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• 2008/05/02: PhysOrg: Scientists to capture DNA of trees worldwide [100,000 species] for database
• 2008/05/02: TP:WonkRoom: Dow's Toxic Legacy Of EPA Corruption
• 2008/05/01: ThinkP: EPA political appointees force out top Midwest regulator [Mary Gade]
• 2008/05/01: NOAANews: "Fishery Failure" Declared for West Coast Salmon Fishery - Declaration Clears Path for Congressional Action
• 2008/05/01: TruthOut: White House Blocked Rule Issued to Shield [Right] Whales
• 2008/04/30: PhysOrg: US Patent Office rejects company's claim for bean commonly grown by Latin American farmers
• 2008/04/30: ThinkP: Cheney delaying protections for endangered [Right] whales
• 2008/04/30: BBC: Asian vultures could be extinct in the wild within 10 years unless a livestock drug blamed for their rapid demise is eliminated, scientists warn
• Gaian Economics
• Wiki: Ecological economics
• 2008/04/28: CDreams: BostonGlobe: [Bats] On a Freefall Toward Extinction
• 2008/04/24: TruthOut: Exposed: The Great GM Crops Myth - Major new study shows that modified soya produces 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent
• 2008/04/25: PhysOrg: On the Energy Trail: Researchers Find New Details Following the Path of Solar Energy During Photosynthesis
• 2008/04/22: OTF: The Earth Will Be Just Fine, Thank You
  The grand myth of environmentalism is that it's all about saving the Earth. It's not. The Earth will be just fine. Environmentalism is all about saving ourselves.
• 2008/04/24: SciDaily: Fertilizer Run-off From Agricultural Activities Blamed For Gulf Dead Zone In Gulf Of Mexico
• 2008/04/24: CBC: U.S. lacks data on genetically modified crop use: study
• 2008/04/23: DerSpiegel: 'The Baltic Sea Is Threatening to Collapse' - Finnish President Tarja Halonen interview
• 2008/04/23: AFP: Biodiversity loss will lead to sick world: experts
  The world risks wiping out a new generation of antibiotics and cures for diseases if it fails to reverse the extinction of thousands of plant and animal species, experts warned Wednesday. Biodiversity loss has reached alarming levels, and disappearing with it are the secrets to finding treatments for pain, infections and a wide array of ailments such as cancer, they said, citing the findings of a coming book [_Sustaining Life_ by key authors, Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein]. Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), said more than 16,000 known species are threatened with extinction, but the number could be more.
• 2008/04/21: TreeHugger: Food Shortage Pulls Genetically Modified Grains Into Formerly Closed Markets
• 2008/04/21: CDreams: Independent(UK): The Great Migration Crisis
  Many of the birds that migrate to Britain and Europe from Africa every spring, from the willow warbler to the cuckoo, are undergoing alarming declines, new research shows.
• 2008/04/13: EnergyBulletin: Manufactured foodscape
• 2008/04/14: Vanity: Monsanto's Harvest of Fear
  Monsanto already dominates America's food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation's tactics "ruthless legal battles against small farmers" is its decades-long history of toxic contamination.
• 2008/04/13: SciDaily: Shorebird Numbers Crash In Australia
• 2008/04/11: MoJo: Cops and Former Secret Service Agents Ran Black Ops on Green Groups
• 2008/04/12: TreeHugger: Exposed: Private Security Firms Caught Dumpster Diving and Spying on Environmental Groups
• 2008/04/09: Eureka: Shorebird numbers crash: survey alarm
• IAASTD: International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development
• 2008/03/27: CanWest: Greenpeace founder Lyle Thurston dead - Dr. Lyle Thurston dies in hospital Tuesday. He was 70
• 2008/03/25: EUO: EU accused of heavy reliance on industry lobbyists
  An alliance of environment groups, trade unions and academics has accused the European Commission of relying too heavily on business and industry lobbyists when drawing up EU legislation.
• 2008/03/25: SciDaily: Earliest Signs Of Corn As Staple Food Found After Spreading South From Mexican Homeland
• 2008/03/24: Guardian(UK): US authority failing to list endangered species
• 2008/03/22: NewScientist: California desert omitted from conservation bill
• 2008/03/19: NewScientist: Fish stocks heading for wild swings in population
• 2008/03/19: CPunch: The Genetic Food Gamble - Heads Monsanto Wins, Tails We Lose
• 2008/03/19: CSM: China's pollution nightmare is now everyone's pollution nightmare
  The environmental disaster springs largely from its emulation of the American way of life -- so let's set a better example.
• 2008/03/14: ENN: Ozone case shows Bush meddling in science: watchdogs
• 2008/03/14: TruthOut: EPA Closure of Libraries Faulted for Curbing Access to Key Data
• 2008/03/14: GristMill: Superweeds on the march - In Arkansas, state ag officials turn to Syngenta to solve problems caused by Monsanto
• 2008/03/08: Guardian(UK): Protester [Paul Watson] 'shot' by Japanese coastguard
  The leader of an anti-whaling environmental group claimed yesterday that he had been shot by Japanese coastguard officers while on his ship in the Southern Ocean and had survived only because he was wearing a protective vest. Paul Watson, captain of the Sea Shepherd vessel Steve Irwin, claimed a bullet struck him above the heart and that he had video footage of the ship's doctor removing it from his protective vest
• 2008/03/07: SeaShepherd: Sea Shepherd Captain Paul Watson Survives Shooting Attempt in Antarctica
• 2008/03/07: TacomaNewsTrib: Smelt have all but vanished from region's rivers
• 2008/03/03: PhysOrg: Unfavorable ocean conditions likely cause of low 2007 salmon returns along West Coast
• 2008/03/01: CPunch: Why is Yellowstone Destroying Its Bison Herd?
• 2008/02/26: CBC: CDC suppressing U.S. report on Great Lakes health risks, experts charge
• 2008/02/27: SMH: Hitting the 'non-existent' limits [to growth]
• EoL: Encyclopedia of Life
• 2008/02/26: BBC: First look at vast 'book of life'
  The first 30,000 pages have been unveiled of a vast encyclopedia which aims to catalogue every one of our planet's 1.8 million species
• 2008/02/26: AFP: 'Frozen garden of Eden' seed vault blooms in Arctic
• 2008/02/22: CDreams: Reuters: UN Says World Fisheries Face Collapse
  A deadly combination of climate change, over-fishing and pollution could cause the collapse of commercial fish stocks worldwide within decades, said Achim Steiner, head of the United Nations Environment Program
• 2008/02/19: NewScientist: Tuna fisheries facing a cod-like collapse
• 2008/02/18: CDreams: Guardian(UK): Consequences of GM Crop Contamination "Are Set to Worsen"
• 2008/02/15: CanWest: Government buries climate science: NDP critic
  The suppression of a study that shows Great Lakes pollution may be a threat to the health of more than nine million people is typical of the secrecy that surrounds Canadian government environmental science, an NDP environment critic charges. Nathan Cullen yesterday demanded in the House of Commons to know why the government has kept a recent health study on Great Lakes pollution secret. He said the report shows that Great Lakes pollution is "spinning out of control." Environment Minister John Baird responded to the question by accusing the NDP of not voting for funds to clean up the Great Lakes.
• 2008/02/15: G&M: Environmentalists' report to call for Ottawa to act on oil sands
  Alberta's oil sands are the most destructive project on Earth, causing environmental damage well beyond provincial borders, a new report says. From acid rain falling in Saskatchewan to toxic pollution spewing from Ontario oil refineries, a report to be released this morning by Toronto-based Environmental Defence calls on Ottawa to act where Alberta will not. The environmentalists will be joined by two Alberta native leaders, who will describe first hand how oil sands pollution is affecting fish and water on their traditional lands. Titled Canada's Toxic Tar Sands, the detailed report argues oil sands projects are violating existing Canadian laws such as the Fisheries Act.
• 2008/02/14: PhysOrg: World's largest marine protected area created in Pacific Ocean
• 2008/02/14: Eureka: Scientists reveal first-ever global map of total human effects on oceans
• 2008/02/07: ThinkP: CDC blocked release of "alarming" environmental report
• 2008/02/07: CPI: Great Lakes Danger Zones?
• 2008/02/06: NatureN: Nitrogen pollution stomps on biodiversity - Long-term effects of low-level pollution may have been underestimated
• 2008/02/05: PNAS: A guardian of grasses: Specific origin and conservation of a unique disease-resistance gene in the grass lineage by Anoop Sindhu et al.
• 2008/02/05: Independent(UK): The world's rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan
• 2008/02/01: ABC(Au): ACCC to investigate fertiliser prices
  The Federal Government has asked the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to investigate fertiliser prices, as part of the wider look into the cost of groceries. Fertiliser is now so expensive and in such short supply that it will be out of reach of many farmers this season. Two years ago, it cost $400 a tonne, but now costs $1,000 a tonne.
• 2008/01/31: WSWS: UNICEF report: Infant mortality rates still high - Nearly 10 million children under five died worldwide in 2006...
• 2008/02/02: AngryBear: Exponential Growth
  Exponential growth is assured to bring with it exponential resource depletion, the effects of which ... will last until we understand that long-term sustainability and growth are mutually exclusive
• 2008/02/01: EnergyBulletin: The limits to scenario planning
• 2008/01/31: BBC: The first consignment of seeds bound for the "doomsday vault" on Svalbard has arrived in Norway
• 2008/01/30: NewScientist: Corruption is devouring the world's fish stocks
  Corruption is eating into the bones of the fishing industry, say fisheries experts, who are in Washington DC this week to discuss the issue with the World Bank and the World Conservation Union (IUCN). They say that fishing rules are increasingly being disregarded, as catches across the world shrink. The number of pirate boats flying flags of convenience from landlocked nations has boomed; fish are falsely labelled sustainable; inspectors are increasingly harassed or bribed; shrimp farms employ child labour; and a fifth of all catches worldwide are illegal.
• 2008/01/30: Eureka: African seed collection first to arrive in Norway on route to Arctic seed vault
• 2008/01/30: G&M: Wheat Board given ultimatum
  Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz issued an ultimatum to the Canadian Wheat Board yesterday, saying he intends to introduce legislation to end the board's monopoly on barley sales with or without its support
• 2008/01/29: Eureka: Agriculture is changing the chemistry of the Mississippi River
• 2008/01/29: Guardian(UK): Bush opens 3m acres of Alaskan forest to logging
• 2008/01/28: Eureka: Bad news for coastal ocean: less fish out, means more nitrogen in
• 2008/01/25: GristMill: Eco-Farm: Seeds of ignorance - Investigative journalist reveals serious safety concerns about GM food
• 2008/01/24: G&M: Watchdog has right to issue independent report, panel rules
  Upon being fired as federal environment commissioner last year, Johanne Gélinas defended her right to publish an annual report on the government's green performance. An independent federal panel has agreed with her. A report released yesterday by the so-called green ribbon panel says a separate, distinct commissioner's report should be tabled every year in the House of Commons. Auditor-General Sheila Fraser - who fired Ms. Gélinas - had suggested that environment reports be rolled into the larger sets of regularly tabled auditing documents.
• 2008/01/22: ABC(Au): Refugees eating Africa's wildlife: report
• 2008/01/23: CGIAR: Thousands of Crop Varieties from Four Corners of the World Depart for Arctic Seed Vault
• 2008/01/22: PNAS: Functional consequences of realistic biodiversity changes in a marine ecosystem by Matthew E. S. Bracken et al.
• 2008/01/22: SeattlePI: The lowdown on topsoil: It's disappearing - Disappearing dirt rivals global warming as an environmental threat
• 2008/01/22: NakedCapitalism: Rich Nations' Environmental Damage to Third-World Countries Costs Them More Than Foreign Debt
• 2008/01/22: Guardian(UK): Canadian farmer [Percy Schmeiser] forces GM giant back to court - Monsanto accused of pollution over stray plants
• 2008/01/21: ABC(Au): Native seeds to be preserved 'for centuries' in seed bank
  British researchers are gathering seeds from rare Australian plants to be preserved forever at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, south-west of London. The Millennium Seed Bank Project is trying to collect seeds from 10 per cent of the world's plants - that's 24,000 species - by 2010.
• 2008/01/16: CSM: On emptying seas, a vanishing way of life - Overfishing on the Mediterranean is threatening artisanal fishermen and endangering more than 100 marine species
• CJR: The Observatory
• 2008/01/15: CJR: CJR Launches The Observatory - A new department to critique the coverage of science and the environment
• 2008/01/16: VoxEU: Dwindling fish: what's the catch?
  The Common Fisheries Policy, a product of special interests rather than economic rationale, has driven European fish stocks to dangerously low levels. Reforms creating tradable fishing rights determined by an independent authority and allocated via auction could save these vital natural resources from extinction.
• Discover - Environment
• 2008/01/14: NYT: Europe Takes Africa’s Fish, and Boatloads of Migrants Follow
  [...] A vast flotilla of industrial trawlers from the European Union, China, Russia and elsewhere, together with an abundance of local boats, have so thoroughly scoured northwest Africa?s ocean floor that major fish populations are collapsing. That has crippled coastal economies and added to the surge of illegal migrants who brave the high seas in wooden pirogues hoping to reach Europe.
• 2008/01/12: ABC(Au): Greenpeace says it has found Japan's whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean and is currently chasing it across the high seas
• 2008/01/09: G&M: Ottawa asks court to ignore experts' affidavits
  The federal government yesterday tried to block the evidence of several witnesses - including that offered by renowned fisheries scientists who recently worked as consultants to Ottawa - in a case that questions the Conservatives' commitment to the Species At Risk Act.
• 2008/01/06: AutoBG: Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" expanding, possibly due to corn bubble
• 2008/01/05: CCurrents: [Book Review] Part 3 _Seeds of Destruction, the Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation_ by F. William Engdahl
• 2008/01/03: CCurrents: [Book Review] Part 2 _Seeds of Destruction, the Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation_ by F. William Engdahl
• 2008/01/02: CCurrents: [Book Review] Part 1 _Seeds of Destruction, the Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation_ by F. William Engdahl
• 2008/01/04: EnergyBulletin: Survival tools -- farming, stories, poetry, writing, and leaning
• 2008/01/04: OLJ: As Planet Earth struggles with ecological damage, America's appetite remains insatiable
• 2007/12/27: EnergyBulletin: The peak oil crisis: storm of the century
  Welcome to "peak climate," "peak food," "peak water," "peak electricity," or as some people are putting it, "peak everything."
• 2007/12/27: PhysOrg: Deep-sea species' loss could lead to oceans' collapse, study suggests
• 2007/12/26: PNAS: Ecological feedbacks following deforestation create the potential for a catastrophic ecosystem shift in tropical dry forest by Deborah Lawrence et al.
• 2007/12/26: PNAS: Learning from episodes of degradation and recovery in variable Australian rangelands by D. Mark Stafford Smith et al.
• 2007/12/26: PNAS: Agent-based modeling of deforestation in southern Yucatán, Mexico, and reforestation in the Midwest United States by Steven M. Manson & Tom Evans
• 2007/12/26: PNAS: The emergence of land change science for global environmental change and sustainability by B. L. Turner, II et al.
• 2007/12/25: BBC: Archbishop warns over environment - The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned that human greed is threatening the environmental balance of the Earth
• 2007/12/17: ProgRevu: Population Growth: The crisis that dares not say its name
• 2007/12/24: EnergyBulletin: A Christmas Eve story
• 2007/12/24: EnergyBulletin: Population, consumption drive global climate change and environmental degradation
• 2007/12/19: NatureTGB: "We'll save cod by catching more," says Europe
• 2007/12/19: NewScientist: North Sea cod quotas raised against scientific advice
• 2007/12/16: TreeHugger: Michael Pollan on What Sustainability is Really About
• 2007/12/13: ThinkP: White House pressured EPA to weaken toxin report
• 2007/12/07: CBC: Schmeisers to receive 'alternative Nobel' at Swedish parliament
  Percy Schmeiser, the Saskatchewan farmer who waged a long legal battle against biotech giant Monsanto, will receive his "alternative Nobel" prize Friday during an evening ceremony at the Swedish parliament. Schmeiser and his wife Louise will be awarded The Right Livelihood Award, founded in 1980 to "honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today." The Schmeisers are being recognized "for their courage in defending biodiversity and farmers' rights, and challenging the environmental and moral perversity of current interpretations of patent laws." Schmeiser spent years waging a legal battle against biotech giant Monsanto, which sued him for illegally planting its genetically engineered canola seed. Schmeiser argued the canola seed blew onto his property and "polluted" his fields. In 2004, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld Monsanto's patent on the gene in its canola seed, but ruled Schmeiser didn't have to pay $200,000 in costs and damages.
• IFPRI: International Food Policy Research Institute
• 2007/12/: IFPRI: The World Food Situation - New Driving Forces and Required Actions
• CIRAD - News
• 2007/11/28: Cirad: The experts agree on an equivalent of the IPCC for biodiversity
  Almost 80 biodiversity experts agreed in mid-November on the priorities for an intergovernmental panel on the issue. The agreement was reached at the final meeting of an international steering committee on the topic, whose executive secretariat has been entrusted to the Institut français de la biodiversité, of which CIRAD is a part
• 2007/12/04: GristMill: Red List not enough - Experts push for an intergovernmental biodiversity panel
• 2007/11/30: CDreams: Independent(UK): Britain's Brand of Fair-Weather Environmentalism
• 2007/11/28: PhysOrg: More than 217 U.S. birds species imperiled
• 2007/11/28: TreeHugger: Northeastern US Forests Inadvertently Made Fire Resistant [with flame retardant Dechlorane Plus in the bark of trees]
• 2007/11/28: SciDaily: European Union Has Doubled Ecological Pressure On Planet In 30 Years, [WWF] Report Suggests
• 2007/11/25: BBC: Better ocean monitoring 'vital'
  Warming seas, overfishing and pollution mean it is vital to improve the system for monitoring the world's oceans, says a group of distinguished scientists. The researchers say more data is needed to ensure the world is able to respond effectively to any potential threats. An "adequate initial system" would include an integrated network of buoys, research vessels, satellites and tagging marine animals, they added. The scientists want the global scheme to be completed within the next decade. The call for action has been made by the Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (Pogo), which includes many of the world's leading oceanographic research centres. A delegation of Pogo members will make their case at the annual ministerial meeting of the international Group on Earth Observations (Geo) in Cape Town, South Africa
• 2007/11/23: CCurrents: The Cancer Of Growth
  It has become possible, only after tragedies such as the one that took place in Tabasco, to publicly debate a central precept of the dominant religion: the goal of accelerated economic growth. Fifty years of propaganda have converted the economists' dogma into a general prejudice. Without discussion, we accept that accelerated economic growth is desirable. Now the time has come to abandon this pernicious obsession
• 2007/11/22: CCurrents: Wheat Biopiracy The Real Issues The Government Is Avoiding
• 2007/11/23: BBC: Zimbabwe crisis hits black rhino - Three adult black rhinos have been shot at the Imire Safari park in Zimbabwe
• 2007/11/21: Sedona: Our oil-based food system will run out of gas one day
• 2007/11/21: Tyee: Earth's Eighth Continent - It swirls. It grows. It's a massive, floating 'garbage patch.'
• 2007/11/20: Eureka: Nuclear desalination - Could nuclear power be the answer to fresh water?
• 2007/11/19: AngryBear: De-salinization side effects
• 2007/11/19: CDreams: BaltimoreSun: US Excess Vs. Nature's Limits
• 2007/11/18: CDreams: Nation: Confronting the Global Timber Barons
• 2007/11/16: BBC: The US is calling for a ban on the fishing of bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea
• 2007/11/16: ABC(Au): Global panel to tackle biodiversity crisis
  Scientists and government representatives are poised to set up a global panel to deal with Earth's biodiversity crisis. According to the World Conservation Union (IUCN), one in four mammal species, one in eight of bird species, a third of amphibians and 70 per cent of plants are threatened with extinction. The panel will be modelled on the UN's panel on climate change and will meet this weekend at Montpellier in southern France. The goal is to set up a worldwide network of expertise that, similar to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will issue updated reports on the planet's biodiversity
• 2007/11/16: PhysOrg: Scientists catalogue oceans amid human, climate threats
• 2007/11/16: BBC: Doomsday vault begins deep freeze
  Engineers have begun the two-month process of cooling down a "doomsday vault", which will house seeds from all known varieties of key food crops. The temperature inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault will drop to -18C (0F) in order to preserve the seeds. Built deep inside a mountain, it aims to safeguard the world's crops from future disasters, such as nuclear wars, asteroids or dangerous climate change. The first seeds are scheduled to arrive at the Arctic site in mid-February
• 2007/11/12: EnergyBulletin: Wanted: a new global paradigm
• 2007/11/11: AFP: Russian oil tanker spills 1,300 tonnes of fuel into Kerch Strait [between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov]
• 2007/11/11: Guardian(UK): Frozen vault saves crops for mankind
  The world's vital seeds have a last refuge from future disaster in a mountain near North Pole
• 2007/11/09: SwissInfo: Experts debate role of agriculture in aid
  Agriculture should play an essential role in reducing global poverty, delegates at an international meeting in the Swiss capital, Bern, heard on Friday
• 2007/11/07: CCurrents: Humanity Is The Greatest Challenge
• 2007/11/06: CDreams: Reuters: US GMO Rice Caused $1.2 Billion In Damages - Greenpeace
• 2007/11/07: CBC: Quebec asbestos mining town 'severely contaminated,' says report - Air, soil and dust samples in Thetford Mines show action needed, study says
• 2007/11/05: PhysOrg: Scientists warn that species extinction could reduce productivity of plants on Earth by half
• 2007/11/05: PhysOrg: Government plan to revive 'Dead Zone' in Gulf of Mexico could backfire
• 2007/11/05: SMH: Ecologists fear huge rise in krill catch
• RainbowBody Network
• RainbowBody: (etext) The Final Empire: The Collapse of Civilization and The Seed of the Future by Wm. H. Kötke
• Wiki: Polyculture
• GIM: Growth is Madness!
• 2007/11/02: CCurrents: Six Steps To 'Getting' The Global Ecological Crisis
• 2007/10/31: KSJT: SF Chronicle: A big slow eddy out in the Pacific as trash heap
• 2007/10/30: CTindal: Red Alert [GEO4]
• 2007/10/29: BBC: Figures published on Monday show the area planted with genetically modified crops in Europe has grown by 77% since last year
• 2007/10/25: UN: UN report finds environmental progress inadequate, urges stepped-up action [GEO4]
• 2007/10/26: TruthOut: UN Issues "Final Wake-Up Call" on Population and Environment [GEO4]
• 2007/10/26: SciAm: The World Is Not Enough for Humans - Humanity's environmental impact has reached an unprecedented scope, and it's getting worse
• 2007/10/26: OilChange: Humanity's Survival is at Risk, Says UN
• 2007/10/26: CDreams: Times(UK): Earth Is Reaching The Point of No Return, Says Major UN Environment Report
• 2007/10/26: CCurrents: Creating Our Own Hell On Earth
• 2007/10/25: UNEP: Planet's Tougher Problems Persist, UN Report Warns
• 2007/10/25: BBC: Natural decline 'hurting lives'
  Continuing destruction of the natural world is affecting the health, wealth and well-being of people around the globe, according to a major UN report. The Global Environment Outlook says most trends are going the wrong way. It lists degradation of farmland, loss of forest cover, pollution, dwindling fresh water supplies and overfishing among society's environmental ills. The UN Environment Programme (Unep) says there is a "remarkable lack of urgency" to reverse these trends
• 2007/10/25: AFP: Save the planet? It's now or never, warns landmark UN report [Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)]
• 2007/10/17: OilDrum: World Energy and Population: Trends to 2100
• 2007/10/15: TA: Farming Faces Phosphate Shortfall - Global reserves of phosphorous, essential for agriculture, could run out in 60 to 100 years, warn experts
• 2007/10/15: Eureka: Peak Minerals
• 2007/10/12: CDreams: OneWorld: Anti-Poverty Index Scores US Last on Environment Policies
• 2007/10/09: ArtThreat: Documentary on Environmental Refugees Interrogates Neoliberalism
• 2007/10/10: EUO: EU criticises Sweden over transparency move - Monsanto GMOs
• 2007/10/07: CanWest: Atlantic bluefin tuna stocks are on brink of collapse, experts say
• 2007/10/06: Yahoo: World moves into the ecological red
  The world moved into 'ecological overdraft' on Saturday, the point at which human consumption exceeds the ability of the earth to sustain it in any year and goes into the red, the New Economics Foundation think-tank said. Ecological Debt Day this year is three days earlier than in 2006 which itself was three days earlier than in 2005. NEF said the date had moved steadily backwards every year since humanity began living beyond its environmental means in the 1980s.
• 2007/10/05: CBC: Trout hatcheries cause 'stunning' loss of reproduction
  Research published in Friday's edition of the journal Science shows that hatchery-raised steelhead trout dramatically and unexpectedly lose their ability to reproduce in the wild. Oregon State University researchers found the reproductive success of trout, a species critical to many healthy aquatic ecosystems, drops by close to 40 per cent for every generation they spend in a hatchery.
• 2007/10/03: EnergyBulletin: Limits to growth and the Hedberg conference
• 2007/10/03: CanWest: Pollution 'kills thousands of Canadians'
  Canada's pristine image is being tarnished by weak environmental health regulations that allow toxic chemicals to harm Canadians and boost health-care costs by $9.1 billion a year, a new study says. The study, led by University of B.C. Trudeau scholar David Boyd, estimates pollutants cause as many as 25,000 deaths, 24,000 new cases of cancer and 2,500 low-birth-weight babies in Canada every year. The results prompted the researchers to call for a national environmental health strategy to clean the air and drinking water and eliminate toxins from consumer goods
• 2007/09/30: WaPo: Bush's EPA Is Pursuing Fewer Polluters - Probes and Prosecutions Have Declined Sharply
• 2007/09/28: ABC(Au): Police drop bid to recover costs from 'Weld Angel'
• 2007/09/26: CCurrents: Earth Calls For Radical Social Change And Spiritual Transformation
• 2007/09/26: CCurrents: Let's Respect Our Mother Earth by Evo Morales, President of Bolivia
• 2007/09/26: TruthOut: NOAA Shifting to Industry Control Over Fishing Observers - Death knell for independent monitoring of marine mammal and over-fishing rules
• 2006/11/28: CTang: The North Pacific Trash Vortex
• 2007/09/18: CSM: Amazon farmers grow grain and save the forest - McDonald's, Cargill, and The Nature Conservancy create a 'responsible' soy program
• 2007/09/22: EnergyBulletin: Agriculture in a post-oil economy
• 2007/09/17: PRWatch: The ExxonMobil Protection Agency
• 2007/09/: FAIR: Rachel Carson, Mass Murderer? The creation of an anti-environmental myth
• 2007/08/14: Mashable: Green Living Toolbox: 80+ Green Sites
• 2007/09/07: InTheseTimes: A Freegan World
  Hundreds of urban activists, combining the words "free" and "vegan" have set out to change the way we think and act
• 2007/09/19: ABC(Au): Three-quarters of world's fish stocks depleted: [WWI] report
• 2007/09/19: TreeHugger: Canada Cuts Spending on Wildlife
• 2007/09/19: Eureka: Canada's pristine freshwater fisheries at risk - Threats loom for trout, pike, walleye and other popular fish
• 2007/09/19: BBC: Europe bans bluefin tuna fishing
  The European Commission has banned the fishing of endangered bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean for the rest of the year. [...] The ban affects Cyprus, Greece, Malta, Portugal and Spain. Italy and France have closed their fisheries for 2007
• 2007/09/18: PNAS: DNA evidence for historic population size and past ecosystem impacts of gray whales by S. Elizabeth Alter et al.
• 2007/09/13: UK Conservatives: Blueprint for a green economy
• 2007/09/13: CGDEV: World Agriculture Faces Serious Decline from Global Warming
• 2007/09/12: AlterNet: Does Our Planet Have Too Many People?
• 2007/09/13: Eureka: Leaderless movement proves illusive - University researcher probes for motivations behind 'ecoterrorist' group [ELF]
• 2007/09/12: Guardian(UK): Man-made chemicals [endocrine disrupters] blamed as many more girls than boys are born in Arctic
  High levels can change sex of child during pregnancy - Survey of Greenland and east Russia puts ratio at 2:1
• 2007/09/11: TruthOut: Radical Environmentalist [Rod Coronado] Goes to Trial Under Terror Law
• 2007/09/10: Guardian(UK): Waves of despair
  Once they were a national treasure chest, teeming with fish and wildlife. Now the waters of the North Sea are quiet, almost dead. But it's not too late...to stop the fishing industry destroying itself
• 2007/09/09: Zone5: Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society
• 2007/09/10: Guardian(UK): Greens need to grasp the nettle: aren't there just too many people?
  Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children
• 2007/09/06: Guardian(UK): What's added takes away - We barely know about the effects of chemical food additives, and our governments don't care
  The industrialisation of the food supply has turned consumers into the unwitting subjects of a vast, ongoing scientific experiment.
• 2007/09/05: HuffPo: In the 11th Hour, Let's ask the Deeper Questions Too
• 2007/09/01: PhysOrg: Judge OKs Rule That May Endanger Species
  A federal judge has upheld the government's practice of allowing development to proceed even if it is discovered after a project begins that the work could endanger protected species
• 2007/08/30: TerraDaily: Norway: Noah's Ark of seed samples tucked into Arctic mountainside
• 2007/08/27: Lifeboat: Looking Human Extinction in the Face
• 2007/09/01: SwissInfo: Experts sound alarm bells over animal species
• 2007/08/28: CBaker: The Plan by William Kotke
  A plan to save the life of the earth and the human species by creating an entirely new human culture... The Plan is to establish self-sufficient, population- stable, seed communities, wherever possible with the expectation that some or most of them would survive the apocalypse. These then become the seed of the future human species. Most species devote much energy to raise and prepare a future for their young. For our species to endure, we civilized humans must come up to that level of maturity.
• 2007/08/28: BBC: Shoppers 'face meat price rises'
  Meat prices are set to increase as farmers pass on the burden of surging costs, a report has suggested. With wheat prices rising, animal feed costs have almost doubled for farmers, the study by Deloitte found
• 2007/08/07: Culinate: Wheat, forever? Perennial wheat crops may end the era of monocrops, topsoil runoff, and aquatic dead zones
• 2007/08/24: CDreams: CSM: A Dimming Silence: Bird By Bird, The Avian Population is Shrinking
• 2007/08/24: CDreams: IPS: Mutiny Shakes US Food Aid Industry
• 2007/08/24: BBC: Wheat prices reach record level
  Wheat prices have hit record highs on global commodity markets, bringing the threat of rising bread prices. Bad weather in key grain growing areas such as Canada and parts of Europe has limited supplies as demand has risen, sparking fears of a supply shortfall. Surging prices are also expected to have widespread fallout for consumers. While it will mean higher bread prices, it could also trigger an increase in meat and dairy prices as farmers battle to pass on rising feed costs. Global wheat stockpiles will slip to their lowest levels in 26 years as a result, official US figures predicted earlier this month.
• Topsoil Loss - Causes, Effects, and Implications: A Global Perspective
• 2007/08/23: IHT: Bush's 'parting gift to the coal industry' - a regulation that would extend the coal mining practice of mountaintop removal
• 2007/08/20: SciDaily: Where Have All The Dolphins Gone This Summer?
• 2007/08/21: UIUC: Do higher corn prices mean less adherence to ecological principles?
• 2007/08/18: TreeHugger: Mountain Gorillas Killings Fueled by Charcoal Trade
• 2007/08/17: Globe&Mail: Harvest of Fraser sockeye curtailed
  The collapse of this summer's sockeye run on the largest salmon-producing river system in the world means no commercial or recreational fishing of the fish and seriously curtailed access for First Nations
• 2007/08/17: BBC: Missing DR Congo gorillas 'dead'
• 2007/08/15: PhysOrg: Palm oil demand puts orangutans at risk
• 2007/08/15: ADN: Headless walruses littering Northwest Alaska beaches - 79 are found in a 40-mile stretch; poaching for ivory is a possibility
• 2007/08/12: IBA: Nitrogen Overdose - Element quietly rivaling CO2 as a global climate threat
• 2007/08/14: PNAS: Species richness, hotspots, and the scale dependence of range maps in ecology and conservation by Allen H. Hurlbert & Walter Jetz
• 2005/05/17: BYN: A Bottleneck in Nature
• 1999/03/26: Science: (editorial) A Potential Phosphate Crisis
• 1999/07/: LookSmart:MR: Liebig, Marx, and the depletion of soil fertility: relevance for today's agriculture
• 2007/08/13: EnergyBulletin: Peak phosphorus
• BYN: Backyard Ecology
• 2007/08/13: TruthOut: Ploughing Depleting Earth's Soil Supply: Study
• 2007/08/13: NewScientist: Call to save Australia's great savannah
• 2007/08/13: PhysOrg: Global bird conservation effort lifts off - A massive international campaign is set to launch, intended to save the 189 bird species that face extinction
• 2007/08/13: CanWest: Dozens more species in danger in Canada - Advisory panel blames expansion, pollution
• 2006/12/21: Missouri:JIkerdi: Is Capitalism Sustainable?
• 2007/08/09: NewScientist: Caring less could help save endangered species
• 2007/08/09: SciDaily: Satellite Tracking Reveals Threats To Borneo Pygmy Elephants
• 2007/08/08: CanWest: Urban farming's time has come
• 2007/08/08: Eureka: Smithsonian scientists show differing patterns of rainforest biodiversity
• 2007/08/08: Eureka: Conventional plowing is 'skinning our agricultural fields'
  Traditional plow-based agricultural methods and the need to feed a rapidly growing world population are combining to deplete the Earth's soil supply, a new study confirms. In fact, long-established practices appear to increase soil erosion to the point that it is not offset by soil creation, said David Montgomery, a University of Washington professor of Earth and space sciences.
• 2007/08/07: Yahoo: Spain hauls in 8 tons of jellyfish from beaches
• 2007/08/05: Eureka: Census of Marine Life historians detail collapse of bluefin tuna population off northern Europe
• 2007/08/06: Guardian(UK): Ecologists hit out at Ecuador for legalising shark fin sales
• 2007/08/04: PhysOrg: Everglades Decision Criticized The Bush administration's hand in removing the Everglades from a United Nations list of endangered sites was denounced Friday by a Florida senator
• 2007/08/03: GristMill: It's time to cut the bait -- Here's a remarkable fact: Global fishery collapse is financed with tax money
• 2007/08/04: BBC: Cattle at a farm in Surrey have been found to be infected with foot-and-mouth disease. Some 60 animals on the farm near Guildford...
• 2007/08/03: Guardian(UK): The shame of farm subsidies - The US government is playing politics at the expense of the world's poorest people
• 2007/08/03: PhysOrg: Pollution causes 40 percent of deaths worldwide, study finds
• 2007/07/27: TheDay: There Are Dire Consequences To Continued 'Growthmania'
• 2007/07/31: PNAS: Quantifying and mapping the human appropriation of net primary production in earth's terrestrial ecosystems by Helmut Haberl et al.
• 2007/07/30: TruthOut: Old Growth Species Mandate Lifted From Northwest Forest Plan
• 2007/07/29: EconView: "Some People Worry about Peak Oil. I Worry More about Peak Grain."
• 2007/07/27: CSW: House committee hearing July 31 on Administration politicization of Endangered Species Act science
• 2007/07/26: CSM: Can 'green chic' save the planet?
• 2007/07/27: CanWest: The end isn't near - It seems environmental catastrophe has been right around the corner for decades now -- so what happened?
• 2007/07/: BookForum: [Book Review] _Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations_ by David R. Montgomery
• 2007/07/26: WWeek: [Book Review] _Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations_ by David R. Montgomery
• 2007/07/26: EnergyBulletin: Understanding the demographic transition
• 2007/07/26: ENN: White House Trims Investigators Tracking Environmental Crimes, Below Level Ordered by Congress
• 2007/07/24: PubPat: Monsanto Patents Asserted Against American Farmers Rejected by Patent Office: PubPat Initiated Review Leads PTO to Find All Claims of All Four Patents Invalid
• 2007/07/24: CDreams: Monbiot: Eco-Junk: Why Buying Less Is More Than Buying Green
• 2007/07/23: TreeHugger: Conserving and Rebuilding Soils
• 2007/07/22: CChange: Can ecological economists stop the mainstreamers before it's too late?
• 2007/07/18: BBC: Gulf [of Mexico] dead zone to be biggest ever
• 2007/07/18: GristMill: West African fisheries being destroyed
• 2007/07/17: PhysOrg: Norway's Puffin chicks lack food
  Very few puffin chicks born this year on the Norwegian island of Rost are expected to survive due to shortages of the birds' food source [herring]
• 2007/07/17: GristMill: China and the environment
• 2007/07/17: GristMill: Gulf Dead Zone: Bigger than ever
• Marine Animal News
• 2007/07/16: DailyIndia: Norway's Puffin chicks lack food
  Very few puffin chicks born this year on the Norwegian island of Rost are expected to survive due to shortages of the birds' food source [herring]
• 2007/07/15: FTimes: UN warns it cannot afford to feed the world
  Rising prices for food have led the United Nations programme fighting famine in Africa and other regions to warn that it can no longer afford to feed the 90m people it has helped for each of the past five years on its budget.
• 2007/07/15: EnergyBulletin: Digesting Lovelock left and right
• 2007/07/11: NewScientist: Jellyfish swarms threaten Mediterranean beach bums
• 2007/07/15: Eureka: Outwitting pesky parasites - Researchers find a shortcut for screening resistant soybean crops
• 2007/07/14: SlashDot: Indiana Allows BP To Pollute Lake Michigan
• 2007/07/13: NewScientist: Vital ecosystem services threatened by species loss
• 2007/07/13: PhysOrg: Californians urged to help reduce spread of Sudden Oak Death [caused by the pathogen Phytophthora ramorum]
• 2007/07/12: ZMag: Home-Front Ecology: What Our Grandparents Can Teach Us About Saving the World
• 2007/07/12: GristMill: Ranger crew encounters jellyfish swarm [in Mediteranean]
• 2007/07/12: SciDaily: Routine Feeding Of Antibiotics To Livestock May Be Contaminating The Environment
• 2007/07/12: Guardian(UK): Factory to destroy natural wonder - Proposed Rift Valley soda-ash plant in Tanzania will ruin fragile ecosystem and wipe out flamingos
• 2007/07/11: NSU: A healthy world needs lots of species - Effects of biodiversity loss could be worse than previously thought
• 2007/07/11: TerraDaily: Patenting Mother Nature
• 2007/07/03: PNAS: Enhanced plant tolerance to iron starvation by functional substitution of chloroplast ferredoxin with a bacterial flavodoxin by Vanesa B. Tognetti et al.
• 2007/07/03: PNAS: Diversity enhances agricultural productivity via rhizosphere phosphorus facilitation on phosphorus-deficient soils by Long Li et al.
• 2007/07/07: FuturePundit: Humans Use Nearly A Quarter Of World Biomass?
• 2002/06/27: PNAS: Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy by Mathis Wackernagel et al.
• 2007/07/06: PNAS: Quantifying and mapping the human appropriation of net primary production in earth's terrestrial ecosystems by Helmut Haberl et al.
• 2007/07/06: PhysOrg: Critics attack Bush wildlife record
• 2007/07/06: PhysOrg: Skinny gray whales swim Pacific Coast
• 2007/07/06: Maribo: The Poverty/Conservation Equation
• 2007/07/06: TreeHugger: Endangered Species List is Itself Endangered
• 2007/07/04: ENN: Surge of Dead Seabirds Alarms Scientists
  Hundreds of dead seabirds that washed up along the Southeast coast in recent weeks apparently starved to death, but experts don't know why. The deaths of the birds -- similar to gulls and called greater shearwaters -- have wildlife officials worried about possible changes in the ocean that could have affected the fish that the birds usually eat.
• 2007/07/03: ENN: World Bank Says Pollution Kills 460,000 Chinese a Year
• 2007/07/03: FTimes: 750,000 a year killed by Chinese pollution
• 2007/07/03: BBC: China 'buried smog death finding'
  The World Bank is alleged to have cut from a report research that suggests pollution causes hundreds of thousands of premature deaths annually in China. The move followed pressure from Beijing, which believes the material is too sensitive and could lead to social unrest, said the UK's Financial Times.
• UMich: CSS: Center for Sustainable Systems
• 2004/11/19: OpenCRS: Energy Use in Agriculture: Background and Issues [Report #RL32677]
• 2007/07/02: KSJT: Boston Globe: New puzzles among the twisted and missing frog legs
• 2007/07/02: TruthOut: Western Consumption May Cause Famines [in developing world]
• 2007/07/02: NewScientist: Humanity gobbles a quarter of nature's resources
• 2007/06/28: NewScientist: Changes to US laws threaten endangered species
• 2007/06/28: PhysOrg: Wilderness almost non-existent on planet Earth: study
• 2007/06/28: STimes: Dems: Investigate Cheney for role in salmon die-off
• 2007/06/27: ClimateP: Medieval Vice President
• 2007/06/26: CDreams: Totally Boom/Doom Solartopian Green by 2030
• 2007/06/26: TreeHugger: Meet the Bookkeeper: An Interview with Mathis Wackernagel of Global Footprint Network
• 2007/06/25: TruthOut: Business Prevails in Environmental Case - High court sides with developers and the Bush administration
• 2007/06/25: CBC: Environmentalists gather at Halifax conference
  About 60 environmentalists from 14 countries, including William Rees, who coined the term "ecological footprint," are gathering for the Global Ecological Integrity and the Sustainable Society, which runs Monday to Friday at Dalhousie University.
• 2007/06/22: Haaretz: Why wheat shot up 30% in 3 weeks
• 2007/06/23: Guardian(UK): Jailed rainforest campaigner claims he was framed by Brazilian loggers
• 2007/06/22: Guardian(UK): The end of the wilderness: bears starve as poachers pillage Russia's wealth of salmon
  Remote Kamchatka faces ecological meltdown as fish stocks are obliterated
• 2007/06/19: KSJT: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: A move for ecosystem rights?
• 2007/06/17: Guardian(UK): Soya king changes face of pampas
• 2007/06/17: Guardian(UK): Wonder of nature under threat from illegal logging
• 2007/06/16: CPunch: When ADM Comes to Town - Killer Tax Breaks for Destroying Wildlife
• 2007/06/13: TruthOut: Stashing Seeds in "Noah's Fridge"
• 2007/06/13: GWWatch: The world's top ten trees
• 2007/06/10: CChange: Ancient innovations for present conventions toward extinction
• 2007/06/12: TerraDaily: US Loses Landmark Supreme Court Environmental Case
• 2007/06/12: CPunch: Confessions of a Anti-Nuke Jerk Or Why It Feels Good to be Smeared by Patrick Moore
• 2007/06/11: PhysOrg: U.N. Seeks to Conserve Genetic Resources
• 2007/06/11: HuffPo: Beyond the Bottom Line: Redefining Corporate Social Responsibility by [former] Senator Jim Talent (R-Miss)
• 2007/06/08: BookForum: [Review] _Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations_ by David R. Montgomery
• ETC Group - monitoring power, tracking technology, strengthening diversity
• 2007/06/08: PlanetArk: Constant EU Overfishing Threatens 80 Percent of Stocks
• 2007/06/07: BaltimoreSun: Making a case for simple life in a small town
• 2007/06/07: BBC: Europe's seas are in a "serious state of decline" as a result of coastal development, overfishing and pollution from agriculture, warn scientists
• 2007/06/07: Eureka: Major study predicts grim future for Europe's seas
• 2007/06/06: GristMill: Soil is blowing in the wind -- one of the slow-moving global disasters of our age: the destruction of the world's soils
• 2007/06/05: TerraDaily: GM Field Trials Uunderestimate Potential For Cross-Pollination
• 2007/06/06: TomPaine: The Greenwashing Of America
• 2007/06/05: SciDaily: Making Water From Thin Air [WatAir]
• 2007/06/04: TEB: It's not just climate and population that are bottlenecking
• 2007/06/03: NorthJersey: Reporter arrested at Paramus school
  Police arrested a Record reporter Saturday as he accompanied a lab technician taking soil samples at West Brook Middle School, which was closed last week after pesticide contamination was found on its grounds.
• 2007/06/02: GristMill: The new conservatism: Like the old totalitarianism
• 2007/06/02: CPunch: The Farm Crisis and 100,000 Indian Widows
• 2007/06/02: ZMag: Earth, Inc. Sliding Into Bankruptcy
• 2007/06/02: Deltoid: Raw Story follows the money on Rachel Carson smears
• 2007/06/01: CDreams: IPS: Toward a Green Economy
• 2007/06/02: CBC: 'Terminator' seed sowing discord
  The federal NDP has taken a stand against "terminator technology," the nascent gene-changing process used to render seeds sterile. Agriculture critic Alex Atamanenko introduced a private member's bill Thursday to ban field-testing and commercialization of terminator seed, following the lead of the governments of India and Brazil.
• 2007/05/31: EcoEcon: Predatory Oligarchy
  Hervé Kemph is a French environmental journalist and a student of global capitalism. His book, How the Rich are Destroying the Planet has caused a bit of a stir thus far, and will likely have more impact once translated into English
• 2007/05/31: TomPaine: U.S. Food System Deeply At Risk
• 2007/03/15: OilSandsWatch: (link to 2.2 meg pdf) Down to the Last Drop: The Athabasca River and Oil Sands
• 2007/06/01: BBC: New EU chemical law takes effect
  Legislation requiring the safety testing of tens of thousands of chemicals - many in everyday use - has come into effect across the EU
• 2007/05/31: ABC(US): Problem Pet Food Ingredient in US Feed - Chemical That Led to Pet Food Recall Used by US Company for Animal Feed
• 2007/05/31: Guardian(UK): World's great apes face disaster, says Leakey - Hunting, disease, logging and demand for biofuels cited among prime threats
• WildlifeDirect
• 2007/05/27: CDreams: Oregonian: Rachel Carson's Alarm Still Echoes
• 2007/05/25: GristMill: Cameras for dead fish? No deal.
• PS&D: Production, Supply, and Demand
• WASDE: World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates
• 2007/05/06: NFU: (126k pdf) An open letter to the United Nations by NFU President Stewart Wells Regarding Rapidly declining global food supplies
• 2007/05/21: EnergyBulletin: Tilling our own soil: Preparing a surge capacity for food
• 2007/05/20: EnergyBulletin: The Economy is an Ecosystem
• 2007/05/21: HuffPo: Poison Is Good For You: Idiot's Delight on the Right
• 2007/05/20: CBC: Slain conservationist likely targeted, police say - Surveillance video shows man sought by police
  A Toronto man who donated millions of dollars to wildlife conservation and environmental causes was likely targeted by the assailant who shot him to death, police said Sunday. Glen Davis, 66, was shot in the torso on Friday afternoon. He was found near his car in the underground garage of a building housing World Wildlife Fund Canada offices in Toronto's north end.
• 2007/05/19: SciDaily: Cornell Lab Confirms Deadly Fish Virus [VHSV] Spreading To New Species
• 2007/05/19: CDreams: McClatchy: Bush Administration Ruling Throws Cold Water on Environmental Whistleblowers
• Zone5 -- on the edge between Nature and Culture
• 2007/05/19: Deltoid: The Unending War on Rachel Carson
• 2007/05/17: CasaubonsBook: The Juggler's Lament, Ecological Collapse and Making Change
• 2007/05/18: CultureChange: Pivotal Moment in the Green Scare / Civilization sabotages itself
• 2007/05/18: PhysOrg: Deadly fish virus VHSV spreading throughout Great Lakes Basin
• 2005/03/20: EnergyBulletin: Industrialization: Prelude to Collapse [Excerpt from _Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change_ by William Catton]
• 2005/05/02: EnergyBulletin: The Tragic Story of Human Success [Chapter 2 of _Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change_ by William R Catton, Jr.]
• 2005/05/11: EnergyBulletin: Dependence on Phantom Carrying Capacity [Chapter 3 of _Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change_ by William R Catton, Jr.]
• 2007/05/16: NewScientist: [West Nile] Virus disaster for US birds
• 2007/05/16: PLOS One: Economic Inequality Predicts Biodiversity Loss by Gregory M. Mikkelson et al.
• 2007/05/16: PhysOrg: Biodiversity loss linked to economic inequality worldwide
• 2007/05/14: TruthOut: Pivotal Moment in the Green Scare
• 2007/05/15: PRWatch: Greenwashing, or "Positioning Environmentalism"
• 2006/11/03: FMAP:Science: Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services by B. Worm et al.
• 2002/06/27: PNAS: Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy by Mathis Wackernagel et al.
• 2007/05/10: GristMill: A Kodak moment indeed [shrimp trawlers off the coast of China]
• 2007/05/08: Eureka: World's leading scientists announce creation of 'Encyclopedia of Life'
  Biodiversity, science communities unite behind epic effort to promote biodiversity, document all 1.8 million named species on planet
• 2007/05/08: SciDaily: Plant Pathologists Fighting Global Threat To Wheat Supply
  A new, highly destructive strain of wheat stem rust is continuing to evolve and has the potential to devastate wheat production worldwide, say plant pathologists with The American Phytopathological Society. Stem rust of wheat was responsible for massive epidemics on wheat during the early 20th Century in North America. In the mid-1950s, wheat breeders developed wheat that had genetic resistance to the disease, making it all but disappear. Despite this success, a new, virulent strain of wheat stem rust, Ug99, evolved in Uganda and has already spread into Kenya, Ethiopia and Yemen, with the potential to spread into Pakistan, India, and China, and eventually North America.
• 2007/05/08: Times(UK): Fiddling with figures while the Earth burns
  The latest initiatives to stop global warming won't save us [says James Lovelock]
• 2007/05/08: HuffPo: Melamine-tainted feed contaminated farmed fish in US and Canada
• 2007/05/02: GNN: Please Lord, not the bees
• 2007/05/07: TruthOut: Sound Effects - Activists say sonar kills whales. The Navy isn't listening.
• 2007/05/05: Olympian: Government pursues 'terrorism' sentencing for environmentalists
• 2007/05/03: LA CityBeat: The Green Scare
  Rod Coronado gave a talk in San Diego and the feds called his words ‘terrorism.’ How new laws are equating environmentalists with Al Qaeda
• 2007/05/05: EnergyBulletin: Birth of a new wedge: agrichar (terra preta)
• 2007/05/05: ABC(Au): Countries agree to end deep-sea bottom trawling
  More than 20 countries have agreed to work together to end a method of deep-sea fishing which they say causes huge damage to the environment. The agreement covers a quarter of the world's oceans and will restrict fishing vessels from dragging huge weighted nets across the sea floor. Called 'bottom sea trawling', it is a multi-million dollar industry, but experts say it destroys deep-water coral.
• 2007/05/05: BBC: S Pacific to stop bottom trawling
  A quarter of the world's oceans will be protected from fishing boats which drag heavy nets across the sea floor, South Pacific nations have agreed. The landmark deal will restrict bottom trawling, which experts say destroys coral reefs and stirs up clouds of sediment that suffocate marine life. Observers and monitoring systems will ensure vessels remain five nautical miles from marine ecosystems at risk. The South Pacific contains the last pristine deep-sea marine environment. It extends from the Equator to the Antarctic and from Australia to the western coast of South America.
• 2007/05/01: StraightGoods: Disappearing bees - Mysterious phenomenon has researchers baffled
• PSU:MAAREC: Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)
• 2007/05/04: GPM: Richard Heinberg's Museletter #181: Talking Ourselves to Extinction
• 2007/05/03: ENN: Honeybee Die-Off Threatens Food Supply
• 2007/05/03: CDreams: IPS: Biodiversity: Farming Will Make or Break the Food Chain
• 2007/05/03: CDreams: AP: Honeybee Die-Off Threatens Food Supply
  Unless someone or something stops it soon, the mysterious killer that is wiping out many of the nation's honeybees could have a devastating effect on America's dinner plate, perhaps even reducing us to a glorified bread-and-water diet.
• 2007/05/01: PhysOrg: USDA: Tree Beetle [emerald ash borer] May Spread Across U.S.
• 2007/05/02: PhysOrg: Collapsing Colony Disorder Impacts North Dakota
• 2007/05/02: PhysOrg: Bees, and Our Diet, on the Brink
• 2007/05/01: Eureka: Amphibians in losing race with environmental change
• 2007/04/30: TruthOut: Pacific Whale Decline "a Mystery"
• 2007/04/30: CleanBreak: Gore has right to speak out on "global" issue
  We're at a crucial juncture in our lives, and Gore and others with equal commitment and drive should be commended for their service. On that note, I leave you with a little story that David Suzuki shared at a bioenergy conference I attended earlier this month in Hearst, Ontario:

  "My daugher Severn is 27 years old, and she's been an environmental activist ever since she was seven years old. A few months ago she said to me, 'Dad, I think this is the most exciting time to be alive in all of human history.' She said this is the moment, in the following months and a few years, we are going to have to make some big decisions. Because if we make the right decisions, or if we fail to make the decisions, it's going to determine the fate, not only of all human kind, but of countless species of plants and animals. This is the defining moment, she said, when we will decide whether or not we're going to be a spectacular Flash in the Pan failure, or whether we can step up to the plate and show that we are capable of finding humility, compassion, patience and wisdom to truly find a sustainable path. As I reflected on her comment, I've come to the conclusion she's absolutely right."

• 2007/04/30: TreeHugger: Why We Fight, Suzuki Version
• 2007/04/26: CDreams: PhillyInquirer: No Bees? Not Just Strange, But Scary
• 2007/04/26: PhillyInquirer: No bees? Not just strange, but scary
• 2007/04/26: ENN: U.S. Senators Question Bush Endangered Wildlife Plan
• 2007/04/26: BBC: Plant vault passes billion mark
  Britain's "Noah's Ark" for plants has just collected its billionth seed. The Millennium Seed Bank will present the seed, from an African bamboo, to Chancellor Gordon Brown, as it seeks funds to continue operating after 2010. Part of the Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG) at Kew, the bank already stores material from 18,000 species, some of which have become extinct in the wild. Seed banks are seen as an essential part of plans to curb the rapid loss of biodiversity, in Britain and worldwide.
• 2007/04/26: Reuters: Taiwan stung by millions of missing bees
• 2007/04/24: TruthOut: Bees Vanish, and Scientists Race for Reasons
• 2007/04/23: Telegraph(UK): French kill off plans to save the eel
• 2007/04/24: PhysOrg: Bee keepers across U.S. suffering losses
• 2007/04/24: ClimateArk: Atlas to reveal changing face of British birdlife
• 2007/04/24: Reuters: Great Lakes fish virus may threaten U.S. aquaculture
• 2007/04/23: SciDaily: Bee Colony Collapse Disorder And Viral Disease Incidence Under Investigation
• 2007/04/23: SciDaily: Honey Bee Die-off Alarms Beekeepers, Crop Growers And Researchers
• 2007/04/22: CDreams: IPS: Earth Day 2007: Happiness Is a Smaller Eco-Footprint
• TSW: The Simpler Way: Working for transition from consumer society to a simpler, more cooperative, just and ecologically sustainable society
• 2007/04/20: OnlineOpinion: We can't go on living like this
• American Rivers
• 2007/04/17: AmericanRivers: America's Most Endangered Rivers of 2007
• 2007/04/17: BBC: Ugandan police have fired live bullets to disperse dozens of protesters angry at the arrest of opposition politicians in the capital, Kampala
• 2007/04/16: PhysOrg: Earth's dirty little secret: Slowly but surely we are skinning our planet
• 2007/04/15: AfterGutenberg: All Design has a Context
• 2007/04/15: Independent(UK): Are mobile phones wiping out our bees? Scientists claim radiation from handsets are to blame for mysterious 'colony collapse' of bees
• 2007/04/13: TruthOut: President Bush Expands Influence Over Regulatory Agencies - Scientific assessments by environmental agencies could be delayed
• 2007/04/13: Vanity: The Bush Administration - Texas Chainsaw Management
  Spinning the revolving door between government and business as never before, the White House has handed more than 100 top environmental posts to representatives of polluting industries. The author provides a biographical sampler -- and describes a devastating rollback of three decades of progress.
• 2007/04/13: Vanity: Rush to Judgment
  Attacking environmentalists as hippie-dip "wackos" who care more about spotted owls than people and use polar bears for propaganda, Rush Limbaugh has blinded millions of Americans to the climate crisis.
• 2007/04/13: Guardian(UK): Bred for the freezer: how zoo rears tigers like battery hens
  Carcasses kept in storage as Beijing looks to lift ban on sale of exotic animal parts
• 2007/04/13: Guardian(UK): Threat to agriculture as mystery killer wipes out honeybee hives
• 2007/04/12: TreeHugger: Colony Collapse Disorder Arrives in the UK
• 2007/04/10: WtW: EPA Casts Environmental Information to the Wind
• 2007/04/11: Guardian(UK): Vast forests with trees each worth Ł4,000 sold for a few bags of sugar
  Congo village chiefs not told value of concessions - World Bank blamed over deals causing 'catastrophe'
• 2007/04/11: Guardian(UK): Selling off the rainforest - a modern-day scandal
  Vast tracts of the world's second-largest rainforest have been obtained by a small group of European and American industrial logging companies in return for minimal taxes and gifts of salt, sugar and tools, a two-year investigation will disclose today. More than 150 contracts covering an area of rainforest nearly the size of the United Kingdom have been signed with 20 companies in the Democratic Republic of Congo over the past three years.
• 2007/04/10: PhysOrg: Drought, development killing Australia's koalas
• 2007/02/21: DeltaFarmPress: Glyphosate-resistant weeds burden growers’ pocketbooks
• 2007/04/10: PNAS: Assessing the water challenge of a new green revolution in developing countries by Johan Rockström et al.
• 2007/04/09: WaPo: Alien Invasion: The Fungus That Came to Canada
• Catalogue of Life
• 2007/04/08: PhysOrg: Researchers Catalog More Than 1M Species
  A worldwide scientific effort to catalog every living species has topped the 1 million milestone. Six years into the program the total has reached 1,009,000, researchers report. They hope to complete the listing by 2011, reaching an expected total of about 1.75 million species.
• 2007/04/09: IHT: U.S. officials consider removing manatees from endangered species list
• 2007/04/08: CPunch: Where Have All the Bees Gone? And Other Reflections on the Internationalization of Genocide by Fidel Castro
• 2007/04/07: PhysOrg: Mysterious disappearance of US bees creating a buzz
• 2007/04/05: TruthOut: What's Happening to the Bees?
• 2007/04/06: UIUC: A Minute with May Berenbaum [Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder]
• 2007/03/: Acres USA: The Future of Agriculture - Why Peak Oil & Pollution Mandate a New Farming Paradigm [Richard Heinberg Interview]
• 2007/04/04: CSM: What's happening to the bees?
  Suddenly, the bees farmers and growers rely on are vanishing. Researchers are scrambling to find out why.
• 2007/04/04: HuffPo: 70% Of The World's Oxygen Comes From The Ocean And We Say Thank You How?
• 2007/04/03: PNAS: Global patterns and determinants of vascular plant diversity by Holger Kreft & Walter Jetz
• 2007/04/03: CDreams: Guardian(UK): Sharks Deserve The Conservation Status We Give To The Giant Panda
• Global Shark Assessment
• 2007/03/29: CCM: When It Comes to Science Abuse, Don't Forget About Endangered Species
• 2007/03/29: BBC: The limits of a Green Revolution? the state of food production across the globe
• 2007/03/30: WaPo: Report Faults Interior Appointee - Landowner Issues Trumped Animal Protections, IG Says
  A senior Bush political appointee at the Interior Department has repeatedly altered scientific field reports to minimize protections for imperiled species and disclosed confidential information to private groups seeking to affect policy decisions, the department's inspector general concluded. The investigator's report on Julie A. MacDonald, deputy assistant secretary for fish and wildlife and parks -- which was triggered by an anonymous complaint from a Fish and Wildlife Service employee and expanded in October after a Washington Post article about MacDonald -- said she frequently sought to reshape the agency's scientific reports in an effort to ease the impact of agency decisions on private landowners.
• 2007/03/30: CBC: Declining shark populations disrupting marine ecosystem: scientists
• 2007/03/30: Guardian(UK): Death of a predator: big sharks are disappearing - and world's fisheries are suffering as a result
• 2007/03/27: ThinkP: Bush Administration's Secret Plan To "Gut" Endangered Species Act Revealed
• 2007/03/26: DailyStar: Humans leave precious little for other forms of life
• 2007/03/26: GristMill: Ecological Footprint receives Skoll Foundation support
• 2007/03/23: TruthOut: Are GM Crops Killing Bees?
• 2007/03/20: TruthOut: Feeding Nine Billion Earthlings [in 2050]
• 2007/04/: NatGeo: Fishing Crisis, Global Fisheries Crisis
• 2007/03/21: SciDaily: Going Nowhere Fast: Top Rivers Face Mounting Threats
• 2007/03/20: BBC: Rivers run towards 'crisis point'
  Some of the world's major rivers are reaching crisis point because of dams, shipping, pollution and climate change, according to the environment group WWF.
• CHLA: Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
• 2007/03/18: EcoEcon: Jared Diamond on 'Failures of Group Decision-Making'
• 2007/03/15: PhysOrg: Cultured coral could help repair damaged reefs, scientists say
• 2007/03/14: MR: Notes on "anxiety-driven ecological catastrophism"
• 2007/03/13: Yahoo: Questions raised about Monsanto GMO corn [MON863 maize]
• 2007/03/14: TruthOut: Troubled Waters on UN Oceans Treaty -- The US has been the major stumbling block to a worldwide agreement on ocean governance and fixing damaged seas
• 2007/03/14: PhysOrg: World population to hit 9.2 billion in 2050: UN
• 2007/03/07: CBaker: Challenges, Threats and Opportunities for Sustainable Agriculture, Part II
• 2007/03/03: SciNews: Marlin Crash May Be Worse Than Reported
• 2007/03/09: ISIS: GM Food Nightmare Unfolding in the Regulatory Sham
• 2007/03/05: CBC: Oilsands-area hamlet supports whistleblower MD - Physician raised concerns about high cancer rates downstream from oil projects
• 2007/03/03: PhysOrg: USDA OKs Plan to Grow Modified Rice [in Kansas]
• 2007/03/01: CBaker: What a Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire
• 2007/03/01: TruthOut: Retired Forest Service Planner Wants Former Boss Fired
• 2007/03/01: PhysOrg: Probing Question: What's killing the honey bees?
• 2007/02/27: PhysOrg: Pollutants change 'he' frogs into 'she' frogs
• 2007/02/27: BBC: Bee vanishing act baffles keepers
  Honeybees are vanishing at an alarming rate from 24 US states, threatening the production of numerous crops. The cause of the losses, which range from 30% to more than 70%, is a mystery...
• 2007/02/23: NYT: Honeybees Vanish, Leaving Crops and Keepers in Peril
• 2007/02/15: Yahoo: 'Amphibian Ark' planned to save frogs
• 2007/02/21: AlterNet: Do Sustainable Cities Have a Future?
• 2007/02/21: GristMill: The Senate slaps sustainable ag [ATTRA]
• 2007/02/19: Eureka: Scientists will discuss creating a culture of sustainability February 19 at AAAS
• FMAP: Future Marine Animal Populations
• 2007/02/18: EnergyBulletin: AAAS president urges swift action to build a sustainable future
• 2007/02/18: ABC(Au): Scientists seek rescue for thousands of threatened frog species
• 2007/02/16: Eureka: Changes in west coast marine ecosystems significant
• 2007/02/17: Yahoo: U.N.: Hunger kills 18,000 kids each day
• 2007/02/16: Eureka: Is biodiversity the future of farming?
  An Agronomy Journal article explores industrial agriculture challenges and points to profitable alternatives designed to use less energy
• 2007/02/15: EnvEcon: More Doom and Gloom [carrying capacity]
• 2007/02/14: PhysOrg: Navy Rejects Calif. Sonar Limits
• 2007/02/11: Eureka: It's not easy being green
• 2007/02/12: DailyIndia: Honeybee deaths are alarming growers
• 2007/02/11: TreeHugger: Doomsday Seed Vault, Part 2
• EJN: Environmental Journalism Now
• 2007/02/09: GristMill: We're all Planetary Engineers now
• UNFAO: Atlas of tuna and billfish catches
• 2007/02/09: BBC: EU gets tough on 'green crimes' - The European Commission has unveiled plans to turn environmental offences over to criminal courts across the European Union.
• 2007/02/09: BBC: 'Doomsday' vault design unveiled
  The final design for a "doomsday" vault that will house seeds from all known varieties of food crops has been unveiled by the Norwegian government. The Svalbard International Seed Vault will be built into a mountainside on a remote island near the North Pole. The vault aims to safeguard the world's agriculture from future catastrophes, such as nuclear war, asteroid strikes and climate change. Construction begins in March, and the seed bank is scheduled to open in 2008.
• 2007/02/07: SF Gate: Scholars to consider the shrinking of cities
• 2007/02/06: TruthOut: [Sen. Barbara] Boxer (D-Cal) Rips EPA Chief [Stephen Johnson] as Bowing to Industry
• 2007/02/06: PhysOrg: Studying How Modified Genes Escape Into Nature
• 2007/02/06: FinEx: Rising demand will deplete fish stock by 2050
  Rising demand for seafood and other marine produce will lead to a collapse of commercial fish stocks by 2050 unless better management is introduced, a new United Nations report has warned.
• 2007/02/06: Eureka: Human's ecological footprint in 2015 and Amazonia revealed
• 2007/02/04: GPM: Richard Heinberg: Five Axioms of Sustainability
• 2007/01/16: Guardian(UK): Yes - in 10 years we may have no bananas
• 2007/02/01: CSM: Ecologists must work faster - With global farming projected to double by midcentury, researchers seek quicker ways to assess the impact of land use on wildlife
• 2007/01/29: EnergyBulletin: How Much Did the Green Revolution Matter? or Can We Feed the World Without Industrial Agriculture?
• 2007/01/29: Guardian(UK): Hungry for oil
  Dwindling oil stocks could cause the UK to be vulnerable to food shortages for the first time since the second world war.
• Wiki: Ecological economics
• 2007/01/28: BBC: China admits to climate failings
  China is failing to make progress on improving and protecting the environment, according to a new Chinese government report. The research ranks China among the world's worst nations - a position unchanged since 2004. After the US, China produces the most greenhouse gases in the world. The Chinese report, prepared by academics and government experts, ranked the country 100th out of 118 countries surveyed. Some 30 indicators were used to measure the level of "ecological modernisation" including carbon dioxide emissions, sewage disposal rates and the safety of drinking water.
• 2007/01/24: PlanetArk: US Navy Gets 2-Year Whale Protection Law Exemption
  The Pentagon on Tuesday exempted the Navy for two years from a law protecting whales so it may continue using military sonar while working on a long-term plan to comply with environmental regulations.
• EoEarth: Encyclopedia of Earth
• 2007/01/23: PhysOrg: Survey: Waterbird Species Are in Decline [mostly due to rapid economic development and the effects of climate change]
• 2007/01/23: CDreams: If Tesco and Wal-Mart are Friends of the Earth, Are There Any Enemies Left?
  The superstores compete to convince us they are greener than their rivals, but they are locked into unsustainable growth
• 2007/01/23: Guardian(UK): Tuna stocks close to exhaustion, says WWF
• 2007/01/17: UCSUSA: The EPA Closes Its Libraries, Destroys Documents
• 2007/01/22: BBC: Canada acts to protect rainforest
  Canada has pledged to spend millions of dollars to help protect the world's largest temperate rainforest. The government will allocate CAN$30m (US$26m, Ł13m) to maintain the area of British Columbia known as the Great Bear Rainforest.
• 2007/01/21: SF Gate: Nobel laureates say sustainability needs more than science
• 2007/01/19: WaPo: Texas study suggests link between pollution, cancer
  The study found that living within two miles of elevated levels of 1,3-butadiene around the ship channel's petrochemical complex was associated with a 56 percent increased incidence of childhood acute lymphocytic leukemia compared with those living more than 10 miles away...
• 2007/01/18: BBC: Sex-change chemicals in Potomac
• 2007/01/15: GCC: World Economic Forum: Global Risks Are Outpacing Ability to Mitigate Them
• 2007/01/09: AlterNet: "Zero Waste" -- Can We Create A World Without Waste?
• 2007/01/10: DailyMail(UK): Dead birds rain down on towns half a world apart
• 2007/01/08: Yahoo: Bird deaths shut down downtown Austin
• 2007/01/10: News(Au): Mystery as thousands of dead birds fall from sky
  Thousands of birds have fallen from the skies over Esperance and no one knows why. Is it an illness, toxins or a natural phenomenon? A string of autopsies in Perth have shed no light on the mystery. All the residents of flood-devastated Esperance know is that their "dawn chorus" of singing birds is missing. The main casualties are wattle birds, yellow-throated miners, new holland honeyeaters and singing honeyeaters, although some dead crows, hawks and pigeons have also been found.
• The Ecologist
• 2007/01/04: Tyee: A Rancher's Radioactive Hell - Joe Falkoski says he's being forced by bad laws to allow toxic mining on his land.
• 2007/01/04: CDreams: StLouisPost-Dispatch: Ecological and Social Issues Get Short Shrift at the WTO
• 2007/01/05: FAS:SN: CRS Views EPA Library Closures
• 2007/01/03: Eureka: Hotspots of mercury contamination identified in eastern North America - Harmful levels of neurotoxin are detected in fish and birds
• 2006/12/28: BBC: US body [FDA] backs sale of cloned food
  Meat and milk from cloned animals is safe for human consumption, the US food regulator has ruled. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ruled that cloned cattle, pigs and goats produced food "as safe as the food we eat every day". The decision is a major step towards allowing food from cloned animals onto US supermarket shelves, which could be approved during 2007.
• 2006/12/27: BWeek: Gov't watchdogs under attack from bosses [top government officials]
• 2006/12/26: TruthOut: Antarctic Ozone Layer 90 to 99 Percent Gone
• 2006/12/27: CPunch: Burning EPA's Books - What They Don't Want You to Read Could Save Your Life
• 2006/12/24: Hindu: Asian, Pacific countries must adopt 'green growth' patterns
• 2006/12/22: AlterNet: Why Impeaching Bush Is Good for Our Species
• 2006/12/19: PNAS: Global mammal distributions, biodiversity hotspots, and conservation by Gerardo Ceballos and Paul R. Ehrlich
• 2006/12/19: CDreams: TomDispatch: The Age of Mammals: Looking Back on the First Quarter of the Twenty-First Century
• 2006/12/16: NewScientist: US citizens ignorant of genetically modified diet
• 2006/12/15: CDreams: NYT: Has Politics Contaminated the Food Supply?
• 2006/12/13: BBC: Landmark EU chemical law passed [EU nations will have until 2018 to implement the new rules]
• 2006/12/13: Guardian(UK): Moth threatens prickly end for Mexico's national symbol
• 2006/12/12: ClimateArk: Muzzling Those Pesky Scientists
• 2006/12/11: PRWatch: Important Information Shelved as Federal Libraries Close
• New Scientist Environment
• 2006/12/07: TCR: Bush's EPA to drop lead air pollution limits?
• 2006/12/06: BBC: The European Commission has called for cuts in catches of cod, herring, plaice, whiting and haddock for 2007
• 2006/12/05: CCTimes: Boxer says no more environment rollbacks
• 2006/12/04: ConsInt: Brazil Makes Unprecedented Conservation Announcement
• 2006/12/04: ICH: From the Frying Pan into the Red Mud
• 2006/12/03: EnergyBulletin: Copernicus, Darwin and the cure for autistic economics
• 2006/11/26: SeaShepherd: The Dying Oceans - Awareness Slowly Growing of Collapsing Fish Populations Yet Nations Refuse to Implement Change
• 2006/12/01: OLJ: The planet is taking a hit from unsustainable industrial agriculture [Book Review] _Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture_ by Dale Allen Pfeiffer
• 2006/12/01: SciDaily: Perennial Wheat Offers Environmental And Other Benefits
• 2006/12/01: SciDaily: Seagrass Ecosystems At A 'Global Crisis'
• 2006/11/30: HuffPo: On the side of angels
• 2006/10/06: Wired: Making Water From Thin Air
• 2006/11/28: PhysOrg: Fragmentation rapidly erodes Amazonian biodiversity
• 2006/11/27: TEB: SageGlass, Windows that can be Electronically Switched from Clear to Tinted, One of Top Ten Green Building Products for 2006
• 2006/11/27: BBC: Tuna quotas cut as stocks decline
• 2006/11/25: ZMag: More Poison, Says Bush [methyl bromide]
• 2006/11/24: BBC: Ban on 'brutal' fishing blocked
  United Nations negotiations on fisheries have ended without a global ban on trawling methods which destroy coral reefs and fish nurseries. Conservation groups and some governments had argued for a ban on bottom-trawling, which drags heavy nets and crushing rollers on the sea floor. Negotiators could only agree on a limited set of precautionary measures. Last month, leading scientists warned there would be no sea fish left in 50 years if current practices continued.
• 2006/11/21: EUO: REACH loophole lets carcinogens stay on market
• 2006/11/22: Eureka: Coral reefs are increasingly vulnerable to angry oceans
• 2006/11/20: PEER: EPA is Hastily Disposing of its Library Collections - Orders to Trash Library Holdings Stirs Protests
• 2006/11/21: GristMill: Permanent depress
• 2006/11/21: Guardian(UK): Life drains away from towns built on destruction of the Amazon rainforest
  The clampdown on illegal loggers in Brazil has brought a dramatic decline for local residents
• 2006/11/20: CDreams: Our Salvation: Abiding by Limits
• 2006/11/18: SciDaily: End Of Deforestation In View? Experts Advance New Way To Size Up Global Forest Resources
• 2006/11/17: EnergyBulletin: Fifty Million Farmers
• 2006/11/15: Guardian(UK): China must be consumer society, says World Bank
• 2006/11/12: EnergyBulletin: Attitude adjustment: Facing our ecological predicament
• 2006/11/13: PhysOrg: Phosphorus Found to Be Another Culprit in Gulf of Mexico's 'Dead Zone'
• 2006/11/13: Eureka: Mixing exploitation and conservation: A recipe for disaster
• 2006/11/08: EnergyBulletin: The 'dark matter' of American politics
  ...to listen to the rhetoric of the most recent election campaign, you would conclude that the ecological underpinnings of our civilization are in such good condition that they require virtually no attention.
• 2004/12/22: WHOI: Red Tides and Dead Zones
• 2006/10/26: ScienceNow: Dawn of the Dead Zones
• 2006/11/07: BBC: Toxic chemicals may be causing a pandemic of brain disorders because of inadequate regulation, researchers say.
• 2006/11/07: SciDaily: Learning How Nature Splits Water
• 2006/11/03: EPI: Exploding U.S. Grain Demand for Automotive Fuel Threatens World Food Security and Political Stability
• 2006/11/02: Yahoo: Democrats say hunger report stalled
• 2006/11/01: MoJo: The Thirteenth Tipping Point - 12 global disasters and 1 powerful antidote
• 2006/05/06: Antenna: [Book Review] Feed or Feedback - Agriculture, Population Dynamics and the State of the Planet by A. Duncan Brown
• 2006/11/01: WholeLifeTimes: The End of "Business As Usual" -- David Korten is looking both ways at the crossroads of history
• 2006/11/02: Guardian(UK): Many endangered species stranded outside protected areas, study finds
• 2006/11/01: TerraDaily: Scientists Setting Dollar Value For Ecosystem
• 2006/10/30: Tyee: As Nature Dies -- What does it take to end industry's denial?
• 2006/11/01: SciDaily: New Cost-benefit Model Will Aid Efforts To Conserve Wilderness
• 2006/11/01: NZHerald: Drought hopes hinge on desalination
  Drought-stricken China, where hundreds of millions of people are without regular access to drinking water, is turning to desalinated seawater to help end the crisis, the Government said.
• 2006/10/25: TruthOut: Time Bomb Ticking for Coral Reefs? Experts gather, hear prediction of 60 percent die-off by 2030.
• 2006/10/27: Yahoo: Environmentalist Suzuki to quit spotlight for simple life
  "Nobody any longer knows what a sustainable future is," the bearded, bespectacled environmentalist told Reuters in a recent interview in Australia to promote his book, "David Suzuki: The Autobiography." "I feel like we are in a giant car heading for a brick wall at 100 miles an hour and everyone in the car is arguing where they want to sit. For God's sake, someone has to say put the brakes on and turn the wheel."
• 2006/10/26: AFP: Slow Food movement meets to 'sow seeds of virtuous globalization'
• 2006/10/25: CSM: Never mind altruism: 'Saving the earth' can mean big bucks - Some $1 trillion in 'green' business opportunities await creative entrepreneurs, a report finds.
• 2006/10/25: Eureka: Biodiversity controls ecological 'services,' report scientists in comprehensive analysis
• 2006/10/25: ZMag: Eating the Planet -- Swallowing The Context Of "Earth's Ecological Debt Crisis"
• 2006/10/24: CPunch: The World Needs Its Small Farmers
• 2006/10/24: WWF: (links to pdfs) Living Planet Report
• 2006/10/24: BBC: Global ecosystems 'face collapse'
  Current global consumption levels could result in a large-scale ecosystem collapse by the middle of the century, environmental group WWF has warned.
• 2006/10/24: CBC: Canadians leave heavy ecological footprint: WWF
• 2006/10/24: WSWS: Toxic waste dumping in Ivory Coast
• 2006/10/22: GristMill: Bill McKibben: How close to catastrophe?
• 2006/09/28: NewFarm: Seeking life in the desert, on the desert's terms
• 2006/10/20: CDreams: SF Chronicle: Loss of Species that Pollinate is Cause for Global Alarm, Researchers say
• 2006/10/19: CDreams: Reuters: U.N. Says Number of Ocean "Dead Zones" Rising Fast
• 2006/10/20: CDreams: IPS: Millions of Starving Shame the World, U.N. Says
• 2006/10/20: PlanetArk: UN Says Number of Ocean 'Dead Zones' Rising Fast
• 2006/10/19: Yahoo: Bees, other pollinators may be declining
• 2006/10/18: Wired: Life Inside the Biosphere Bubble
• 2006/10/17: BBC: Iceland begins commercial whaling [becoming the second nation to defy the global moratorium]
• 2006/10/17: Guardian(UK): Japan agrees to cut bluefin tuna catch after admitting overfishing
• 2006/10/16: PhysOrg: Scientists give mixed forecast for Northeast Atlantic fish stocks
• 2006/10/15: AFP: 300 million US consumers make an outsized environmental mark
• 2006/10/10: GwynneDyer: How Long Can the World Feed Itself?
• TreeHugger: Estimated times for the disappearance of man's traces
• 2006/10/10: SwissInfo: Global action on asbestos runs into trouble [ the move had been challenged by Canada]
• 2006/10/10: EnergyBulletin: Economics: Hallucinated Wealth
• 2006/10/09: TruthOut: Earth's Ecological Debt Crisis: Mankind's "Borrowing" From Nature Hits New Record
• 2006/10/09: SeaShepherd: Canada Refuses to Ban Bottom Trawling
• 2006/10/09: EnergyBulletin: Today is World Overshoot Day
• 2006/10/09: PlanetArk: World Hits Annual Sustainable Resource "Overshoot"
• 2006/10/09: BBC: Planet enters 'ecological debt' - Rising consumption of natural resources means that humans began "eating the planet" on 9 October, a study suggests.
• 2006/10/06: CDreams: IPS: Marine Scientists Report Massive "Dead Zones"
• 2006/10/05: SciDaily: New 'Dead Zone' Study May Have Far-ranging Effects On Midwest Agriculture
• 2006/10/03: PhysOrg: Revised shark kill estimates are announced - A U.S. ocean conservation organization estimates as many as 73 million sharks are killed each year worldwide for their valuable fins.
• 2006/10/03: Eureka: Report challenges common ecological hypothesis [the so-called 'abundant-center hypothesis'] about species abundance
• 2006/10/01: STimes: Ecological upheaval on the edge of the ice
• 2006/09/29: CDreams: IPS: Forests Worth Far More Alive Than Dead
• 2006/09/25: Eureka: Carbon capture, water filtration, other boreal forest ecoservices worth estimated $250 billion/year
  Create national accounting systems to reflect all values of boreal forests: Economist
• 2006/09/24: BBC: The UK is pressing the EU for action to stop overfishing of the bluefin tuna, which campaigners say is being fuelled by the demand for sushi
• 2006/09/18: Eureka: Boat paint [TBT - tributyltin] to blame for Norfolk Broads' desolation
• 2006/09/16: EnergyBulletin: Community and Curtailment
• 2006/09/16: NewScientist: Do eco-friendly products harm the environment?
• 2006/09/15: BBC: The World Health Organization (WHO) has reversed a 30-year policy by endorsing the use of DDT for malaria control.
• 2006/09/14: NBC: Military Wants Nerve Gas Waste Dumped Into Delaware River
• 2006/09/13: CSW: "Stealth repeal" of Clean Water Act whistleblower protections could affect science reporting
• 2006/09/14: Eureka: Define 'precautionary principle' to avoid clashes over biotechnology under World Trade rules
• 2006/09/04: EnergyBulletin: Why the Survivalists Have Got It Wrong
• 2006/08/31: EnergyBulletin: Preparing for a Crash: Nuts and Bolts
• 2006/09/04: Guardian(UK): Spain's shellfish industry at risk from toxic chemical plant leak
• Pembina: Ecological Fiscal Reform (EFR)
• 2006/09/03: Guardian(UK): The mystery death, a town in uproar and a $1bn UK mines deal
• 2006/08/27: Engdahl: Monsanto buys ‘Terminator’ Seeds Company
• 2006/08/31: AlterNet: Will the End of Oil Be the End Of Food?
• 2006/08/30: BBC: The long-term recovery of the Iraq marshlands is in doubt because of uncertainties over water supplies to the wetlands...
• 2006/08/29: Asia Times: Turkey's born-again farmer
• 2006/08/25: Reason: Pick Your Poissons - Economic and ecological diversity for fisheries [property-rights, conservation & fisheries]
• 2006/08/27: BBC: Third of China 'hit by acid rain'
• 2006/08/25: EnergyBulletin: The strategy of salvage
• 2006/08/22: TruthOut: Cuba's Pathbreaking Energy Policies
• 2006/08/23: GP: Will the world starve in the 21st century?
• 2006/08/24: Guardian(UK): Indonesia: 11,000 people flee homes as hot toxic mud engulfs villages and farmland
• 2006/08/18: PEER: Bush administration denies protection to 16 desert species
• 2006/08/21: PEER: EPA begins closing libraries before congress acts on plan
  End of Public Access to Technical Holdings as Original Collections Shuttered
• 2006/08/23: Guardian(UK): Oil slick has sunk to seabed, says Greenpeace
• 2006/08/17: TerraDaily: Seabed Dying In The Baltic Sea
• 2006/08/18: BBC: Alarm sounded for farmland birds
  The latest health check on UK bird numbers paints an alarming picture of decline in several threatened species.
• 2006/08/16: FTW: By the Light of a Burning Bridge - A Permanent Goodbye to the United States
• 2006/08/16: EnergyBulletin: Is Sustainable Agriculture an Oxymoron?
• 2006/08/15: EnergyBulletin: Peak Oil and Relocalization in Ohio
• 2006/08/13: WorldChanging: What’s a Clean Earth Worth?
• 2006/08/13: SeattlePI: Cuba's agricultural revolution an example to the world
• 2006/08/05: Yahoo: Acid rain in China threatening food chain
• 2006/08/11: GristMill: Going to jail for the environment
• 2006/08/11: EnergyBulletin: What happens to our food when the oil runs out?
• 2006/08/11: NSU: Escaped GM grass could spread bad news - Rogue golf course strain may harm wild habitats, ecologists warn
• 2006/08/10: EnergyBulletin: The good life in Havana: Cuba's green revolution
  Twenty years ago, following the collapse of the Soviet empire, Fidel Castro's small island faced a food crisis. Today, its network of small urban farmers is thriving, an organic success story that is feeding the nation.
• 2006/08/10: Eureka: Forest fires a huge cost to health
• 2006/08/10: Eureka: 'Dead Zone' causing wave of death off Oregon coast
• EEE: Ecological Economics Encyclopaedia
• 2006/08/08: BBC: Mediterranean on jellyfish alert - Thousands of holidaymakers in the Mediterranean have been stung by jellyfish as huge swarms of the creatures invade coastal waters.
• 2006/08/08: BBC: 'Damage is done' to Lebanon coast
  Lebanon's coastline could take up to 10 years to recover from a massive oil spill, the nation's environment minister [Yacoub Sarraf] has said.
• 2006/08/06: NYT: ‘Dead Zone’ Reappears Off the Oregon Coast
• 2006/08/05: Guardian(UK): Oil slick threat to wildlife of Mediterranean
• 2006/08/03: BBC: China hit by rising air pollution [sulphur dioxide]
• 2006/07/26: MarinJ: Scientists try to find out why the krill is gone
• 2006/08/02: NYT: Unions Say E.P.A. Bends to Political Pressure
  Unions representing thousands of staff scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency say the agency is bending to political pressure and ignoring sound science in allowing a group of toxic chemicals to be used in agricultural pesticides.
• 2006/08/01: KoreaHerald: Along with Peak Oil, Peak Grain and Peak Water, the world enters crisis overload
  A deadly combination of heat and drought is slowly wreaking a trail of devastation across much of the globe, and the full extend of this scourge will only be felt as winter nears. The current phenomenon took meteorologists by surprise as it was unusually global in its reach.
• 2006/08/02: Guardian(UK): Swimming ban hits Italian beaches as toxic algae bloom
• 2006/08/01: Eureka: All the eggs in one basket - Conserving too few sea turtle nesting sites
• 2006/07/31: DVoice: Apocalypse No! An Indigenist Perspective
• 2006/07/31: O250: Converging Ecological Crises: Are We Up To The Challenges?
• 2006/07/30: EarthSky: Benefits, drawbacks of "no-till" farming
• 2006/07/30: PeakEnergy: Not a hair shirt environmentalist nor a fool - America's ten worst greenwashers
• 2006/07/30: LA Times: A Primeval Tide of Toxins
  Runoff from modern life is feeding an explosion of primitive organisms. This 'rise of slime,' as one scientist calls it, is killing larger species and sickening people.
• 2006/07/29: PhysOrg: 'Dead Zone' off Louisiana coast gets larger [6,662 square miles]
• 2006/07/27: Eureka: Marine 'dead zone' off Oregon is spreading
• 2006/07/27: SciDaily: Marine 'Dead Zone' Off Oregon Is Spreading
• 2006/07/25: CC: Earth 'On Verge Of Major Biodiversity Crisis'
• CC: Counter Currents
• 2006/06/: TruthOut: The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
• 2006/07/24: TruthOut: NOAA Forecasts Larger Than Normal "Dead Zone" for Gulf This Summer
• 2006/07/24: TruthOut: 9,000 EPA Scientists Call for an End to Compromising Safety - Mandate to protect human health and the environment threatened.
• 2006/07/26: Eureka: Global coral reef assessment built on NASA images
• 2001//: Gadfly: Perilous Optimism
• 2006/07/26: EnergyBulletin: Homestead security equals free-range chickens, a good dog, and Jerusalem artichokes
• 2006/07/24: TimesDispatch: Not everyone's on board with ethanol
  One critic: The grain needed to fill an SUV's tank could feed a person for a year
• 2006/07/22: Australian: Wheat price soars as world granaries run low
• 2006/07/20: NowTo: Grain drain
  With unstable supplies of staples, we'll need to rethink ethanol as an alt fuel source. - Get ready for Peak Grain. Two months of global food reserves is all that's separating us from mass starvation.
• 2006/07/24: FinFacts: Heatwaves and biofuel demand in Europe and US to fuel bread, pasta and beer price rises
• 2006/07/24: CDreams: OneWorld: Earth 'on Verge of Major Biodiversity Crisis'
• 2006/07/24: CDreams: TomPaine: A Dying Planet
• 2006/07/24: Guardian(UK): Food giants to boycott illegal Amazon soya - UK retailers expected to sign moratorium today - Move hailed as victory for consumer power
• 2006/07/21: EcoEcon: [Book Review] Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
• 2006/07/21: Eureka: Power plants are major influence in regional mercury emissions
• 2006/07/19: PhysOrg: Study: Predators bind ecosystems together
• 2006/07/19: IPSNews: Transforming the Northern Landscape [strip mining Alberta's oil sands]
• 2006/06/: YesMag: The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
• 2006/07/18: Rabble: Resistance ferocious in war of world's big issue
  The anti-environmental insurgency is a fierce thing that has kept the U.S. government in its thrall, making it alter and suppress the conclusions of its own scientists.
• 2006/07/18: PNAS: Prehistoric agricultural depletion of soil nutrients in Hawai'i by A. S. Hartshorn at al.
• 2006/07/18: ENN: China to Invest $175 Billion in Environment Clean-Up
• 2006/07/18: BBC: China plan to protect environment - China plans to spend 1.4 trillion yuan ($175bn) over the next five years on protecting its environment.
• 2006/07/12: WWI: Selected facts and story ideas from _Vital Signs 2006-2007_
• 2006/07/15: OneWorld: Economic Gains Mask Underlying Crises - Report
• 2006/07/16: SHTrib: Red tide scientist's lonely stance is attracting some supporters
• 2006/07/13: PointReyesLight: 46,000 pieces of plastic in every mile of ocean
• 2006/07/17: Eureka: UN review shows need to halt destructive fishing practice - Bottom trawling destroys deep sea life
• 2006/07/17: SciDaily: Bottom Trawling Destroys Deep Sea Life: UN Review Shows Need To Halt Destructive Fishing Practice
• 2006/07/16: WorldChanging: Letter from Tällberg: Getting Serious about the State of the World
• 2006/07/13: SciDaily: Scientists Discover An Ancient Predator-Prey Relationship
• 2006/07/10: VanityFair: G.E.'s Green Gamble - Can General Electric help solve the world's toughest environmental problems and still turn a profit?
• 2006/07/13: PhysOrg: Study: Land use has had profound effects
  U.S. biologists say they've determined 300 years of land-use activities have had profound effects on the Earth's ecosystem. University of New Hampshire scientists George Hurtt, Stephen Frolking and colleagues say land-use changes have affected between 42 percent and 68 percent of the global land surface. They analyzed historical records, satellite data and computer modeling to produce the first global land-use history description designed specifically to allow global carbon and climate models to assess the affects of land-use history, both on the past and current sources and sinks of carbon and climate. Hurtt said the data will allow the next generation of coupled carbon-climate models to include the most advanced representations of land-use practices yet.
• 2006/07/13: BBC: The International Court of Justice has ruled that Uruguay can continue building two pulp mills which Argentina argues will pose a pollution threat.
• 2006/07/12: WaPo: I Am OMB and I Write the Rules
• 2006/07/10: ABC(Au): Asbestos campaigner tells of hate mail
• 2006/07/12: Blackwell: Climate change not the only factor controlling distribution of plant species [a hierarchy of factors]
• 2006/07/12: Eureka: Study shows that parasites form the thread of food webs
• 2006/07/12: SciDaily: Researchers Identify Energy Gains And Environmental Impacts Of Corn Ethanol And Soybean Biodiesel
• 2006/07/12: CDreams: STimes: George Should See Al's Movie
• 2006/07/11: SciDaily: Jellyfish Dominate Fish In Over-harvested Namibian Waters
• 2006/07/10: WorldChanging: The Greening of America
• 2006/07/08: EcoEcon: Some Points to Ponder During Messy Ecological Policy Wars
• 2006/07/07: ABC(Au): Dry [Australian] winter could slash grain crop production [by half]
• 2006/07/08: CDreams: Save Our Oceans by Ralph Nader
• 2006/07/05: RRT: Grain production dropping; fuel thefts rising
• 2006/07/06: TruthOut: Beyond GM Food: New Cutting Edge MAS [Marker Assisted Selection] Technology Makes GM Food Obsolete
• 2006/07/07: TruthOut: Environment vs. Property Rights - Endangered Species Act reform needed? No: Protections are threatened with extinction.
• 2006/07/07: SlashDot: Stephen Hawking Asks The Internet a Question - "How can the human race survive the next hundred years?"
• 2006/07/03: Scotsman: Farming must change to aid environment
• 2006/07/05: BBC: DDT 'link' to slow child progress - Children exposed to the pesticide DDT while in the womb experience development problems, researchers say.
• 2006/07/03: EnergyBulletin: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress
• 2006/07/03: CSM: How to slow the population clock
• The Gaia Foundation
• 2006/06/28: NSU: Crops could make their own fertilizer - Plants that build homes for bacteria could do without chemical nitrogen.
• 2006/06/29: SciDaily: New Research May Reduce Global Need For Nitrogen Fertilizers
• 2006/06/29: OilDrum: Inflationary Collapses, or The NPV of Grandchildren
• 2006/06/29: GristMill: Them's the Breaks [Book Review] _Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America_ by Giles Slade
• 2006/06/29: Eureka: Planning for stewardship an important part of successful ecological restoration
• 2006/06/29: NASA: NASA Study Finds Clock Ticking Slower On Ozone Hole Recovery [will take nearly 20 years longer than scientists previously expected]
• 2006/06/28: LDEO: Study Shows Lack of National Consensus on Teaching K-12 Students about Human-Environmental Impacts
• 2006/06/28: ClimateArk: UN report: Environmental degradation could destroy African economy
• 2006/06/27: PRWatch: U.S. Leads Effort To Shorten EU's REACH
• 2006/06/26: EnergyBulletin: Great book, terrible title. [Book Review] _CPULs - Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes_ by Andre Viljoen
• 2006/06/26: SciDaily: Pesticides Exposure Associated With Parkinson's Disease
• 2006/06/24: BBC: Humans 'destroying coastal life' - Human activity has had a devastating effect on coasts since Roman times, research suggests.
• 2006/06/: YesMag: The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
• 2005/10/16: Times(UK): Waiting for the lights to go out
  We've taken the past 200 years of prosperity for granted. Humanity's progress is stalling, we are facing a new era of decay, and nobody is clever enough to fix it. Is the future really that black...?
• 2006/06/22: EnergyBulletin: A Torrent of Darkness
• 2006/06/22: EnergyBulletin: Fun while it lasted
• 2006/06/21: TransitionCulture: Lovelock's Folly - A Book Review by Albert Bates
• 2006/06/01: EcoEco: Perpetual Economic Growth and Cheap Energy Myths
• 2006/06/21: BDL: Where Oh Where Are the Cedars of Lebanon?
• 2006/06/21: CBC: Ottawa to limit non-stick, stain-repellent chemicals [PFCAs]
• 2006/06/10: People's Daily: U.S. government says wheat production to decline sharply
• 2006/06/20: ABC(Au): Grim outlook for grain production
• 2006/06/20: ArabNews: How Perceived Racism Colors Japan’s Policy on Whaling
• 2006/06/20: Guardian(UK): Deep in permafrost - a seed bank to save the world
  Project aims to protect global food supplies - Three million samples to be housed in giant vault
• 2006/06/19: BBC: Work begins on Arctic seed vault
  Norway is starting construction on a "doomsday vault" in the Arctic which is designed to house all known varieties of the world's crops. Dug into a frozen mountainside on the island of Svalbard, it is hoped the project will safeguard crop diversity in the event of a global catastrophe. More than 100 countries have backed the vault, which will store seeds, packaged in foil, at sub-zero temperatures.
• 2006/06/18: SF Gate: Norway to House Seeds in Doomsday Vault
• 2006/06/19: BBC: Japan gains key whaling victory
• 2006/06/19: Guardian(UK): Whalers secure crucial vote win in bid to overturn ban - Tiny IWC majority declare 1986 moratorium invalid
• 2006/06/18: WorldChanging: A Pair of Ecological Economics Textbooks
• 2006/06/18: QuarkSoup: Tom McCall [Oregon's governor from 1967-1975]
• 2006/06/18: BBC: Japan defeated in new whaling bid
• 2006/06/11: VDM: Viridian Note 00467 Corporate Green
• 2006/06/17: EKathimerini: Greek land drying out, deteriorating - Farming is largely to blame
• EarthPolicy: Eco-Economy Indicators: Trends to Track
• 2006/06/15: EarthPolicy: Eco-Economy Indicators: Grain Harvest - Data
• 2006/06/16: EnergyBulletin: World Grain Stocks Fall to 57 Days of Consumption: Grain Prices Starting to Rise
• 2006/06/17: Guardian(UK): Time running out to curb effects of deep sea pollution, warns UN
• 2006/06/16: ABC(Au): UN urges urgent action on oceans.
• 2006/06/16: BBC: Whaling summit setback for Japan
  Japan has unexpectedly lost a key vote at a meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in the Caribbean island of St Kitts. The pro-whaling nation failed to remove an item from the agenda and prevent discussion on preserving sea mammals.
• 2006/06/16: BBC: Action urged to protect deep seas
  Urgent action is needed to protect the world's oceans from human exploitation, according to [United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) and World Conservation Union (IUCN)] conservationists. They say over-fishing, pollution and climate change are pushing marine areas to the point of no return.
• 2006/06/16: BBC: Leaders 'ignore public' on whales
• 2006/06/13: THP: Farewell to Teflon
• 2006/06/12: EnergyBulletin: Implications of Fossil Fuel Dependence for the Food System
• 2006/06/12: Eureka: Coral death results from bacteria fed by algae
• 2006/06/09: EUO: EU chemicals bill under fire from US-led coalition
• 2006/06/08: GristMill: 'Eco-terrorism': This will go on your permanent record
• 2006/06/08: ClimateArk: Policy makers draw up list of 'top 100' ecological questions
• 2006/06/09: PlanetArk: US, Others Press EU to Re-Think Chemicals Bill
• 2006/06/09: ENN: Canada Wrests Oil from Sands, but at What Cost?
• 2006/06/09: EvolvingThoughts: Biologically realistic politics continued
• 2006//: NewSociety: [Book] _Eating Fossil Fuels - Oil, Food, and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture_ by Dale Allen Pfeiffer
• 2006/06/07: SciDaily: Evidence Human Activities Have Shaped Large-scale Ecological Patterns
• 2006/06/08: SciDaily: More Than Drought Affecting Wheat Yields
• 2006/06/7: JAE: The identification of 100 ecological questions of high policy relevance in the UK by William J. Sutherland et al.
• 2006/06/06: DeSmogBlog: Nix the Nukes; Blix Thinks Environment is Scarier
• 2006/06/06: ICH: Sacred Ecology and Capitalism
• 2006/06/05: GristMill: You are positively glowing this evening, my dear
• 2006/06/05: SciDaily: Acid Rain Causing Decline In Sugar Maples, Say Researchers
• 2006/06/04: Guardian(UK): Ikea's 5p bag charge to tackle litter - Swedish company aims to protect environment by cutting back on plastic
• 2006/06/03: THP: Saving the South Central Farm
• CC: Culture Change
• 2006/06/03: VDM: Viridian Note 00466: Return of the Aral Sea
• 2006/06/03: SciDaily: Ecosystems With Many Plant Species Produce More And Survive Threats Better
• 2006/06/01: CBC: Test shows pollutants in kids' blood, urine
• 2006/06/02: Deltoid: JOEM retracts fraudulent paper
• 2006/06/02: OilDrum: Global Land Use
• 2006/06/01: EnergyBulletin: On catabolic collapse
• 2006/05/30: BBC: Pollution risks Yangtze's 'death' - The Yangtze, China's longest river, is "cancerous" with pollution, reports in the country's state media have said.
• 2006/05/30: WorldChanging: Ecological Handprints: Population and the Limits of Possibility
• 2006/05/29: Rabble: Holding Harper's hand to the fire on environment
• 1968/12/13: SciMag: The Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin
• 2006/05/29: NewScientist: Controversy over claims in favour of GM corn
• 2006/05/29: THP: The Bankruptcy Scam Continues
• 2006/05/26: SciDaily: Overfishing Puts Southern California Kelp Forest Ecosystems At Risk, Report Scientists
• ITTO: International Tropical Timber Organization
• 2006/05/25: BBC: Rainforests 'still at great risk' Most of the world's managed rainforests are still in great jeopardy with only 5% being treated in a sustainable way, a new report has said. Each year 12m hectares of the forests are cleared for agriculture and other development, the International Tropical Timber Organisation report says.
• 2006/05/25: SciDaily: Super-sized Cassava Plants May Help Fight Hunger In Africa
• 2006/05/24: PhysOrg: Chicago plan would pay for 'green roofs'
• WFA: World Fire Atlas
• 2006/05/24: SciDaily: World Fire Maps Now Available Online In Near-real Time
• 2006/05/23: BBC: Fishing 'major threat' to turtles - The endangered loggerhead turtle may face a greater threat than previously realised from longline fishing.
• CACOR: Canadian Association for the Club of Rome
• 2006/05/22: EnergyBulletin: The human ecological footprint
• 2006/05/19: MSN:MC: Wheat Prices Climbing Amid Global Drought
• 2006/05/17: IPSNews: Population: Global Food Supply Near the Breaking Point
• 2006/05/17: Eureka: Himalayan forests disappearing
• 2006/05/17: WaPo: FDA Asked to Better Regulate Nanotechnology
• 2006/05/13: WorldChanging: Greener Miles: Embedded Energy, Life-Cycle Assessments and Greenwashing
• 2006/05/14: Guardian(UK): Resignation letter of Louise Fresco, ADG, FAO
• 2006/05/14: Guardian(UK): UN food agency deputy resigns over leader's 'culture of silence'
• 2006/05/13: Yomiuri: China forcing world to rethink its economic future
• 2006/05/12: CPunch: Does Property Destruction Equal Eco-Terrorism?
• 2006/05/: UMass: The Toxic 100 Table
• 2006/05/09: SciDaily: Copying Nature Could Save Us Energy, Study Shows
• 2006/05/07: ClimateArk: Alaska: Hands off ANWR - The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is too precious to succumb to GOP bullying
• 2006/05/04: CPunch: Green is the New Red - How the Bush Administration is Using Terror Laws to Prosecute Nonviolent Environmental Activists
• 2006/02/13: Orion: Slum Ecology
• 2006/05/02: BBC: 'Clear lead needed' on green life - Environmental advisers to the UK government are urging more radical action to promote green lifestyles.
• 2006/05/01: CPunch: Mercury's Message, 50 Years On - "Minamata is a Disease that was Willfully Inflicted"
• 2006/05/01: Guardian(UK): Memorial for pollution [Minamata disease (mercury poisoning)] victims as Tokyo finally says sorry - thousands of victims are still fighting for compensation
• 2006/04/27: GristMill: Two canards down, lots to go
• 2006/04/26: Wired: The Next Green Revolution - How technology is leading environmentalism out of the anti-business, anti-consumer wilderness.
• 2006/04/25: Eureka: Green idealists - valuable innovators?
• 2006/04/25: BtP: Arctic Oil Nonsense
• 2006/04/24: SeedMag: State of the Planet
• 2006/04/22: CPunch: Jeepers, Creepers, What Happened to the Peepers? Where Are The Frogs?
• 2006/04/21: THP: Earth Day 2006: Saving the Future By Looking to the Past
• 2006/04/18: BC: Wartime Mobilization-Style Effort Needed to Save the Environment and Civilization
• 2006/04/21: Asia Times: Premier outlines environmental goals
• 2006/04/20: Asia Times: Firms to be forced to pay environmental costs
• 2006/04/20: Asia Times: China strips Asia's forests to save its own
• 2006/04/19: SciDaily: Alternatives To The Use Of Nitrate As A Fertiliser
• 2006/04/17: Nola: Dead zone linked to farm subsidies - Some say too little spent on conservation
• 2006/04/18: THP: The 'Dead Zone': You're Paying for It in More Ways Than One
• 2006/04/18: BBC: EU body challenged over GM report Two environmental groups say they have documents which show a double standard on the safety of genetically-modified organisms in the European Commission.
• 2006/04/17: Eureka: McMaster professor leads search for 'holy grail' of green marketing - Embracing environmental sustainability leads to financial success, DeGroote researcher finds
• 2006/04/17: EnergyBulletin: The shape of things to come
• 2006/04/15: CPunch: Taking Care of What We've Been Given - A Conversation with Wendell Berry
• 2006/04/14: BBC: Britain now 'eating the planet' - The UK is about to run out of its own natural resources and become dependent on supplies from abroad
• 2006/04/14: EnergyBulletin: Envisioning a hamlet economy: topology of sustainability and fulfilled ontogeny
• 2006/04/13: GristMill: Toxic (press) releases
• 2006/03/20: NewsTrib: Asarco leaves legal heartburn - Owner could face $1 billion-plus in obligations
• 2006/05/: Sierra: Going for Broke - How a copper giant plans to make the public pay for its toxic mess
• 2006/04/11: PRWatch: Did PR's "Pit Bull" Go After Greenpeace?
• 2006/04/11: Brown: 'Dead Zone' Summer [2001] Killed Billions of Ocean State Mussels
• 2006/04/10: CC: The Darwin Award For Self-Extinction Goes To:
• 2006/04/10: WaPo: Scientists Try to Count Fish in Sea
  With numbers shrinking industry-wide, scientists' counting formulas are all the more crucial. But often, politics is part of the equation as well.
• Wiki: Biosphere II
• 2006/04/07: THP: The Seduction of Apocalypse
• 2006/04/07: Eureka: The future of tropical forests - New projections hopeful
• 2006/04/05: Asia Times: Betting the planet: The sequel
• 2006/04/04: Stanford: Americans pessimistic about future health of environment
• 2006/04/03 SciDaily: Ocean 'Dead Zones' Trigger Sex Changes In Fish, Posing Extinction Threat
• 2006/04/01: CDreams:IPS: Biodiversity: Environmentalists, Indigenous People Disappointed by COP8
• 2006/04/01: Eureka: Value of services performed by insects tops $57 billion in US
• 2006/03/31: NSU: Barren soil is starving Africans - Experts call for focus on fertilizing exhausted earth
• 2006/03/31: TruthOut: How Environmentalists Lost the Battle Over TCE
• 2006/03/31: NewScientist: Soil health crisis threatens Africa's food supply
• 2006/03/29: SciDaily: Seagrass Is In Decline Worldwide
• 2006/03/30: BBC: 'Barren future' for Africa's soil Africa's farmland is rapidly becoming barren and incapable of sustaining the continent's already hungry population, according to a report. The report shows that more than 80% of the farmland in Sub-Saharan Africa is plagued by severe degradation.
• 2006/03/30: Guardian(UK): Pentagon blocked move to make water safer - Contaminating solvent used on military bases - Agency feared significant health risk for millions
• 2006/03/29: PRWatch: Somebody's Watching You
• 2006/03/28: EnergyBulletin: Making us 'future-proof' -- the evolving role of horticulture
• 2006/03/27: UNH: Seagrass Is In Decline Worldwide, Says UNH Researcher From New Hampshire’s Great Bay to Tsunami-Ravaged Thailand, Critical Ecosystems Have Diminished; Human Activity Is to Blame
• 2006/03/26: AllAfrica: NewVision: Uganda Loses 26% Forest Cover
• 2006/03/24: UN: At UN, countries agree on guidelines to better manage the world’s fish stocks
• 2006/03/26: DeutscheWelle: "We Can't Live Without Ecosystems" [Interview with the future head of the United Nations Environment Program, Achim Steiner]
• 2006/03/24: ForestTrends: US, EU Consumption Driving Chinese Imports of Illegal Wood from Around the World
• Forest Trends
• 2006/03/24: SciDaily: Protecting Endangered Species Helps Reduce Poverty, World Wildlife Fund Study Finds
• 2006/03/23: Cornell: 'Slow, insidious' soil erosion threatens human health and welfare as well as the environment, Cornell study asserts
• 2006/03/22: EdgewiseBlog: The nation has never seen anything like this - Conservationists Vie To Buy Forest Habitat
• 2006/03/21: OilDrum: Can sustainable farming feed the world?
• 2006/03/20: BBC: Decline in migrating bird numbers - Birds which migrate long distances have suffered a population fall, the most extensive poll for 20 years has found.
• Global Biodiversity Outlook 2
• 2006/03/20: BBC: Life's diversity 'being depleted' Virtually all indicators of the likely future for the diversity of life on Earth are heading in the wrong direction, a major new report [The Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO)] says.
• 2006/01/16: APN: Why the Rich Oppose Environmentalism
• 2006/03/13: CounterCurrents: The End Of Civilization
• 2006/03/18: WashPost: Looser Emission Rules RejectedCourt Says Changes By EPA Violated Clean Air Act
• 2006/03/17: PlanetArk: German [Achim Steiner] Named to Head UN Environment Agency [UNEP]
• 2006/03/15: HSPH: Harvard Six Cities Study Follow Up: Reducing Soot Particles Is Associated with Longer Lives
• 2006/03/14: ZMag: The Coming Resource Wars
  America's closest ally has announced that climate change has ushered in an era of violent conflict over energy, water and arable land.
• 2006/03/14: BBC: Euro MPs back mercury crackdown - Members of the European Parliament have approved tough measures to reduce the use of mercury in Europe.
• 2006/03/13: PRWatch: Anti-Enviro Front Groups Grow on Trees
• 2006/03/11: TruthOut: 'Surveillance, Infiltration, and Harassment of Environmental Organizations'
• 2006/03/12: Guardian(UK): Add to Bush's follies the rape of his own country
  The despoilment of the Appalachians is typical of the President's bankrupt environmental policies
• 2006/03/08: TruthOut: Hidden Ties: Big Environmental Changes Backed by Big Industry
• 2006/03/11: BBC: Alaska hit by 'massive' oil spill
• 2006/03/11: EnergyBulletin: The new biofuel republics
  Poor developing nations are to feed the voracious appetites of rich countries for biofuels instead of their own hungry masses, and suffer the devastation of their natural forests and biodiversity.
• 2006/03/10: CPunch: War on the First Amendment - The Great Green Scare and the Fed's 'Case' Against Rod Coronado
• 2006/03/09: NewScientist: Did humans decimate Easter Island on arrival?
• 2006/03/09: ENN: House Moves to Strip Warnings from Food Labels
• 2006/03/06: ADN: Source of Prudhoe Bay oil spill found - Gurgling: Worker heard leak; critic says spill is 798,000 gallons.
• 2006/03/07: SciDaily: New Study Confirms The Ecological Virtues Of Organic Farming
• 2006/03/07: EnergyBulletin: Planning for the future of farming
• 2006/03/05: Independent(UK): Ministers back 'terminator' GM crops - Website reveals plan to scrap prohibition on seeds that threaten Third World farmers with hunger
• 2006/03/04: Guardian(UK): Illegal fishing worth $9bn a year, says report
• 2006/03/03: EnergyBulletin: Help yourselves [4 Book Reviews]
  Ecological Ethics: An Introduction, by Patrick Curry
  Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis, by Jeremy Leggett
  The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back - And How We Can Still Save Humanity, by James Lovelock
  State of the World 2006: The Challenge of Global Sustainability, edited by Linda Starke
• GRAIN
• 2006/02/28: SciDaily: Predators Keep The World Green, Ecologists Find
• 2006/03/01: BBC: PNG rainforest 'in grave danger'
  The natural forests of Papua New Guinea are in danger of being wiped out because of illegal logging, according to a conservation organisation [Forest Trends].
• 2006/02/22: PastPeak: "We Have To Get Smart Fast"
• Millennium Seed Bank Project
• 2006/02/25: ZMag: Ban Terminator Campaign - Monsanto Turns about on Terminator
• 2006/02/23: ENN: Cash Crunch Looms for 'Noah's Ark' Seed Project
• 2006/02/24: ZMag: The perverse nature of agribusiness for Brazilian society
• 2006/02/24: EnergyBulletin: Reflections on Six Years of Relieving Oneself into a Bucket.
• 2006/02/22: EnergyBulletin: Organic fruit and vegetable growing as a national policy: the Cuban story
• 2006/02/22: GristMill: The Weinberg Group and manufacturing uncertainty
• 2006/02/22: IRNA: UN agency launches new 'green' initiative for world's construction industry
• 1998/12/: UMESC: Agricultural Non-point Pollutant Loading Patterns in Upper Mississippi River Watersheds by Prasanna H. Gowda
• 2006/02/21: Eureka: Horseshoe crab decline threatens shorebird species
• Tree of Life Web Project
• 2006/02/15: DeltaFarmPress: Economist: Bad news on energy costs
• 2006/02/17: GristMill: Segway creator aims for bottom of pyramid [water purifier]
• 2006/02/16: GristMill: Genetically modified hubris
• 2006/02/16: Eureka: Study finds no safe level for ozone
• 2006/02/16: ZMag: Creating An Ecological, Worker Run Co-operative - A personal history of Reverse Garbage in Brisbane
• 2006/02/16: ZMag: WTO vs. Europe: Less-and Also More-Than it Seems [GMOs]
• 2006/02/15: BBC: Eco-farming 'helps world's poor' - Sustainable farming methods can help the poorest farmers in developing nations out of poverty, new research suggests.
• 2006/02/15: BBC: Toxic cane toads [in Australia] are evolving into a 'eco-nightmare' that are able to cover huge distances, a study says.
• 2006/02/13: Guardian(UK): America's masterplan is to force GM food on the world
  The reason the US took Europe to the WTO court was to prise open lucrative markets elsewhere
• 2006/02/10: THP: Meet The Real Eco-Terrorists
• 2006/02/09: GC: The Problem of Denial
• 2000/10/: GC: Revisiting The Limits to Growth: Could The Club of Rome Have Been Correct, After All?
• 2006/01/23: EPI: [ebook] Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble by Lester R. Brown
• 2006/02/09: GristMill: U.S. about to become net food importer
• 2006/02/08: GristMill: WTO to EU: Belly up, sucka
• 2006/02/07: Eureka: UMaine teams with fishermen to study affects of trawling on seafloor ecology
• 2006/02/08: THP: What's With Selling Off Forest Lands?
• 2006/02/07: BBC: The World Trade Organization (WTO) has ruled that the European Union illegally stopped imports of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) from the US.
• 2006/02/08: Guardian(UK): US wins WTO backing in war with Europe over GM food
• 2006/02/07: NSU: US gets a failing grade on ocean care - Non-governmental commission [Joint Ocean Commission Initiative] delivers damning report card.
• 2006/02/06: ENN: Huge U.N. Environment Summit Kicks off with Chemicals Treaty
• 2006/02/07: CPunch: A History of Regulatory Capitulation to the Chemical Industry - The Problem with Mercury
• 2006/02/06: TheAge: Consuming the future
• 2006/02/06: Time: The Political Science Test - Bush said science would guide his decisions, but those in the lab see ideology intruding on their work
• 2006/02/06: BBC: Summit focuses on chemical usage
  Environment ministers from around the world are meeting in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates to discuss the rising use of man-made chemicals.
• 2006/02/06: BBC: Row over risks of farm chemicals - Scientists have criticised a report on crop spraying and its risks to health.
• 2006/02/04: Eureka: Pitt professor's article considers nature as a service provider - Development of ecological management system supports integration of economics and ecology
• 2006/02/04: CPunch: Black Gold, Black Death - Oil Sands Frenzy in Canada
• 2006/02/04: Asia Times: Biotech crops find fertile ground in India
• 2006/02/03: ZMag: It's capitalism or a habitable planet -- you can't have both
  Our economic system is unsustainable by its very nature. The only response to climate chaos and peak oil is major social change
• 2006/02/02: ICH: It's capitalism or a habitable planet - you can't have both
• 2006/02/02: EnergyBulletin: It's capitalism or a habitable planet - you can't have both
• 2006/02/03: Guardian(UK): Meet the green house pioneers
• 2006/02/02: THP: Will God Still Bless America if We Despoil the Earth?
• 2006/02/02: BBC: US firms must go green, says Gore
  Corporate America must face up to green and ethical challenges if they are to avoid disaster, former US Vice President Al Gore has told the BBC.
• 2006/01/30: THN: Costs draining farms - Cost of natural gas continues to drive farmers away from irrigation
• 2006/01/28: Turkish Press: ExxonMobil seeks to pay reduced damages for [1989] Valdez spill
• 2006/01/23: WashPost: Oceans in Peril
• 2006/01/25: MediaTransparency: Chilling dissent
  As the Bush Administration ratchets up domestic spying the FBI is collecting 'research' reports on 'direct action' environmental groups produced by right wing think tanks
• 2006/01/27: EnergyBulletin: Public health in a post-petroleum world
• 2005//: SPO: Facing the New Dark Age: A Grassroots Approach
• 2005//: WTV: How Civilizations Fall: A Theory of Catabolic Collapse by John Michael Greer
• 2006/01/25: AlterNet: Planet Earth, Year 2050 [MEA]
• 2006/01/25: BBC: Coral, mangroves good for economy
  Coral reefs and mangroves are worth protecting for economic reasons, contributing as much as $1m per sq km to tropical economies.
• 2006/01/23: Eureka: Sustainable farm practices improve Third World food production
• 2006/01/22: GristMill: 'Eco-terrorism': Threat or menace?
• 2006/01/22: BBC: A massive cull of grey squirrels is to take place across Britain to try to halt declining numbers of the endangered native red population.
• 2006/01/03: SEB: Buried sunshine
• (pdf 141k) Dukes, J.S. 2003. Burning buried sunshine: human consumption of ancient solar energy. Climatic Change, 61(1-2): 31-44.
• 2006/01/20: TruthOut: 'Green' Measures Key to Earth's Future, [Millennium Ecosystem Assessment] Report Says
• 2006/01/21: BBC: US 'eco-terrorists' [ALF & ELF] face charges
• 2006/01/19: SeaShepherd: 17 Nations Denounce Japanese Whaling Activities in the Southern Oceans
• 2006/01/19: ZNet: Point of No Return?
• Fundamentals of Physical Geography
• 2006/01/18: PRWatch: Spinning Nukes
• 2006/01/18: PRWatch: Corporate Ads Grow Greener
• 2006/01/18: Eureka: Public support for environmental protection on the decline - Public deems job creation as federal government's top nonterrorism and war-related domestic priority
• FAO: 2000//: GAEZ Global Agro-Ecological Zones
• 2006/01/12: GeorgiaStraight: Canadians create a huge footprint
• 2006/01/17: OilDrum: Environmentalists: Global Warming Trumps NIMBYism
• 2006/01/17: EnergyBulletin: Lovelock: 'We are past the point of no return'
• 2006/01/16: ZMag: Japan v the Whales
• Penguin(UK): _The Revenge of Gaia_ by James Lovelock
• 2006/01/17: GlobalEcho: The Point of no Return - Where James Lovelock Meets BP
• 2006/01/16: Independent(UK): Why Gaia is wreaking revenge on our abuse of the environment
• 2006/01/16: Independent(UK): Environment in crisis: 'We are past the point of no return'
• 2006/01/15: Independent(UK): James Lovelock: The Earth is about to catch a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000 years
  Each nation must find the best use of its resources to sustain civilisation for as long as they can
• 2006/01/13: PRWatch: Fumento's Genetically Engineered Columns
• 2006/01/12: SciDaily: Report Studies Impact Of Massive Turnover Of Timberland In New England's Northern Forest
• 2006/01/12: PlanetArk: China, India Offer Ecological Wake-Up Call - Report
• 2006/01/11: NewScientist: China and India 'hold the world in balance'
• 2006/01/12: NewScientist: Doomsday vault to avert world famine
• 2006/01/12: ZMag: China's Pollution and the Threat to Domestic and Regional Stability
• 2006/01/12: BBC: Booming nations 'threaten Earth'
  Earth lacks the water, energy and agricultural land to allow China and India to attain Western living standards, a US think-tank has warned. The Worldwatch Institute said the booming economies of China and India are "planetary powers that are shaping the global biosphere".
• 2006/01/12: BBC: 'Doomsday' seed bank to be built
  Norway is planning to build a "doomsday vault" inside a mountain on an Arctic island to hold a seed bank of all known varieties of the world's crops.
• 2006/01/12: EnergyBulletin: The Four Horsemen of Industrial Society: War, Over-Population, Climate Change & Peak Oil
• 2006/01/11: PhysOrg: 'Doomsday vault' to house world's seeds
• 2006/01/10: Eureka: Report shows deforestation threatens Brazil's Pantanal - Almost half of the Paraguay River Basin that includes vast Pantanal wetlands already transformed into grazing and crop lands
• 2006/01/10: BBC: The European Parliament has passed a resolution demanding pressure on China to ban the farming of bears for bile.
• 2006/01/05: ABC(Au): Atlantic fish dwindling from trawling: study
• 2006/01/07: CPunch: The Global Spread of GMO Crops - Inherit the Wind
• 2006/01/05: SciDaily: Diversity Of Marine Life In Gulf Of Maine Much Greater Than Previously Thought
• 2006/01/06: BBC: Marine reserves 'good' for reefs - Marine reserves give a boost to coral reefs as well as fish stocks, new research shows
• 2006/01/06: Asia Times: China's threatening environment
• 2006/01/06: BBC: Population size 'green priority'
• 2006/01/05: SciDaily: Tomato Trek Yields Chilean Treasure
• 2006/01/05: SciDaily: Ocean Survey Reveals Tiny Carnivorous Sponges, Eerie Dead Zone, And More
• 2006/01/03: Eureka: History of human cannibalism eats away at researchers
• 2006/01/03: NSU: Ancient genetic tricks shape up wheat - Turning back the evolutionary clock offers better crops for dry regions.
• 2006/01/03: AlterNet: The Greening of Goldman Sachs
• 2006/01/01: BDL: The Economist on wheat
• 2006/01/02: BBC: Norway has slapped a tax on milk and juice cartons in a drive to persuade producers and consumers to increase recycling of rubbish.
• 2006/01/01: Guardian(UK): French accused of Pacific nuclear cover-up - High cancer rates in Polynesian islands are blamed on 30 years of test explosions at Mururoa
• 2005/07/25: Guardian(UK): GM crops created superweed, say scientists
• 2005/12/27: ABC(Au): Japan accuses Greenpeace of piracy [under article 101 of the United Nations Law of the Sea]
• 2005/12/21: NSU: DuPont fined over safety data on Teflon chemical - Risks of possible carcinogen [perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)] lead to largest ever fine.
• 2005/12/22: NYT: It's Getting Crowded on the Environmental Bandwagon
• 2005/12/23: Eureka: Studying the fate of drugs in wastewater
• 2005/12/20: TOD: So let's talk about population
• 2005/12/20: GristMill: Wiretaps, spying, and 'eco-terrorism'
  It's not paranoia if they're really watching you, and at this point, environmental activists should assume, until it is otherwise demonstrated, that they are being watched.
• 2005/12/20: CPunch: "Eco Terrorism": Cui Bono?
• 2005/12/20: CPunch: Empire of Shame - A Conversation with Jean Ziegler [Rapporteur at the UN on questions of food resources]
• 2005/12/20: ACLU: New Documents Show FBI Targeting Environmental and Animal Rights Groups Activities as 'Domestic Terrorism'
• 2005/12/18: Guardian(UK): Puffins being wiped out as shrub chokes nesting sites
• 2005/12/16: BBC: Radiation alert at Chechen plant
  Prosecutors in Chechnya have opened a criminal investigation after finding "catastrophic" levels of radioactivity at a chemical factory in the republic.
• 2005/11/30: ABC(Au): GM crop failure a warning, says US adviser
• 2005/12/13: BBC: European Union ministers have approved a landmark law on chemicals, after two years of discussion and lobbying.
• 2005/12/12: CSM: US makes strides against 'ecoterrorism' - The arrest of six activists comes as Congress considers increased penalties. But acts of intimidation are also rising.
• 2005/12/12: BBC: Arctic orcas highly contaminated - Killer whales have become the most contaminated mammals in the Arctic, new research indicates.
• Tree Hugger
• 2005/12/10: CPunch: Advertisements, Infomercials and Stacatto News - The Widening Wasteland of the American Media
• 2005/12/09: NewScientist: Buckyballs could disrupt functioning of DNA
• NASA:GSFC: Aura (satellite)
• 2005/12/08: EnergyBulletin: Cities, peak oil, and sustainability
• 2005/12/07: BBC: India hits back in 'bio-piracy' battle
• 2005/12/06: Guardian(UK): Food crisis feared as fertile land runs out - Maps show 40% of Earth's land is used for agriculture
• 2005/12/07: GristMill: Two takes on Monsanto
• 2005/12/07: SciDaily: New Maps Reveal True Extent Of Human Footprint On Earth
• 2005/12/07: BBC: Delay expected in ozone recovery
  It could take far longer than expected for the ozone "hole" over Antarctica to repair itself, scientists have said.
• 2005/12/07: WSWS: Study finds hundreds of toxic chemicals in umbilical cords of newborns
• 2005/11/30: EmbassyMag: Alberta Oil Sands Growing Source of Pollution: Report
• 2005/12/02: NSU: US pushes limits on ozone destroyer [methyl bromide]
• 2005/12/05: Eureka: Modern forests suffer from century-old logging legacy
• 2005/12/05: Eureka: New [SAGE] maps reveal true extent of human footprint on Earth
• 2005//: SAGE: Global Land Use Database
• 2005/12/04: WorldChanging: Eco-Literacy and America's 'Nature-Deficit Disorder'
• 2005/11/30: TruthOut: Zeroing Out the Messenger - Senator [Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho)] eliminates funds for center on salmon survival.
• 2005/12/02: CDreams: LA Times: EPA Seeks to Cut Toxics Reporting - Thousands of Firms Could Stop Reporting Emissions
• 2005/12/03: WashPost: Report Accuses EPA of Slanting Analysis - Hill Researchers Say Agency Fixed Pollution Study to Favor Bush's 'Clear Skies'
• 2005/12/02: BBC: People living in towns and cities are dominating the environmental debate and overlook the opinion of rural dwellers, a leading botanist has said.
• 2005/12/01: AllAfrica: IRIN: Zimbabwe: Drought Decimates Wildlife in Game Reserve
• 2005/12/01: Eureka: Overfishing in inland waters reduces biodiversity and threatens health
• 2005/12/01: SciDaily: Species Take Care Of Each Other In Ecological Communities
• 2005/11/30: BBC: The chief minister of Malaysia's biggest state has accused a number of organisations of conducting "smear campaigns" about logging within the state's tropical rainforest.
• 2005/12/02: TxFB: Energy: The High Cost of Farming - Fertilizer prices sky high!
• 2005/11/30: SciDaily: Bird Song Changes Sound Alarm Over Habitat Fragmentation
• 2005/11/30: PRWatch: Swiss Freeze Biotech Rollout
• 2005/11/30: IRNA: EU, US paying $13 billion in illegal agricultural subsidies
• 2005/11/26: Scotsman: Nitrogen is biggest environmental threat
• 2005/11/27: SciDaily: Green Roofs In Winter: Hot Design For A Cold Climate
• 2005/11/27: BBC: Switzerland 'backs GM crop ban'
• 2005/11/22: TruthOut: Forests Paying the Price for Biofuels
• 2005/11/26: Guardian(UK): Listen to the trees [Book Review] _The Secret Life of Trees_ by Colin Tudge
• 2005/11/26: CPunch: Rodent Trials Show Biotech is Squeaky Unclean - Of Mice, Men and GM Peas
  A 3 million dollar, ten-year trial of genetic modification (GM) on field peas at The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia's national science research organization, was scrapped last week (November 18, 2005) when the GM pea caused inflammation in the lungs of mice it was fed to.
• 2005/11/25: CBC: Group places dollar value on environmental benefits of Canada's forest
• 2005/11/25: ClimateArk: Canada: Forest report puts dollar value on clean water, stable climate
• 2005/11/25: BBC: Chinese toxic leak into the Songhua river was 100 tonnes, the equivalent of 10 tanker-loads of toxic chemicals
• 2005/11/18: WRAL: Papers: DuPont Hid Chemical Risk Studies
• Global Footprint Network
• 2005/11/23: SeattlePI: (cartoon - Horsey) Terrorist Alert
• 2005/11/23: GristMill: Green Gauge Report: Bad news
• 2005/11/23: ClimateArk: Terror Against the Biosphere
• 2005/11/23: PRWatch: Hill & Knowlton Lobbies for fluorinated gases [F-gases]
• 2005/11/22: BBC: Hunger kills '6m children a year'
  No developing region is on track to meet the international goal of reducing the number of hungry people by half, a UN agency has warned.
• 2005/11/20: Guardian(UK): Population 1: the town that's been reclaimed by the prairie - As rural economies collapse, communities across America are being deserted
• 2005/11/18: PRWatch: What Studies? Oh, Those Studies! [DuPont, Teflon, Zonyl & perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)]
• 2005/11/15: Eureka: The dangerous legacy of lead - Research shows disruption to key immune cells in mice
• 2005/11/14: BBC: The speed of global deforestation is showing signs of slowing down because of new planting and natural forest extension, according to new figures.
• 2005/11/12: GristMill: All decked out - The Amazon is being illegally cleared at unprecedented rates
• 2005/11/13: MSNBC: Profiling: How the FBI Tracks Eco-Terror Suspects
• 2005/11/12: ZMag: Curitiba - An alternative urban model in Brazil
• 2005/11/11: Telegraph(UK): Green fuel plan 'will destroy rainforests'
• 2005/11/11: Eureka: Ranks of 'environmental refugees' swell, calls grow for better definition, recognition, support
• 2005/11/: ASPO: The Energy Cost of Agriculture
• 2005/11/09: Eureka: Research: In environmental policy, we get what we pay for
• 2005/11/08: SciDaily: Rainforest Conservation Worth The Cost, University Of Alberta Shows
• Solar Water Still Plans
• Solar Water Distillation - Stills
• 2005/11/07: uComics: (cartoon - Toles) Nation Parks Mission...
• 2005/11/07: NewScientist: Marauders continue to plunder the oceans
• 2005/11/07: ABC(Au): Japan's whaling program 'breaks international law'
• 2005/11/04: PeakEnergy: Mad Max Meets American Gothic
• 2005/11/05: ClimateArk: Ecological implications of the Amazonian drought affect all
• 2005/11/04: PRWatch: Something Fishy in the Paper
• 2005/11/04: PlanetArk: Illegal Logging Devours Honduran Forests - US Group
• 2005/10/27: WorldChanging: Sterling: The planet *is* an ark
• 2005/10/31: ClimateArk: UN warns of poverty as world’s lakes evaporate
• 2005/10/30: Eureka: Sustainable agriculture: Canadian institute offers definition, recommends path
• 2005/10/25: PRWatch: Monsanto's Anti-Politics Machine
• 2005/10/23: SciDaily: Wetlands Satellite Mapping Scheme Yielding First Results
• JFS: Japan for Sustainability - JFS Indicators
• 2005/10/18: SeaShepherd: Feds Give Authorization to San Diego to Wipe Out the Seals in La Jolla, California
• 2005/10/21: Globe&Mail: China emerges as main threat to Asian forests
• 2005/10/20: NSU: Brazilian Amazon being cut down twice as fast - 'Selective logging' could harm forest's ability to suck up greenhouse gases.
• 2005/10/21: New Scientist: Logging threat to Amazon much greater than thought
• 2005/10/21: Eureka: Seeing the forest and the trees - Study finds that loss of tree diversity affects the ability of tropical forests
• 2005/10/20: CBC: Logging damage in Amazon underestimated, satellites show
• 2005/10/21: BBC: Scientists from Brazil and the US say new research suggests deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has been underestimated by at least 60%.
• 2005/10/21: Guardian(UK): Amazon rainforest vanishing at twice rate
• 2005/10/21: Guardian(UK): [Amazon] 'There are too many dead fish to ever count'
• 2005/10/20: Asia Times: Myanmar gets a friend, China gets its forests
• 2005/10/19: ENN: Environmental Studies Waived in Push for New Oil, Gas Drilling
• 2005/10/19: Guardian(UK): China 'strips forests in Burma'
• 2005/10/18: BBC: China 'devastating Burma forests'
  Illegal logging by Chinese timber companies is devastating large stretches of Burma's forests, an environmental watchdog [Global Witness] has claimed.
• 2005/10/17: GristMill: A well-oiled machine - Big Ag is nervous about energy costs
• 2005/10/13: RepublicNews: The plan is...there is no plan - Oil disruptions are becoming a fact of life: how does Canada survive one?
• 2005/10/17: TheAge: Minister upset by drought aid argument
• 2005/10/12: TruthOut: A Greener World - A Possible Dream
• 2005/10/15: ClimateArk: The rise of the eco-city
• 2005/10/13: WorldChanging: Biomimicry 101
• 2005/10/15: Guardian(UK): Beleaguered African villagers fearful of big game project
• 2005/10/14: PlanetArk: Bush Admin Seeks to Weaken Utility-Emission Rules
• 2005/10/15: Deltoid: The worst crime of the 20th century. Whodunnit?
• 2005/10/13: CPunch: America's Endangered Forests
• 2005/10/14: Guardian(UK): Flood link to logging in doubt - Deforestation not cause of disasters, UN report says
• 2005/10/12: BBC: Logging: No impact on big floods
• 2005/10/10: UN: World must hurry to save environment or face global poverty, UN official warns
• 2005/10/11: CPunch: Strategic Demands of the 21st Century - A New Vision for a New World
• 2005/10/11: BBC: Millions 'will flee degradation' - There will be as many as 50 million environmental refugees in the world in five years' time.
• 2005/10/11: BBC: Deaths are down to over-heating - Air pollution is wrongly blamed for many of the deaths that occur during spells of hot weather, research suggests.
• 2005/10/10: ESA: Wetlands satellite mapping scheme yielding first results
• 2005/10/10: BBC: Greenpeace loses dolphins battle
• 2005/10/05: EUO: Regions not allowed to ban GMOs, court rules
• 2005/10/09: IRNA: Efforts to achieve food sufficiency to continue
• GTI: Great Transition Initiative
• GSG: Global Scenario Group
• 2005/10/09: EnergyBulletin: Charting the journey home
• 2005/10/09: EnergyBulletin: Oil and American politics
• 2005/10/09: EnergyBulletin: Organizing ecological revolution
• 2005/10/08: EnergyBulletin: Willits getting attention for taking sustainability seriously
• 2005/10/07: TomPaine: Caring For Creation
• 2005/10/07: TruthOut: 'Caribou People' Wage Last Stand in the Arctic
• 2005/10/04: SciDaily: Boiler Modifications Cut Mercury Emissions 70 Percent Or More, Research Team Finds
• 2005/10/04: BBC: Conservation groups are calling for a UN moratorium on the fishing practice known as bottom trawling.
• 2005/09/24: WWUB: The growing cost of growing wheat
• 2005/10/03: PRWatch: Stepping Up the Attack on Green Activists
• 2005/10/03: CPunch: The Great Green Scare
• 2005/09/30: AlterNet: Stepping Up the Attack on Green Activists
• 2005/09/30: BBC: Europe is 'fuelling ivory trade'
• 2005/09/29: MSNBC: Nature's Design Workshop [biomimicry] - Engineers turn to biology for inspiration.
• 2005/09/28: CPunch: Logging Agreement Won't Protect British Columbia's Grizzlies - Cutting the Bears Out of the Great Bear Rainforest
• 2005/09/28: ZMag: Consumerism As A Social Disease
• 2005/09/28: BBC: GM crop impact 'lasts two years'
• 2005/09/28: Guardian(UK): Store world's nuclear waste here, says ex-pm [Australian, Bob Hawke]
• 2005/09/26: SciDaily: MERIS Monitoring Tracks Planetary Photosynthesis Levels
• 2005/09/26: BBC: North Sea 'needs joined-up thinking'
  The North Sea needs to be managed as a complete ecosystem if fish stocks and fishing livelihoods are to be maintained for the future.
• 2005/09/25: FWeek: Fertilizer Costs Soar; Farmers Face Tough Decisions
• 2005/09/24: WWUB: The growing cost of growing wheat
• 2005/09/24: WWUB: The growing cost of growing wheat
• 2005/09/23: TruthOut: Rewrite of Endangered Species Law Approved
• 2005/09/23: ESA: MERIS monitoring tracks planetary photosynthesis levels
• 2005/09/21: CPunch: Bait and Switch in the Bitterroot
• 2005/09/20: CPunch: Toxic Gumbo - Hurricane Katrina and Environmental Justice
• 2005/09/18: EM: Ecological Collapse and Creeping Fascist Responses - Under Veil of Response to Human Exacerbated Hurricane, Civil Liberties to Be Further Eroded
• Earth Meanders
• 2005/09/19: Wired: How Vile Is Katrina's Toxic Goo?
• UNEP: The Living Planet Index - Forest Ecosystem Index
• WWF: LPI - Living Planet Index
• 2005/09/19: PRWatch: Katrina's Environmental Secrets
• RProgress: Redefining Progress - Sustainability Indicators
• Sustain: The Genuine Progress Indicator
• RP: Genuine Progress Indicator
• 2005/09/18: DMD: What to do in a failing civilization
• (website) David M. Delaney
• 2005/09/19: EnergyBulletin: What to do in a failing civilization
• 2005/09/15: PlausibleFutures: Over Shoot The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
• 2005/09/17: ZMag: World Faces Prospect of Teeming Mega-Slums
• 2005/09/16: ClimateArk: UN predicts smaller ozone hole
• 2005/09/16: Eureka: Tobacco industry weakened pesticide regulations, UCSF study shows
• 2005/09/16: ZMag: Left Behind - Bush's Holy War on Nature
• 2005/09/15: ZMag: Reclaiming Commons -- Old And New -- Presentation to the "Other World's conference"
• 2005/09/16: PRWatch: Playing the Blame Game
• 2005/09/16: Tomdispatch: Chip Ward, Bush's Holy War on Nature
• 2005/09/16: Guardian(UK): Katrina oil spills may be among worst on record
• 2005/09/14: Guardian(UK): Brussels wins right to force EU countries to jail polluters
• 2005/09/: WashMonthly: Burning Atlanta
• 2005/09/01: SWM: Love Canal-type landfill submerged in New Orleans floodwaters
• 2005/09/12: CPunch: Let Them Eat Toxins
• 2005/09/12: PRWatch: Exclusive Brethren's Covert Smear Campaign Unmasked [New Zealand election]
• 2005/09/12: ABC(Au): Call to set up national sustainability charter
• 2005/09/08: RS: A Polluter's Feast
  Bush has reversed more environmental progress in the past eight months than Reagan did in a full eight years
• 2005/09/11: Cryptome: NRC OKs 10,000 Year Yucca Nuke Safety
• 2005/09/11: ClimateArk: Building green always made sense -- now it's beginning to pay off

• EC: NWRI - National Water Research Institute
• Green Peace Canada
• Clean Air Canada
• Sierra Legal Defense Fund
• WWF International
• (USA) League of Conservation Voters
• EDIE
• Environmental Defense
• CRMN: Clary-Meuser Research Network
• English Nature
• (website) PercySchmeiser: Monsanto vs Schmeiser
• Resurgence Mag
• Earth Policy Org
• CBI: Canadian Boreal Initiative
• EPI: Earth Policy Institute
• AP Environmental Science
• Western Canadian Online Outdoors News - EnviroLinks
• Vandana Shiva - Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology
• NRDC: Natural Resources Defense Council
• Enough Already
• Ecological Economics Encyclopedia
• ESA: EcoEdNet - Ecology Education Net
• CSI: Conservation Science Institute
• ECOLO: Environmentalists For Nuclear Energy
• Ecological Economics Encyclopaedia
• Planet Ark News
• SAGE: Atlas of the Biosphere
• Wilderness Society - Arctic
• HopeDance Magazine - Radical Solutions Inspiring Hope
• Earth Sustainable & Organic Solutions
• GM Watch
• NIH: ToxMap
• NPG: Negative Population Growth
• WCEI: Center for Environmental Education and Information
• Environmental Defense
• FTF: For The Future
• CARP: Corporate Agribusiness Research Project
• CLEAR: Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research
• Low Bagger
• EHN: Environmental Health News
• SAF: Forestry News Archives
• BushGreenwatch
• O2C: The Oxygen Collective
• WRM: World Rainforest Movement
• JRC: Soil Atlas of Europe
• IUCN: World Conservation Union
• Seed Magazine
• Google: alt.global-warming

• EvolvingThoughts
• GM Watch

• EC: NWRI - National Water Research Institute
• EC:SciTech: NWRI
• NWRI - USA
• WWF: Living Waters Campaign
• Sierra: Clean Water
• Sierra Canada: NAFTA Effects on Water
• SLDF: (SierraLegal) Fish and Water
• SLDF: (SierraLegal) Ontario's 2000 Dirty Water Secrets
• SLDF: (SierraLegal) Waterproof [national report card on water quality]
• US Dept of Agriculture Water Conservation Lab
• World Water Council
• NASA:GHCC: Global Hydrology & Climate Change
• IAEA: World Water Day 2002
• WCD World Commission on Dams
• World Commission on Dams Report
• World Water Forum
• UNEP: GEMS - Global Environment Monitoring System - Freshwater Quality Program
• World Water Forum (The Hague)
• The World's Water
• UK Rivers Network
• Water Aid
• USGS: Water Use in the United States
• World Water Day
• Global Water Partnership
• Water Magazine
• International WaterLaw Project
• World Water
• 2001/06/: CBC: Selling Canada's water
• Aquae Urbis Romae
• NPWD: North Plains Groundwater Conservation District - Ogallala Aquifer
• 2000//: BBC: World Water Crisis
• 2003//: BBC: World Water Forum
• SIWI: Stockholm International Water Institute
• CPI: The Water Barons
• Water Conservation Portal
• USGS: WaterWatch -- Current water resources conditions
• 2006/03/03: USGS: Pesticides in the Nation’s Streams and Ground Water, 1992-2001
• 2005//: USGS: Water Availability for the Western United States--Key Scientific Challenges by Mark T. Anderson and Lloyd H. Woosley, Jr.
• LDEO: Global Standardized Precipitation Index Analyses
• Aquafornia - The Southern California water blog!
• WaterCrunch

• 2008/04/11: NewScientist: Is this the beginning of water wars?
• 2008/04/07: CBC: 1,775 boil-water advisories in Canada require action: report
• 2008/04/02: TStar: Canada foils UN water plan
  Canada emerged as the pivotal nation behind recent manoeuvres to block the United Nations Human Rights Council from recognizing water as a basic human right, according to international observers. The Geneva-based body wrapped up an intense three-week session late Friday without passing a German-Spanish resolution intended to enshrine its importance in a world where more than 2 billion people live in water-stressed regions. It would have also set up an international watchdog to monitor the actions of individual countries. After its 46 members accepted a consensus resolution -- essentially for more study -- Canadian representative Sarah Geh told the council: "Canada does not view this resolution as creating a human right to water under international human rights law."
• 2008/03/26: CanWest: UN meeting rejects recognition of water as basic human right
  The federal government can declare victory after a United Nations meeting rejected calls to recognize water as a basic human right. Instead, a special resolution proposed by Germany and Spain at the UN human rights council was stripped of references that recognized access to water as a human right. The countries also chose to scrap the idea of creating an international watchdog to investigate the issue, choosing instead to appoint a consultant to make recommendations over the next three years. Canadian officials said last week the government wanted to ensure the meeting's outcome reflected the fact that access to water was not formally recognized as a human right in international law. However, a social advocacy group said that position was designed to protect the right to sell water under the North American Free Trade Agreement.
• 2008/03/03: TruthOut: It's Time for the UN to Make Water a Human Right
• 2008/01/07: AngryBear: Water in the works in December 07 [The Great Lakes Water Resources Compact]
• 2008/01/04: CDreams: Guardian(UK): Water Not War
• 2007/12/04: Times(UK): Water shortages are likely to be trigger for wars, says UN chief Ban Ki Moon
• 2007/11/27: IndexResearch: Water: The Impending Apocalypse
• 2007/11/29: TreeHugger: Bush Administration Actively Gutting Environmental "Magna Carta" [NEPA, 1970]
• 2007/11/28: EnergyBulletin: Water: the impending apocalypse
• 2007/10/11: CCurrents: Our Drinkable Water Supply Is Vanishing
• 2007/09/21: IPSNews: Canada: Losing Water Through NAFTA
• 2007/09/10: CanWest: [Sold] Down the river
  Despite claims to the contrary, water is on the table in trade negotiations -- we need to be clear with our neighbours that we intend to keep this precious resource
• 2007/08/15: CDreams: IPS: World Faces New Threats of Water Scarcity
• 2007/08/01: BBC: More than a third of children and teenagers in Latin America lack access to safe drinking water in their homes, a United Nations report says
• 2007/06/13: MSNBC: [LifeStraw] A $3 gadget that promises to quench a user's thirst for a year without spare parts, electricity or maintenance
• 2007/06/06: PlanetArk: US Adopts Limits on Clean Water Law Enforcement
• 2007/04/26: TruthOut: Preventing Massive Water Transfers
• 2007/04/08: MSNBC: Wars For Water?
• 2007/03/23: ABC(Au): Two-thirds of world population could face water shortage by 2025: FAO
• 2007/03/10: ClimateArk: House OKs clean-water bill - The vote delivers for environmentalists and unions, but Bush has threatened a veto
• 2007/02/15: Xinhuanet: FAO: World facing severe water shortage
• 2007/02/09: InfoShop: Water Rights for Sale in Alberta
• 2007/01/23: TruthOut: World Is Running Out of Water, Says UN Adviser [Jeffrey Sachs]
• 2007/01/23: Guardian(UK): China and India warned their water is running out
• 2006/12/26: JFleck: Nile Deal -- a deal is near between the nine nations that share the waters of the Nile?
• 2006/12/06: DailyStar: Jordan, Israel, PA to launch study into Dead Sea canal
• 2006/11/27: PlanetArk: Two-Thirds Of China Cities Face Water Shortages
• 2006/11/13: EnergyBulletin: Oilsands activity threatens water supply: study
• 2006/11/10: ABC(Au): Lack of clean water kills 2m children a year: UN report
• 2006/11/09: BBC: UN urges end to 'water apartheid'
  A new report from the United Nations Development Programme has demanded a big increase in spending to provide clean water.
• 2006/11/05: ABC(Au): PM calls urgent Murray-Darling water summit
  Victorian Environment Minister John Thwaites says dealing with the drought is a considerable challenge. "Stream flows are such that, unless we get significant rain in the autumn period, there simply won't be substantial water in the dams to supply irrigation and supply towns next year," he said.
• 2006/11/05: News(Au): PM calls crisis summit on water
  Prime Minister John Howard has called key premiers to a snap water summit after data showed Australia's most important river system will run dry within six months, threatening water supplies.
• 2006/11/05: ClimateArk: Australia: Howard calls top level water crisis summit
• 2006/10/06: CBC: Environmental group calls for national water standards
• 2006/09/18: ENN: World Water Demand Surging Due to Rising Population
• 2006/09/18: SciDaily: Droughts & Reservoirs: Finding Storage Space Underground
• 2006/09/13: WSWS: Worldwide drive to privatise water
• 2006/09/05: ABC(Au): 1 billion lack clean drinking water: UN
• 2006/08/22: PINR: Asia's Coming Water Wars
• 2006/08/24: WorldChanging: The Cruel Irony of the Thirsty Rich
• 2006/08/21: BBC: Map details global water stress
• 2006/08/21: NSU: Water crisis happening now - Severe water scarcity arrives decades earlier than predicted.
• 2006/08/21: FT: Water scarcity affects one in three
  A third of the world's population is suffering from a shortage of water, raising the prospect of 'water crises' in countries such as China, India and the US. Scientists had forecast in 2000 that one in three would face water shortages by 2025, but water experts have been shocked to find that this threshold has already been crossed.
• 2006/08/17: Guardian(UK): Cost of water shortage: civil unrest, mass migration and economic collapse
• 2006/08/16: BBC: Water shortage 'a global problem'
• 2006/08/06: Yahoo: More than two million people face shortage of drinking water in China
• 2006/07/26: EPI: World's Water Resources Face Mounting Pressure
• 2006/08/02: TruthOut: World's Water Resources Face Mounting Pressure
• 2006/08/02: ENN: Where Are the World's Looming Water Conflicts?
• 2006/06/20: BBC: Pakistani paramilitary forces have been deployed near the Afghan border after at least 14 people were killed in clashes over water, officials say.
• 2006/06/16: PhysOrg: How California Water Supply Could Survive Warming, Growth
• 2006/05/31: BBC: Drought worsens China water woes Parts of China are suffering their worst drought in over 50 years. But in the cities, demand for water is increasing as China's economic boom continues.
• 2006/05/30: FP: The List: The World's Water Crises
• 2006/05/10: Asia Times: Malaysian water a matter of life and death
• 2006/04/26: ENN: Colorado Lawmakers Approve Unprecedented Water Charter
• 2006/04/23: Guardian(UK): Last rites for shrivelling Dead Sea
• 2006/04/06: ZMag: Marketing Fight - The World Water Forum Comes to Mexico City
• 2006/04/04: SciDaily: Western Prairies Face Impending Water Crisis
• 2006/03/25: ZMag: Water Activists Turn On The Taps And Turn Up The Pressure
• 2006/03/22: CSM: Backstory: Tapping the world
• 2006/03/21: BBC: Farms 'big threat' to fresh water - Farming poses the biggest threat to fresh water supplies, according to a major United Nations report
• 2006/03/22: BBC: Government 'must meet water need'
  Governments, not private firms, must take responsibility for getting water to their people, a new report argues. "The private sector is not sufficiently reliable to manage these essential public services. Government must assume its responsibilities," David Boys of Public Services International said.
• 2006/03/22: Guardian(UK): Big water companies quit poor countries
• 2006/03/20: BBC: Africa's water systems need annual investments of about $20bn over the next two decades, a United Nations report has concluded.
• 2006/03/16: ENN: State of the World's Water Resources
• 2006/03/15: Guardian(UK): Mexico shows World Water Forum what not to do
• 2006/03/12: Independent(UK): Death of the world's rivers
  Disaster warning from UN as investigation reveals half of the planet's 500 biggest rivers are seriously depleted or polluted
• 2006/03/09: BBC: Water policy 'fails world's poor' [says the UN World Water Development Report]
  Almost 20% of the world's population still lacks access to safe drinking water because of failed policies, an influential report has concluded.
• 2006/03/07: BBC: Uganda says it is cutting the flow of water through its main dam at the point where Lake Victoria feeds the Nile, blaming it on widespread drought.
• 2006/03/03: Eureka: Pesticides in the nation's streams and ground water - USGS releases new report about pesticide occurence
• 2006/02/20: UN: World water crisis worsened by corruption, repression: UN report
• 2006/01/30: USDA: Even a Mile of Forest Makes a Difference in Water Quality
• 2005/12/20: Asia Times: Thailand goes against the flow in Myanmar
• 2005/11/22: BBC: Water shortage panics China city - The major Chinese city of Harbin is facing four days without water because of an unexpected mains stoppage
• 2005/11/06: IPS: Right to Information Exposes World Bank Water Deal [to privatise water supply and sanitation in Delhi]
• 2005/11/06: ZMag: Water, Water Everywhere - The ups and downs of water politics in Nepal
• 2005/10/12: ClimateArk: [Water] Conservation just a drop in ocean
• 2005/09/23: BBC: Water firm Aguas Argentinas has decided to give up supplying drinking water to Buenos Aires after the government refused to allow big price increases.
• 2005/09/20: BBC: Bangladesh and India hold talks about sharing common rivers amid protests in Bangladesh against an Indian river-linking project.
• 2005/08/29: IPS: Are Water Wars a Fantasy, or a Future Reality?
• 2005/08/31: EnergyBulletin: China faces water crisis
• 2005/08/09: Eureka: Water: Researchers seek ways to make the most of a limited resource
• 2005/07/29: BBC: Vegas heading for 'dry future' - environmentalist says its water supplies could run dry.
• 2005/07/29: Guardian(UK): World Bank rebuked over water deal - World Bank admits it repeatedly overruled Indian civil servants over choice of consultants for privatisation of Delhi's water.
• 2005/07/22: CBC: $34B needed to fix Ontario's water: panel
• 2005/07/13: ZMag: Suez Strikes Back in Bolivia
• 2005/07/07: BBC: More deaths from polluted water
  At least 18 people have died and 150 have been admitted to hospital after an outbreak of gastroenteritis in the Pakistani province of Balochistan.
• 2005/06/30: ENN: [US State Department] Official Says Efforts to Solve Global Water Crisis Falling Short
• 2005/06/21: SciDaily: USGS Scientists Document Widespread Increases In Streamflow And Changes In The Timing Of Snowmelt Over The Past 50 Years
• 2005/06/20: Guardian(UK): Sewage could solve Australia's drought
• 2005/06/16: Guardian(UK): Controversy engulfs plan to bring water to Brazil's arid north-east
• 2005/06/08: ENN: Borneo Lowland Forests Face Extinction
• 2005/06/08: Guardian(UK): 100 Chinese cities face water crisis, says minister
• 2005/05/25: Guardian(UK): Flagship water privatisation fails in Tanzania - UK firm's contract cancelled amid row over supply
• 2005/05/06: CPunch: India's Bloody Water Wars
• 2005/04/24: CBC: Saskatoon's groundwater may be tainted, officials fear
• 2005/04/17: ManilaTimes: Clean water is basic human right - Gorbachev
• 2005/04/14: BBC: Australian water deal in doubt
• 2005/04/08: Turkish Press: Drought plagues one million people in south China island province
• 2005/03/26: CPunch: The Water War in Bolivia
• 2005/03/23: BBC: China warns of water pollution
  Officials in Beijing have warned that a third of China's rural population - an estimated 360m people - lack access to safe drinking water.
• 2005/03/21: UN: Marking World Water Day, UN to launch Water for Life Decade
• 2005/03/22: EnergyBulletin: Water - Reason for Conflict or Cooperation in the Middle East?
• 2005/03/22: BBC: UN begins action decade on water - Tuesday is the UN's World Water Day, marking the start of an international decade of action, Water for Life.
• 2005/03/20: Turkish Press: Water: the language of peace and war in arid Middle East
• 2005/03/16: Guardian(UK): Rivers run through it
  As the breadbaskets of India and Pakistan dry up, the blows they trade over Kashmir will have more to do with water than land
• 2005/03/11: NYRB: Welcome to Doomsday
• 2005/03/11: CCM: The Rapture of the Anti-Environmentalists
• 2005/03/11: EnergyBulletin: Middle East: Demand for power and water to go up
• 2005/03/11: BBC: River Jordan 'nearly running dry'
• 2005/03/09: Guardian(UK): Once mighty Jordan reduced to a trickle
• 2005/02/23: CDreams: Is Another World Possible? A Water Activist Reports from Porto Alegre
• 2005/02/03: EnergyBulletin: Ex-UN chief warns of water wars

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• 2008/04/02: ABC(Au): Science fails to back global extinction reports: zoologist [Nigel Stork]
• 2008/04/01: ABC(Au): Humans causing new extinction event: academic [Will Steffen]
• 2008/03/23: PhysOrg: Stinking seas not to blame for 'mother of all mass extinctions' [Permian 250 mya]
• 2008/03/18: PNAS: The protracted Holocene extinction of California's flightless sea duck (Chendytes lawi) and its implications for the Pleistocene overkill hypothesis by T. L. Jones et al.
• 2008/03/12: AFP: World tiger population shrinking fast, WWF warns
• 2008/03/04: PhysOrg: CITES caviar export quotas remain steady for beluga sturgeon despite threat of extinction
• 2008/02/26: PhysOrg: Study: Butterflyfish may face extinction
• 2008/02/20: PLOS One: Measuring the Meltdown: Drivers of Global Amphibian Extinction and Decline by Navjot S. Sodhi et al.
• 2008/02/20: KSJT: Burlington Free Press: More news of mass bat die off - "whitenose syndrome"
• 2008/02/19: SMH: Hammerhead added to list of sharks close to extinction
• 2008/02/18: Guardian(UK): [Nine more] Shark species face extinction amid overfishing and appetite for fins
• 2008/02/12: OilChange: Climate Change: King Penguin Faces Extinction
• 2008/02/07: Eureka: Madagascar's tortoises are crawling toward extinction, groups say
• 2008/01/19: PhysOrg: U.S. opts out of jaguar recovery plan
• 2008/01/19: BBC: Medical plants 'face extinction'
  Hundreds of medicinal plants are at risk of extinction, threatening the discovery of future cures for disease, according to experts
• 2008/01/18: BristolU: Recovering from a mass extinction
• 2008/01/13: WaPo: It Happened to Him. It's Happening to You. [6th extinction]
• 2007/12/13: BBC: Extinction threat to wild salmon - Wild salmon on Canada's west coast are being driven to extinction by parasites from nearby fish farms, a study claims
• 2007/11/13: ABC(Au): Bear species on 'brink of extinction'
• 2007/11/08: BBC: Sowing the seeds of uncertainty - There has always been a problem about the way in which big environmental issues are handled by the media
• 2007/11/07: TruthOut: Fish Vanishing From Southeast Asian Oceans: Report
• 2007/10/29: BBC: Frog killer fungus 'breakthrough'
  New Zealand scientists have found what appears to be a cure for the disease that is responsible for wiping out many of the world's frog populations. Chloramphenicol, currently used as an eye ointment for humans, may be a lifesaver for the amphibians, they say. The researchers found frogs bathed in the solution became resistant to the killer disease, chytridiomycosis. The fungal disease has been blamed for the extinction of one-third of the 120 species lost since 1980
• 2007/10/26: CDreams: Guardian(UK): The Edge of Oblivion: Conservationists Name 25 Primates about To Disappear
• 2007/10/26: AFP: Nearly one-third of primates in peril: world conservation body
• 2007/10/26: BBC: Almost a third of the world's primates are in danger of extinction because of destruction of their habitats, a report by conservation groups has warned
• 2007/10/26: SMH: Population pressure takes Earth to its limits [GEO4]
• 2007/10/26: SMH: The decline of the species: some primates face extinction
• 2007/10/25: Eureka: Meteor no longer prime suspect in great extinction - The Great Dying 250 million years ago happened slowly, say USC geologists
• 2007/10/24: Eureka: Fossil record supports evidence of impending mass extinction
• 2007/10/24: York: Fossil record supports evidence of impending mass extinction
• 2007/10/15: TreeHugger: Quote of the Day: Julia Whitty on Extinction
• 2007/10/12: PhysOrg: Survey: Sandpiper on Brink of Extinction
• 2007/10/06: inel: A rhinoceros in a shoe shop
• 2007/10/03: ABC(Au): Inbred tassie devils face extinction: study
• 2007/10/03: PhysOrg: Tasmanian devils face extinction
• 2007/09/19: JapanFocus: Kicking Your Head to Get Rid of a Headache: Palm Oil and the Imminent Extinction of the Orangutan
• 2007/09/13: WaPo: 188 More Species Listed as Near Extinction
• 2007/09/12: IUCN: Extinction crisis escalates: Red List shows apes, corals, vultures, dolphins all in danger
• 2007/09/12: BBC: Gorillas head race to extinction
  Gorillas, orangutans, and corals are among the plants and animals which are sliding closer to extinction. The Red List of Threatened Species for 2007 names habitat loss, hunting and climate change among the causes. The World Conservation Union (IUCN) has identified more than 16,000 species threatened with extinction, while prospects have brightened for only one. The IUCN says there is a lack of political will to tackle the global erosion of nature. Governments have pledged to stem the loss of species by 2010; but it does not appear to be happening
• 2007/09/12: AFP: 'Global extinction crisis' predicted by conservation group
  Gorillas, China's baiji dolphin, Asian vultures and Pacific corals on Wednesday joined the list of species hurtling to oblivion as the World Conservation Union (IUCN) warned of a fast-track "global extinction crisis." In an update of its famous Red List of biodiversity, the Swiss-based IUCN said it had identified 41,415 species at threat. Of this, 16,306 species -- equivalent to 39 percent of the total -- are in danger of extinction, 188 more than last year.
• 2007/09/09: Guardian(UK): One in four mammals under threat - Habitat loss means thousands of endangered species will survive only in zoos, new report says
• 2007/09/01: SciDaily: When Bivalves Ruled The World
• 2007/08/09: TreeHugger: Is the Aldabra Banded Snail the First Global Warming Related Extinction?
• 2007/08/08: Eureka: What we can learn from [the Permian-Triassic extinction] the biggest extinction in the history of Earth
• 2007/08/08: PhysOrg: After 20 million years, China's white dolphin likely extinct
• 2007/08/07: BBC: Rare [Yangtze] river dolphin [aka baijis] 'now extinct'
• 2007/08/07: PNAS: Prolonged Permian-Triassic ecological crisis recorded by molluscan dominance in Late Permian offshore assemblages by Matthew E. Clapham & David J. Bottjer
• 2007/08/07: NewScientist: Yangtze river dolphin is almost certainly extinct
• 2007/08/06: NewScientist: Killer fungus goes airborne A fungus that is devastating amphibian populations around the world is a relatively new disease that is spreading rapidly, rather than an old disease that has recently become more virulent, according to research on frogs in California’s Sierra Nevada. Worse, not only is the fungus being spread by infected water, it may also be transmitted in the form of spores carried on the wind or birds' feathers for example, a genetic analysis of the Californian frogs suggests
• 2007/08/06: PhysOrg: Genetic analysis finds greater threat in frog-killing fungus [can likely be spread by sexual reproduction]
• 2007/07/30: PhysOrg: Mass extinctions and the marine record
• 2007/07/17: LFB: Preserving other species with whom we share the planet
• 2007/07/06: Guardian(UK): Reproductive problems may lead to rare rhino's extinction
• 2007/06/28: SciDaily: Global Change And Mass Extinction: Discovering New Solutions For A Big Problem
• 2007/06/19: PNAS: The effect of geographic range on extinction risk during background and mass extinction by Jonathan L. Payne & Seth Finnegan
• 2007/06/16: Guardian(UK): Extinction fears for pink dolphin
• 2007/06/15: ENN: Populations of 20 Common Birds Declining
• 2007/06/13: TreeHugger: Caribbean Corals Heading Towards Extinction?
• 2007/06/08: BBC: Attempts to restrict trade in two threatened shark species through the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) have failed
• 2007/06/07: KSJT: AP: Forest elephants being poached toward extinction. Not for ivory. For meat.
• 2007/06/07: BBC: 'Twice as many' species at risk
  The number of species on the endangered list in Britain has almost doubled in 13 years, according to a new study [by the UK Biodiversity Action Plan]
• 2007/06/05: NSU: Bye-bye, birdie - Climate change and human intrusion converge to imperil birds
• 2007/06/06: BBC: Horn trade pressures some rhinos - A rise in poaching has put some rhino populations at risk of extinction
• 2007/06/05: NewScientist: Up to 10% of land bird species endangered by 2050
• 2007/06/04: MongaBay: 10-20% of birds extinct by 2100 due to global warming, deforestation
• 2007/06/03: BBC: Nations meet to protect wildlife
  The fate of some of the world's animals and plants may be decided over the next two weeks by the body which oversees international trade in wildlife. The triennial conference of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) opens on Sunday in the Netherlands.
• 2007/05/27: FuturePundit: China Wiping Out SE Asian Species
• 2007/05/30: CPunch: China, CITES and the Fate of the Tiger
• 2007/05/22: NSU: One-sixth of Europe's mammals face extinction - New census highlights threatened status of many species
• 2007/05/23: TruthOut: UN Urges World to Slow Extinctions: Three Each Hour
• 2007/05/23: DeSmogBlog: Tell Us When It Becomes An Emergency
• 2007/05/23: PlanetArk: UN Urges World to Slow Extinctions: 3 Each Hour
• 2007/05/23: PlanetArk: One in Six European Mammals Faces Extinction Risk
• 2007/05/23: ENN: Dozens of European Mammal Species Face Extinction, Conservation Group Says
• 2007/05/22: PNAS: Collapse of a fish population after exposure to a synthetic estrogen by Karen A. Kidd et al.
• 2007/05/22: BBC: Worries for at-risk bird species
  More birds than ever are threatened with extinction, according to the latest evaluation by the conservation group BirdLife International. Its annual assessment of population sizes, trends and ranges for all 10,000 species worldwide indicates that 1,221 now have an Endangered status. The data will be fed into the IUCN Red List, which documents the status of the planet's flora and fauna.
• 2007/05/17: TruthOut: Scientists Foresee Extinction Domino Effect
• 2007/05/19: IFAW: Making a Killing: Wildlife Trade on the Internet
• 2007/05/15: PNAS: Amphibian and reptile declines over 35 years at La Selva, Costa Rica by Steven M. Whitfield et al.
• 2007/05/15: PNAS: Climate change implicated in amphibian and lizard declines by David B. Wake
• 2007/05/04: SciDaily: Amphibians In Losing Race With Environmental Change
• 2007/05/01: PhysOrg: Amphibians in losing race with environmental change
• 2007/04/24: TruthOut: Life Is Hanging by a Thread by Jane Goodall
• 2007/04/24: TruthOut: Yellowstone Delisting Beginning of End for Griz
• 2007/04/18: TruthOut: Death in the Rainforest: Fragile Creatures Give the World a New Climate Warning
• 2007/04/18: Eureka: Amur leopard still on the brink of extinction, scientists say
• 2007/04/17: BBC: 'Fewer leaves' behind frog demise
• 2007/04/17: Guardian(UK): Death in the rainforest: fragile creatures give the world a new climate warning
  Amphibian and reptile numbers fall by 75% in reserve meant to save them
• 2007/04/16: MongaBay: Bad news for frogs; amphibian decline worse than feared - Global warming, not disease, may be the culprit this time
• 2007/04/16: NewScientist: Reptiles join amphibians in mysterious decline
• 2007/04/16: Eureka: Ebola outbreaks killing thousands of gorillas and chimpanzees - Vaccination may work to stop the outbreaks
• 2007/04/15: SciDaily: Over Half The World's Magnolia Species Face Extinction In Their Native Forests
• 2007/04/03: PNAS: Fish extinctions and ecosystem functioning in tropical ecosystems by Daniel E. Schindler
• 2007/04/02: BBC: Magnolias face 'perilous future'
  The spectacular bloom of a magnolia may be a very common sight in gardens but in the wild, it is a different story. A new report has found that over half the world's magnolia species are facing extinction in their forest habitats.
• 2007/03/30: ENN: Previewing a U.N. Climate Report: Species Are Going To Be Lost
• 2007/03/27: PNAS: Environmental change preceded Caribbean extinction by 2 million years by Aaron O'Dea et al.
• 2007/03/27: ABC(Au): Eyre Peninsula cockatoos near extinction [because of drought conditions]
• 2007/03/26: PhysOrg: Alarm over fate of world's orangutans
• 2007/03/22: Guardian(UK): Absent-minded killers - We kill other species not because we must but because we are too negligent to do otherwise.
• 2007/03/25: EcoEcon: 'Absent-minded killers' : Why no big focus on biodiversity?
• 2007/03/25: Guardian(UK): Five years to save the orang utan
  A shocking UN report details how the booming palm oil industry is wiping out one of man's closest relatives as its forest habitat disappears.
• 2007/03/21: CI: Twenty of World's 162 Grouper Species Threatened With Extinction - Over-fishing, Lack of Proper Management Cited
• 2007/03/12: MongaBay: An Interview with Dr. Peter Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden: Biodiversity extinction crisis looms says renowned biologist
• 2007/03/13: PNAS: Fish extinctions alter nutrient recycling in tropical freshwaters by Peter B. McIntyre et al.
• 2007/03/09: BBC: Biodiversity 'fundamental' to economics
  German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel says failure to address the loss of species will make the world a poorer place - both naturally and economically.
• 2007/03/04: ABC(Au): Memo reveals time running out for [Tasmanian] devils
• 2007/03/04: Guardian(UK): Last hope for vanishing white rhinos - The world's most endangered large mammal may yet be saved by human fertility methods
• 2007/02/26: BBC: A trail of DNA has helped investigators trace the biggest ever consignment of contraband ivory seized since 1989 to savannah elephants in Zambia
• 2007/02/27: Guardian(UK): Researchers use genetic map to track down source of illegal ivory - Revolutionary technique deals blow to poachers
• 2007/02/26: Eureka: African carnage -- 1 year's seized ivory likely came from 23,000 elephants
• 2007/02/07: Eureka: Risk of [rotifers (zooplankton)] extinction accelerated due to interacting human threats
• 2007/01/19: Guardian(UK): A third of fish species killed in Yellow River
• 2007/01/08: Guardian(UK): Japan's black bears 'face extinction'
• 2007/01/02: Independent(UK): The Big Question: How quickly are animals and plants disappearing, and does it matter?
• 2006/12/31: MSNBC: Giant kangaroo likely killed off by humans - Large, prehistoric animals perhaps driven to extinction in Australia
• 2006/12/26: IHT: Researchers: Giant, prehistoric animals in Australia likely driven to extinction by humans
• 2006/12/23: Scotsman: Unhappy feat: biologists baffled as millions of penguins vanish
• 2006/12/18: Independent(UK): After surviving 20 million years, China's goddess of the river [white-fin dolphin, or baiji (Lipotes vexillifer)] is driven to extinction
• 2006/12/17: Independent(UK): 10 years to live: Orang-utan faces extinction in the wild
• 2006/12/17: Guardian(UK): Discovered, wiped out and cloned: the bizarre life cycle of the saola
• 2006/12/14: BBC: A freshwater dolphin found only in China is "effectively extinct", an expedition has declared following a fruitless six-week search
• 2006/12/13: CNN: China's white dolphin called extinct after 20 million years
• 2006/12/09: Guardian(UK): Out of the woods: panda breeding plan saves species
• 2006/12/08: MPS: Ebola-Outbreak Kills 5000 Gorillas
• 2006/11/28: SciDaily: Human Taste For Rarity Spells Disaster For Endangered Species
• 2006/11/23: Australian: Still time to save our fisheries from collapse
  The "wholesale collapse" of fisheries off the eastern seaboard can still be averted if strong action is taken to cut greenhouse gas emissions and manage pollution.
• 2006/11/23: Eureka: Dramatic shift from simple to complex marine ecosystems occurred 250M years ago at mass extinction
• 2006/11/21: MSNBC: Analysis: Global warming killing some species - Up to 200 species, including penguins and polar bears, are in big trouble
• 2006/11/21: Yahoo: Global warming said killing some species
• 2006/11/14: PhysOrg: Study: Species extinctions are increasing
• 2006/11/14: Eureka: Global warming increases species extinctions worldwide
• 2006/11/05: SciDaily: Global Map Shows New Patterns Of Extinction Risk
• 2006/11/03: TruthOut: Report Warns of "Global Collapse" of Fishing
• 2006/11/04: ZMag: Ocean Life on the Brink of No Return
• 2006/11/02: ABC(US): Seafood Supply Could Disappear in 42 Years - Effects of Overfishing and Other Factors Called Dire but Not Irreversible
• 2006/11/03: THP: It Came From Journalism School: AP Describes Vanishing Marine Life as "Seafood"
• 2006/11/02: CBC: Researchers project collapse of seafood species
• 2006/11/03: PlanetArk: Ocean Fish, Seafood Could Collapse By 2048 - Study
• 2006/11/02: BBC: 'Only 50 years left' for sea fish
  There will be virtually nothing left to fish from the seas by the middle of the century if current trends continue, according to a major scientific study. Stocks have collapsed in nearly one-third of sea fisheries, and the rate of decline is accelerating.
• 2006/11/01: Eureka: Global map shows new patterns of extinction risk
• 2006/10/24: PhysOrg: Macaws face possible extinction
• 2006/10/24: Eureka: New theory for mass extinctions
• 2006/10/20: Eureka: Mass extinction's cause: 'Sick Earth'
• 2006/10/19: BBC: Poaching has brought the hippopotamus population in Democratic Republic of Congo to within a few months of extinction, wildlife experts say.
• 2006/10/18: Scripps: Ocean Data Confirms Fishing Puts Targeted Species in 'Double Jeopardy'
• 2006/10/11: NewScientist: Earth's wobble killed off mammal species
• 2006/10/06: HeraldSun: Scientist [Edward O. Wilson] Warns of Species' Extinction
• 2006/10/06: ENN: Scientist Warns of Species' Extinction
  As many as half the world's species may face extinction by 2100 because of pollution, climate change, human population growth and other influences, a renowned scientist dubbed "the father of biodiversity" told an audience here.
• 2006/09/28: Guardian(UK): Skin trade could wipe out India's tigers
• 2006/09/25: Eureka: Predicting species abundance in the face of habitat loss
• 2006/09/09: ENN: Global Warming Taking Earth Back to Dinosaur Era
  Global warming over the coming century could mean a return of temperatures last seen in the age of the dinosaur and lead to the extinction of up to half of all species, a scientist said on Thursday.
  Not only will carbon dioxide levels be at the highest levels for 24 million years, but global average temperatures will be higher than for up to 10 million years, said Chris Thomas of the University of York.
  Between 10 and 99 percent of species will be faced with atmospheric conditions that last existed before they evolved, and as a result from 10-50 percent of them could disappear.
  "We may very well already be on the breaking edge of a wave of mass extinctions," Thomas told the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
• 2006/09/07: ABC(Au): Climate change 'pushing malleefowl to extinction'
• 2006/09/01: ArabNews: Arar Tree on Verge of Extinction
• 2006/08/31: Guardian(UK): Sharks pay high price as demand for fins soars - Conservation group criticises EU move as world populations plunge
• 2006/07/20: BBC: World 'needs new wildlife body' The world needs a new global organisation dedicated to stemming the loss of plant and animal species.
• 2006/07/23: TreeHugger: Academics Call for Global Action on Species Loss
• 2006/07/21: BBC: UK butterfly species down to 56 - Only 56 butterfly species now remain in Britain as others have fallen victim to disappearing habitat, a charity says.
• 2006/07/20: CDreams: Independent(UK): Earth Faces 'Catastrophic Loss of Species'
  Life on earth is facing a major crisis with thousands of species threatened with imminent extinction - a global emergency demanding urgent action. This is the view of 19 of the world's most eminent biodiversity specialists, who have called on governments to establish a political framework to save the planet.
  The planet is losing species faster than at any time since 65 million years ago, when the earth was hit by an enormous asteroid that wiped out thousands of animals and plants, including the dinosaurs. Scientists estimate that the current rate at which species are becoming extinct is between 100 and 1,000 times greater than the normal "background" extinction rate - and say this is all due to human activity.
• 2006/07/16: Independent(UK): 2050: the last gorilla - World's greatest ape extinct within decades, warns UN
• 2006/07/18: PNAS: Human impacts on the rates of recent, present, and future bird extinctions by Stuart Pimm et al.
• 2006/07/16: Guardian(UK): Vulture numbers are cut to the bone - Extinction fears for a scavenger vital to preserving ecosystems
• 2006/07/14: Guardian(UK): Moths' decline may herald crisis in UK biodiversity
• 2006/07/13: BBC: Norway's whale catch falls short - Norway's whaling fleet will catch only half of its quota this season.
• 2006/07/13: Guardian(UK): West African black rhinos feared extinct
• 2006/07/10: BBC: Extinction fear for black rhino
  The West African black rhino appears to have become extinct, according to the World Conservation Union (IUCN).
• 2006/07/07: PhysicsWeb: Extinction gets synchronized
• 2006/07/07: Guardian(UK): Disease, habitat loss and climate change threatens amphibians - Third of species at risk, say scientists
• 2006/07/07: SciDaily: Major Initiative Proposed To Address Amphibian Crisis
• 2006/07/07: BBC: Clarion call to save amphibians
• 2006/07/06: Eureka: Major initiative proposed to address amphibian crisis
• 2006/07/05: Eureka: Birds going extinct faster due to human activities
• 2006/07/05: BBC: Bluefin tuna stocks in the East Atlantic and the Mediterranean are being stripped bare by illegal fishing, WWF has warned in a report.
• 2006/07/04: CDreams: SF Chronicle: Where Are All the Birds? Startling New Figures on Rate of Extinctions Say 12% of Species to be in Peril by 2100
• 2006/07/03: NewScientist: Bird extinction rates far worse than realised
• 2006/06/20: PLoS_B: Global Patterns of Geographic Range Size in Birds by C. David L. Orme et al.
• 2006/06/20: SciDaily: First Global Bird Map Provides New Clues To Future Extinctions
• 2006/06/09: CBC: Florida's wildlife commission has voted to remove manatees from the state's endangered species list, despite studies predicting their numbers will decline
• 2006/06/06: Eureka: Race to halt global amphibian crisis boosted by rediscovery of endangered Colombian frogs
• 2006/06/04: BBC: Albatrosses on islands in the South Atlantic are being pushed to the brink of extinction, according to research.
• 2006/06/04: ABC(Au): Low NT barramundi numbers 'alarmist'
• 2006/05/31: PlanetArk: Arctic "Noah's Ark" Vault to Protect World's Seeds
• 2006/05/25: BBC: Migrating birds suffer huge loss Migratory birds have suffered a dramatic decline in numbers, according to a study. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and BirdLife International study analysed population trends of European breeding birds, including non-migratory birds and those that migrate both short and long distances. Fifty-four percent of the 121 long-distant migratory birds studied suffered plummeting numbers or had even become extinct since 1970.
• 2006/05/23: ENN: EU Issues Plan to Fight Plant, Animal Extinctions
• 2006/05/19: BBC: High-sea fish stocks 'plundered' The World Wildlife Fund conservation group has accused organisations set up to control deep-sea fishing of failing to protect fish stocks. In a report it said overfishing in international waters was driving some species - including tuna - to the verge of extinction.
• 2006/05/13: NewScientist: A future with no bananas?
• 2006/05/11: WaPo: Climate Is Cited as Key to Extinctions
• 2006/05/11: PlanetArk: Climate Killed Off Mammoths, Not Humans - Scientist
• 2006/05/11: ENN: Climate -- Not Humans -- Killed off Mammoths, Research Suggests
• 2006/05/10: Reuters: Climate, not humans, said to have killed off mammoths
• 2006/05/04: Eureka: Man may have caused pre-historic extinctions New research shows that pre-historic horses in Alaska may have been hunted into extinction by man, rather than by climate change as previously thought.
• 2006/05/02: TruthOut: New Red List Paints Bleak Picture of Extinction
• 2006/05/02: PlanetArk: Polar Bears, Hippos Added to Threatened Species
• 2006/05/02: ENN: Polar Bears, Hippos Added to Threatened Species
• 2006/05/02: SciDaily: Red List Of Threatened Species Reveals Ongoing Decline Of The Status Of Plants And Animals
• 2006/05/02: BBC: More species slide to extinction The polar bear and hippopotamus are for the first time listed as species threatened with extinction by the world's biodiversity agency. They are included in the Red List of Threatened Species published by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) which names more than 16,000 at-risk species.
• 2006/05/01: CDreams:Independent(UK): Hippopotamus among 26,000 New Species on Endangered List
• 2006/04/12: Eureka: Green sturgeon receives 'threatened' status
• 2006/04/11: CPunch: The Disappearence of Big Fish - Endangered Species in a Can?
• 2006/03/30: SciDaily: Rare Tibetan Antelope [chiru] Listed As Endangered
• 2006/03/29: Eureka: Ocean 'dead zones' trigger sex changes in fish, posing extinction threat
• 2006/03/21: ENN: Humans Spur Worst Extinctions Since Dinosaurs
• 2006/03/21: Asia Times: Threatened tiger, sickly dragon [poaching of Indian tiger for Chinese medicinal market]
• 2006/03/21: Guardian(UK): UN warns of worst mass extinctions for 65m years
• 2006/03/17: TerraDaily: Greenpeace Accuses Poland Of Not Blocking Pirate Fishing Boats
• 2006/03/21: PlanetArk: Humans Spur Worst Extinctions Since Dinosaurs
• 2006/03/20: Reuters: Humans spur worst extinction since dinosaurs
• 2006/03/17: SciDaily: Rhinos Clinging To Survival In The Heart Of Borneo, Despite Poaching
• 2006/03/15: TheAge: Earth faces mass extinction
• 2006/03/10: ENN: U.S. Government Declines to Protect Two Rare Plants in U.S. Virgin Islands
• 2006/03/06: PNAS: Latent extinction risk and the future battlegrounds of mammal conservation by Marcel Cardillo et al.
• 2006/03/07: ABC(Au): Earth in grip of mass extinction: Scientists say Earth is experiencing the largest mass extinction in 65 million years.
• 2006/03/07: ENN: Researchers Identify Extinction Hotspots
• 2006/03/07: Eureka: Scientist warns of threat to last stronghold of endangered [leatherback] turtle
• 2006/03/07: Guardian(UK): Researchers pinpoint mammal extinction hotspots - Global map shows areas at risk from human activity
• 2006/03/06: BBC: Stopping the next extinction wave
• 2006/03/03: EUO: WWF bashes EU on endangered species and climate change
• 2006/02/22: TruthOut: Pombo's 'All-Out Assault' [on the Endangered Species Act]
• 2006/02/24: EnergyBulletin: Peak Fish: Hooked on fishing, and we're heading for the bottom, says scientist
• 2006/02/21: BBC: 'Destructive fishing' ban for NZ - One-third of New Zealand's offshore waters is going to be declared off-limits to bottom-trawlers.
• 2006/02/21: Guardian(UK): Species in decline as Europe fails to meet biodiversity targets
• 2006/02/17: Eureka: Hooked on fishing, and we're heading for the bottom, says scientist
• 2006/02/16: SciDaily: Illegal Trade Is Propelling Rare Turtle Toward Extinction, New Report
• 2006/02/16: Guardian(UK): [Giant sable] Antelope feared extinct is rediscovered in Angola
• 2006/02/13: SciDaily: Early California: A Killing Field -- Research Shatters Utopian Myth, Finds Indians Decimated Birds
• 2006/02/07: NSU: Pesticide cocktail kills US frogs - Weedkillers combine in fields to form a deadly brew.
• 2006/02/06: ENN: Deaths Push Rare Asia [Irrawaddy] Dolphins Nearer Extinction
• 2006/02/06: PlanetArk: Pregnancy Test May Lie Behind Deadly Frog Fungus
• 2006/02/06: PlanetArk: Deaths Push Rare Asia [Irrawaddy] Dolphins Nearer Extinction
• 2006/02/06: Eureka: Outbreak: Rapid appearance of fungus devastates frogs, salamanders in Panama
• 2006/02/02: Eureka: Illegal trade is propelling rare [Roti Island snake-necked] turtle toward extinction, new report
• 2006/02/03: FuturesFoundation: Stealing from the future (or how to destroy the planet in seven easy steps)
• 2006/02/02: Berkeley: Pesticide combinations imperil frogs
• 2006/02/01: Eureka: Report lists top 20 most-vulnerable African carnivores
• 2006/02/01: BBC: 'End rare species web trade' call
  Ministers have been urged to clamp down on the illegal trade in wild animals over the internet which is driving some species to near extinction.
• 2006/01/27: BBC: Nations back elephant action plan
  All nations with wild populations of Asian elephants have met as a group for the first time to discuss the species' future survival.
• 2006/01/24: Eureka: Genetic evidence shows colonialists pushed [Borneo] orang-utans to brink of extinction
• 2006/01/23: BBC: Genes record orangutans' decline
  The dramatic collapse of orangutan populations has been linked to human activity [deforestation], new genetic evidence shows.
• 2006/01/20: ABC(Au): Fears rare butterfly may be extinct
• 2006/01/19: Eureka: Increased competition for pollen may lead to plant extinctions - Loss of birds, bees and other pollinators places plants at risk
• 2006/01/16: TruthOut: Environment in Crisis: 'We Are Past the Point of No Return'
• 2006/01/16: GristMill: Dolphins on a flippery slope
• 2006/01/16: BBC: India counts its dwindling tigers - India has launched its biggest ever survey to count its tiger population.
• 2006/01/13: uComics: (cartoon - Toles) Global Warming Causes Extinctions...
• 2006/01/12: SciDaily: Climate Change Drives Widespread Amphibian Extinctions; Warmer Temperatures Enhance Growth Conditions Of Fatal Fungus
• 2006/01/12: SciDaily: 'Darwinian Debt' May Explain Why Fish Stocks Don't Recover
• 2006/01/11: Eureka: Global warming drives epidemic disease wiping out amphibian populations
• 2006/01/11: Eureka: [Amphibian] Extinctions linked to climate change
• 2006/01/11: Eureka: 'Darwinian debt' may explain why fish stocks don't recover
• 2006/01/11: ZMag: 20 Years On and Whales are Under Threat Again: Japan, Norway, Iceland
• 2006/01/11: BBC: Study sounds global vulture alert
  A widely used livestock pain killer [diclofenac] could endanger the survival of vultures around the world, researchers suggest.
• 2006/01/08: Guardian(UK): Dinosaur fish pushed to the brink by deep-sea trawlers
  After surviving for millions of years, the coelacanth is threatened by commercial fishing fleets
• 2006/01/04: BBC: 'Critical danger' warning on fish - Deep sea fish species in the northern Atlantic are on the brink of extinction, new research suggests.
• 2006/01/04: New Scientist: Deep-sea fish species decimated in a generation
• 2006/01/04: Guardian(UK): Ban on trade in wild caviar as sturgeon stocks plunge - Exporters urged to take steps to protect species as fish numbers fall by 90% in 30 years
• 2006/01/02: SciDaily: Overfishing May Drive Endangered Seabird To Rely Upon Lower Quality Food
• 2006/01/03: BBC: International caviar trade banned - The global trade in caviar and other products made from the wild, endangered sturgeon fish has been banned.
• 2005/12/21: BBC: EU quotas bring modest [5%] cod cuts - The European Union has agreed new fishing quotas for 2006, after three days of negotiations in Brussels.
• 2005/12/19: BBC: EU ministers are to meet to set fisheries quotas for 2006, with scientists advising suspension of cod fishing.
• 2005/12/19: Eureka: Overfishing may drive endangered seabird to rely upon lower quality food
• 2005/12/15: GristMill: Pinpointing extinction
• 2005/12/15: Eureka: Monitoring data confirm key predictions about extinction
• 2005/12/13: ENN: Study Pinpoints Species Facing Extinction Threat
• 2005/12/13: SciDaily: New Study Pinpoints Epicenters Of Earth's Imminent Extinctions
• 2005/12/13: BBC: Extinction alert for 800 species
• 2005/12/13: ABC(Au): Study pinpoints species facing extinction threat
• 2005/12/13: PlanetArk: Study Pinpoints Species Facing Extinction Threat
• 2005/12/07: BBC: Quarter of Irish sea cod 'illegal' [says ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea)]
• 2005/12/05: BBC: Poison gas 'caused' great dying
  The Earth's greatest mass extinction was probably caused by poisonous volcanic gas, according to a study published in the journal Geology.
• 2005/12/02: PhysOrg: Poisonous volcanic gas caused world's largest mass extinction, study
• 2005/12/01: PlanetArk: EU Long-term Plan to Prevent Collapse of Cod Stocks

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• 2007/09/06: CBaker: Finding Hope in Permaculture
• 2007/07/02: TruthOut: Preparing for Permaculture
• 2000/10/: GC: Revisiting The Limits to Growth: Could The Club of Rome Have Been Correct, After All?
• 2005/03/20: EnergyBulletin: Industrialization: Prelude to Collapse [Excerpt from _Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change_ by William Catton]
• 2005/05/02: EnergyBulletin: The Tragic Story of Human Success [Chapter 2 of _Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change_ by William R Catton, Jr.]
• 2005/05/11: EnergyBulletin: Dependence on Phantom Carrying Capacity [Chapter 3 of _Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change_ by William R Catton, Jr.]
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• 2006/11/02: EnergyBulletin: Powerdown and Permaculture - At the Cusp of Transition
• 2006/05/23: EnergyBulletin: Why bother? Nothing's wrong
• 2005/09/07: GPM: David Holmgren speaks with GPM's Julian Darley (transcript)
• 2005/10/28: EnergyBulletin: Ecological Collapse, Trauma Theory and Permaculture
• 2001/11/: HopeDance: Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution

• 2008/04/24: NYT: Humming Praises for the Wild Bee
• 2008/04/23: KSJT: BBC: "Mary Celeste Syndrome" hitting UK's honeybees. Wild bees are in a tight spot too.
• 2008/04/21: ENN: Bee colonies continue to decline
• 2008/04/23: BBC: Wild bee decline 'catastrophic'
  Wild bee populations around the UK are experiencing "catastrophic declines", the Bumblebee Conservation Trust has warned. Mary Celeste Syndrome - where a honey bee hive is found almost completely deserted - has appeared in Scotland.
• 2008/04/14: UoM,A: Mysterious Disappearance of Honeybees, Bumblebees to Be Researched By UMass Amherst Bee Consortium
• 2008/04/17: TerraDaily: Consortium To Study Mysterious Death Of Honey Bees And Bumblebees
• 2008/03/31: ADT: Worried about bee die-off, farmers press for research
• 2008/03/09: Guardian(UK): Honey bees 'wiped out in 10 years' - Beekeepers demand Ł8m for research into treatment against devastating viruses
• 2008/02/25: Guardian(UK): Ice cream crisis as bees buzz off
• 2008/02/21: CBC: Concern about bee health touches corporate boardrooms
• 2008/02/18: GristMill: It's not just honey you'll miss - Haagen-Dazs says CCD could interupt your ice cream fix
• 2008/01/29: PhysOrg: French beekeepers abuzz with worry over dying bees
• 2008/01/26: DailyIndia: Greek experts look out for lost honey bees
• 2007/11/22: CBC: Parasite found in every Ontario bee sample
  Researchers have found a parasite in every Ontario bee sample they analyzed in part of an effort to prevent a recurrence of the disaster that wiped out a third of the province's honeybee colonies last winter. The Ontario Beekeepers' Association experts collected about 446 bee samples from 25 keepers and every one contained Nosema apis, a single-celled protozoan that affects the bees' digestive systems. More than half of the samples had a more aggressive strain called Nosema ceranae, the association said in a release Tuesday
• 2007/11/09: TruthOut: Progress on "Collapsing" Beehives
• 2007/11/08: CSM: Progress on 'collapsing' beehives
• 2007/11/03: TreeHugger: The Latest on the Disappearing Honeybee Mystery
• 2007/10/16: UCDavis: Bee Specialist Eric Mussen Fingers Prime Suspects in ‘BSI: The Case of the Disappearing Bees’
• 2007/09/06: BugGirl: Breaking bee news: a possible culprit in Colony Collapse
• 2007/09/06: Eureka: Bee researchers close in on Colony Collapse Disorder
• 2007/09/06: Eureka: Connection between [IAP] virus and Colony Collapse Disorder in bees
• 2007/09/06: BBC: [Israeli Acute Paralysis] Virus implicated in bee decline
  A virus has emerged as a strong suspect in the hunt for the mystery disease killing off North American honeybees. Genetic research showed that Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV) turned up regularly in hives affected by Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Over the last three years, between 50% and 90% of commercial bee colonies in the US have been affected by CCD.
• 2007/08/10: Times(UK): Wake up! The bees are on their knees - Colony collapse disorder is threatening our hives
• 2007/08/19: CDreams: SMH: Eerie Saga of the Vanishing Bees
• 2007/07/31: PopMech: Honey Bees - Machine Finds Colony Collapse Disorder Pathogens - IVDS - Aberdeen Proving Ground
• 2007/07/19: PlanetArk: Asian Parasite [nosema ceranae] Killing Western Bees - Scientist
• 2007/07/18: TerraDaily: Environment Protection Efforts In China Not Sufficient Warns OECD
• 2007/07/14: TruthOut: McClatchy: USDA Buzzing With New Plan to Fight Collapse of Bee Colonies
• 2007/07/14: TreeHugger: Saving the Bees
• 2007/07/06: SeattlePI: Where have all the bees gone? Blame people, not cellphones
• 2007/07/10: TerraDaily: Research Explores Link Between Pesticides And Colony Collapse Disorder
• 2007/06/15: ENN: Scientists Examine Cause of Bee Die-Off
• 2007/06/14: PhysOrg: Weather Said to Blame for Bee Die-Off
  Maryland beekeepers have lost 45 percent of their bees since last year - but the death toll is likely attributable to weather, not a national trend of mysterious die-offs, Maryland's top bee inspector said Wednesday.
• 2007/06/11: AlterNet: Colony Collapse: Do Massive Bee Die-Offs Mean an End to Our Food System as We Know it?
• 2007/06/11: KSJT: LA Times: Bee colony collapse ? not explained, but the experts are trying hard
• 2007/06/11: TruthOut: Suddenly, the Bees Are Simply Vanishing
  Scientists are at a loss to pinpoint the cause. The die-off in 35 states has crippled beekeepers and threatened many crops.
• 2007/06/11: NEN: No Bees, Nobody Knows Why
• 2007/06/10: CDreams: SeattleTimes: Growers Fear the Sting of Bee Die-Off
• 2007/05/31: TreeHugger: Bees Victim of Media Hype, Not Epidemic
• 2007/05/29: StraightDope: Why are the bees disappearing?
• 2007/05/24: CBC: Ontario gets funds to solve missing bee mystery
• 2007/05/23: TerraDaily: Professor Helps Develop Techniques To Reduce Threat Against Honeybees
• 2007/05/19: TreeHugger: Honey Bees Have a Tough Union
• 2007/05/18: MarxMail:Science: No organic bee losses - The Case of the Empty Hives
• 2007/05/17: Zone5: Bitter-sweet Harvest
• 2007/05/16: Eureka: Hives ferment a yeasty brew, attract beetle pest
• 2007/05/15: Celsias: Organic Bees Surviving Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)
• 2007/05/15: TCE: Organic Beekeepers Immune to CCD?
• 2007/05/14: PhysOrg: Scientists search for cause of bee deaths
• 2007/05/12: SciDaily: Bee Colony Collapse Disorder: Could It Be Parasites, Pathogens Or Pesticides?
• 2007/05/11: SciDaily: Declining Bee Numbers Raise Concerns Over Plant Pollination
• 2007/05/10: TreeHugger: The Honeybee Apocalypse
• 2007/05/02: GNN: Please Lord, not the bees
• 2007/05/01: StraightGoods: Disappearing bees - Mysterious phenomenon has researchers baffled
• PSU:MAAREC: Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)
• 2007/05/03: Yahoo: Honeybee die-off threatens food supply
• 2007/05/03: ENN: Honeybee Die-Off Threatens Food Supply
• 2007/05/03: CDreams: AP: Honeybee Die-Off Threatens Food Supply
  Unless someone or something stops it soon, the mysterious killer that is wiping out many of the nation's honeybees could have a devastating effect on America's dinner plate, perhaps even reducing us to a glorified bread-and-water diet.
• 2007/05/02: PhysOrg: Collapsing Colony Disorder Impacts North Dakota
• 2007/05/02: PhysOrg: Bees, and Our Diet, on the Brink
• 2007/04/26: CDreams: PhillyInquirer: No Bees? Not Just Strange, But Scary
• 2007/04/26: PhillyInquirer: No bees? Not just strange, but scary
• 2007/04/26: Reuters: Taiwan stung by millions of missing bees
• 2007/04/24: TruthOut: Bees Vanish, and Scientists Race for Reasons
• 2007/04/24: PhysOrg: Bee keepers across U.S. suffering losses
• 2007/04/23: SciDaily: Bee Colony Collapse Disorder And Viral Disease Incidence Under Investigation
• 2007/04/23: SciDaily: Honey Bee Die-off Alarms Beekeepers, Crop Growers And Researchers
• 2007/04/15: Independent(UK): Are mobile phones wiping out our bees? Scientists claim radiation from handsets are to blame for mysterious 'colony collapse' of bees
• 2007/04/13: Guardian(UK): Threat to agriculture as mystery killer wipes out honeybee hives
• 2007/04/12: TreeHugger: Colony Collapse Disorder Arrives in the UK
• 2007/04/08: CPunch: Where Have All the Bees Gone? And Other Reflections on the Internationalization of Genocide by Fidel Castro
• 2007/04/07: PhysOrg: Mysterious disappearance of US bees creating a buzz
• 2007/04/05: TruthOut: What's Happening to the Bees?
• 2007/04/04: CSM: What's happening to the bees?
  Suddenly, the bees farmers and growers rely on are vanishing. Researchers are scrambling to find out why.
• 2007/03/23: TruthOut: Are GM Crops Killing Bees?
• 2007/03/01: PhysOrg: Probing Question: What's killing the honey bees?
• 2007/02/27: BBC: Bee vanishing act baffles keepers
  Honeybees are vanishing at an alarming rate from 24 US states, threatening the production of numerous crops. The cause of the losses, which range from 30% to more than 70%, is a mystery...
• 2007/02/23: NYT: Honeybees Vanish, Leaving Crops and Keepers in Peril
• 2007/02/12: DailyIndia: Honeybee deaths are alarming growers

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