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- Climate
pushing lemmings to cliff
- Climate
change. Wild Weather Odyssey
A new simple-to-use global index reveals the true extent of climate
change over the next century. It is the first to map how global warming
will combine with natural variations in climate to affect the planet,
giving policy-makers a quick overview of the scientific facts while
enabling them to compare the severity of extreme predicted climate
events such as heat-waves or floods.
2004.
- Lowland gorilla numbers plummet BBC
- Scientists have obtained amazing images of penguins interacting
with each other underwater by strapping miniature cameras to the flightless
birds' backs. BBC
Bison
have nowhere left to roam
- 2003 summer hottest in 500 years (BBC)
The scorching heatwave in Europe made last summer the hottest in five
centuries, a study says.
- Trace arsenic in water raises cancer risk
(New
Scientist)
Trace levels of arsenic in drinking water increase a person's risk
of developing cancer, according to a report from the prestigious US
National Academy of Sciences. "Even very low concentrations appear
to be associated with a higher incidence of cancer," says Robert Goyer,
professor of pathology at the University of Western Ontario, who chaired
the NAS investigating committee
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Kyoto begins at home
Family values could help cut greenhouse gases.
22 August 2001
Protocol dictates: creating a backyard carbon sink. © Photodisc Although
the US government refuses to endorse the Kyoto protocol, people could
sign up to the treaty at an individual level, a UK environmental scientist
suggests.
Full text: http://www.nature.com/nsu/010823/010823-9.html
- US Navy sonar experiments
and dolphins
- Can organic waste become
the nation's next big power source?
- Conservation
isn't all doom and gloom: Conservation
successes are more common than people think. Many species are on the
road to recovery. In the US, the bald eagle and the relict trillium
are no longer declining. Better still, the brown pelican and the Mississippi
alligator might no longer need the protection of the US Endangered
Species Act. In Europe, the ibex has been successfully reintroduced
in the Alps. Sparrowhawks and goshawks have recovered in many parts
of the world after the banning of certain pesticides.
- Rotting
vegetation in hydroelectric dams stokes global warming
- International Conference
on Transboundary Environmental Issues in Central and Eastern Europe
- Amphibian decline
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