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You Can Call Them Algae Marine 'dead zones' on the rise around the world		20 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
You Can Call Them Algae Marine "dead zones" on the rise around the world There are now at least 200 oxygen-starved "dead zones" in the world's seas and oceans, a rise of more than a third over the past two years, the United Nations Environment Program announced yesterday. The algae blooms that suck up oxygen and cause dead zones -- killing off or driving out fish, oysters, sea gra ...
Topics: marine life, news, pollution and waste, United Nations (all these topics)

The Amazing Technicolor Dream Cote Ivory Coast scandal highlights illegal dumping of toxic waste		28 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
The Amazing Technicolor Dream Cote Ivory Coast scandal highlights illegal dumping of toxic waste The recent dumping of toxic oil byproducts and subsequent deaths of eight citizens in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, has highlighted the shady world of illegal toxic-waste disposal. The practice of unloading nasties on developing countries was addressed by the U.N.'s Basel Convention in 1989 (you remember that one), ...
Topics: Africa, globalization, news, toxics, United Nations (all these topics)

Aquaculture Shock Farmed-fish supply rises, but still may not match demand		05 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Aquaculture Shock Farmed-fish supply rises, but still may not match demand Farmed fish have nearly caught up to wild-caught fish as a source of the world's seafood, reported the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization yesterday. In 1980, just 9 percent of human-consumed fish came from aquaculture; now the number is 43 percent. "Catches in the wild are still high, but they have leveled off, probably for good," say ...
Topics: marine life, news, United Nations (all these topics)

Waves of Mutilation Oceans are in deep trouble, says U.N.		19 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Waves of Mutilation Oceans are in deep trouble, says U.N. Human exploitation of the oceans has outpaced conservation efforts, the United Nations said Friday. It warned that ocean degradation is "rapidly passing the point of no return." The watery deep, home to more than 90 percent of living organisms, faces danger from pollution, litter, overfishing, shipping, and climate change. Populations of large fi ...
Topics: marine life, news, oceans, United Nations (all these topics)

And the Sand Played On World's deserts will become more desert-y, says U.N.		05 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
And the Sand Played On World's deserts will become more desert-y, says U.N. Happy World Environment Day -- we got you some bad news! As climate change progresses, desert temperatures will rise up to 12.6 degrees F by the end of the century; rainfall in most deserts will decline by up to 20 percent; water will become scant, or too salty to drink or use for crops. So warns a chipper new Un ...
Topics: desertification, energy, news, solar voltaic power, United Nations (all these topics)

Let My People Flow Water privatization falling out of favor		28 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Let My People Flow Water privatization falling out of favor The privatization of water systems took off globally in the '80s and '90s; now it seems to be going the way of ankle zippers and acid-washed denim. At last week's World Water Forum, delegates voted to issue a decree supporting government responsibility for providing safe drinking water. As if on cue, Argentina last week announced it was severing i ...
Topics: Argentina, news, United Nations, water conflicts (all these topics)

The Sound of One Species Clapping Humans responsible for fastest rate of extinction since dinosaurs		22 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
The Sound of One Species Clapping Humans responsible for fastest rate of extinction since dinosaurs Human beings continue to dominate "Survivor: Earth," voting other species off the island at a blistering pace. "In effect, we are currently responsible for the sixth major extinction event in the history of earth, and the greatest since the dinosaurs disappeared, 65 million years ago," sums up the new U.N. ...
Topics: news, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

Ice Knowing You Enviros seek endangered status for Glacier National Park		17 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Ice Knowing You Enviros seek endangered status for Glacier National Park Greenland's not the only place where the glaciers, they are a-melting. Montana's Glacier National Park has lost over half its icy cover, and eco-activists have petitioned the United Nations to declare it endangered by global warming -- hoping to force U.S. policy makers to act on reducing the nation's greenhouse-gas emissions. Since Glac ...
Topics: Montana, national parks, news, United Nations (all these topics)

All This Aggravation Ain't Satisfactionin' Us Montreal summit wraps up with agreement to ... have more summits		12 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
All This Aggravation Ain't Satisfactionin' Us Montreal summit wraps up with agreement to ... have more summits The U.N. climate talks in Montreal ended this weekend with plenty of drama but little progress. The big news, such as it is, is an agreement by a coalition of some 150 nations to convene new talks to generate a set of binding greenhouse-gas emissions caps for 2012 when Kyoto expires. The U.S. balked a ...
Topics: climate, news, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

The Summit of Our Discontent U.S. continues to stomp mightily on Montreal climate summit		07 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
The Summit of Our Discontent U.S. continues to stomp mightily on Montreal climate summit Poor Canada got it from both sides this week at the Montreal climate summit. On Tuesday, it suggested that the 189 nations party to the original 1992 U.N. climate convention meet formally over the next two years to discuss post-Kyoto strategies for greenhouse-gas reduction. The Bush administration/ExxonMobil deleg ...
Topics: Canada, climate, news, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

The Long, Hot Summit U.S. senators, E.U. ministers press Bush to join climate talks		06 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
The Long, Hot Summit U.S. senators, E.U. ministers press Bush to join climate talks At the U.N. climate summit in Montreal, there's increased pressure on the U.S. to join in -- and when we say "pressure" we mean "begging." On Monday, 24 senators, including four Republicans, sent President Bush an open letter asking the administration to participate in the negotiations -- or ...
Topics: climate, European Union, news, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

Party Time What to expect from the U.N. climate-change negotiations in Montreal	Jason Anderson	16 Nov 2005	Main Dish
"Conference of Parties" sounds like a contradiction in terms: conferences are dull talkfests punctuated by free booze, and parties are free boozefests punctuated by dull moments of trying to talk over loud music. More of the former than the latter is likely to go on later this month in Montreal, during the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Clim ...
Topics: Canada, climate, Kyoto Protocol, United Nations (all these topics)

Call the COPs A refresher on the basics of climate conferences and Kyoto	Sarah Kraybill	16 Nov 2005	Main Dish
Later this month, a mess of world leaders will be gathering in Montreal to discuss climate change. The conference is a rendezvous -- we must use French words when speaking of Quebec -- of COP 11 and MOP 1. And it has to do with the Kyoto Protocol! Isn't that mysterious and intriguing? One of these things just doesn't belong ... to Kyoto. If you're not on the edge of your seat yet, let us spell ...
Topics: Canada, climate, Kyoto Protocol, United Nations (all these topics)

A Slow-Down Dirty Shame World's forests disappearing slightly less quickly		15 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
A Slow-Down Dirty Shame World's forests disappearing slightly less quickly Good news! The world's forests are being destroyed at a slightly-slower-if-still-alarming rate. That's the chipper assessment of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's new report on global deforestation. It compared trends in 229 countries over the past five years with data from the 1990s, finding that on average, just over 18 ...
Topics: deforestation, news, United Nations, wilderness (all these topics)

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)

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)

Arid Extra Dry Desertification will be big bummer for hundreds of thousands worldwide		21 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Arid Extra Dry Desertification will be big bummer for hundreds of thousands worldwide Hundreds of thousands of people -- some of them the world's poorest -- will be displaced in the next 30 years as the globe's deserts expand, according to the latest report from the U.N.'s Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Climate change is likely to intensify droughts, heat waves, and floods in "drylands," which co ...
Topics: climate, desertification, news, United Nations (all these topics)

Esprit de Gore Gore is transforming into fiery climate evangelist	Amanda Griscom Little	09 Jun 2005	Muckraker
Al Gore. Photo: The House Policy Committee. Al Gore, once derided by the right as a stiff, wooden Ozone Man, is now recasting himself as the fiery, headstrong Climate Avenger -- a blunt and passionate spokesperson about what he calls "a collision between our civilization and the earth." He is currently in negotiations to play a starring role in a big-budget, feature-length documentary ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, Muckraker, politics, San Francisco, United Nations (all these topics)

Pick a Little, Talk a Little Few new ideas emerge from latest U.N. climate meetings		18 May 2005	Daily Grist
Pick a Little, Talk a Little Few new ideas emerge from latest U.N. climate meetings What comes after Kyoto? That was the focus of a 190-nation, two-day seminar convened by the U.N. this week in Bonn, Germany, the first in what's likely to be a gazillion-step process of figuring out what sort of climate-change treaty should pick up where the Kyoto Protocol leaves off. As usual, U.S. representatives were brimming with enthusias ...
Topics: climate, news, United Nations (all these topics)

Mouths Where Their Money Is Emily Gertz sends a dispatch from a summit on climate change and investing		11 May 2005	Dispatches
Emily Gertz is a regular contributor to WorldChanging.com, and an internet content and strategy consultant for nonprofits. She has written on environmental policy for BushGreenwatch, and on the intersections of environment, culture, art, and activism for The Bear Deluxe and other independent alternative publications. � Wednesday, 11 May 2005 NEW YORK, N.Y. Yesterday, nearly 400 people met at th ...
Topics: business, climate, Dispatches, United Nations (all these topics)

Just the Facts, Ma'am On winning environmental arguments	Umbra Fisk	09 May 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I've recently been debating my cousin about the merits of environmentalism, and he consistently attacks my positions by claiming that the studies that make the case that the environment is in trouble are funded by groups that have a vested interest in maintaining that position. In other words, groups that are devoted to environmental protection stand to benefit from people believing that the environmen ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, United Nations, US EPA (all these topics)

Doom and Gloom With a Sense of, Uh ... Doom Comprehensive assessment of world's ecosystems released; be very afraid		30 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Doom and Gloom With a Sense of, Uh ... Doom Comprehensive assessment of world's ecosystems released; be very afraid The largest and most comprehensive assessment of the world's ecosystems ever undertaken was released today, and the results constitute a "stark warning" that "the ability of the planet's ecosystems to sustain future generations can no longer be taken for granted," according to the 45-member bo ...
Topics: health, news, United Nations (all these topics)

Just One Day Out of Life, It Would Be So Nice World Water Day celebrated by U.N., few others		22 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Just One Day Out of Life, It Would Be So Nice World Water Day celebrated by U.N., few others In case you haven't heard -- and you haven't -- today is World Water Day, an annual holiday aimed at drawing attention to alarming stats about global water needs, encouraging world leaders to take action, and otherwise passing by unnoticed. But today isn't just any old World Water Day; it's also the kick-off for the United Nat ...
Topics: news, United Nations, water pollution (all these topics)

A Stall for Volunteers U.S. blocks binding mercury treaty		28 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
A Stall for Volunteers U.S. blocks binding mercury treaty U.N.-brokered international talks on mercury-reduction plans wrapped up last week. Instead of the legally binding global treaty favored by the European Union, the result was a plan to curb mercury emissions through "voluntary partnerships" among member countries, international organizations, and industries. "Voluntary" being the buz ...
Topics: news, toxics, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

People, People Who Breed People Better make room -- world population to hit 9.1 billion by 2050		25 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
People, People Who Breed People Better make room -- world population to hit 9.1 billion by 2050 There will be 9.1 billion people on this li'l planet of ours by 2050, according to revised U.N. population figures released yesterday. That's a 40 percent increase from today's mere (!) 6.5 billion. While population in developed countries is expected to remain largely stable at 1.2 billion -- mainly due to immigration, as thei ...
Topics: news, population, United Nations (all these topics)

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