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SciDev.net, 2011-12-20
Trees throughout Africa's Sahel region — vital to peoples' livelihoods — are dying as a result of long-term drought linked to climate change, according to a study.
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Inter Press Service News Agency, 2011-12-20
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Dec 20, 2011 (IPS) - Duduzile Sibanda takes a break from preparing her long stretch of land for her maize crop in rural Mberengwa, in Zimbabwe’s Midlands province. She wipes her brow under the scorching sun and looks upwards. The sparse clouds are a cause of concern as she studies the sky and wonders aloud when the "heavens will weep."
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Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), 2011-12-20
DAIRY farmers will be slugged hard by the carbon tax in the short term, with many expected to pay more than $4000 a year in lost revenue and higher electricity costs for the next few years, a government report has found.
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Science Daily, 2011-12-20
ScienceDaily (Dec. 19, 2011) — When a plant encounters drought, it does its best to cope with this stress by activating a set of protein molecules called receptors. These receptors, once activated, turn on processes that help the plant survive the stress.
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Associated Press, 2011-12-20
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City will close one of the world's largest garbage dumps by Dec. 31 and will instead turn the garbage from millions of people into reusable materials and energy, Mayor Marcelo Ebrard announced Monday.
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Guardian (UK), 2011-12-20
Poisonous metal released as a vapour by burning fuel, then falls back to Earth and gets absorbed by the aquatic ecosystem
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The Hindu, 2011-12-20
Scientists at the Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (JNTBGRI) at Palode near here are racing against time to save a rare type of wild black pepper from being wiped out of existence.
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Mongabay.com, 2011-12-20
News about the Penan people is usually bleak. Once nomadic hunter-gatherers of the Malaysian state of Sarawak on Borneo, the indigenous Penan have suffered decades of widespread destruction of their forests and an erosion of their traditional culture.
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Guardian (UK), 2011-12-20
Many species of butterfly and moth have appeared at unusual times this year, annual butterfly count figures show
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TIME, 2011-12-20
Conservation is one of the environmental movement's greatest successes — a bit of a trick because it's also one of its greatest failures.
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National Geographic, 2011-12-19
America's corn belt overlaps with its central "wind belt"—a wide swath of the midsection of the United States that is ideal for wind energy development-an intersection that could be good news for corn, new research suggests.
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BBC News, 2011-12-19
The UN has co-produced a study that lists scientific details of Amazon plant species that can be harvested for economic or medicinal purposes.
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New Scientist, 2011-12-16
Climate change is affecting plants' seasonal activities more strongly than biological experiments suggest. The finding suggests that such studies may have to be reworked to get a better picture of the effects of global warming.
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New Scientist, 2011-12-16
Suggestions that we can dump large amounts of alkaline chemicals into the oceans to prevent their acidification seems dead in the water. A study shows it would cost trillions of dollars.
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Bloomberg.com, 2011-12-16
Germany’s driest November has shrunk Europe’s rivers, creating monthlong delays for oil- and ore- carrying barges while uncovering the continent’s deadly past.
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National Geographic, 2011-12-16
How's this for a sweet surprise: Two new species of frog—each smaller than an M&M;—have been discovered in Papua New Guinea, a new study says.
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Guardian (UK), 2011-12-16
Biologist Roger Payne played a key role in helping end the wholesale slaughter of whales. In this interview, he talks about the threats they continue to face
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EurekAlert, 2011-12-16
Recommendations target social, cultural, technical, policy, legal, economic components to promote data sharing
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New Scientist, 2011-12-16
Meet the Amazon river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), also known as the boto, or, if you believe Amazonian folklore, dad. Legend has it that the dolphin can transform itself into a handsome young man, who is a willing dance and conversation partner for village women.
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SciDev.net, 2011-12-16
SciDev.Net speaks to UN Environment Programme executive director Achim Steiner at the Eye on Earth Summit (12-15 December) about next year's Rio+20.
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Guardian (UK), 2011-12-16
Agreements to bail out banks happen in days – but despite some good progress at Durban, we still don't have a legally binding deal to bail out the planet
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SciDev.net, 2011-12-15
[BENIN] Average temperatures across the Sahel have risen by around one degree Celsius over the past 40 years, according to a study identifying potential climate 'hotspots' in the region.
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Inter Press Service News Agency, 2011-12-15
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, Dec 15, 2011 (IPS) - Global warming will melt far less of the glaciers of Central Asia than of those in other mountain ranges, shielding the people who depend on them for water from the effects of climate change for several decades at least, scientists say.
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New Scientist, 2011-12-15
This year's British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey comes complete with gloomy headlines on public opinion about climate change.
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CTV.ca, 2011-12-15
TORONTO — They're etched onto our coins, are part of our national identity and lure tourists to the Arctic every year, but the majestic Canadian polar bear could pose a significant risk to northern communities if climate change continues to wreak havoc on its natural habitat.
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Ottawa Citizen (Canada), 2011-12-15
Climate engineering seems to promise a climate quick fix, but we shouldn't be experimenting on our only home, writes Sheril Kirshenbaum
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National Geographic, 2011-12-15
It has been a bad year for rhinos in South Africa. Many more got killed than in 2010, the 333 toll of which was described with words like “shocking” and “outrageous”. Most thought it couldn’t get worse.
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EurekAlert, 2011-12-15
Scientists are about to make publicly available all the data they have so far on the genetic blueprint of medicinal plants and what beneficial properties are encoded by the genes identified
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Science Daily, 2011-12-15
ScienceDaily (Dec. 13, 2011) — A team of WCS conservationists has reported that a young male elephant seal tracked for the past year swam an astonishing 18,000 miles -- the equivalent of New York to Sydney, Australia -- and back again.
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Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), 2011-12-15
The governments of Australia, the United States, New Zealand and the Netherlands have released a joint statement saying they are "disappointed" over the start of Japan's annual whale hunt off Antarctica.
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