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Science Daily, 2008-09-05
ScienceDaily (Sep. 5, 2008) — The grapevine (Vitis vinifera) is a widely cultivated crop that has been subjected to intensive breeding since the Neolithic period (from ~10,500 to ~6,000 years ago).
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Voice of America, 2008-09-05
A farming technique developed by scientists to help small-scale farmers in the semi-arid Sahel region boost their crop yields is being introduced to poor farmers in East and South Africa.
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Farmers Weekly (UK), 2008-09-05
Denying farmers the chance to grow genetically modified wheat is causing people in the developing world to die from starvation, the head of a global wheat research institute has told the news agency Reuters.
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Australian Life Scientist, 2008-09-05
The cotton bollworm, the world's most economically destructive insect pest, is having its genome sequenced.
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Agence France-Presse, 2008-09-05
PRETORIA (AFP) — UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) chief Jacques Diouf Thursday said world leaders had ignored warnings on the current food crisis and rising costs.
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Economist, 2008-09-05
Some scientists think climate change needs a more radical approach. As well as trying to curb greenhouse-gas emissions, they have plans to re-engineer the Earth
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Yahoo! News, 2008-09-05
WASHINGTON - Smog, soot and other particles like the kind often seen hanging over Beijing add to global warming and may raise summer temperatures in the American heartland by three degrees in about 50 years, says a new federal science report released Thursday
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Voice of America, 2008-09-05
Australia's top climate adviser has unveiled the likely costs of an emissions trading program.
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Business Daily, 2008-09-05
September 5, 2008: The evacuation of New Orleans ahead of Hurricane Gustav and the displacement of two million Indians to the worst flood in 50 years underline the increasing vulnerability of humanity to natural disasters.
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Business Green, 2008-09-05
Climate and energy package is setting a global example on environmental policy, says IEA
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Yahoo! News, 2008-09-05
VISALIA, Calif. - Federal researchers are warning that warming temperatures could soon cause California's giant sequoia trees to die off more quickly unless forest managers plan with an eye toward climate change and the impact of a longer, harsher wildfire season.
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Environment News Service (ENS), 2008-09-05
DAKAR, Senegal, September 4, 2008 (ENS) - To help Africa obtain its fair share of climate emissions reduction projects under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism and satisfy a growing interest in a carbon market on the continent, the International Emissions Trading Association on Wednesday launched the first all Africa Carbon Forum at Le Meridien Preisdent Hotel in Dakar.
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BBC News, 2008-09-05
Sea levels globally are very unlikely to rise by more than 2m (7ft) this century, scientists conclude.
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BBC News, 2008-09-05
The Environment Minister Sammy Wilson has angered green campaigners by describing their view on climate change as a "hysterical psuedo-religion".
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innovations-report.com, 2008-09-05
What are the consequences of human-made tinkering with land cover and hydrology on surrounding native desert ecosystems and biodiversity?
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Nature, 2008-09-05
The Montreal Protocol rescued the ozone layer, but also prevented drastic regional climate changes.
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Business Standard (India), 2008-09-05
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has unveiled an online atlas which will utilise the popular mapping tool Google Earth to reveal the impact of climate change and other human activities on the planet.
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Xinhuanet, 2008-09-05
BEIJING, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- China has moved to tighten the control over the export of genetic resources of livestock and poultry with the promulgation of a new ordinance that will take effect on October 1.
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Reuters, 2008-09-05
NEW YORK, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Monsanto Co (MON.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), the leader in biotech crops, said on Thursday it has received regulatory approval in China to import Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybeans.
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Canadian Press (Canada), 2008-09-05
VANCOUVER — Leaving British Columbia's old-growth forests standing may make more economic sense than cutting them down for timber, especially as the province looks to strategies to cut global warming, a new B.C. study suggests.
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Reuters, 2008-09-05
LONDON, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Plans to pay tropical countries to protect forests under a U.N. pact to fight climate change are flawed and risk alienating voters in rich nations, Britain's top adviser on forests told Reuters.
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Times of India, 2008-09-05
PANAJI: With Goa’s coastal areas becoming prime property, the forest cover over them is fast disappearing. Take the case of Reis Magos in North Goa or Agonda in South Goa, where huge chunks of private forests have disappeared.
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Xinhuanet, 2008-09-05
NAIROBI, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- Two UN agencies on Friday unveiled a plan to list as a World Heritage Site an area known as the Fertile Crescent, and thought by some to be the location of the Biblical "Garden of Eden".
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Intellectual Property Watch, 2008-09-05
Growth of intellectual property rights depends on the level of technological development and most Islamic countries are seen as marginalised and scientifically lagging least-developed countries.
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Africa Science News Service, 2008-09-05
An Invasive plant species is threatening wild life at major Kenyan parks and sanctuaries, scientists at a recent meeting held in Nairobi have said.
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Independent (UK), 2008-09-05
The legendary Komodo dragon, a giant carnivorous lizard that feasts on water buffalo, and occasionally even attacks humans, is disappearing from its limited habitat, according to zoologists.
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Today's Zaman, 2008-09-05
Migratory birds in Turkey have begun their journey to Africa, headed toward warmer winter climes.
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Environment News Service (ENS), 2008-09-05
OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada, September 4, 2008 (ENS) - The Canadian government has announced that it will protect more than 450,000 hectares (1,737 square miles) of Arctic wilderness in the Nunavut Territory, including a globally significant Important Bird Area, by establishing three new National Wildlife Areas.
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BBC News, 2008-09-05
One of the world's smallest and rarest snails, measuring less than a millimetre in width, has received special protection.
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Los Angeles Times, 2008-09-05
At the turn of the century, 22 wealthy nations, including the United States, vowed to dramatically increase their foreign aid commitments in order to meet 15 goals aimed at reducing poverty and disease in the developing world.
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