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

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

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

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

The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes

She addressed a UN Meeting on issue of environment:Source: YouTube continue reading world news

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Greening the Desert

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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