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Archive for the Month of November, 2005.
Viewing Environment NEWS articles 1 through 25 of 25.
- ...the United States is the number one producer of garbage on the planet; with just 5 percent of the global population we generate 30 percent of the world's trash. The average American throws away a staggering 4.5 pounds of rubbish daily -- that's 1,600 pounds each year... - Forty-three years ago, Rachel Carson became the unlikely founder of the radical ecology movement. Her message is even more powerful today. - The impact on vegetation and landscapes would transform large areas of the earth. - African lakes are among the worst affected, with satellite images unveiled on Monday showing dramatic differences between the extent of some lakes and rivers today and their extent a few decades ago. Lake Chad has shrunk by almost 90 per cent...
- Citing scientific research which it had commissioned, it said an estimated two kilogrammes of cocaine, or 80,000 lines, spill into the river every day after it has passed through users' bodies and sewage treatment plants.
- Global greenhouse gas emissions will rise by 52% by 2030, unless the world takes action to reduce energy consumption, a study has warned.
- They're everywhere -- in the food we eat, in the cosmetics we use, in the houses where we live. Is there an alternative?
- Disappearance of plankton causes unprecedented collapse in sea and bird life off western US coast.
- The world's forests are still being destroyed at an alarming rate despite a slowing down in the net rate of forest loss because of new planting and natural growth, a UN agency says.
- Unprecedented mass movement defines our global age. But increasingly, among the displaced is a population whose status only in recent years has gained some legitimacy: environmental refugees. It categorizes people who suffer from a wide spectrum of environmental disasters, man-made or natural. Their homes have become inhabitable, veritable wastelands.
- America's lawn-care industry is fighting hard to make sure the nation's lawns are awash in synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. - Most Victims Are Poor, Study Says
- Las Vegas residents are increasingly noticing the appearance of chemical trails overhead. They appear EVERY weekend without fail, the only exception being the two weeks after September 11, 2001.
- Activists have occupyied a development along Spain's Andalusian coastline claiming the construction is illegal and environmentally destructive.
- For sale cheap: 270 million acres of national forest and public land. It could happen under a budget bill being debated in Congress. - Now scientists say it is vanishing far faster than even they expected.
- Life is harsh on the freezing tundra of the Arctic Circle where Anna Prakhova lives. But it can be much harder when snows do not fall.
- The World Bank recognizes the countless social and environmental problems caused by dams, but won't let them get in the way of building more and more dams.
- Our grimy great lakes: The dirty secrets of the Canadian shipping industry’s cleanup practices.
- Global warming is doubling the rate of sea level rise around the world, but attempts to stop it by cutting back on greenhouse gas emissions are likely to be futile, leading researchers will warn today.
- Virtually alone among nations, the United States -- by far the worst polluter on the face of this green and smoggy planet—refuses to acknowledge the existence of a greenhouse threat -- let alone address it. The world burns, the barons steal, and America plays its public relations fiddle.
- The global hunger for oil is fuelling a new gold rush.
- Other nations watch as the United States keeps permitting wide use of methyl bromide for tomatoes, strawberries, peppers, Christmas trees and other crops, even though the U.S. signed an international treaty banning all but the most critical uses by 2005.
- Climate change can be likened in its destructive scale to the effects of using weapons of mass destruction, according to Britain's leading scientist.
- The United States came under renewed criticism Tuesday as thousands of environmentalists and international officials hammered out rules for a global treaty to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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