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Animal Extinction Crisis Highlights Need for Biodiversity Action

A third of the world's amphibians, a fifth of all mammals and 70 per cent of all plants are under threat, according to the latest Red List published just two months before the world marks the International Year of Biodiversity 2010

5 Nov 2009

GreenpeaceTakes Climate Change Action By Tackling Indonesian Deforestation

This morning, fifty Greenpeace activists took action to prevent the destruction of Indonesia's rainforests and called on world leaders to end global deforestation, which is responsible for about a fifth of all greenhouse gas emissions

3 Nov 2009

Disney to Protect Threatened Forests in the Amazon, Congo and United States

The Walt Disney Company announced today a $7 million investment in forest projects that will build on its long history of conservation and environmental stewardship. The projects will protect forests in the Amazon, the Congo and the United States safeguarding ecosystems that benefit climate and quality of life on the planet

3 Nov 2009

Palm Oil Programs Harming Asia's Poor and Not Helping Orangutans Says IPA

Misguided campaigns by the Melbourne and Auckland Zoos and activists lack understanding of why forest and orang-utans are being lost. It isn’t palm oil it’s poverty

2 Nov 2009

Bacteria Makes Wise Investments to Survive Harsh Environmental Conditions

Like savvy Wall Street money managers, bacteria hedge their bets to increase their chances of survival in uncertain times, strategically investing their biological resources to weather unpredictable environments

1 Nov 2009

Synthetic Diamonds Are an Environmentally Friendly Girl's Best Friend

Lab-grown diamonds are identical to their mined counterparts, yet are made
in a high-tech environment by skilled labor and without massive mining operations.
Using a high-pressure, high-temperature process that mimics nature, beautiful
diamonds can be grown in fancy yellow, blue and traditional white colors

29 Oct 2009

Toxic Waste From Shipwreck Threatens Marine Life in Madagascar

Toxic waste from a ship which went down off the coast in southern Madagascar in August has had severe impacts on the health of local people and on the rich coastal and marine environment

28 Oct 2009

Combining Farming and Science in Ecological Agriculture

Agriculture is going through a profound revolution -- one that rivals the industrial revolution of the 19th century and the green revolution of the 20th century, so says the authors of a new book, Organic Farming: The Ecological System, which combines farmer experience and wisdom with the best that science has to offer

27 Oct 2009

Changes Made to Wildlife Trade Rules

Proposals for tighter trade controls for species such as the Atlantic Blue Fin tuna, sharks and corals have been submitted for the next meeting of parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES)

26 Oct 2009