextricably Linked (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-08-2008 at 12:01:09
| Corporations affect ecosystems and the services they provide while at the same time relying on them. Agribusiness depends on naturersquo;s pollination, pest control and erosion regulation services. The insurance industry and infrastructure and plant asset owners benefit from the natural hazard protections that some ecosystems provide. |
Water seen as the new oil for U.S. Army (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-08-2008 at 12:01:09
| Soldiers, weapons, food and fuel are important but the U.S. Army absolutely cannot operate for long without water, a top Pentagon official said on Tuesday.
This simple fact is just as true for domestic bases as it is in austere forward installations in Iraq, said Tad Davis, the Army's deputy assistant secretary for environment, safety and occupational health. |
Water seen as the new oil for U.S. Army (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-08-2008 at 08:00:46
| Soldiers, weapons, food and fuel are important but the U.S. Army absolutely cannot operate for long without water, a top Pentagon official said on Tuesday.
This simple fact is just as true for domestic bases as it is in "austere" forward installations in Iraq, said Tad Davis, the Army's deputy assistant secretary for environment, safety and occupational health. |
Ted Turner announces Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-07-2008 at 10:01:50
| On Monday, mega-entrepreneur Ted Turner announced the Partnership for Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria, a new sustainable tourism standards regime for tourism businesses, at the IUCN World Conservation Congress. Turner, founder of the United Nations Foundation, was joined by the Rainforest Alliance, The UN Environment Program and the UN World Tourism Organization and many other groups. The voluntary sustainable tourism criteria are based on best practices drawn from different standards for sustainability in use around the world today. |
Rio Tinto says innovation to help with climate (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-07-2008 at 08:02:41
| Reuters, 6 October 2008 - Industrial innovation and a price on carbon emissions are needed to help mining firms on a long haul towards controlling climate change, Rio Tinto chief executive Tom Albanese said on Monday. |
Ground-level ozone pollution to increase (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-06-2008 at 10:01:03
| Ground-level ozone pollution is contributing to hundreds of deaths a year in the UK - and climate change could help make the situation worse, a report from the Royal Society warned today.
The study said that background ozone levels had been growing by 6 per cent a decade since the 1980s, and were now at a level where they were having an impact on health and the environment. |
Business and Ecosystem Services are Inextricably Linked (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-04-2008 at 08:00:45
| Corporations affect ecosystems and the services they provide while at the same time relying on them. Agribusiness depends on nature’s pollination, pest control and erosion regulation services. The insurance industry and infrastructure and plant asset owners benefit from the natural hazard protections that some ecosystems provide. |
MADAGASCAR: Seasonal food shortages on the doorstep (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-03-2008 at 10:00:58
| The price of rice, the staple food of Madagascar's 19 million people, has stabilised, but the country's southern regions, where remote communities are vulnerable to chronic food insecurity, are preparing for the onset of seasonal food shortages that usually start in October.
"For the time being, prices in Madagascar are stable, but we cannot say we have overcome the problem," Marco Falcone, emergency coordinator of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Madagascar, told IRIN. "The situation remains very fragile and any change could have a big impact."
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Melting of Arctic ice 'fascinating ... alarming' (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-03-2008 at 10:00:58
| For scientists, this year's ice season was like the NHL playoffs.
They placed bets, pored over satellite images, and speculated endlessly on how much Arctic ice would survive the summer. |
Met Office's bleak forecast on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-01-2008 at 09:01:05
| When it comes to climate change, the scientific evidence has to be at the core of any decision-making. Governments need to understand the consequences of choosing particular targets, but they also need to understand what will happen if targets are missed or if they cannot be agreed on by all countries. Failures could have far-reaching consequences. |
Small island states must lead by example (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 10-01-2008 at 09:01:05
| Small Island Developing States (SIDS) contribute less than 0.02 per cent to the growth of global greenhouse gas emissions but they are among the most vulnerable countries to the effects of climate change.
Many SIDS cannot cope with the consequences of rising sea levels and damage from more frequent storms, floods and stronger cyclones caused by global warming. |
Brazil unveils deforestation plan (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 09-26-2008 at 11:00:51
| It is one of the key commitments in a draft climate change plan, which stops short of setting specific targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. |
First U.S. greenhouse cap-and-trade market opens (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 09-26-2008 at 09:00:46
| Ten states in the U.S. Northeast kicked off the country's first cap-and-trade market on greenhouse gas emissions on Thursday, gaining accolades from environmentalists and many businesses but also eliciting concerns about how the states will spend the money the plan raises. |
Oldest Ice in North America Hints at Hardy Tundra (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 09-25-2008 at 12:02:16
| The oldest ice ever found in North America shows that ancient permafrost withstood periods of warming, a new study says. |
Will saving a forest save us money? (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 09-24-2008 at 10:00:56
| How much is a forest worth? And how do we calculate that value? Do we simply count the trees and figure out how much we could get for them if we were to cut them down and turn them into logs, lumber, and pulp and paper? |
Exclusive: The methane time bomb (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 09-23-2008 at 10:00:53
| Arctic scientists discover new global warming threat as melting permafrost releases millions of tons of a gas 20 times more damaging than carbon dioxide |
Greenland: land of ice goes green as warming turns the cabbages into kings (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 09-22-2008 at 10:01:19
| Climate change has brought new opportunities to Greenland that could secure its independence from Denmark |
Can rubber ducks help track a melting glacier? (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 09-22-2008 at 10:01:19
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - To help figure out what's happening inside the fastest-moving Greenland glacier, a U.S. rocket scientist sent 90 rubber ducks into the ice, hoping someone finds them if they emerge in Baffin Bay. |
Old-growth Sierra junipers felled amid warming debate (View Original Story)
Source: enn.com Posted: 09-21-2008 at 01:01:22
| ALTURAS — Moments after he saw the centuries-old junipers on the ground, Glenn Fair felt sick to his stomach. |
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