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GM Crops Increase Pesticide Use
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GM Crops Increase Pesticide Use On the eve of the decision on field trial of GE Onions in New Zealand more proof has emerged of increased use of sprays with GE crops rather than the claimed reduction. Dr. Charles
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Benbrook, concludes that the 550 million acres of GM corn, soybeans and cotton planted in the US since 1996 has increased pesticide use (herbicides and insecticides) by about 50 million pounds. full story
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Eight Greenpeace Activists Arrested
in Finnish Nuclear Protest
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Eight activists from the environmental group Greenpeace were arrested in Helsinki during a protest against the planned construction of a new Finnish nuclear reactor, Greenpeace said. A group of 35 activists from nine
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countries, dressed as Christmas gnomes, protested inside and outside the offices of power consortium Teollisuuden Voima (TVO), which is to build the plant. full story
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Outlook: Punish Dumpers of
Toxic Waste Severely
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Two recent incidents of illegal dumping of toxic waste in Selangor and other unidentified ones elsewhere, are far too serious to be taken lightly. The illegal dumping of 500 drums of toxic waste in Ijok
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followed by another 50 drums of poison in a residential area of Kelana Jaya were in violation of environmental laws. full story
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GloFish Creator Hopes Biotech Pets Will Become Ambassadors For GM Products
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The Singaporean creator of a new breed of glowing fish said Wednesday he hopes the creatures, which were approved this week for sale in the United States, will help reduce fears over genetically
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modified products. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that it won't regulate the naturally black and silver zebra fish, which have been modified to become fluorescent red, green and orange. full story
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Scientists Find Evidence That Prehistoric Human activity Affected Global Climate
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Measurements of ancient air bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice offered evidence that humans have been changing the global climate since thousands of years before the industrial revolution. Beginning 8,000
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years ago, atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide began to rise as humans started clearing forests, planting crops and raising livestock, a scientist said Tuesday. Methane levels started increasing 3,000 years later. full story
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Global Warming Threatens To
Cool Off Western Europe
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If the ice cap in Greenland and the Arctic continues to melt at its current rate, Europe's temperatures would take a sharp dip after five or more decades of increasingly warm weather. That turnaround could spell
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trouble for regions that by then will have adapted to more tropical conditions, experts said on Friday at a UN climate change conference. full story
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Oil Spillage: Court Awards
1.4 Billion Against Mobil
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The Federal High Court in Lagos has awarded 1.4 billion to three communities in Bayelsa and Rivers States, as ecological damages, resulted from the 1998 Crude oil spillage from Mobil Nigeria Limited's
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pipeline in Akwa-Ibom State. The spillage spread and polluted the entire communities full story
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Hungry Thai Elephants Raid Plantations
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Hungry elephants have gone on the rampage in eastern Thailand, ransacking villagers' plantations and forcing sugarcane trucks to stop so they can raid their goods, a report said on Sunday. He told the
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newspaper of incidents where the leader of the herd had stood in the road to block the vehicle while the others unloaded the produce with their trunks. full story
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US Experts: No Doubt
Global Warming Is Real
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There can be no doubt that global warming is real and is being caused by people, two top US Government climate experts said. They say industrial emissions are a leading cause, contradicting critics who
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argue that climate change could be caused by mostly natural forces. "The likely result is more frequent heat waves, droughts, extreme precipitation events, and related impacts, eg, bushfires, heat stress, vegetation changes, and sea-level rise," they added in a commentary to be published in Friday's issue of the journal Science. full story
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Great Barrier Reef Protection
To Increase Sevenfold
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One-third of the Great Barrier Reef - an area almost the size of Japan - is to be turned into a protected area under conservation plans announced yesterday by the Australian government. The proposals will add
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nearly 40,000 sq miles, seven times the area currently protected, to the safeguarded region of the reef in which fishing is banned and only tourism is permitted. full story
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Pact To Save Half Of Canada Forest
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More than half of Canada's vast northern forest, about 1 million square miles in all, would be exempt from logging and other industrial development under an agreement announced Monday by a coalition of
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native tribes, environmentalists and businesses. The agreement, if adopted by the national and local governments, is aimed at protecting a largely pristine evergreen expanse that has large populations of bears, wolves, caribou and other species along with hundreds of native communities. full story
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