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Marine Turtle Conservation Moves into High Gear
Source: Environmental News Network - 3 hours ago
Bali/Bangkok, 20 August 2008 - An innovative regional agreement is beginning to turn the tide for the 'ancient mariners' of the world's oceans. Marine turtles traverse the seas for thousands of kilometers, returning after decades to nest in the same area where they entered the world as tiny hatchlings....
UK citizens using 58 baths of water a day
Source: Environmental News Network - 3 hours ago
While each person in the UK drinks, hoses, flushes and washes their way through around 150 litres of mains water a day, they consume about 30 times as much in “virtual” water embedded in food, clothes and other items — the equivalent of about 58 bathtubs full of water every day....
DNA Forensics May Prevent Elephant Poaching
Source: Environmental News Network - 4 hours ago
A shipment of forest timber traveled around the southern tip of Africa and across the Indian Ocean before it arrived at the Hong Kong dockyards two years ago. During a routine X-ray examination, customs officials discovered an even more lucrative cargo hidden behind a false wall: 605 elephant tusks....
Making Waves — World Water Week 2008
Source: Environmental News Network - 4 hours ago
We are in the midst of World Water Week. The 2008 theme is “Progress and Prospects on Water: For a Clean and Healthy World with Special Focus on Sanitation.” World Water Week is a international conference focused on collaboration and the promotion of work that advances environmental and humanitarian development....
EPA not spilling the beans on bees.
Source: Environmental News Network - 14 hours ago
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is refusing to disclose records about a new class of pesticides that could be playing a role in the disappearance of millions of honeybees in the United States, a lawsuit filed Monday charges....
What Are Zenarthrans?
Source: About.com - 19 hours ago
The strangest name I've ever encountered for a group of animals is quite possibly 'xenarthrans'. It evokes images of extra terrestrials that have beamed down from some distant planet. But......
World needs global water agreement now
Source: Environmental News Network - 1 day ago
WWF Director-General James Leape today called on governments to support the entry into force of the 1997 UN Watercourses Convention—an international agreement which could play a key role in water security for about 40% of the world's population....
Can the Dead Sea Be Brought to Life?
Source: Environmental News Network - 2 days ago
The Dead Sea has been a religious and cultural landmark of the Middle East for thousands of years. Saltier than the oceans, the lake is like none other in the world. But in the past 30 years, the Dead Sea has lost about a third of its surface area. As much as 95 percent of the flow of its main tributary, the Jordan River, has been diverted for agriculture and domestic use....
South Asia monsoon rains kill 147 as thousands rescued
Source: Environmental News Network - 2 days ago
Heavy monsoon rains have triggered floods across South Asia in which 147 people have been killed in the past week as the downpours swamped villages and caused landslides, officials said on Monday....
Little robin from Gabon is world's newest species
Source: Environmental News Network - 4 days ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A red-breasted bird discovered by accident in the forests of Gabon is a new species, U.S. scientists said on Friday. They have named the little bird the olive-backed forest robin, or Stiphrornis pyrrholaemus, but say they know little about it yet....
