(CNN puplished this article (check the title with google) but has it entirely rewritten just a few minutes ago. - The Infinite Unknown)YANGON, Myanmar (CNN) — Myanmar’s cyclone survivors have insufficient fuel to burn the rotting corpses of the dead as the ruling military junta is accused of being too slow in letting aid groups [...] continue reading world news
Montag, 27. Oktober 2008
Rotting corpses pile up as Myanmar stalls on aid
(CNN puplished this article (check the title with google) but has it entirely rewritten just a few minutes ago. - The Infinite Unknown)YANGON, Myanmar (CNN) — Myanmar’s cyclone survivors have insufficient fuel to burn the rotting corpses of the dead as the ruling military junta is accused of being too slow in letting aid groups [...] continue reading world news
Sonntag, 26. Oktober 2008
US: Raw sewage is continuously released into rivers, streams
America’s aging sewer systems continue to dump human waste into rivers and streams, despite years of fines and penalties targeting publicly owned agencies responsible for sewage overflows, a Gannett News Service analysis shows.The analysis of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data found that since 2003, hundreds of municipal sewer authorities have been fined for violations, [...] continue reading world news
Eruptions subside at Sicily’s Mount Etna
The eruptions that have shaken the Mount Etna volcano on the southern Italian island of Sicily have subsided, experts said Sunday at the Palermo Geophysics and Volcanology Institute.The eruptions, which started Saturday afternoon, died away towards 9:30 p.m. (1930 GMT) the same evening.“Seismic activity has returned to normal,” a technician told AFP.The eruption, accompanied by [...] continue reading world news
Samstag, 25. Oktober 2008
Burma exports rice as cyclone victims starve
Children standing amid the debris of their village, which was destroyed by the cyclone, near the township of Kunyangon, Burma. Photograph: Adam Dean/EPABurma is still exporting rice even as it tries to curb the influx of international donations of food bound for the starving survivors of the cyclone that killed up to 116,000 people.Sacks of [...] continue reading world news
Tornadoes kill at least 22 across US
WASHINGTON (AFP) — US authorities rushed aid to disaster areas Monday after a series of tornadoes tore across the United States, killing at least 22 people, shattering homes and businesses, and leaving tens of thousands without power.US President George W. Bush called it a “sad day” for devastated communities in the states of Missouri, Oklahoma [...] continue reading world news
Freitag, 24. Oktober 2008
Toll from China quake estimated at 3,000 to 5,000
BEIJING (AP) - A massive earthquake struck central China on Monday and state media reported that as many as 5,000 people were killed in a single county while nearly 900 students were trapped under the rubble of their school.The official Xinhua News Agency said 80 percent of the buildings had collapsed in Beichuan county in [...] continue reading world news
Burma: The death toll could rise up to 1.5million following the cyclone
“An estimated 100,000 people have already died in the badly hit Irrawaddy Delta region.“Oxfam has warned the final figure could be as high as 1.5 million unless aid is given free access to the worst hit areas.”__________________________________________________________________________________________Aid should be dropped into Burma from the skies if access to Burma does not improve dramatically within the [...] continue reading world news
Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2008
Honeybee Colony Collapse to Devastate Food Companies, Result in Food Scarcity
“The alarm bells are ringing, folks. We have reached the limit of the planet’s ability to absorb our pollution and environmental devastation. I sadly predict the human species if not mature enough to make the necessary forward-thinking changes, and that it will only learn from disaster. That disaster is coming. Prepare to live in a [...] continue reading world news
Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2008
UN alert: One-fourth of world’s wheat at risk from new fungus
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned in March that Iran had detected a new highly pathogenic strain of wheat stem rust called Ug99. The fungal disease could spread to other wheat producing states in the Near East and western Asia that provide one-quarter of the world’s wheat. The FAO warned stated east [...] continue reading world news
China earthquake 2008
Hundreds of damaged dams raised fears of collapse or flooding that could inundate towns and cities already struggling to recover. And officials warned of mudslides on brittle hillsides as it rains in the region.____________________________________________________________________________________________China’s worst earthquake in more than 30 years struck southwest China on May 12, killing tens of thousands and injuring many more.The [...] continue reading world news
Dienstag, 21. Oktober 2008
U.S. using food crisis to boost bio-engineered crops
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration has slipped a controversial ingredient into the $770 million aid package it recently proposed to ease the world food crisis, adding language that would promote the use of genetically modified crops in food-deprived countries.The value of genetically modified, or bio-engineered, food is an intensely disputed issue in the U.S. and [...] continue reading world news
Los Angeles Eyes Sewage as a Source of Water
Persistent drought and the threat of tighter water supplies prompted Los Angeles’s plans to begin using heavily cleansed sewage to increase drinking water supplies.(So what comes out of your faucet is what your neighbor flushed down the toilet, but it’s heavily cleansed, with some extra added highly toxic fluoride, maybe iodine….and of course it’s highly [...] continue reading world news
Montag, 20. Oktober 2008
400 Chinese dams ‘in danger’
CHINESE authorities have reported dangerous situations at more than 400 reservoirs after this week’s deadly earthquake, state-run television said today, citing officials. Some 391 reservoirs, two of them major ones, had “dangerous situations” across five provinces including worst-hit Sichuan, CCTV said, quoting officials from the National Development and Reform Commission.Authorities in Chongqing, a major metropolis [...] continue reading world news
Wildlife populations ‘plummeting’
“Reduced biodiversity means millions of people face a future where food supplies are more vulnerable to pests and disease and where water is in irregular or short supply.” James Leape, Director general, WWF UKBetween a quarter and a third of the world’s wildlife has been lost since 1970, according to data compiled by the [...] continue reading world news
Sonntag, 19. Oktober 2008
German Beehives Hit by Mass Die-Off
Beekeepers are pointing the finger at a Bayer CropScience pesticide marketed under the name Poncho, but government tests aren’t conclusiveIn Germany’s bucolic Baden-Württemburg region, there is a curious silence this week. All up and down the Rhine river, farm fields usually buzzing with bees are quiet. Beginning late last week, helpless beekeepers could only [...] continue reading world news
Prince Charles: Eighteen months to stop climate change disaster
The Prince of Wales has warned that the world faces a series of natural disasters within 18 months unless urgent action is taken to save the rainforests.In one of his most out-spoken interventions in the climate change debate, he said a £15 billion annual programme was required to halt deforestation or [...] continue reading world news
Samstag, 18. Oktober 2008
Rat Plague Hits Bangladesh
Dhaka - The UN’s World Food Programme began distributing emergency food aid on Sunday to 120 000 people facing famine in south eastern Bangladesh, where an invasion of rats led to widespread crop destruction.People from the affected areas in the Chittagong hill tracks were struggling to feed themselves and had been eating wild roots from the [...] continue reading world news
Freitag, 17. Oktober 2008
NASA moves to save computers from swarming ants
A flood of voracious ants is heading straight for Houston, taking out computers, radios and even vehicles in their path.Even the Johnson Space Center has called in extermination experts to keep the pests out of their sensitive and critical systems.The ants have been causing all kinds of trouble in five Texas counties in and around [...] continue reading world news
Barcelona: Unprecedented Emergency Plan to Alleviate a Drought in the City
This week, it began importing potable water by ship as part of a broader effort to meet needs. Its reservoirs are down to 20 percent capacity.A ship loaded with drinking water is seen docked in the northern Spanish port of Barcelona as part of an unprecedented emergency plan to alleviate a drought in the city. [...] continue reading world news
Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2008
30,000 Scientists Rejecting Global Warming Hypothesis
Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM)Who: Dr. Arthur Robinson of the OISMWhat: release of names in OISM “Petition Project”When: 10 AM, Monday May 19Where: Holeman Lounge at the National Press Club, 529 14th St., NW, Washington, DCWhy: the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) will announce that more than 31,000 scientists have signed [...] continue reading world news
Man Builds Electric Car for $4750, Costs $7 For Every 300 Miles
Video: Man Converts Junkyard Car Into Electric Vehicle With gas pushing $4 per gallon, many people are looking for ways to save some green at the pump. One North Texas man found a way to help the environment and commute to work for just pennies a day. David Murray may drive the quietest car in [...] continue reading world news
Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2008
The Pentagon Is America’s Biggest Polluter
The nation’s biggest polluter isn’t a corporation. It’s the Pentagon. Every year the Department of Defense churns out more than 750,000 tons of hazardous waste — more than the top three chemical companies combined.Yet the military remains largely exempt from compliance with most federal and state environmental laws, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the [...] continue reading world news
The Next Collapsing Industry: Fishing
Unsustainable practices cost the global fishing industry $50 billion every year, and have wasted some $2 trillion in the last three decades, says a joint report from the World Bank and United Nations.The numbers might not seem like much when compared to the ongoing economic crisis or the cost of deforestation — $1.5 trillion lost [...] continue reading world news
Dienstag, 14. Oktober 2008
Longest, hottest drought on record, says Bureau of Meteorology
THE long drought affecting southern Australia is officially the worst on record.Bureau of Meteorology head of climate analysis David Jones said the 12-year drought that was devastating southwest Western Australia, southeast South Australia, Victoria and northern Tasmania was “very severe and without historical precedent”.Drought has gripped the Murray-Darling Basin since late 2001. It has worsened [...] continue reading world news
Eruption of 3 volcanoes has scientists asking questions
PUZZLE: Is there a common thread or were events just coincidence?How likely is it that three neighboring volcanoes would all erupt at the same time — as the Kasatochi, Okmok and Cleveland volcanoes in the Aleutians did this summer?About as likely as a storm that only appears once in a thousand years, says Anchorage volcanologist [...] continue reading world news
Montag, 13. Oktober 2008
San Francisco introduces Carbon Tax
SAN FRANCISCO — The Bay Area Air Quality Management District’s board of directors on Wednesday approved new rules to charge businesses a fee for the pollution they emit.The group’s board of directors voted 15-1 on unprecedented new rules that will impose fees on factories, power plants, oil refineries and other businesses that emit [...] continue reading world news
Energy fears looming, new survivalists prepare
Peter Laskowski stacks firewood at his remote home in Waitsfield, Vt., Friday, April 11, 2008. Convinced that the planet’s oil supply is dwindling and the world’s economies are heading for a crash, people around the country are moving onto homesteads, learning to live off their land, conserving fuel and, in some cases, stocking up on [...] continue reading world news
Sonntag, 12. Oktober 2008
Mexican Marijuana Cartels Sully US Forests, Parks
Mexican marijuana cartels use pesticides, herbicides that pollute US parks, forest landsA member of Kentucky’s state marijuana strike force cuts down marijuana in rural Breathitt County, Ky. (AP Photo)National forests and parks - long popular with Mexican marijuana-growing cartels - have become home to some of the most polluted pockets of wilderness in America because [...] continue reading world news
With Spotlight on Pirates, Somalis on Land Waste Away in the Shadows
Above, a severely malnourished baby lay unresponsive on Thursday as the mother and father sat nearby in a feeding center in Afgooye, Somalia.AFGOOYE, Somalia - Just step into a feeding center here, and the sense of hopelessness is overwhelming.Dozens of women sit with listless babies in their laps, snapping their fingers, trying to get a [...] continue reading world news
Samstag, 11. Oktober 2008
U.S. rice farmers want class action against Bayer
KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 23 (Reuters) - Germany’s Bayer AG (BAYG.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) is battling to keep thousands of U.S. rice farmers from becoming part of a massive class-action lawsuit over the contamination of commercial rice supplies by a Bayer biotech rice not approved for human consumption.In hearings this week in federal court in [...] continue reading world news
Sunspot cycles may hold key to global warming, cooling
The 2008 winter was the coldest in 40 years for the upper Midwest, Plains states and most of Canada. Minnesota newspapers report that this year’s opening of the locks to Mississippi barge traffic, delayed by three weeks, was the latest since the modern waterway opened in 1940.Eau Claire, where “old-fashioned winters” have been a thing [...] continue reading world news
Freitag, 10. Oktober 2008
BIODIVERSITY: Privatisation Making Seeds Themselves Infertile
BONN, May 22 (IPS) - Seeds were once for ever. After harvest, a few from the crop would be planted for the following year, and so it went on.Now, biochemical industry giants are making seeds themselves infertile. You sow them this year, and that’s it. For next year’s crop, you need brand new seeds — [...] continue reading world news
WCI student isolates microbe that lunches on plastic bags
Getting ordinary plastic bags to rot away like banana peels would be an environmental dream come true.After all, we produce 500 billion a year worldwide and they take up to 1,000 years to decompose. They take up space in landfills, litter our streets and parks, pollute the oceans and kill the animals that eat them.Now [...] continue reading world news
Donnerstag, 9. Oktober 2008
At stake is no less than control of the world’s food supply.
Related articles:Exposed: the great GM crops myth:“Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food crisis.”BIODIVERSITY: Privatisation Making Seeds Themselves InfertileU.S. using food crisis to boost bio-engineered cropsFrom Seeds of Suicide to Seeds [...] continue reading world news
Czech President Klaus ready to debate Gore on climate change
Washington - Czech President Vaclav Klaus said Tuesday he is ready to debate Al Gore about global warming, as he presented the English version of his latest book that argues environmentalism poses a threat to basic human freedoms. “I many times tried to talk to have a public exchange of views with him, and he’s [...] continue reading world news
Mittwoch, 8. Oktober 2008
Weather warfare
‘Climatic warfare’ potentially threatens the future of humanity, but has casually been excluded from the reports for which the IPCC received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Michel Chossudovsky is a Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa and an editor at the Centre for Research on Globalization, www.globalresearch.ca_______________________________________________________________________________Beware the US military’s experiments with climatic [...] continue reading world news
Dienstag, 7. Oktober 2008
China Orders Up to 1.3 Million to Evacuate on Quake Lake Danger
May 30 (Bloomberg) — China is ordering the evacuation of up to 1.3 million people as a lake formed after the country’s deadliest earthquake in 32 years threatens to burst its banks, flooding a nearby city, the official Xinhua news agency said.Tangjiashan, the biggest of more than 30 lakes created after landslides caused by the [...] continue reading world news
War-related birth defects in Fallujah
Three-year-old Fatima AhmedFamilies in Fallujah are calling for an investigation into the rise of birth defects after the US used phosphorus over the Iraqi city in 2004. They have raised concerns about the weapons used by American forces in 2004, including constant bombardment with uranium depleted artillery shells and other depleted uranium ammunition- when Fallujah [...] continue reading world news
Montag, 6. Oktober 2008
China Earthquake caused by HAARP weapon ???????
Related Article: Weather warfareSource: You TubeProve of HAARP was used to cause the big earthquake in China.World War III is coming… HAARP???????????????????? ???????????fonett???“??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????4???????SARS???????????????????????????Illuminati?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????,???????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? beijing olympics?????????????????????????!?????!”?fdsaxxx?????????????????????????A comment from a Japanese, id named fonett:“why sichuan? cause theres china’s largest natural gas field, SARS was a biological weapon by these same people.why they do it? start ww3 [...] continue reading world news
Canada’s water crisis ‘escalating’
In Quebec, St. Lawrence water levels were so low this fall in places like Haut Gorge park that water had to be pumped in from Lake Ontario. Photograph by : Allen McInnis, Canwest News ServiceExperts expect climate change to present serious water challenges, many of which already existIn Quebec, St. Lawrence water levels were so [...] continue reading world news
Sonntag, 5. Oktober 2008
Organic Bees Surviving Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)
I know this won’t come as a surprise to many of our readers, nor to the many organic beekeepers that have been commenting on our posts, but there have been several reports of organic bee colonies surviving where the ‘industrial’ bee colonies are collapsing. Here is the latest to come to my attention:Pollination, as practised [...] continue reading world news
UN: 1 Million In Myanmar Not Getting Aid
More than 1 million people still don’t have adequate food, water or shelter a month after a devastating cyclone swept through Myanmar, and the military junta’s policies are hindering relief efforts and driving up the cost of aid operations, the United Nations said Tuesday.Humanitarian groups say they continue to face hurdles from Myanmar’s military government [...] continue reading world news
Samstag, 4. Oktober 2008
Army: Sun, Not Man, Is Causing Climate Change
The Army is weighing in on the global warming debate, claiming that climate change is not man-made. Instead, Dr. Bruce West, with the Army Research Office, argues that “changes in the earth’s average surface temperature are directly linked to … the short-term statistical fluctuations in the Sun’s irradiance and the longer-term solar cycles.”In an advisory [...] continue reading world news
Sheep and Cow flatulence inoculation developed
New Zealand scientists claim to have developed a “flatulence inoculation” aimed at cutting down on the massive amount of methane produced by its sheep and cows.Such animals are believed to be responsible for more than half of the country’s greenhouse gases, causing huge environmental problems.But Phil Goff, New Zealand’s trade minister, told an Organisation for [...] continue reading world news
Freitag, 3. Oktober 2008
California faces water rationing due to drought
Californians could face mandatory water rationing unless they drastically reduce consumption because of a state-wide water crisis, governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has said.The warning came as he declared the first official drought in California in 17 years, citing two years of arid conditions that threaten the state’s massive agriculture industry and increase the risk of wildfires [...] continue reading world news
Water crisis to be biggest world risk
A catastrophic water shortage could prove an even bigger threat to mankind this century than soaring food prices and the relentless exhaustion of energy reserves, according to a panel of global experts at the Goldman Sachs “Top Five Risks” conference.The melting of Himalayan glaciers threatens the water supply to the world’s riversNicholas (Lord) Stern, author [...] continue reading world news
Donnerstag, 2. Oktober 2008
Brazilian Government Largest Illegal Logger in the Amazon
BRASILIA, Brazil, September 30, 2008 (ENS) - A Brazilian government agency that provides land to settlers is the largest illegal logger in the Amazon rainforest and could face criminal prosecution, Environment Minister Carlos Minc said Monday. Minc blamed Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform, or Incra, for occupying the top six places on a new [...] continue reading world news
Biotech giants demand a high price for saving the planet
Related Articles:- Exposed: the great GM crops myth- The World According to Monsanto - A documentary that Americans won’t ever see- At stake is no less than control of the world’s food supply.- BIODIVERSITY: Privatisation Making Seeds Themselves InfertileCompanies accused of ‘profiteering’ as they attempt to patent crop genesGiant biotech companies are privatising the world’s [...] continue reading world news
Mittwoch, 1. Oktober 2008
Bananas Are Dying, Killed by Corporate Monoculture
(NaturalNews) Prepare to say goodbye to bananas. Do you remember back in the sixties when there was a change in bananas? It wasn’t announced, but those of us who love the fruit did. They became less sweet and creamy — just not as good. There was no information about it. The change seemed to slip [...] continue reading world news
‘Beyond what anybody could even imagine’
Patients evacuated from Cedar Rapids hospital as waters continue to riseDowntown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was submerged Thursday by the rising Cedar River. Around 100 blocks were under water, forcing some 10,000 people to flee.CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Officials evacuated patients from a Cedar Rapids hospital on Friday as the rising waters from the Cedar River [...] continue reading world news
Dienstag, 30. September 2008
U.S. corn soars to record as crop flooded
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. corn futures soared more than 4 percent to a fresh record high for the fifth consecutive trading session on Wednesday as flooding expanded in the U.S. Midwest, harming the 2008 corn crop.“There’s still no indication that we’re getting ready to change this pattern. Concerns continue from planting issues to emergence to [...] continue reading world news
American Inventor Presents an Answer to the World’s Water Crisis
Related article: Water crisis to be biggest world risk(NaturalNews) Dean Kamen is not a new player in the innovator’s arena. He has been inventing and innovating ever since he dropped out of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the 70’s. Since then, he invented such things as the insulin pump, a mobile dialysis system, and an all-terrain [...] continue reading world news
Montag, 29. September 2008
Global Warming? Not in the Pacific Northwest
There’s rain on the grill and snow in the passesUW prof says it’s the coldest spring since 1917There’s further proof that this spring has been uncomfortably and depressingly cold — the coldest in memory, the coldest since 1917.Validation came Tuesday from the University of Washington, where Cliff Mass, an atmospheric sciences professor, published his new [...] continue reading world news
Sonntag, 28. September 2008
Where Is FEMA?
The US Department of Homeland Security has an annual budget of $40 billion. Out of that money FEMA gets about one billion annually. FEMA was created to combine all federal services into one giant agency that was to “manage” ALL national emergencies that happen within the United States. Yet since this mega-agency was created, by [...] continue reading world news
Tens of thousands flee Iowa flooding
The governor declares 83 of 99 counties disaster areas as waters continue to rise. The weather is expected to turn foul again.DES MOINES — Officials on Friday urged tens of thousands of workers and residents to evacuate as rivers across the Hawkeye state continued to flood towns big and small.Though the National Weather Service [...] continue reading world news
Samstag, 27. September 2008
Gas Shortage In the South Creates Panic, Long Lines
If Drivers Can Fill Up, They Get Sticker ShockPeople wait to fill their tanks at a Citgo station in Charlotte, where drivers have reported gas lines 60 cars long after 11 p.m. (By Davie Hinshaw — The Charlotte Observer) Gasoline shortages hit towns across the southeastern United States this week, sparking panic buying, long [...] continue reading world news
Russia: Weather Manipulation
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian air force planes dropped a 25-kg (55-lb) sack of cement on a suburban Moscow home last week while seeding clouds to prevent rain from spoiling a holiday, Russian media said on Tuesday.“A pack of cement used in creating … good weather in the capital region … failed to pulverize completely at [...] continue reading world news
Freitag, 26. September 2008
Should Government Aircraft Spray Chemicals on Residential Areas?
Related articles:- Governor Schwarzenegger Backed Immoral Sex Pheromone Spraying Continues…- Plan To Spray Toxic Biological Chemicals Over San Francisco AnnouncedNote to the government: When you unilaterally send aircraft to spray unfamiliar chemicals over residential areas, the public will get very worried.Environmental activists will pick through mounds of official documents in an attempt to make sense [...] continue reading world news
Catastrophic fall in numbers reveals bird populations in crisis throughout the world
Northern WheatearThe birds of the world are in serious trouble, and common species are in now decline all over the globe, a comprehensive new review suggests today.From the turtle doves of Europe to the vultures of India, from the bobwhite quails of the US to the yellow cardinals of Argentina, from [...] continue reading world news
Donnerstag, 25. September 2008
Who Killed The Electric Car?
Documentary about GM killing of the electric car. It has been here since ‘96 but they killed it off.The film features interviews with celebrities who drove the electric car, such as Mel Gibson, Tom Hanks, Alexandra Paul, Peter Horton, Ed Begley, Jr., a bi-partisan selection of prominent political figures including Ralph Nader, Frank Gaffney, Alan [...] continue reading world news
Why Al Gore is a Hypocrite and a Fraud
Energy Guzzled by Al Gore’s Home in Past Year Could Power 232 U.S. Homes for a MonthGore’s personal electricity consumption up 10%, despite “energy-efficient” home renovations NASHVILLE - In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficient, the former Vice President’s home energy use surged more than 10%, according to [...] continue reading world news
Mittwoch, 24. September 2008
Vanishing Topsoil Threatens Sustainability of Human Life on Earth
(NaturalNews) Earth’s topsoil is vanishing at such a rapid rate that scientists worry about the future of human food production.“Globally, it’s clear we are eroding soils at a rate much faster than they can form,” said John Reganold, a soils scientist from Washington State University. “It’s hard to get people to pay much attention to [...] continue reading world news
Estrogen Flooding Our Rivers
The Montreal water treatment plant dumps 90 times the critical amount of certain estrogen products into the river. It only takes one nanogram (ng) of steroids per liter of water to disrupt the endocrinal system of fish and decrease their fertility.These are the findings of Liza Viglino, postdoctoral student at the Universite de Montreal’s Department [...] continue reading world news
Dienstag, 23. September 2008
Five million face hunger in Zimbabwe, UN says
The United Nations has warned that more than five million Zimbabweans could be threatened by hunger next year due to a steady drop in food production coupled with the world’s highest rate of inflation.The Food and Agriculture Organisation and the World Food Program said in a joint report that [...] continue reading world news
Mississippi overflows levees, crops threatened
The swollen Mississippi River ran over the top of at least 12 more levees on Wednesday, as floodwaters swallowed up more U.S. farmland, adding to billion-dollar losses and feeding global food inflation fears.Volunteers and aid workers were piling sandbags up and down the most important U.S. inland waterway to try to protect more levees and [...] continue reading world news
Montag, 22. September 2008
The Best Farmland in the U.S. Is Flooded; Most Americans Are Too Stupid to Panic
The best commentary I could offer is a link to a previous story:World’s Largest Maker of Crop Nutrients: Famines May Occur Without Record HarvestsBut I’ll ramble on a bit more about this, anyway.As soon as I became aware of the flooding situation in the American Midwest, I posted the story with the EMERGENCY prefix on [...] continue reading world news
Water Restoration Act May Lead to Privatization of Water Supply
(NaturalNews) The fate of the nation’s water supply is under debate as hearings in the House and Senate begin on the Water Restoration Act of 2007. Opponents claim this Act threatens to greatly expand the Federal Government’s roll in water management. This Act would define waters of the U.S. as “all interstate and intrastate waters [...] continue reading world news
Sonntag, 21. September 2008
The Sunspot Enigma: The Sun is “Dead”—What Does it Mean for Earth?
Dark spots, some as large as 50,000 miles in diameter, typically move across the surface of the sun, contracting and expanding as they go. These strange and powerful phenomena are known as sunspots, but now they are all gone. Not even solar physicists know why it’s happening and what this odd solar silence might be [...] continue reading world news
Must See: Pictures of Iowa Flooding
June 17, 2008Pictures: Source: The Boston GlobeRelated articles:- Government “Strike Teams” Invade Homes, Harass Flood Victims- Decider-Commander Goes to Iowa- Dealing With The Truth- Government Terrorists Terrorize Iowa Homeowners- FEMA: It’s Not About Floods, It’s About Martial Law- Tens of thousands flee Iowa flooding- ‘Beyond what anybody could even imagine’- The Best Farmland in the [...] continue reading world news
Samstag, 20. September 2008
Floods wipe out US crops
The crest of the swollen Mississippi River moved downstream yesterday as volunteers manned sandbagged levees and coped with the costs of the Midwest’s worst flooding in 15 years. “At times like these you don’t know whether to cry or laugh. But here in the Midwest we tend to favour the latter,” said Charlotte Hoerr, who, [...] continue reading world news
Nation’s Spies: Climate Change Could Spark War
Environmental groups have been warning for years that tense parts of the world could get even worse with the advent of global climate change, and even spark whole new conflicts. Now, the nation’s spies are saying pretty much the same thing.The U.S. intelligence community has finished up its classified assessment of how our changing weather [...] continue reading world news
Freitag, 19. September 2008
MIT group makes low-cost dish to tap solar energy
Spencer Ahrens, a 23-year-old mechanical engineer, was on MIT’s campus last week, holding a wooden plank, surrounded by onlookers.Slowly, he turned that wooden plank before a series of mirrors that had been placed inside an aluminum frame, until the wood caught fire.That was quite a moment, recalled Matthew Ritter, one of the onlookers.“Let’s just say [...] continue reading world news
FDA Considers Engineered Animals For Food
Agency Will Accept Industry Proposals To Sell The Public Animals With Mixed DNATwo featherless chickens peck around in some grass at the Hebrew University in Rehovot. Israeli scientists at the Agriculture department of the university have genetically engineered bare-skinned chickens as part of a research project to develop succulent, low fat poultry that is environmentally [...] continue reading world news
Donnerstag, 18. September 2008
FDA Criticized Over Plastic Chemical
Groups Raise Questions About the Safety of Bisphenol AReviewed by Louise Chang, MDSept. 16, 2008 — Researchers and environmental groups attacked the FDA for concluding that a widely used plastic ingredient is safe for humans, saying the agency ignored critical studies showing potential ill health effects.The comments came at a hearing called by the FDA [...] continue reading world news
FDA Criticized Over Plastic Chemical
Groups Raise Questions About the Safety of Bisphenol AReviewed by Louise Chang, MDSept. 16, 2008 — Researchers and environmental groups attacked the FDA for concluding that a widely used plastic ingredient is safe for humans, saying the agency ignored critical studies showing potential ill health effects.The comments came at a hearing called by the FDA [...] continue reading world news
Video shows shocking farm cruelty to pigs
UNDERCOVER animal activists have filmed horrific scenes of cruelty to farm pigs.The incidents include workers slamming piglets on floors and leaving them still wriggling to die, beating animals to death with metal rods and inserting rods into sows’ hindquarters.Activists from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) posed as workers between June and September [...] continue reading world news
Video shows shocking farm cruelty to pigs
UNDERCOVER animal activists have filmed horrific scenes of cruelty to farm pigs.The incidents include workers slamming piglets on floors and leaving them still wriggling to die, beating animals to death with metal rods and inserting rods into sows’ hindquarters.Activists from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) posed as workers between June and September [...] continue reading world news
Mittwoch, 17. September 2008
California: The War On Wildfires
Articles:- Wildfires force firefighters to pick their battles - California Firefighters Battle More Than 1,400 Blazes!- Firefighters in Stalemate Against Calif. Blazes- Smoky skies threaten health in fiery California- Map of California’s Major Fires continue reading world news
North Pole Could be Ice-Free This Summer
Related article: NASA data shows thickest and oldest Arctic ice is meltingArctic sea ice could break apart completely at the North Pole this year, allowing ships to sail over the normally frozen top of the world.The potential landmark thaw - the first time in human history the pole would be ice-free - is a stark [...] continue reading world news
Pentagon Fights EPA On Pollution Cleanup
The Defense Department, the nation’s biggest polluter, is resisting orders from the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up Fort Meade and two other military bases where the EPA says dumped chemicals pose “imminent and substantial” dangers to public health and the environment.The Pentagon has also declined to sign agreements required by law that cover 12 [...] continue reading world news
California: The War On Wildfires
Articles:- Wildfires force firefighters to pick their battles - California Firefighters Battle More Than 1,400 Blazes!- Firefighters in Stalemate Against Calif. Blazes- Smoky skies threaten health in fiery California- Map of California’s Major Fires continue reading world news
Dienstag, 16. September 2008
Floods may boost world food prices for years
Related articles:- Floods wipe out US crops- The Best Farmland in the U.S. Is Flooded; Most Americans Are Too Stupid to Panic—————————————————————————————————————————————————————LEVEES on the cresting Mississippi River held today as the worst US Midwest flooding in 15 years began to ebb, but multibillion-dollar crop losses may boost world food prices for years.Water levels on the [...] continue reading world news
After Powerful Hurricane, Rescuers Scour Ravaged Areas
HOUSTON - Emergency officials pursued their rescue efforts on Sunday after Hurricane Ike barreled across a wide swath of Texas, deluging the city of Galveston with a wall of water, flooding coastal towns and leaving extensive damage across metropolitan Houston.Across the Gulf Coast, rescue workers scoured waterlogged neighborhoods and struggled to race down streets that [...] continue reading world news
After Powerful Hurricane, Rescuers Scour Ravaged Areas
HOUSTON - Emergency officials pursued their rescue efforts on Sunday after Hurricane Ike barreled across a wide swath of Texas, deluging the city of Galveston with a wall of water, flooding coastal towns and leaving extensive damage across metropolitan Houston.Across the Gulf Coast, rescue workers scoured waterlogged neighborhoods and struggled to race down streets that [...] continue reading world news
Controlled drugs dumped uncontrolled into water
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - In a frustrating quirk in government policy, the most tightly controlled drugs - like painkilling narcotics prone to abuse - are the ones that most often elude environmental regulation when they become waste.Federal narcotics regulators impose strict rules meant to keep controlled pharmaceuticals out of the wrong hands. Yet those rules also [...] continue reading world news
Montag, 15. September 2008
Controlled drugs dumped uncontrolled into water
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - In a frustrating quirk in government policy, the most tightly controlled drugs - like painkilling narcotics prone to abuse - are the ones that most often elude environmental regulation when they become waste.Federal narcotics regulators impose strict rules meant to keep controlled pharmaceuticals out of the wrong hands. Yet those rules also [...] continue reading world news
L.A. County sees an upward trend in West Nile infections
The year is shaping up to be the worst in Southern California since 2004.Jack Austin doesn’t remember a mosquito biting him. The 72-year-old Duarte resident also doesn’t remember the nine days he spent in the hospital in July or much of the 20 days he spent in rehab in August, recovering from West Nile neuroinvasive [...] continue reading world news
L.A. County sees an upward trend in West Nile infections
The year is shaping up to be the worst in Southern California since 2004.Jack Austin doesn’t remember a mosquito biting him. The 72-year-old Duarte resident also doesn’t remember the nine days he spent in the hospital in July or much of the 20 days he spent in rehab in August, recovering from West Nile neuroinvasive [...] continue reading world news
Chicago seeks aid after worst rain in at least 137 years
Chicago received more than 6 inches of rain Saturday, breaking a 1987 record.CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) — Chicago authorities asked Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to issue a disaster declaration after rainfall Saturday in the Windy City broke a single-day record that had stood for more than two decades.The deluge flooded streets and stranded residents in their [...] continue reading world news
Sonntag, 14. September 2008
Chicago seeks aid after worst rain in at least 137 years
Chicago received more than 6 inches of rain Saturday, breaking a 1987 record.CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) — Chicago authorities asked Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to issue a disaster declaration after rainfall Saturday in the Windy City broke a single-day record that had stood for more than two decades.The deluge flooded streets and stranded residents in their [...] continue reading world news
Pentagon Fights EPA On Pollution Cleanup
The Defense Department, the nation’s biggest polluter, is resisting orders from the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up Fort Meade and two other military bases where the EPA says dumped chemicals pose “imminent and substantial” dangers to public health and the environment.The Pentagon has also declined to sign agreements required by law that cover 12 [...] continue reading world news
Philippines: Fighting to survive on mountain of trash
Thousands of Manila’s poorest scavenge for recyclables daily at the city’s main waste disposal site in a smouldering district known as “Smokey Mountain.” Rice price spikes have caused greater hardship.A spike in rice prices means increased hardship for millions of Filipinos living on less than $2 a dayMANILA - Amid the sprawl and stench of [...] continue reading world news
USDA Cuts US Corn, Soy Estimates; Grain Mkts Up (2nd UPDATE)
(Updates with closing grain prices; additional analyst comments)CHICAGO -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Friday cut its projections for 2008 U.S. corn and soybean production, keeping supplies of the commodities tight and helping lift grain prices.The reduction in crop size, which was the result of poor growing weather in August, could be the start [...] continue reading world news
Samstag, 13. September 2008
USDA Cuts US Corn, Soy Estimates; Grain Mkts Up (2nd UPDATE)
(Updates with closing grain prices; additional analyst comments)CHICAGO -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Friday cut its projections for 2008 U.S. corn and soybean production, keeping supplies of the commodities tight and helping lift grain prices.The reduction in crop size, which was the result of poor growing weather in August, could be the start [...] continue reading world news
Floods may boost world food prices for years
Related articles:- Floods wipe out US crops- The Best Farmland in the U.S. Is Flooded; Most Americans Are Too Stupid to Panic—————————————————————————————————————————————————————LEVEES on the cresting Mississippi River held today as the worst US Midwest flooding in 15 years began to ebb, but multibillion-dollar crop losses may boost world food prices for years.Water levels on the [...] continue reading world news
Philippines: Food Shortage Looms - Arroyo Adviser
Related article (Typhoon Fengshen):- Fishing industry suffers after ferry tragedy:“The government suspended all diving operations to recover bodies inside the vessel and banned fishing around the island on Friday after it was revealed the ferry was carrying a highly toxic pesticide.”“Should the chemicals leak into its pristine waters the impact on local marine life would [...] continue reading world news
More than 1m people at risk as hurricane Ike heads towards Texas
America’s largest refinery and Nasa’s Johnson Space Centre could be at risk of damageA sign in Port Aransas, Texas. Photograph: Eric GayMore than a million people in Texas have been warned they should leave their homes as hurricane Ike heads across the Gulf of Mexico towards the Texan coast, home to America’s largest concentration of [...] continue reading world news
Freitag, 12. September 2008
More than 1m people at risk as hurricane Ike heads towards Texas
America’s largest refinery and Nasa’s Johnson Space Centre could be at risk of damageA sign in Port Aransas, Texas. Photograph: Eric GayMore than a million people in Texas have been warned they should leave their homes as hurricane Ike heads across the Gulf of Mexico towards the Texan coast, home to America’s largest concentration of [...] continue reading world news
Two strong Earthquakes hit Japan and Indonesia, but no tsunami
Two strong off shore earthquakes have struck Asia, triggering tsunami alerts and evacuations in coastal towns.Separate earthquakes hit off the coasts of northern Japan and Indonesia, but neither ultimately produced damaging waves and there were no reports of damage or casualties.The most powerful tremor, with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0, hit off the coast of [...] continue reading world news
Jury decides that threat of global warming justifies breaking the law
The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station, a jury decided yesterday. In a verdict that will have shocked ministers and energy companies the jury at Maidstone Crown Court cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage.Jurors accepted defence [...] continue reading world news
Jury decides that threat of global warming justifies breaking the law
The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station, a jury decided yesterday. In a verdict that will have shocked ministers and energy companies the jury at Maidstone Crown Court cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage.Jurors accepted defence [...] continue reading world news
Donnerstag, 11. September 2008
Two strong Earthquakes hit Japan and Indonesia, but no tsunami
Two strong off shore earthquakes have struck Asia, triggering tsunami alerts and evacuations in coastal towns.Separate earthquakes hit off the coasts of northern Japan and Indonesia, but neither ultimately produced damaging waves and there were no reports of damage or casualties.The most powerful tremor, with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0, hit off the coast of [...] continue reading world news
Philippines: Fighting to survive on mountain of trash
Thousands of Manila’s poorest scavenge for recyclables daily at the city’s main waste disposal site in a smouldering district known as “Smokey Mountain.” Rice price spikes have caused greater hardship.A spike in rice prices means increased hardship for millions of Filipinos living on less than $2 a dayMANILA - Amid the sprawl and stench of [...] continue reading world news
Thousands in Texas Flee Hurricane Ike
Tens of thousands of people fled coastal areas of Texas on Wednesday after Hurricane Ike spun off Cuba, roared into the Gulf of Mexico and headed toward the state with growing strength.After pummeling Haiti, Cuba and other parts of the Caribbean, Ike refueled in the Gulf of Mexico and headed toward landfall near Corpus Christi, [...] continue reading world news
Thousands in Texas Flee Hurricane Ike
Tens of thousands of people fled coastal areas of Texas on Wednesday after Hurricane Ike spun off Cuba, roared into the Gulf of Mexico and headed toward the state with growing strength.After pummeling Haiti, Cuba and other parts of the Caribbean, Ike refueled in the Gulf of Mexico and headed toward landfall near Corpus Christi, [...] continue reading world news
Mittwoch, 10. September 2008
DROUGHT-STRICKEN CYPRUS GETS WATER FROM GREECE
NICOSIA, Cyprus - A Greek tanker carrying about 1.76 million cubic feet of water arrived in the Cypriot port of Limassol on Monday to help the drought-stricken island replenish its dwindling water reserves.The tanker is the first in a fleet of ships chartered by the Cypriot government at a cost of $65 million to provide [...] continue reading world news
Britain is facing its worst harvest for at least 40 years
Britain is facing its worst harvest for at least 40 years as 30 per cent of the country’s grain lies in waterlogged or sodden ground. Hilary Benn, the Rural Affairs Secretary, is expected to give the go-ahead today for farmers to salvage what is left of their crops by using heavy machinery on wet fields.European [...] continue reading world news
Britain is facing its worst harvest for at least 40 years
Britain is facing its worst harvest for at least 40 years as 30 per cent of the country’s grain lies in waterlogged or sodden ground. Hilary Benn, the Rural Affairs Secretary, is expected to give the go-ahead today for farmers to salvage what is left of their crops by using heavy machinery on wet fields.European [...] continue reading world news
Summer has been one of Alaska’s coldest
High temperatures this season were 3rd lowest on recordSummer is officially over in Alaska, and if you got out in the sun to enjoy both days of it you were lucky.Those were the two July days the temperature at the offices of the National Weather Service in Anchorage hit 70 degrees or better.“Those temperatures occurred [...] continue reading world news
Dienstag, 9. September 2008
Summer has been one of Alaska’s coldest
High temperatures this season were 3rd lowest on recordSummer is officially over in Alaska, and if you got out in the sun to enjoy both days of it you were lucky.Those were the two July days the temperature at the offices of the National Weather Service in Anchorage hit 70 degrees or better.“Those temperatures occurred [...] continue reading world news
Massive Canada Arctic ice shelf breaks away
The northern section of Ellesmere island is seen in a 2003 photo from NASA. OTTAWA (Reuters) - A huge 19 square mile (55 square km) ice shelf in Canada’s northern Arctic broke away last month and the remaining shelves have shrunk at a “massive and disturbing” rate, the latest sign of [...] continue reading world news
Ike roars over Cuba; 900,000 evacuated
HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) — Hurricane Ike tore across Cuba with 100-mph winds Monday, sending 50-foot waves crashing over buildings and forcing the evacuation of 900,000 people.Fallen bricks crushed a van Monday in Camaguey, Cuba, as Hurricane Ike struck the island.At 2 p.m., Ike’s eye had moved back over water off Cuba’s southern coast. Ike was [...] continue reading world news
Ike roars over Cuba; 900,000 evacuated
HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) — Hurricane Ike tore across Cuba with 100-mph winds Monday, sending 50-foot waves crashing over buildings and forcing the evacuation of 900,000 people.Fallen bricks crushed a van Monday in Camaguey, Cuba, as Hurricane Ike struck the island.At 2 p.m., Ike’s eye had moved back over water off Cuba’s southern coast. Ike was [...] continue reading world news
Montag, 8. September 2008
Environment: Solar plant yields water and crops from the desert
· Green energy glasshouses may transform arid areas· Fresh water will end need to dig wells, say architectsThe Sahara forest project will use seawater and solar power to grow food in greenhouses across the desert. Photograph: Exploration ArchitectureVast greenhouses that use sea water for crop cultivation could be combined with solar power plants to provide [...] continue reading world news
Environment: Solar plant yields water and crops from the desert
· Green energy glasshouses may transform arid areas· Fresh water will end need to dig wells, say architectsThe Sahara forest project will use seawater and solar power to grow food in greenhouses across the desert. Photograph: Exploration ArchitectureVast greenhouses that use sea water for crop cultivation could be combined with solar power plants to provide [...] continue reading world news
Ike begins to hit Bahamas, heads toward Cuba
MIAMI, Florida (CNN) — Hurricane Ike moved past the southern Bahamas on Sunday, carrying high winds and heavy rain as the Category 4 storm surged forward on a track that could take it toward the U.S. Gulf Coast.Obenson Etienne walks to his house Sunday in Providenciales, one of the isles in the Turks and [...] continue reading world news
Who Wants To Be CEO of a Red, White and Blue Kakistocracy*?
*Kakistocracy is government by the very worst, least principled, and most incompetent people. You will be forgiven for thinking that the word, kakistocracy, perhaps derives from the word, “caca”, itself derived from the Latin, “cacare”. In fact, kakistocracy derives from the Greek, kakos, meaning “bad”.)Let me make myself clear from the outset: I am not [...] continue reading world news
Sonntag, 7. September 2008
Who Wants To Be CEO of a Red, White and Blue Kakistocracy*?
*Kakistocracy is government by the very worst, least principled, and most incompetent people. You will be forgiven for thinking that the word, kakistocracy, perhaps derives from the word, “caca”, itself derived from the Latin, “cacare”. In fact, kakistocracy derives from the Greek, kakos, meaning “bad”.)Let me make myself clear from the outset: I am not [...] continue reading world news
Ike begins to hit Bahamas, heads toward Cuba
MIAMI, Florida (CNN) — Hurricane Ike moved past the southern Bahamas on Sunday, carrying high winds and heavy rain as the Category 4 storm surged forward on a track that could take it toward the U.S. Gulf Coast.Obenson Etienne walks to his house Sunday in Providenciales, one of the isles in the Turks and [...] continue reading world news
Massive floating generators, or ‘eco-rigs’, to provide power and food to Japan
Battered by soaring energy costs and aghast at dwindling fish stocks, Japanese scientists think they have found the answer: filling the seas with giant “eco-rigs” as powerful as nuclear power stations. The project, which could result in village-sized platforms peppering the Japanese coastline within a decade, reflects a growing panic in the country over how [...] continue reading world news
U.S. Food and Water Supply Poisoned by Perchlorate
(NaturalNews) According to a report by the Organic Consumers Association, a toxic chemical that is a byproduct of rocket fuel is rapidly poisoning the food and water supply in the United States. Known as perchlorate, this chemical has been found in 93% of the nation’s milk and lettuce supply in a recent FDA study. It [...] continue reading world news
Samstag, 6. September 2008
Hanna death toll rises to 500 as storm nears hurricane status
Tropical storm Hanna is closing in on North and South Carolina with receding flood waters in Haiti revealing the corpses of nearly 500 victims of the deadly weather system.Hurricane Hanna as it nears the US coast Photo: APHanna, the eighth tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, closed in on the US east coast [...] continue reading world news
Hanna death toll rises to 500 as storm nears hurricane status
Tropical storm Hanna is closing in on North and South Carolina with receding flood waters in Haiti revealing the corpses of nearly 500 victims of the deadly weather system.Hurricane Hanna as it nears the US coast Photo: APHanna, the eighth tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, closed in on the US east coast [...] continue reading world news
U.S. Food and Water Supply Poisoned by Perchlorate
(NaturalNews) According to a report by the Organic Consumers Association, a toxic chemical that is a byproduct of rocket fuel is rapidly poisoning the food and water supply in the United States. Known as perchlorate, this chemical has been found in 93% of the nation’s milk and lettuce supply in a recent FDA study. It [...] continue reading world news
Storm-hit Haitians starve on rooftops
· No food or drinking water as tempests batter nation· Desolation in Cuba is like Hiroshima, says CastroFriday September 5 2008Haiti was reeling last night from a series of tropical storms which devastated crops and infrastructure and left bodies floating in flooded towns. Three storms in three weeks unleashed “catastrophe” and submerged much of the [...] continue reading world news
Freitag, 5. September 2008
Storm-hit Haitians starve on rooftops
· No food or drinking water as tempests batter nation· Desolation in Cuba is like Hiroshima, says CastroFriday September 5 2008Haiti was reeling last night from a series of tropical storms which devastated crops and infrastructure and left bodies floating in flooded towns. Three storms in three weeks unleashed “catastrophe” and submerged much of the [...] continue reading world news
The U.S. is getting pounded this season
Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) — Tropical Storm Hanna skirted the Bahamas after killing dozens in Haiti and threatened to strike the U.S. Southeast as a hurricane by the weekend.Farther out to sea, the “extremely dangerous” Hurricane Ike was packing 140-mph (225-kph) winds, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.Hanna’s eye was about 205 miles (400 kilometers) east [...] continue reading world news
Donnerstag, 4. September 2008
The U.S. is getting pounded this season
Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) — Tropical Storm Hanna skirted the Bahamas after killing dozens in Haiti and threatened to strike the U.S. Southeast as a hurricane by the weekend.Farther out to sea, the “extremely dangerous” Hurricane Ike was packing 140-mph (225-kph) winds, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.Hanna’s eye was about 205 miles (400 kilometers) east [...] continue reading world news
Massive floating generators, or ‘eco-rigs’, to provide power and food to Japan
Battered by soaring energy costs and aghast at dwindling fish stocks, Japanese scientists think they have found the answer: filling the seas with giant “eco-rigs” as powerful as nuclear power stations. The project, which could result in village-sized platforms peppering the Japanese coastline within a decade, reflects a growing panic in the country over how [...] continue reading world news
Massive Canada Arctic ice shelf breaks away
The northern section of Ellesmere island is seen in a 2003 photo from NASA. OTTAWA (Reuters) - A huge 19 square mile (55 square km) ice shelf in Canada’s northern Arctic broke away last month and the remaining shelves have shrunk at a “massive and disturbing” rate, the latest sign of [...] continue reading world news
US: Citrus Crops Under Siege From Unknown Bacterium
(NaturalNews) Citrus greening is blazing through the Florida citrus groves like wildfire. Scientists don’t know how long it will take to find a treatment or cure for this contagious bacterial disease. One scenario projects that within nine to ten years, all the citrus trees currently in the ground will be dead.Citrus greening, caused by a [...] continue reading world news
Mittwoch, 3. September 2008
US: Citrus Crops Under Siege From Unknown Bacterium
(NaturalNews) Citrus greening is blazing through the Florida citrus groves like wildfire. Scientists don’t know how long it will take to find a treatment or cure for this contagious bacterial disease. One scenario projects that within nine to ten years, all the citrus trees currently in the ground will be dead.Citrus greening, caused by a [...] continue reading world news
Genetically ‘improved’ oysters behind France’s shellfish plague
Genetically “improved” oysters could be behind the worst plague of the shellfish to hit France in 40 years, it has been reported.Last month farmers around France announced that they had lost between 40 and 100 per cent of their oysters aged one to two years old.According to oysters farmers cited by weekly magazine Marianne, the [...] continue reading world news
Genetically ‘improved’ oysters behind France’s shellfish plague
Genetically “improved” oysters could be behind the worst plague of the shellfish to hit France in 40 years, it has been reported.Last month farmers around France announced that they had lost between 40 and 100 per cent of their oysters aged one to two years old.According to oysters farmers cited by weekly magazine Marianne, the [...] continue reading world news
Philippines: Food Shortage Looms - Arroyo Adviser
Related article (Typhoon Fengshen):- Fishing industry suffers after ferry tragedy:“The government suspended all diving operations to recover bodies inside the vessel and banned fishing around the island on Friday after it was revealed the ferry was carrying a highly toxic pesticide.”“Should the chemicals leak into its pristine waters the impact on local marine life would [...] continue reading world news
Dienstag, 2. September 2008
Gaza: A modern concentration camp run by Israel
Related articles:- A human rights crime in Gaza by Jimmy Carter- Israeli siege leads to soaring anemia in Gaza newbornsGAZA CITY, Jul 2 (IPS) - Gaza is being forced to pump 77 tonnes of untreated or partially treated sewage out to sea daily due to the Israeli blockade of the coastal territory. The fear is [...] continue reading world news
DROUGHT-STRICKEN CYPRUS GETS WATER FROM GREECE
NICOSIA, Cyprus - A Greek tanker carrying about 1.76 million cubic feet of water arrived in the Cypriot port of Limassol on Monday to help the drought-stricken island replenish its dwindling water reserves.The tanker is the first in a fleet of ships chartered by the Cypriot government at a cost of $65 million to provide [...] continue reading world news
Why Floods Bring America To Its Knees
Related articles:- Floods may boost world food prices for years- Floods wipe out US crops- The Best Farmland in the U.S. Is Flooded; Most Americans Are Too Stupid to Panic- The Price Of Food: 2007 - 2008- The U.S. Has No Remaining Grain Reserves- Nine meals from anarchy - how Britain is facing a [...] continue reading world news
New Orleans marks Katrina, braces for Gustav
NEW ORLEANS, Aug 29 (Reuters) - New Orleans residents paused on Friday to mark the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastating blow even as they faced a possible evacuation order ahead of another potentially powerful storm.City residents, many still recovering from the destruction of Katrina, could be ordered to evacuate early on Sunday to escape [...] continue reading world news
Montag, 1. September 2008
New Orleans marks Katrina, braces for Gustav
NEW ORLEANS, Aug 29 (Reuters) - New Orleans residents paused on Friday to mark the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastating blow even as they faced a possible evacuation order ahead of another potentially powerful storm.City residents, many still recovering from the destruction of Katrina, could be ordered to evacuate early on Sunday to escape [...] continue reading world news
New Orleans Orders Mandatory Evacuation
AP changed the title to “New Orleans residents get out of Gustav’s way”__________________________________________________________________________(AFP/Matthew Hinton)NEW ORLEANS - As dawn broke Sunday over a city under siege, bumper-to-bumper traffic was reported in nearly every direction as residents heeded orders to flee an only partially rebuilt New Orleans. Police and National Guard troops were on the streets, preparing [...] continue reading world news
New Orleans Orders Mandatory Evacuation
AP changed the title to “New Orleans residents get out of Gustav’s way”__________________________________________________________________________(AFP/Matthew Hinton)NEW ORLEANS - As dawn broke Sunday over a city under siege, bumper-to-bumper traffic was reported in nearly every direction as residents heeded orders to flee an only partially rebuilt New Orleans. Police and National Guard troops were on the streets, preparing [...] continue reading world news
Gustav May Hit Gulf Platforms Harder Than Katrina
Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) — Hurricane Gustav threatens to hurt U.S. oil and natural-gas production and refining more severely than hurricanes Katrina and Rita did three years ago.Gustav, downgraded to a Category 3 storm by the National Hurricane Center in Miami this morning, may strengthen to Category 4 later today and will make landfall as a [...] continue reading world news
Sonntag, 31. August 2008
Gustav May Hit Gulf Platforms Harder Than Katrina
Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) — Hurricane Gustav threatens to hurt U.S. oil and natural-gas production and refining more severely than hurricanes Katrina and Rita did three years ago.Gustav, downgraded to a Category 3 storm by the National Hurricane Center in Miami this morning, may strengthen to Category 4 later today and will make landfall as a [...] continue reading world news
The untold story of India’s floods
Stranded people make their way through flood waters in Bihar.REUTERS/ Krishna Murari KishanThe humanitarian needs created by the worst floods in the eastern Indian state of Bihar for 50 years are outstripping government and agencies’ ability to cope, aid workers say.A week ago, the Kosi river in neighbouring Nepal burst its banks and forged [...] continue reading world news
Hurricane Gustav Near Cuba With 230 kph Winds
Men pull boat out of water as Hurricane Gustav approaches in Havana, 30 Aug 2008U.S. forecasters say Hurricane Gustav’s winds have strengthened to nearly 230 kilometers per hour as the deadly storm closes in on western Cuba.The U.S. National Hurricane Center has upgraded Gustav to a category 4 hurricane on the scale that measures a [...] continue reading world news
Hurricane Gustav Near Cuba With 230 kph Winds
Men pull boat out of water as Hurricane Gustav approaches in Havana, 30 Aug 2008U.S. forecasters say Hurricane Gustav’s winds have strengthened to nearly 230 kilometers per hour as the deadly storm closes in on western Cuba.The U.S. National Hurricane Center has upgraded Gustav to a category 4 hurricane on the scale that measures a [...] continue reading world news
Samstag, 30. August 2008
The untold story of India’s floods
Stranded people make their way through flood waters in Bihar.REUTERS/ Krishna Murari KishanThe humanitarian needs created by the worst floods in the eastern Indian state of Bihar for 50 years are outstripping government and agencies’ ability to cope, aid workers say.A week ago, the Kosi river in neighbouring Nepal burst its banks and forged [...] continue reading world news
Gaza: A modern concentration camp run by Israel
Related articles:- A human rights crime in Gaza by Jimmy Carter- Israeli siege leads to soaring anemia in Gaza newbornsGAZA CITY, Jul 2 (IPS) - Gaza is being forced to pump 77 tonnes of untreated or partially treated sewage out to sea daily due to the Israeli blockade of the coastal territory. The fear is [...] continue reading world news
Earth’s Core, Magnetic Field Changing Fast, Study Says
Rapid changes in the churning movement of Earth’s liquid outer core are weakening the magnetic field in some regions of the planet’s surface, a new study says.“What is so surprising is that rapid, almost sudden, changes take place in the Earth’s magnetic field,” said study co-author Nils Olsen, a geophysicist at the Danish National Space [...] continue reading world news
Why Floods Bring America To Its Knees
Related articles:- Floods may boost world food prices for years- Floods wipe out US crops- The Best Farmland in the U.S. Is Flooded; Most Americans Are Too Stupid to Panic- The Price Of Food: 2007 - 2008- The U.S. Has No Remaining Grain Reserves- Nine meals from anarchy - how Britain is facing a [...] continue reading world news
Freitag, 29. August 2008
Wildlife extinction rates ’seriously underestimated’
Endangered species may become extinct 100 times faster than previously thought, scientists warned today, in a bleak re-assessment of the threat to global biodiversity.Writing in the journal Nature, leading ecologists claim that methods used to predict when species will die out are seriously flawed, and dramatically underestimate the speed at which some plants and animals [...] continue reading world news
Earth’s Core, Magnetic Field Changing Fast, Study Says
Rapid changes in the churning movement of Earth’s liquid outer core are weakening the magnetic field in some regions of the planet’s surface, a new study says.“What is so surprising is that rapid, almost sudden, changes take place in the Earth’s magnetic field,” said study co-author Nils Olsen, a geophysicist at the Danish National Space [...] continue reading world news
Rat meat in demand in Cambodia as inflation bites
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The price of rat meat has quadrupled in Cambodia this year as inflation has put other meat beyond the reach of poor people, officials said on Wednesday.With consumer price inflation at 37 percent according to the latest central bank estimate, demand has pushed a kilogram of rat meat up to around [...] continue reading world news
Rat meat in demand in Cambodia as inflation bites
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The price of rat meat has quadrupled in Cambodia this year as inflation has put other meat beyond the reach of poor people, officials said on Wednesday.With consumer price inflation at 37 percent according to the latest central bank estimate, demand has pushed a kilogram of rat meat up to around [...] continue reading world news
Donnerstag, 28. August 2008
Hawaii: Volcano spews greater amount of lava than ever before
A volcano in Hawaii has begun to spew lava in greater quantities than witnessed ever before, experts have warned.The lava flow from Kilauea, which has been erupting on and off for 25 years, started on Nov 21 last year. But experts said that more lava is spilling from the volcano and into the ocean than [...] continue reading world news
Wildlife extinction rates ’seriously underestimated’
Endangered species may become extinct 100 times faster than previously thought, scientists warned today, in a bleak re-assessment of the threat to global biodiversity.Writing in the journal Nature, leading ecologists claim that methods used to predict when species will die out are seriously flawed, and dramatically underestimate the speed at which some plants and animals [...] continue reading world news
Syria tells UN: Israel burying nuclear waste in Golan Heights
Syria has complained to the United Nations about a series of alleged Israeli wrongdoings in the Golan Heights, including burying nuclear waste and discriminating against the region’s Druze residents.The complaint was made in a report Syria handed to a UN fact-finding committee comprised of Senegal, Sri Lanka and Malaysia’s ambassadors.The report came after Syria held [...] continue reading world news
Hawaii: Volcano spews greater amount of lava than ever before
A volcano in Hawaii has begun to spew lava in greater quantities than witnessed ever before, experts have warned.The lava flow from Kilauea, which has been erupting on and off for 25 years, started on Nov 21 last year. But experts said that more lava is spilling from the volcano and into the ocean than [...] continue reading world news
Mittwoch, 27. August 2008
Australia faces worse, more frequent droughts: study
PERTH (Reuters) - Australia could experience more severe droughts and they could become more frequent in the future because of climate change, a government-commissioned report said on Sunday.Droughts could hit the country twice as often as now, cover an area twice as big and be more severe in key agricultural production areas, the Bureau of [...] continue reading world news
Syria tells UN: Israel burying nuclear waste in Golan Heights
Syria has complained to the United Nations about a series of alleged Israeli wrongdoings in the Golan Heights, including burying nuclear waste and discriminating against the region’s Druze residents.The complaint was made in a report Syria handed to a UN fact-finding committee comprised of Senegal, Sri Lanka and Malaysia’s ambassadors.The report came after Syria held [...] continue reading world news
Die-off of bats mystifies experts
Biologists are stumped by a plague that has killed tens of thousands, and perhaps hundreds of thousands, of bats this year in Northeastern states.The cause of “white-nose syndrome,” so named because of the white fungus that appears on bats’ noses and wings, remains a mystery. And the plague is still killing bats, alarming scientists who [...] continue reading world news
Australia faces worse, more frequent droughts: study
PERTH (Reuters) - Australia could experience more severe droughts and they could become more frequent in the future because of climate change, a government-commissioned report said on Sunday.Droughts could hit the country twice as often as now, cover an area twice as big and be more severe in key agricultural production areas, the Bureau of [...] continue reading world news
Dienstag, 26. August 2008
Die-off of bats mystifies experts
Biologists are stumped by a plague that has killed tens of thousands, and perhaps hundreds of thousands, of bats this year in Northeastern states.The cause of “white-nose syndrome,” so named because of the white fungus that appears on bats’ noses and wings, remains a mystery. And the plague is still killing bats, alarming scientists who [...] continue reading world news
Warning over French uranium leak
Waste containing unenriched uranium has leaked into two rivers from a nuclear plant in southern France.Officials banned people in three nearby towns from fishing, using water from wells, swimming in the rivers or using river water on their crops.The accident happened at the Tricastin nuclear site at Bollene, some 40km (25 miles) from the city [...] continue reading world news
Warning over French uranium leak
Waste containing unenriched uranium has leaked into two rivers from a nuclear plant in southern France.Officials banned people in three nearby towns from fishing, using water from wells, swimming in the rivers or using river water on their crops.The accident happened at the Tricastin nuclear site at Bollene, some 40km (25 miles) from the city [...] continue reading world news
Montag, 25. August 2008
California Wildfire Destroys Homes, Thousands Evacuated
BIG SUR, Calif. - Thousands of residents north of Sacramento have been told to flee after erratic winds blew embers across wildfire containment lines, the latest setback for already strained fire crews.Authorities ordered residents of 3,200 homes in Paradise to evacuate their homes Tuesday after fire destroyed 40 houses in the nearby rural community [...] continue reading world news
Earthquake Destroyed China’s Largest Military Armory, Says Source
A high-level Chinese military source secretly disclosed last week that the recent earthquake in Sichuan Province caused a chain-reaction of explosions in the Sichuan mountain areas. The explosions destroyed Chinese army’s largest armory, new weapon test bases and part of nuclear facilities including several nuclear warheads. This information is considered China’s top military secret.After the [...] continue reading world news
Sonntag, 24. August 2008
6,700 Tons of Radioactive Debris Shipped From Kuwait to Idaho
The shipment across the ocean, unloading at Longview, Washington State port, transport by rail, and burial in Idaho endangers not only the residents of these areas but poses a significant agricultural threat through introduction of pests, microbes, etc. foreign to our nation.Doug Rokke, Ph.D. - BLN Contributing Writer(Note: Dr. Doug Rokke is the former Director [...] continue reading world news
Drought devastates Iraq’s wheat crops
Power outages disrupt irrigationBAGHDAD - It’s been a year of drought and sand storms across Iraq - a dry spell that has devastated the country’s crucial wheat crop and created new worries about the safety of drinking water.U.S. officials warn that Iraq will need to increase wheat imports sharply this winter to make up [...] continue reading world news
Samstag, 23. August 2008
China to urgently boost GM crop development
China has said it must urgently step up the development of genetically modified crops as it faces mounting challenges to feed its 1.3 billion people due to shrinking arable land and climate change.Newly-approved plans aim to cultivate high-yielding and pest-resistant genetically modified species, the State Council, or cabinet, said in a statement posted on its [...] continue reading world news
Monsanto Defeated on rBGH Animal Drug After 14 Year Battle
(NaturalNews) I recently received great news from the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) that after a long fourteen year battle between OCA, public interest and family farmer groups against Monsanto’s Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH), Monsanto has announced on August 6th that they will sell off their controversial rBGH. This is very good news since rBGH [...] continue reading world news
Freitag, 22. August 2008
Metropolitan Wastewater Ends Up In Urban Agriculture
Wastewater is most commonly used to produce vegetables and cereals (especially rice), according to this and other IWMI reports, raising concerns about health risks for consumers, particularly of vegetables that are consumed uncooked.As developing countries confront the first global food crisis since the 1970s as well as unprecedented water scarcity, a new 53-city survey [...] continue reading world news
Worsening Drought Threatens Australia’s “Food Bowl”
An agricultural region that produces over 40 percent of Australia’s fruit, vegetables, and grain is seriously threatened by the country’s ongoing drought, which has been developing into a crisis over the last decade. Scientists say that the two mighty rivers that irrigate the Murray-Darling Basin (an area the size of France and Germany combined) [...] continue reading world news
Donnerstag, 21. August 2008
Australia is suffering one of its worst droughts on record
Life is hard for wheat and livestock farmers in the south, as they face a possible third year of nearly no rain. July 12, 2008 POOCHERA, AUSTRALIA — Glen Phillips kneels down, scoops up a handful of dirt and squashes it in his fist to test whether the soil in this dry patch [...] continue reading world news
The Great Biofuels Con
According to the World Bank’s top economist, Don Mitchell, biofuels had been responsible for three-quarters of the 140 per cent rise in world food prices between 2002 and 2008. It was this that last October prompted Jean Ziegler, the UN’s “special rapporteur on the right to food”, to comment that biofuels could only bring “more [...] continue reading world news
Mittwoch, 20. August 2008
Contaminated US site faces ‘catastrophic’ nuclear leak
ONE of “the most contaminated places on Earth” will only get dirtier if the US government doesn’t get its act together - clean-up plans are already 19 years behind schedule and not due for completion until 2050.More than 210 million litres of radioactive and chemical waste are stored in 177 underground tanks at Hanford in [...] continue reading world news
Turkey: Drought Cuts Food Production in Half
“Production has been halved to 300 kilos (661 pounds) per 1,000 square meters (250 acres), even in well-irrigated parts of the region, as rainfall declined to one-fortieth of normal levels, Referans daily said on Wednesday, citing farmers and farming associations.”The government has selected 35 of its 81 provinces as eligible for financial assistance, Erdogan said. [...] continue reading world news
Dienstag, 19. August 2008
Beans may be off the menu due to fewer bumblebees
Richard Lees inspects his crop of broad beans which are not showing any signs of developing pods. A LACK of bees may be blamed for the failure of bean crops in Selkirk gardens, writes Sally Gillespie. Although gardener Richard Lees of The Loan has not yet given up on his broad beans, he says the [...] continue reading world news
Drought threatens drinking water for a million Australians
SYDNEY (AFP) - Up to a million people in Australia could face a shortage of drinking water if the country’s drought continues, a report on the state of the nation’s largest river system revealed Sunday.The report said the situation was critical in the Murray-Darling system, which provides water to Australia’s “food bowl”, a vast [...] continue reading world news
Montag, 18. August 2008
Top 25 Things Vanishing From America: No.1 The Family Farm
Here you will find all Top 25 Things Vanishing From America.This series explores aspects of America that may soon be just a memory — some to be missed, some gladly left behind. From the least impactful to the most, here are 25 bits of vanishing America.1. The Family FarmMy mother grew up on her family’s [...] continue reading world news
Haiti: Mud cakes become staple diet as cost of food soars beyond a family’s reach
With little cash and import prices rocketing half the population faces starvationIn Cité Soleil, one of Port-au-Prince’s worst slums, making the clay-based food is a major income earner. Mud cakes are the only inflation-proof food available to Haiti’s poor. Photograph: David LeveneAt first sight the business resembles a thriving pottery. In a dusty courtyard women [...] continue reading world news
Sonntag, 17. August 2008
Cloned Beef Has Already Entered U.S. Food Supply, Even Before FDA Nod
(NaturalNews) The major cattle cloning companies in the United States have admitted that they have not bothered to try and keep meat from the offspring of clones out of the U.S. food supply, in spite of a request by the FDA several years ago.“This is a fairy tale that this technology is not being used [...] continue reading world news
Rising food prices pushing east Africa to disaster
More than 14 million people in the east Africa region require urgent food aid due to drought and spiralling cereal and fuel prices, aid agencies say.In an emergency appeal launched today, Oxfam warns that millions of people in Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Djibouti and Kenya are fast being pushed “towards severe hunger and destitution”. Earlier this [...] continue reading world news
Samstag, 16. August 2008
Children have lost touch with nature
Children are just imitating their parents and society.“Not all who wander are lost” (J. R. R. Tolkien), but those who have lost contact with nature are truly lost.________________________________________________________________________________Children have lost touch with the natural world and are unable to identify common animals and plants, according to a survey.Half of youngsters aged nine to 11 were [...] continue reading world news
Berkeley Scientists: Mass Extinction of Species
Scientists: Humans To BlameDevastating declines of amphibian species around the world are a sign of a biodiversity disaster larger than just the deaths of frogs and salamanders, University of California, Berkeley scientists said Tuesday.Researchers said substantial die-offs of amphibians and other plant and animal species add up to a new mass extinction facing the planet, [...] continue reading world news
Freitag, 15. August 2008
Prince Charles warns GM crops risk causing the biggest-ever environmental disaster
Listen: The Prince of Wales speaks outThe mass development of genetically modified crops risks causing the world’s worst environmental disaster, The Prince of Wales has warned.In his most outspoken intervention on the issue of GM food, the Prince said that multi-national companies were conducting an experiment with nature which had gone “seriously wrong”.The Prince, [...] continue reading world news
Coastal Water Study: ‘Dead Zones’ Multiplying Fast
A global map of “dead zones”—where coastal waters contain too little oxygen to sustain life—shows (as black dots) a concentration in the Northern Hemisphere, where human activity has had the most effect.As of August 2008, there were more than 400 known “dead zones,” scientists said, up from just over 300 in the 1990s. Image courtesy [...] continue reading world news
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