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3 S.American nations promise to halt deforestation

AP News 18 days ago

Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil team up to protect Atlantic Forest, halt deforestation Three South American nations announced a joint plan Tuesday to establish protected zones in the vast Atlantic Forest as part of an effort to halt deforestation by 2020. Speaking at the ...

World needs low carbon revolution by 2014: report

Reuters Environmental Online Report 20 days ago

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The world has five years to start a "low carbon industrial revolution" before runaway climate change becomes almost inevitable, a new report commissioned by global conservation group WWF said on Monday. Beyond 2014, the upper limits of industrial growth ...

Warming threatens Canada's rivers and lakes: WWF

AFP Global Edition 23 days ago

Canadian rivers are at risk from a variety of environmental challenges, including global warming, expanding agriculture, the construction of hydro-electric dams and increased urban consumption of water, a study said Thursday. Although Canada holds the world's largest freshwater reserves in thousands of ...

Explorers: North Pole summers ice free in 10 years

AP News 24 days ago

British explorers say within a decade North Pole summers will be virtually ice free The North Pole will turn into an open sea during summer within a decade, according to data released Wednesday by a team of explorers who trekked through the ...

Malaysian officials save endangered Malayan tiger

AFP Global Edition 34 days ago

Malaysian wildlife authorities rescued a five-year old Malayan tiger, badly injured in a snare set up by poachers near the country's jungle border with Thailand, officials said Monday. "We received a tip-off on Saturday and a joint patrol with the World Wildlife ...

World needs "CO2 budget" to limit warming: WWF

Reuters Environmental Online Report 36 days ago

BANGKOK (Reuters) - The world is in danger of spending its "carbon budget" by about 2025 and risks temperatures rising beyond 2 degrees Celsius unless nations adopt a flexible carbon accounting system, conservation group WWF says in a report. The report by ...

Climate change to cost poor states $100 billion a year

Reuters Environmental Online Report 39 days ago

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Developing countries will need to spend as much as $100 billion annually for the next 40 years to adapt to more extreme and severe weather changes, according to a World Bank study issued on Wednesday. The report said poorer ...

Climate pact must include forest scheme: WWF

AFP Global Edition 39 days ago

A leading environmental group on Tuesday urged delegates at UN climate talks in Bangkok to include plans to reward nations for saving their forests in any deal on global warming. WWF International released a survey saying that investors showed "significant support" for ...

Dutch fishermen say eel ban 'endangers' them

AFP Global Edition 40 days ago

A delicacy in the Netherlands where it is eaten smoked on bread, the endangered eel gets a short reprieve as of Thursday when domestic catches will be banned for 60 days in a move fishermen say threatens their survival. The ban, aiming ...

Dutch fishermen say eel ban puts 'endangers' them

AFP Global Edition 40 days ago

A delicacy in the Netherlands where it is eaten smoked on bread, the endangered eel gets a short reprieve as of Thursday when domestic catches will be banned for 60 days in a move fishermen say threatens their survival. The ban, aiming ...

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