|
| News |
ClimatePatrol.com RSS News Archives
Environmental News Network - Ecosystems
Desert is claiming southeast Spain (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 09:00:57
| Lush fields of lettuce and hothouses of tomatoes line the roads. Verdant new developments of plush pastel vacation homes beckon buyers from Britain and Germany. Golf courses - 54 of them, all built in the past decade and most in the past three years - give way to the beach. At last, this hardscrabble corner of southeast Spain is thriving. |
Brazil minister says Amazon trend worrying (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 09:00:57
| Brazil's newly appointed environment minister drew a bleak picture of the Amazon rain forest's future on Monday, saying the latest figures for deforestation in April were worrying and that this year would likely be worse than last.
"The worst is to come. Now is the test," Carlos Minc told reporters, noting the period with the highest deforestation was historically from June to September when farmers prepared for planting by burning ground cover.
|
Rich countries 'failed to heed' food crisis warnings (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 09:00:57
| The UN Food and Agriculture Organization asked the world's countries today for $30 billion a year to "re-launch world agriculture" and deal with food shortages that have caused soaring food prices, hunger and unrest worldwide.
The call came at the start of a three-day intergovernmental meeting at FAO headquarters in Rome to deal with the doubling of average world food prices since 2000, which has accelerated sharply in the past six months. In an indication of the seriousness of the situation, 44 heads of government are attending.
|
|
|
| Site Stats |
Registered Users: 150
Topics: 4080
Posts: 20651
News Stories: 147677
Satellite Images: 1108648
|
|
