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Water in the 21st Century

Posted by amir on Wednesday, 29 February 2012 in Water Conservation

Emerging Global Water IssuesThe Looming Water Crisis Earth is the blue planet with water one of the most plentiful natural substances in its environment. There is more than 1.4 billion cubic kilometers (km3) of the stuff-enough to give every man, woman, and child more than 230 million cubic meters ...

The Era of Cheap Water is Over

Posted by amir on Friday, 27 January 2012 in Water Conservation

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) today launched the Water Tight 2012 report, which explores the future of the global water sector in the year ahead. The report examines how major global trends such as population growth, increasing economic development, and urbanization, coupled with the...

The crisis of global warming

Posted by amir on Wednesday, 25 January 2012 in Climate Change

Last Thursday, the Express ran the first in a series of columns submitted by Fishermen and Friends of the Sea (FFOS). This is the second column in the series. These articles seek to highlight not just local environmental issues, but those which affect the population on a global scale. ...

Saving the rainforest with a Stethoscope

Posted by amir on Thursday, 19 January 2012 in Human Health

BOGOR, Indonesia (18 January, 2011)_ Improving the health of local women in forest communities may provide powerful incentives for them to contribute to conservation efforts, says a recent study by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). However, minimal availability of he...

Smuggling elephants to get money to pay for identity cards.

Posted by amir on Thursday, 19 January 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

The chief of Phetchaburi's Kaeng Krachan district denied yesterday there was any need for Karen people to bribe officials, after a senior official's comment that Karen poachers were trying to smuggle elephants to get money to pay for identity cards. Sutthipong Tanboonyasiridech di...

CO2 threatens fish's very survival in oceans

Posted by amir on Monday, 16 January 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Can you imagine seas and oceans completely bereft of colourful fish? The possibility may not be all that far-fetched, thanks to rising carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. By the end of the century, CO2 concentrations in seas will interfere with fish's ability to hear, smell, turn and evade predators, sa...

Too Green to Be True

Posted by amir on Thursday, 12 January 2012 in Wind

Renewable energy sources could allow for a prudent decrease in CO2 emissions while still powering a populous, electrified global economy. On The Pump Handle, Mark Pendergrast examines the proverbial canary in the coal mine, Japan. Wary of imported fossil fuels and burned by nuclear disaster, Japan i...

BP Accuses Halliburton of destroying evidence

Posted by amir on Tuesday, 06 December 2011 in Oil Spill

BP in a high-stakes court filing on Monday accused Halliburton of destroying damaging evidence about the quality of its cement slurry that went into drilling the oil well that blew out last year and caused the worst U.S. offshore oil spill. BP accused Halliburton of having intentionally des...

South Africa Could See Enormous Climate Change Cost

Posted by amir on Friday, 25 November 2011 in Climate Change

JOHANNESBURG — Imagine the savannas of South Africa's flagship Kruger Park so choked with brush, viewing what game is left is nearly impossible. The Cape of Good Hope without penguins. The Karoo desert's seasonal symphony of wildflowers silenced. Climate change could mean unthinkable loss for South...

Orangutans in Indonesian Borneo doomed to extinction?

Posted by amir on Tuesday, 15 November 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

A comprehensive new study finds that orangutan populations in Indonesian Borneo are being diminished at unsustainable rates due to conflict with humans. The results suggest orangutans outside protected areas may be headed toward extinction. The study, published Friday in PLoS One, is based on 18 mo...

Dead Dolphins Still a Concern on Gulf Coast

Posted by amir on Tuesday, 25 October 2011 in Oil Spill

Dead dolphins have washed ashore in the hundreds along the central Gulf Coast, prompting federal officials to launch an open-ended investigation. Since February 2010, 567 dead or distressed whales and dolphins have washed ashore in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Of those, 274 washed...

Sea Cemetary Help Save Endangered Fish

Posted by amir on Tuesday, 25 October 2011 in Sustainable Development

Visitors to this city’s burial ground learn more from the dead, particularly about the whale shark and other endangered sea creatures. The 12-year-old “fish cemetery” of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has become a field school all year round, even to the curious, according to ...

Attenborough's Global Warming Fears

Posted by amir on Monday, 17 October 2011 in Climate Change

Sir David Attenborough has warned that life will get tougher for future generations as they battle the effects of global warming - and revealed how the "natural world" had helped him cope with grief. The natural history presenter, 85, who is back on-screen presenting a BBC1 seven-part ser...

Will Alaska voters establish a new coastal management program?

Posted by amir on Tuesday, 11 October 2011 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Alaska has given up local input on federal projects off state shores, according to a coalition of lawmakers from coastal boroughs. And absent leadership from the Alaska Legislature, they're determined they have a say on development that's proposed -- or planned. Juneau Mayor Bruce Botelho and other...

Demand labels on genetically altered food

Posted by amir on Wednesday, 05 October 2011 in Food

As dusk settled over the tree-lined parking lot, the first marchers wandered in. Wearing sneakers and athletic gear, they’d walked all day, and the day before that. Many of them had started at the United Nations in New York City on Oct. 1, and they were stopping for the ni...

Fair Trade: Even in Tough Times, Growing Fast

Posted by amir on Monday, 03 October 2011 in Food

The proliferation of labels and claims at the grocery store can befuddle even the most conscientious consumer. What to buy? Organic produce? Locally grown vegetables? MSC-certified fish? Fair Trade coffee or chocolate? Paul Rice, the president and CEO of Fair Trade USA, isn’t worried by the clutter...

Understanding Methane's Seabed Escape

Posted by amir on Monday, 19 September 2011 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

ScienceDaily (Sep. 19, 2011) — A shipboard expedition off Norway, to determine how methane escapes from beneath the Arctic seabed, has discovered widespread pockets of the gas and numerous channels that allow it to reach the seafloor. Robot carrying seismic recorder is launched towards the seabed...

Eating Organic is the Single Greenest Thing You Can Do

Posted by amir on Sunday, 18 September 2011 in Agriculture

"If you do just one thing -- make one conscious choice -- that can change the world, go organic.... No other single choice you can make to improve the health of your family and the planet will have greater positive repercussions for our future." That's a bold statement. Is eating organic mo...

Why We Should Put a Price Tag on Ecosystem

Posted by amir on Tuesday, 06 September 2011 in Ecotourism

A recent article in the New York Times about the work Stanford University biology professor Gretchen Daily is doing in Africa and Costa Rica highlights the importance of ecosystem services, or putting a value on ecosystems. Daily co-founded the Natural Capitalism Project (NCP) in November 20...

New Jersey Monitoring of Ocean Waters

Posted by amir on Sunday, 28 August 2011 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Two New Jersey legislators held a press conference in Belmar last week to underscore the importance of improved water quality testing to make ocean waters safer for swimmers. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-6th District) and Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), who coauthored the Beaches Environmental Assessmen...