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Africa Science News Service, 2008-05-16
The Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity has said renewing agricultural diversity of crops and livestock backed by a functional natural support system is the best long-term solution to meet the global food challenge.
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Africa Science News Service, 2008-05-16
Sweet sorghum provides could be the crop that would provide an opportunity for developing countries to re-direct oil money that used to go overseas back into their own rural economies, Dr. William Dar, Director General of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), one of the 15 allied centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) has said.
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Associated Press, 2008-05-16
WASHINGTON (AP) — While carbon dioxide has been getting lots of publicity in climate change, reactive forms of nitrogen are also building up in the environment, scientists warn.
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Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, 2008-05-16
Anlass für das internationale Festival „Planet Diversity“ und den anschließenden Kongress ist die UN-Konvention zur Biologischen Vielfalt (CBD), bei der vom 19. bis zum 30. Mai die Vertreter von 190 Staaten in Bonn über Strategien gegen das weltweite Artensterben verhandeln werden. Laut führenden Experten werden im Laufe des Jahrhunderts 30 Prozent aller Arten aussterben. Die Gründe dafür liegen in der Verbreitung landwirtschaftlicher Monokulturen und der Vernichtung der Wälder.
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Der Tagesspiegel, 2008-05-16
Berlin - Umweltminister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) hofft, dass die UN-Biodiversitätskonferenz, die am kommenden Montag in Bonn beginnen wird, „Fortschritte“ bringen wird. Gabriel sagte, die „Weltgemeinschaft steht am Scheidepunkt“. 16 Jahre, nachdem beim Weltgipfel in Rio die Konvention zum Schutz der Biodiversität (CBD) beschlossen worden ist, sei „wenig bis gar nichts“ getan worden, um den Verlust von Arten aufzuhalten.
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Star Online (Malaysia), 2008-05-16
OSLO (Reuters) - How did Noah's Ark manage to stay afloat?
Estimates of the number of species on earth are surging into apparently hull-busting millions as biologists find new life almost everywhere they look, from African swamps to Antarctica.
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Agence France-Presse, 2008-05-16
Un mammifère sur quatre, un oiseau sur huit, un tiers des amphibiens et 70% des plantes sont menacés d'extinction, selon l'Union mondiale pour la nature (UICN).
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BBC News, 2008-05-16
Between a quarter and a third of the world's wildlife has been lost since 1970, according to data compiled by the Zoological Society of London.
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Guardian (UK), 2008-05-16
More than one in four of all individual animals, birds and fish on the planet have disappeared since 1970, zoologists have found. Human activities are to blame, they say
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Le Monde, 2008-05-16
Les glaciers immaculés qui font la beauté de la Cordillère blanche, au coeur des Andes, sont-ils menacés de disparition ? Les scientifiques ne prédisent rien de bon à cette chaîne glaciaire tropicale - la plus haute et la plus grande du monde - située au nord de Lima, la capitale péruvienne.
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Reuters, 2008-05-16
BERLIN (Reuters) - Nearly 200 governments will say next week they are unlikely to meet a target of slowing the rate of extinctions of living species by 2010, a failure which could threaten future food supplies.
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Pressrelations.de, 2008-05-16
Eine Woche vor Eröffnung der UN-Naturschutzkonferenz in Bonn hat Bundes-umweltminister Sigmar Gabriel vor einem Scheitern des Gipfels gewarnt. „Die 9. Vertragsstaatenkonferenz der Konvention zum Schutz der biologischen Vielfalt ist das letzte Treffen der Vertragsstaaten vor 2010. Die Weltgemeinschaft steht an einem Scheideweg: Entweder es gelingt uns jetzt, bis zum Jahre 2010 den Schutz der biologischen Vielfalt weltweit grundlegend voranzubringen, oder wir beweisen der Weltbevölkerung, dass es nicht viel wert ist, wenn 190 Staaten - fast alle Staaten der Erde - ein Übereinkommen unterschreiben“, sagte Gabriel in Berlin.
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ABC News (Australia), 2008-05-15
Researchers at the Australian National University have identified a gene in algae that could help wheat and rice cope with climate change.
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Nature, 2008-05-15
Agriculture and development experts have called for alternatives to the widespread practice of 'seed aid' — the seeds handed out to crisis-stricken African farmers — which they say has not met the needs of local communities.
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Planet Ark, 2008-05-15
BRASILIA - German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Brazil on Wednesday to adopt tougher environmental standards in producing biofuels but said rich nations needed to pay up to help protect rain forests and their biodiversity.
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UN News Centre, 2008-05-15
14 May 2008 – As the world faces a food crisis, agriculture requires “reinvigorating” to produce enough food to feed the burgeoning global population, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today.
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innovations-report.com, 2008-05-15
Knowing that soils are a potential climate change time-bomb is nothing new — but now, for the first time, a group of international scientists have found a way to distinguish just how much of these ancient carbon stores are being lost to the atmosphere as CO2.
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Planet Ark, 2008-05-15
BERLIN - Governments are set to miss a self-imposed goal of slowing the rate of extinctions by 2010 and as a result are putting long-term food supplies at risk, a top environmentalist said before a UN biodiversity conference.
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National Geographic, 2008-05-15
An exhaustive analysis of data from about 30,000 physical and ecological systems shows that human-induced climate change is already having a dramatic effect on the planet.
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Agence France-Presse, 2008-05-15
LIMA (AFP) — Peru's Cordillera Blanca, a snow-topped northern mountain range sometimes called the "Peruvian Switzerland," is slowly disappearing because of climate change, a key issue on the table of a Latin America-EU summit being held in Lima this week.
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Agence France-Presse, 2008-05-15
Une vaste étude multi-disciplinaire publiée mercredi confirme et renforce les conclusions du Groupe intergouvernemental sur le climat (GIEC), mandaté par l'ONU, sur l'origine et l'impact du réchauffement climatique.
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Nature, 2008-05-15
A comprehensive analysis of trends in tens of thousands of biological and physical systems has provided more evidence to bolster the near-universal view that man-made climate change is altering the behaviour of plants, animals, rivers and more.
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Guardian (UK), 2008-05-15
Global warming is disrupting wildlife and the environment on every continent, according to an unprecedented study that reveals the extent to which climate change is already affecting the world's ecosystems.
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BBC News, 2008-05-15
The Brazilian minister in charge of managing the Amazon rainforest has said deforestation can only be halted if people are given economic chances.
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Reuters, 2008-05-15
OSLO, May 15 (Reuters) - How did Noah's Ark manage to stay afloat?
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Independent (UK), 2008-05-15
Brazil has been accused of turning its back on its duty to protect the Amazon after the resignation of its award-winning Environment Minister fuelled fresh fears over the fate of the forest.
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National Geographic, 2008-05-15
The human tragedy resulting from the cyclone that struck Myanmar earlier this month is staggering, with perhaps 100,000 people dead or missing and 1.5 million people facing hunger and disease.
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Reuters, 2008-05-15
PARIS, May 14 (Reuters) - A French bill on genetically modified crops will be re-submitted to parliament unchanged, a committee said on Wednesday, a day after it was blocked by legislators in an embarrassment for President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Seedquest, 2008-05-15
Egypt has approved the cultivation and commercialisation of a Bt maize variety, marking the first legal introduction of genetically modified (GM) crops into the country.
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Checkbiotech, 2008-05-15
Scientists have decried the decision by two German universities to pull the plug on field trials of genetically modified (GM) crops, calling it a “disgraceful” interference with scientists' freedom to research.
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