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Caviar export quota undermines harvesting ban (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2008 at 10:00:52
| Russia's application for a caviar export quota makes nonsense of a commercial caviar harvesting ban intended to help the recovery of the decimated sturgeon populations of the Caspian Sea basin, WWF Russia has claimed.
"If the Government allows export, de-facto it allows commercial sturgeon fishing," says Alexey Vaisman, Senior Programme Officer for Europe-Russia for Traffic, the world wildlife trade monitoring network which is a joint programme of WWF and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). |
Congo Wetlands reserve to be world's second largest (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2008 at 10:00:53
| WWF has welcomed the World Wetlands Day declaration of the world’s second largest internationally recognized and protected significant wetlands reserve in the Congo as a clear sign of the world’s increasing interest in the green heart of Africa.
The nearly 6 million hectares of inundated forest making up the Grand Affluents wetland in the middle reaches of the Congo River was one of five wetlands in the Congo and the Cameroon to be notified under the RAMSAR Convention on internationally significant wetlands today.
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Algeria drops plan to protect park: report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2008 at 10:00:53
| ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria has started building a motorway through a major Mediterranean wetland despite a previous promise to re-route the $11 billion project around it, a newspaper said on Saturday.
The government said last year it was planning to avoid the El Kala coastal park after pressure from environmentalists who warned the site would disappear unless the 1,200 km (750 miles) road linking Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco was routed around it. |
Qatar eyes solar power to meet surging demand: report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2008 at 10:00:53
| DUBAI (Reuters) - Qatar is considering building one of the world's largest solar power complexes to help meet demand, which could increase four-fold over the next 30 years, the Middle East Economic Digest (MEED) reported.
Gulf Arab states have about 30 percent of the world's oil reserves and 8 percent of its gas, but an economic boom spurred by record crude prices is driving demand for power and water so rapidly that many are considering turning to alternative energies including nuclear. |
Canada panel suggests $2 bln carbon capture plan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2008 at 10:00:53
| OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian governments should spend C$2 billion ($2 billion) to encourage the capture and storage of carbon to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a government-commissioned panel recommends.
The panel report, released late on Thursday, flags carbon capture as a way of curbing emissions while continuing to make economic progress, but the panel said it needs government help to get the idea off the ground. |
Workweek fumes may make some weekends drier (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2008 at 10:00:53
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - Air pollution may have a silver lining in some parts of the United States -- it might help make summer weekends less rainy, according to a new study.
Scientists have long questioned whether particulate pollution from vehicles and factories, which is higher during the workweek, changes weather patterns. |
Is it organic or not? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2008 at 12:00:52
| MADISON, WI, January 28, 2008 -- As organic farming becomes more common, methods to identify fraud in the industry are increasingly important. In a recent study in Journal of Environmental Quality, scientists successfully use nitrogen isotopic discrimination to determine if non-organic, synthetic fertilizers were used on sweet pepper plants. |
Bad week for fish (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2008 at 12:00:52
| Last week brought a perfect storm of bad PR for the world’s seafood. Or, it might have actually been good PR from the beleaguered fish’s perspective. Interestingly, the three stories of depletion fish stocks, illegal fishing, and seafood contamination are closely related.
First, Elizabeth Rosenthal at the New York Times reported that the strengthening Euro and a traditional taste for seafood has made Europe the world’s largest market for fish, importing about $22 billion worth a year. But this roaring import market isn’t just evidence of Europe’s traditional taste for fish. It’s also buoyed by Europe’s depletion of its own fish stocks, since much of this fish comes from waters hundreds or thousands of miles away. Europe now imports 60 percent of its fish. |
Bush Threatens Farm Bill Veto: Opposes Public Nutrition, Biofuel and Land Stewardship Programs (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2008 at 12:00:52
| WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush opposes raising taxes to pay for increases in several programs in the new U.S. farm law, the top U.S. agriculture official said on Wednesday, as he underscored crafting a new farm bill as his top priority while in office.
Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer, in his first sit-down with reporters since he was confirmed on Monday, said President Bush has told him now is the time to act on farm policy. |
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