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  • ENVIRONMENT: Around the Globe, Farmers Losing Ground by Lester R. Brown
    8 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    ENVIRONMENT: Around the Globe, Farmers Losing Ground Analysis by Lester R. Brown*
    WASHINGTON, Jun 27 (IPS) - In 1938, Walter Lowdermilk, a senior official in the Soil Conservation Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, traveled abroad to look at lands that had been cultivated for thousands of years, seeking to learn how these older civilisations had coped with soil erosion.
    He found that some had managed their land well, maintaining its fertility over long stretches of history, (…)

  • Small Nuclear War Would Cause Global Environmental Catastrophe (LiveScience)
    6 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Small Nuclear War Would Cause Global Environmental Catastrophe
    By Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Staff Writer
    SAN FRANCISCO-A small-scale, regional nuclear war could disrupt the global climate for a decade or more, with environmental effects that could be devastating for everyone on Earth, researchers have concluded.
    The scientists said about 40 countries possess enough plutonium or uranium to construct substantial nuclear arsenals. Setting off a Hiroshima-size weapon could cause as many (…)

  • Toward a New Environmental Movement Time to kick out the corporate bastards By Jeffrey St. Clair
    6 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Toward a New Environmental Movement Time to kick out the corporate bastards By Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank Published: Thursday July 5th, 2007
    The environmental movement is on life support. Some would say it is already dead. Even though climate change and Al Gore are fast becoming the conversation du jour around the American dinner table, it also happens to be the rallying cry for do-gooder conservationists and corporations alike.
    Call it the eco-economy. Virtually all major (…)

  • Western consumption may cause famines
    6 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Western consumption may cause famines By Anita Purcell-Sjoelund in Sweden
    July 01, 2007 11:06pm
    FOOD production in developing countries will halve in the next 20 years unless wealthy nations lower their rate of consumption, a research group has warned.
    The livelihoods of more than three billion people in the world are being undermined by the wealth of the privileged few, said the director of the Stockholm Environment Institute, Johan Rockstroem.
    "The risk is that we might halve... (…)

  • Global Warming: A Sudden Change of State by George Monbiot (The Guardian/UK)
    6 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Tuesday, July 3, 2007 by The Guardian/UK
    Global Warming: A Sudden Change of State
    by George Monbiot
    Reading a scientific paper on the train this weekend, I found, to my amazement, that my hands were shaking. This has never happened to me before, but nor have I ever read anything like it. Published by a team led by James Hansen at NASA, it suggests that the grim reports issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change could be absurdly optimistic(1).
    The IPCC (…)

  • BIODIVERSITY : Critics Say Species List is Endangered
    6 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Thursday, July 5, 2007 by the Los Angeles Times
    Critics Say Species List is Endangered
    by Margaret Roosevelt
    The bald eagle may be soaring back from near-extinction, but hundreds of other imperiled species are foundering, as the federal agency charged with protecting them has sunk into legal, bureaucratic and political turmoil.
    In the last six years, the Bush administration has added fewer species to the endangered list than any other since the law was enacted in 1973. (…)

  • Body absorbs 5lb of make-up chemicals a year
    23 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Body absorbs 5lb of make-up chemicals a year
    Women who use make-up on a daily basis are absorbing almost 5lb of chemicals a year into their bodies, it is claimed. Out-of-date lipstick may be a hothouse for bacteria
    Many use more than 20 different beauty products a day striving to look their best while nine out of 10 apply make-up which is past its use by date.
    Dependence on cosmetics and toiletries means that a cocktail of 4lb 6oz of chemicals a year is absorbed into the body through (…)

  • China to Force Rain Ahead of Olympics By Associated Press
    22 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    China to Force Rain Ahead of Olympics By Associated Press 1:36 PM PDT, April 25, 2007
    BEIJING — Chance of showers during the 2008 Beijing Olympics: 50 percent. But Chinese meteorologists have a plan to bring sunshine. The meteorologists say they can force rain in the days before the Olympics, through a process known as cloud-seeding, to clean the air and ensure clear skies. China has been tinkering with artificial rainmaking for decades, but whether it works is a matter of debate among (…)

  • LATIN AMERICA : Texaco’s Toxic Legacy In Ecuador (COMMONDREAMS)
    16 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Texaco’s Toxic Legacy In Ecuador by César Chelala and Alejandro M. Garro June 14, 2007
    It can be considered one of the most unequal battles in the world today. It pits a group of indigenous people in Ecuador, almost totally devoid of material resources, against one of the most powerful oil corporations in the world. The outcome of this battle will impact them for the rest of their lives.
    From 1964 to 1992, Texaco (which later merged with Chevron and is now called Chevron) carried out oil (…)

  • The wrath of 2007: America’s great drought By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The wrath of 2007: America’s great drought By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles Published: 11 June 2007
    America is facing its worst summer drought since the Dust Bowl years of the Great Depression. Or perhaps worse still.
    From the mountains and desert of the West, now into an eighth consecutive dry year, to the wheat farms of Alabama, where crops are failing because of rainfall levels 12 inches lower than usual, to the vast soupy expanse of Lake Okeechobee in southern Florida, which has (…)