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United Kingdom: ‘Farms’ plan to save threatened wild salmon stocks
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 3rd, 2010
Scotsman: WILD Atlantic salmon "farms" are being set up in northern Scotland to help save the King of Fish from the effects of global warming on their breeding grounds. Experts fear that climate change is leading to a rise in severe winter river spates which are washing away the gravel beds - redds - in which salmon and sea trout lay eggs and wrecking the efforts of conservationists to restore the country's wild stocks. Fisheries are now introducing breeding programmes in which wild salmon are ...
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Malaria threatens 2 million in Pakistan as floodwaters turn stagnant
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 3rd, 2010
Guardian: More than 2m cases of malaria are expected in Pakistan in the coming months in the wake of the country's devastating floods, aid workers have warned. Two months into the crisis, large areas remain submerged in southern Sindh province, creating stagnant pools of standing water that, combined with the heat, are powerful incubators of a disease spread by mosquitoes that breed and hatch in the pools. More than 250,000 cases of suspected malaria, including some of the fatal ...
Australia: Climate change challenge for rich and poor
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 3rd, 2010
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: With business leaders and the Australian Government finally acknowledging the need to put a price on carbon, climate change is back on the agenda here in Australia and it's also on the agenda this week internationally. Representatives from countries around the world, including Australia, are assembling in Tianjin, China, as part of a crucially important United Nations Climate Change Conference that starts today. After last year's Copenhagen talks nearly collapsed, the next chance for ...
Forest levels booming as UK woodland returns to highest level in more than 250 years
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 3rd, 2010
Telegraph: The amount of woodland in the UK now stands at 11,200 miles, 11.8 per cent of the total land area. The growth, attributed in part to a boom in individuals branching out into forestry because of tax breaks, was greeted with cautious optimism by woodland historians. So much new forest is being planted that some areas could even reach the 15 per cent of woodland recorded in England by the Doomsday Book in 1086, the figures suggest. But experts warned that Britain still had ...
Canada: Eyes of the world are watching Alberta
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 3rd, 2010
Edmonton Journal: The day Hollywood heavyweight James Cameron came to Alberta for his oilsands tour, members of the European Parliament also had Alberta's resource on their agenda. MPs in Brussels were debating a motion to classify the oilsands as a high-emissions fuel in the EU's fuel quality directive that promotes use of greener energy. Ten days earlier, a new photo exhibit, called Tarnished Earth, opened on the banks of the Thames in London, showing the massive open-pit mines, tailings ponds ...
At least 50 forest activists held in capital
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 3rd, 2010
Himalayan: Police held at least 50 activists from Federation of Community Forest Users Nepal (FECOFUN), the umbrella body of community forest users, after they tried to padlock the office of the Department of Forest to protest the government move to amend the Nepal Forest Act 2049, on Sunday morning. The protesters had reached the Depart of Forest at Babarmahal before office hours this morning. The police had to intervene after the protesters forcefully tried to padlock the office, said DSP ...
Is an oilsands truce possible?
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 3rd, 2010
Edmonton Journal: Over the last two years, forestry executive A-vrim Lazar found himself in an uncomfort a-ble place, sitting across the table from long time arch-foes Greenpeace, the David Suzuki Foundation, and Friends of the Earth. Both sides had agreed to find "a quiet place" out of the public eye for this unusual bout of meetings, says Lazar, to avoid the temptation to score points in the media. The small group, five big players in the fore -stry industry and five environmental lead ers, ...