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Have Your Lake and Deplete it Too U.N. urges decisive action to save Africa's lakes		02 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Have Your Lake and Deplete it Too U.N. urges decisive action to save Africa's lakes Africa's 650-plus lakes are degrading at an astonishing rate, says the U.N., and protecting them is crucial to restoring the continent's health and boosting its prosperity. The U.N. Environment Program's new "Africa's Lakes: An Atlas of Environmental Change" compares recent and past satellite images of the water bodies, reveal ...
Topics: Africa, lakes, news, United Nations (all these topics)

Damalot Jacques Leslie's Deep Water sheds light on dam dramas	Michelle Nijhuis	12 Oct 2005	Arts and Minds
What does hell look like to an environmentalist? In the classic Encounters With the Archdruid, writer John McPhee imagines this particular inferno. The outer ring, he writes, is a moat filled with DDT. Inside lies another moat brimming with burning gasoline, and still deeper are masses of bulldozers and chainsaws. In the middle -- at "the absolute epicenter of hell on earth" -- stands a dam. & ...
Topics: Africa, Australia, dams, energy, India (all these topics)

Ape Fear New plan aims to save endangered great apes of Africa		01 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Ape Fear New plan aims to save endangered great apes of Africa Conservationists are angling to raise $30 million to stop gorillas and chimpanzees from going extinct in the wild within a human generation. The U.N. Environment Program's just-released "World Atlas of Great Apes and Their Conservation" reveals a poor prognosis for the survival of gorilla and chimp populations in Africa, where their tribulation ...
Topics: Africa, news, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

Cool Aid Groups say foreign aid to Africa should be joined with climate action		20 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Cool Aid Groups say foreign aid to Africa should be joined with climate action U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair's top two agenda items for the upcoming G8 meeting of industrialized countries -- aid to Africa and climate change -- are intimately linked, say a pair of new reports. Britain's leading scientific body, the Royal Society, argues that Africans are uniquely vulnerable to climate change, as more extreme temperatures a ...
Topics: Africa, climate, news, politics (all these topics)

African-Do Congo Basin rainforest protected by treaty		07 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
African-Do Congo Basin rainforest protected by treaty The world's second-largest rainforest, spanning 10 countries in the Congo Basin of Africa and disappearing at a rate of some 3.7 million acres a year, is now a wee bit safer. This weekend, leaders of seven central African nations signed a treaty aimed at slowing the widespread illegal logging, poaching, ivory trafficking, and bushmeat trade that are rapidly destro ...
Topics: Africa, land stewardship, rainforests (all these topics)

We're Not the Only Country With a Bushmeat Problem E.U. fishing subsidies drive illegal bushmeat trade in West Africa		12 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
We're Not the Only Country With a Bushmeat Problem E.U. fishing subsidies drive illegal bushmeat trade in West Africa Heavy European Union subsidies for fishing fleets off the coast of West Africa are driving the illegal bushmeat trade in the region, to devastating effect. As Euros eat more of their fish, there's less left for West Africans, who turn to bushmeat -- or the meat of wild animals, including gorilla ...
Topics: Africa, business, European Union, wildlife (all these topics)

I Had a Gas Station in Africa ... Unleaded gas making inroads in African countries -- finally		01 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
I Had a Gas Station in Africa ... Unleaded gas making inroads in African countries -- finally Years after leaded gas was given the heave-ho in developed countries, a number of African nations are beginning the process of shifting to unleaded. Leaded gas -- or rather, the lead spewed into the air when it is combusted -- has been shown to lower IQs in children and increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes in adults. The U ...
Topics: Africa, energy, oil, toxics (all these topics)

Rout of Africa Environmental degradation fuels violence in Africa		06 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Rout of Africa Environmental degradation fuels violence in Africa Environmental problems like water shortages, deforestation, and overgrazing -- all exacerbated by global warming -- are tightly linked to violent conflict in parts of Africa, according to a new U.N. report. "The link could go in either or both directions," says the report, "conflict creates conditions promoting ecosystem degradation, ...
Topics: Africa, land degradation, United Nations (all these topics)

Prize and Shine Prizes Go to Community Programs Doing Environmental Good		20 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Prize and Shine Prizes Go to Community Programs Doing Environmental Good Competition for the U.N.'s Equator Prize -- rewarded for community initiatives that reduce poverty and preserve environmental health -- was so intense this year that there were seven winners instead of the normal six. The prize, awarded by the Equator Initiative, amounts to $30,000 -- plus a dose of international recognition. An ...
Topics: Africa, green living, India, Tanzania, United Nations (all these topics)

What Blows Around Comes Around Cross-Border Pollution an Increasing Problem		17 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
What Blows Around Comes Around Cross-Border Pollution an Increasing Problem Pollution from Asia can taint the air along the West Coast of the U.S., said scientists on Friday at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Jet streams can drive dirty air across the Pacific Ocean in ...
Topics: Africa, air pollution, Asia, Atlantic Ocean, climate, European Union, Florida, North America, oceans, Pacific Ocean, pollution and waste ... (all these topics)

Nativity Scene Native Peoples Speak Up for Their Lands		12 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Nativity Scene Native Peoples Speak Up for Their Lands Indigenous peoples are rallying for their lands and their rights this week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where a major U.N. convention on biodiversity is taking place. Representatives of native peoples are demanding the right to reject development proje ...
Topics: Africa, Asia, commercial and industry organizations, European Union, green living, Indonesia, Malaysia, placemaking, South America, United Nations (all these topics)

Got to Admit It's Getting Bettors Bettors Will Get a Chance to Help Save Albatrosses		12 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Got to Admit It's Getting Bettors Bettors Will Get a Chance to Help Save Albatrosses A well-known bookie is teaming up with enviros in a creative effort to help save albatrosses, sea birds that are increasingly threatened by a fishing technique called longlining, which involves the use of tens of thousands of baited hooks dragged behind trawlers for 60 miles or more. Conservationists ...
Topics: Africa, Australia, environmental restoration, United Kingdom, wildlife (all these topics)

Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened		10 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened The world's cloud forests, which strip moisture from clouds and supply millions of poor people in developing nations with fresh water, are in danger of being wiped out by climate change, claims a report released Monday by the U.N. and the Wor ...
Topics: Africa, Asia, climate, Ecuador, food and agriculture, Indonesia, logging, Malaysia, Mexico, renewable energy, South America ... (all these topics)

Oil Who Wander Are Not Lost		04 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Oil Who Wander Are Not Lost Last year, China became the world's second-largest importer of oil (take a wild guess who's No. 1), struggling to keep up with the energy demands of an economy expanding at a rate of 9.9 percent annually. Having recently concluded, like other oil-thirsty countries, that the volatile Middle East might not be a sta ...
Topics: Africa, Algeria, Asia, China, energy, European Union, Gabon, globalization, green living, Japan, Middle East (all these topics)

Methyl to Their Madness U.S. Loses Bid for Increased Use of Ozone-Depleting Pesticide		17 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Methyl to Their Madness U.S. Loses Bid for Increased Use of Ozone-Depleting Pesticide A U.S. request for permission to up use of an ozone-depleting fungicide was snubbed last week by representatives from the European Union and developing nations at an international meeting on ozone-layer protection in Nairobi, Kenya. The Montreal Protocol, a 1989 treaty that aims to halt destruction of the o ...
Topics: Africa, climate, European Union, Kenya, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Global Warming, I Presume? Lake Tanganyika Under Threat from Climate Change		14 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Global Warming, I Presume? Lake Tanganyika Under Threat from Climate Change The ecology of Lake Tanganyika -- Africa's second-largest body of water and site of the famed encounter between Henry Stanley and David Livingstone -- is under siege due to global climate change, according to studies by two independent teams of scientists. The scientists have found that rising air temperatures have reduced the lake's nutrient load a ...
Topics: Africa, climate, health, lakes (all these topics)

The Sahara Club Global Climate Change Heats Up Africa		31 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
The Sahara Club Global Climate Change Heats Up Africa It's the cruelest of ironies: Africa, the continent that contributes the least to global climate change, is suffering the most from its effects, according to a study conducted by scientists at Great Britain's Hadley Center, one of the world's leading facilities for climate-change research. And here's another irony: Part of why climate change is having a stronger eff ...
Topics: Africa, climate, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Rubber Ducky, You're the $100		24 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Rubber Ducky, You're the $100 Thanks to "Sesame Street," everybody over the age of two knows that rubber duckies make bath time lots of fun -- but who knew the little yellow guys could make oceanography a bit more fun, too? Eleven years ago, a shipping container carrying 29,000 rubber bath toys (frogs, turtles, and beavers, as well as the familiar duckies) fell overboard in a ...
Topics: Africa, Alaska, Atlantic Ocean, oceans, Pacific Ocean, placemaking (all these topics)

A Pregnant Pause		30 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
A Pregnant Pause Women who were exposed to the pesticide DDT while in the womb had more difficulties getting pregnant as adults than did those who had no exposure, according to a new study published in the British medical journal Lancet. "This is the first research that shows it is possible that these exposures can cause problems 30 years down the line," said lead researcher Barbara Cohn, an epidemio ...
Topics: Africa, Asia, health, South America, toxics (all these topics)

South Parks		17 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
South Parks A plan to privatize a string of national parks in sub-Saharan Africa has garnered support from former South African president Nelson Mandela, the World Bank, and the U.S. State Department, among others. The plan grew out of a 1998 meeting between Mandela and Paul van Vlissingen, a Dutch tycoon and conservationist, at which Mandela expressed concern that many African nations didn't have the ...
Topics: Africa, land stewardship, national parks, wilderness (all these topics)

The Village Person		06 Jun 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Africa, Nigeria, water pollution (all these topics)

Hunger Strike		29 May 2003	Daily Grist
Hunger Strike The backlash has begun against President Bush's comment last week that a European Union ban on genetically modified (GM) foods is contributing to world hunger. The reality, critics say, is that the dispute over GM crops is an international agricultural battle with billion-dollar stakes, and that concern about famine in the developing world is a sideshow at best and a smokescreen ...
Topics: Africa, business, European Union, GMOs, politics, population (all these topics)

Raising the Zanzibar		22 May 2003	Daily Grist
Raising the Zanzibar The island of Zanzibar, located just off the coast of Tanzania, is set to get its first national park. The island, which is independently governed, plans to convert the 12,355-acre Jozani Forest Reserve into a national park to promote better conservation, management, and natural-resource use, according to Mussa Ame Silima, Zanzibar's minister of agriculture, natural reso ...
Topics: Africa, national forests, national parks, wilderness, Zanzibar (all these topics)

Afri-can Do		18 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Afri-can Do Seeking to capitalize on the potential of renewable energy sources, 10 African nations are collaborating to increase their combined geothermal power generation to 1,000 megawatts by 2020. Geothermal power yields electricity by trapping steam released by water reservoi ...
Topics: Africa, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, green living, international government agencies, Kenya, Malawi, renewable energy, Rwanda, Tanzania ... (all these topics)

Bad Medicine		26 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Bad Medicine South Africa's indigenous forests cover less than one-half of 1 percent of the country -- and the wooded land that remains is severely threatened by people who illegally gather medicinal plants to turn a profit. Michael Peter, director of the nation's Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, said the problem isn't traditional native herbalists but rather commercial gatherers, who sell their harvest for profit, do not respec ...
Topics: Africa, wilderness (all these topics)

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