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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Riau wow Indonesian province puts moratorium on rainforest destruction	Glenn Hurowitz	18 Aug 2008	Gristmill
I just started as Greenpeace's media director, in part because I wanted to help Greenpeace save the world's rainforests, a topic I've written a lot about at Grist and elsewhere. Within a week of starting the job, I knew I'd made a good decision when I got this news release from our Southeast Asian office: Indonesian province of Riau has pledged to halt the destruction of its forests and peatlands; a move that will prevent billions of tonnes of carbon from enterin ...
Topics: climate, deforestation, food, Indonesia, wildlife (all these topics)

I'll Have the Marsupial of the Day Aussies should fight climate change by eating kangaroo, says study		08 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 10:29 AM on 08 Aug 2008 Australians who want to make a dent in climate change just need to eat more kangaroo, says a new study in the journal Conservation Letters. The methane-producing burps and farts of sheep and cattle contribute 11 percent of Australia's annual greenhouse-gas emissions. Kangaroos, however, emit little methane. Researchers say that 175 million kangaroos could produc ...
Topics: agriculture, Australia, climate, climate change mitigation, food, greenhouse-gas emissions, livestock, news, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

Bad News, Bees Honeybee hives in U.S. seeing continued decline, survey says		07 May 2008	News
Posted at 7:17 AM on 07 May 2008 Honeybee populations in the United States continued their decline last year, according to a survey of bee health by the Apiary Inspectors of America; U.S. commercial beekeepers saw the loss of 36 percent more hives than last year. "For two years in a row, we've sustained a substantial loss," said Dennis van Engelsdorp of AIA. "That's an astonishing number. Imagine if one o ...
Topics: agriculture, food, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Bush's bread man Baltimore baker takes on great quacking menace	Glenn Hurowitz	21 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Last week, The New York Times' David Streitfeld told the story of one J.R. Paterakis, a Baltimore 'baker' who opposes the Conservation Reserve Program, which provides incentives to farmers to set aside their land for wildlife, clean water, and (incidentally) massive carbon sequestration. Seemed like an opportunity to deploy my rye wit. The program has been a huge success -- protecting 35 million acres of land and partially restoring the 'duck factory' of the upper ...
Topics: wildlife, energy, biofuels, Big Ag, politics, agriculture, food (all these topics)

It's not just honey you'll miss Haagen-Dazs says CCD could interrupt your ice cream fix	Kurt Michael Friese	18 Feb 2008	Gristmill
As I and many others have pointed out, the loss of as much as 70-80 percent of the US honeybee population to Colony Collapse Disorder is a far greater concern than missing that spot of honey in your lavender soy chai. Premium ice cream maker Haagen-Dazs has joined in to sound the alarm about CCD and the impact it could have on our food supply Haagen-Dazs is warning that a creature as small as a honeybee could become a big problem for the premiu ...
Topics: agriculture, business, food, wildlife (all these topics)

Eco-Farm: Buzz kill A long-time beekeeper's take on colony collapse	Tom Philpott	27 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Note: For the next few days I'll be reporting from Eco-Farm, the annual conference held by the Ecological Farming Association of California. At Eco-Farm, some 1,400-1,500 organic farmers, Big Organic marketers, and sundry sustainable-ag enthusiasts pack into a rustic, beautiful seaside conference hall an hour-and-a-half south of San Francisco to talk farming amid the dunes. Long-time California bee keeper Randy Oliver gave an interesting session on apiary in an age o ...
Topics: agriculture, food, wildlife (all these topics)

Pollan connects the dots Why bees and pigs are not machines	Maywa Montenegro	17 Dec 2007	Gristmill
In yesterday's New York Times Magazine, Michael Pollan writes, "Two stories in the news this year, stories that on their faces would seem to have nothing to do with each other let alone with agriculture, may point to an imminent breakdown in the way we're growing food today." Can you guess what they are? Answer here.
Topics: industrial ag, agriculture, food, health, wildlife (all these topics)

Tweet and Sour Songbird endangered in France hunted as a culinary delicacy		19 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 4:32 PM on 19 Sep 2007 Ortolan is a French delicacy: a tiny songbird, roasted whole and swallowed in one bite, bones and all. Ortolan hunting has been banned in France since 1998 to protect the species, but the birds have a high price on the black market, and as many as 30,000 a year are fattened up and sold by poachers to high-end chefs. Apparently freedom fries just aren't good enough for them. source:� Assoc ...
Topics: endangered species, food, France, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Shark tales down under Bull sharks abound in Golden Coast canals	Andrew Sharpless	27 Apr 2007	Gristmill
It's no wonder so many people flock to Queensland, Australia. The fastest growing region on the southeast side of the continent down under offers a subtropical climate with an outdoorsy lifestyle -- and an abundance of bull sharks? These feisty elasmobranches are so abundant in fact that residents are catching them off apartment balconies with rigs no more complicated than a pork chop tied to a string.Though bull sharks abound in the Golden Coast canals, sharks o ...
Topics: fishing, food, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

Edible media: Bee here, now Please?	Tom Philpott	28 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Edible Media takes an occasional look at interesting or deplorable food journalism on the web. Of mites and men (and bees) [Insert perfunctory 'buzz' reference into lead:] Buzz about the collapse of domesticated honeybee populations hit the front page of the New York Times yesterday. The steep drop in bee numbers is alarming: A bee laid its little tentacles on the flower that produced every fruit, vegetable, and nut you've ever eaten. And that means you, too, ...
Topics: food, wildlife (all these topics)

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