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Gunmen kill environmental activist in Brazil
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 23rd, 2011
Associated Press: Police in Brazil say gunmen have killed an environmental activist, his brother and three friends.
The bodies of Jorge Grando, the former head of the environmental protection agency for the city of Pinhais in southern Brazil, and the four others were found inside a house. Their hands were tied behind their backs and each had several bullet wounds in their heads.
Police are seeking two suspects in the "execution-style" killings that took place late Friday.
Authorites said Saturday that while...
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Conservation of traditional waterways highlighted
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 23rd, 2011
Times of India: MARGAO: A panel discussion "Confronting reality: Climate and human-induced issues facing Goa" organized by Goa Chitra ethnographic museum, Benaulim, recently, saw speakers expressing concerns over rising sea levels, changing biodiversity in the Arabian Sea, underscoring the need for conserving traditional waterways, besides dwelling on other environmental issues.
Geologist and former Aldona comunidade president Hector Fernandes delivered a talk on the gaunkari system of land management as practiced...
Energy use is up in the state, report shows
Posted by CT Post: None Given on April 23rd, 2011
CT Post: Animals from tropical waters have been showing up in Connecticut waterways and cold-loving creatures, like lobsters, are becoming more scarce. Invasive plants and animals continue to encroach the state's lakes, ponds and woodlots, according to the 2010 annual environmental report compiled by the state Council of Environmental Quality, which was released Thursday.
Although the state of the air, water and wildlife in Connecticut has held mostly constant according to "Environmental Quality in Connecticut,"...
Fires burn Texas from ‘stem to stern.’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 23rd, 2011
LA Times: Ranchers flung open gates in hopes their livestock could escape fast-moving flames. One family watched in horror as two of their horses caught fire and galloped away. Homes, barns, oil field pump jacks and thousands of acres of rangeland are now blackened.
Such were the scenes in drought-plagued west Texas, where the mammoth Rock House fire has raged for two weeks, part of a complex of more than a dozen fires stretching across a swath cut by the Pecos River.
No part of Texas has been spared....
Climate change threatening China’s water resources
Posted by Newstrack India: None Given on April 23rd, 2011
Newstrack India: Climate change is having an adverse impact on China's water resources, said the country's water resources minister.
Chen Lei's comments came during a meeting on climate change where he pointed out that global warming has become an important environmental issue, with water being one of the sectors most directly affected.
"China faces an imbalance between the supply and demand of water to support its rapid social and economic development, while protecting the natural environment and ecosystems,"...
Record number of endangered whales expected off Cape Cod
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 23rd, 2011
Reuters: Researchers in Massachusetts say they are on track to spot a record number of endangered right whales in Cape Cod Bay and nearby waters.
So far this season, which stretches from January through mid-May, more than 200 right whales have been sighted, accounting for nearly half of the known species population.
The total thus far is the same number tracked during the entire 2010 season, said Laura Ganley, flight coordinator for the right whale studies program at the Provincetown Center for Coastal...
Cooler, wet weather gives Texas firefighters a break
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 23rd, 2011
Reuters: Improved weather conditions allowed Texas firefighters to mount an offensive overnight against wildfires that have charred more than 1.8 million acres across the state and killed two responders this year, officials said on Friday.
With diminished wind speeds and increased moisture in the air, as well as modest rainfall, the roughly 1,800 firefighters contained nine wildfires overnight and waged battle against the remaining fires that still spans 600,000 acres.
"When conditions turn like that...
RELEASE: Earth Day 2011: Peace with Earth Day
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on April 23rd, 2011
Re-Declaration of Planetary Ecological Emergency by Ecological Internet
From Earth's Newsdesk and New Earth Rising, projects of Ecological Internet (EI)
Contact: Dr. Glen Barry, President, Ecological Internet glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org
A year ago today Ecological Internet (EI) during Earth Day 2010 declared a planetary ecological emergency. After the past years Gulf oil spill, multiple nuclear meltdowns and unaddressed abrupt climate change escalates; it is eminently evident that Earths ecosystems are crashing. On Earth Day 2011, EI reiterates call for an immediate and escalating peoples power Earth Revolution on behalf of Earth, all her life, and the human family. And for the entire human family to find a way each and every to get out and plant organic Earth victory gardens, and protect and restore ecosystems.
Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internets President, says The human family faces the imminent collapse of the biosphere the thin layer of life organized into ecosystems, upon an otherwise lifeless planet that makes Earth habitable. As noted a year ago today, human pressures on Earth Systems life-support systems continue at such a dramatic scale that they are causing global ecosystems to collapse. Escalating people power revolutionary action may be the only adequate measures that exist to stop abrupt ...