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Turning Over an Old Reef Great Barrier Reef Is Doomed, Says Report		23 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Turning Over an Old Reef Great Barrier Reef Is Doomed, Says Report Australia's Great Barrier Reef -- the world's largest chain of living coral and one of the seven wonders of the natural world -- will be almost completely destroyed by rising sea temperatures by 2050, predicts a new report released by Queensland University's Center for Marine Studies. "Coral c ...
Topics: air pollution, Australia, climate, international government agencies, marine life, oceans (all these topics)

Corn to Be Wild U.K. to Approve Planting of GM Corn		19 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Corn to Be Wild U.K. to Approve Planting of GM Corn The British government is set to give the go-ahead for genetically modified corn to be grown in the nation, according to documents leaked yesterday from a meeting of top government officials. A formal announcement is expected next week, though the government maintains that no final decision has been reached. The leaked discussion notes that "th ...
Topics: GMOs, international government agencies, United Kingdom (all these topics)

His Park Is Bigger Than His Bite Chile Dedicates New Nature Park on Land Purchased by Rich American		09 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
His Park Is Bigger Than His Bite Chile Dedicates New Nature Park on Land Purchased by Rich American Some 738,000 acres of pristine rainforest in southern Chile will get official billing as a nature sanctuary today, thanks to a deal between U.S. tycoon Doug Tompkins and the Chilean government. Tompkins, cofounder of the sportswear company Esp ...
Topics: Chile, energy, international government agencies, land stewardship, mining and drilling, rainforests, Venezuela (all these topics)

Hail to the Reef Australia to Protect One-Third of Great Barrier Reef		05 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Hail to the Reef Australia to Protect One-Third of Great Barrier Reef In a major boon to Down Under ecology, fully one-third of the Great Barrier Reef will receive protection, the Australian government announced this week. The move will increase the protected areas of the reef by 40,000 square miles, thereby establishing the lar ...
Topics: Australia, climate, energy, international government agencies, marine life, oceans, outdoor recreation, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Putin: His Foot in His Mouth? Russia Might Ratify Kyoto Protocol, After All		04 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Putin: His Foot in His Mouth? Russia Might Ratify Kyoto Protocol, After All Mark Twain once famously commented that rumors of his death had been greatly exaggerated. Much the same could be said of the Kyoto Protocol on global climate change, which was pronounced dead by gun-jumping news sources (Grist among them, we regret to say) when Andrei Illarionov, chief economic advisor to ...
Topics: climate, energy, international government agencies, Russia, United States (all these topics)

From Russia, Without Love Russia Rejects Kyoto Protocol, Likely Killing Climate Change Treaty		02 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
From Russia, Without Love Russia Rejects Kyoto Protocol, Likely Killing Climate Change Treaty The Kyoto Protocol on climate change received a presumably fatal blow today, when Russia announced that it will not ratify the agreement in its current form. Without Russia or the U.S. on board, the treaty will not have buy-in from at least 55 countries that account for 55 percent of the developed world's 1990 carbon diox ...
Topics: climate, international government agencies (all these topics)

The Fur Is Flying -- Off the Shelves Fur Fashions Drive Slaughter of Endangered Species		01 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
The Fur Is Flying -- Off the Shelves Fur Fashions Drive Slaughter of Endangered Species Fur is making a comeback on fashion runways -- and that means trouble for a number of endangered animals, according to an official with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. In the 1980s and '90s, fur was largely out of vogue and thus the animal skin trade dwindled, but recently there's been an upswing i ...
Topics: international government agencies, wildlife (all these topics)

Dollars and Sense Big Institutional Investors Press for Info on Climate Change Risks		24 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Dollars and Sense Big Institutional Investors Press for Info on Climate Change Risks Officials controlling the largest pension funds in the U.S. on Friday called on publicly traded companies, federal regulators, and Wall Street to get serious about assessing and disclosing the financial risks posed by climate change. The comptrollers of New York state and New York City, the treasurers of California, Co ...
Topics: energy, international government agencies, wind power (all these topics)

No Silva Lining Once Seen as Ally, Brazilian President Draws Fire From Enviros		21 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
No Silva Lining Once Seen as Ally, Brazilian President Draws Fire From Enviros It's been a roller coaster year for environmentalists in Brazil. Last October, with the election to the presidency of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula, for short), they were elated, because he was seen as one of their own. Now, though, enviros say they have been betrayed on virtually ev ...
Topics: Brazil, dams, energy, GMOs, international government agencies, nuclear power, rainforests (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, Uganda, United Nations, Zambia (all these topics)

Can't See the Trees, Either		16 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Can't See the Trees, Either Spring is here, and all across the country, the first pale green leaves are appearing on trees. But if you live in an urban area, you may be lucky to see such a sight: During the past 15 years, the quantity of trees in many U.S. cities has dropped by almost a third, while paved areas have increased by 20 percent, according t ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, international government agencies, land stewardship, Mexico (all these topics)

Tony Tony Tony!		25 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Tony Tony Tony! In a speech that compared the danger of environmental degradation to the threat of terrorism, British Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday outlined a sweeping plan to combat global warming. Blair called on his country, the European Union, and would-be E.U. members in Eastern Europe to cut carbon dioxide emissions 60 percent ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, European Union, international government agencies, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Nobody Expected This Spanish Inquisition		24 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Nobody Expected This Spanish Inquisition Hundreds of thousands of Spanish citizens hit the streets of Madrid on Sunday to protest the national government's poor handling of the Prestige oil tanker spill, which has been labeled the worst environmental disaster in the country's history. Hundreds of chartered buses brought in protesters from Ga ...
Topics: energy, European Union, Greenpeace, international government agencies, marine life, oceans, placemaking, Spain (all these topics)

Gorging Themselves		20 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Gorging Themselves China's controversial Three Gorges dam looks like small potatoes next to the country's latest proposed water project, a gargantuan network of dams and canals designed to divert water from the south to thirsty northern cities such as Beijing. The project would cost $60 billion over 50 years (twice as muc ...
Topics: Asia, China, dams, energy, international government agencies, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, wetlands, Yangtze River (all these topics)

Changing Their Tuna		05 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Changing Their Tuna In other marine news, a new report released by the federal government has found that dolphin populations in the Pacific Ocean are failing to recover from years of tuna fishing, and that some 3,000 dolphins are still killed by tuna boats every year. The report, by the U.S. Commerce Department ...
Topics: Colombia, Department of Commerce, international government agencies, marine life, Mexico, Pacific Ocean, Southwest, United States, Venezuela (all these topics)

Very Slow Food Movement		02 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Very Slow Food Movement After months of heated debate, the 15 farm ministers of the European Union agreed last week on labeling rules for genetically modified (GM) food and animal feed. Under the plan, all food and feed containing 0.9 percent GM ingredients or more would need to be identified as such; below that threshold, no labeling would be required. Pro-GM food ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, GMOs, Greenpeace, international government agencies (all these topics)

Privates Exposed		18 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Privates Exposed The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, is coming under fire from environmentalists after the London Guardian published information from apparently secret E.C. documents describing efforts to liberalize trade by privatizing state-run services in ...
Topics: European Union, Friends of the Earth, globalization, international government agencies, solid waste treatment and disposal, water conflicts, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Grim Reefer		26 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Grim Reefer Coral reefs are usually associated with the balmy blue waters of the tropics, but the amazing underwater kingdoms exist in cooler climes, too -- at least for now. A new study by French, British, and Norwegian scientists found that 4,500-year-old reefs in the northeastern Atlanti ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, commercial and industry organizations, energy, European Union, Greenpeace, international government agencies, marine life, oceans, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Elephants: Never Forget		26 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Elephants: Never Forget A shocking 80 percent of wild elephants in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam fell victim to the ivory trade between 1988 and 2000, according to a report issued yesterday by Save the Elephants. The report blamed French, Spanish, Italian, German, Japanese, and Chinese tourists for driving ...
Topics: Cambodia, China, France, Germany, Indonesia, international government agencies, Italy, Japan, Laos, Nepal, Spain, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, wildlife (all these topics)

Kenya Believe It?		20 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Kenya Believe It? If Kenya gets its way, water distribution in east Africa could change dramatically: The nation's energy minister, Raila Odinga, has called for a review of the 1929 British colonial treaty that grants Egypt the right to veto projects involving use of the headwaters of the Nile. Od ...
Topics: Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, globalization, international government agencies, Kenya, Middle East, Nile River, rivers and watersheds, Sudan, water conflicts (all these topics)

Tricks of the Trade		07 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Tricks of the Trade In a blow to environmentalists and unions, Republicans in the U.S. House pushed through a plan yesterday to give President Bush broad authority to negotiate trade agreements. The bill, which was approved by a single vote, would take away from Congress the power to amend trade deals brokered by the administration; lawmakers could merely vote yea or nay on the pacts. Enviro group ...
Topics: globalization, international government agencies, politics (all these topics)

Tree? No Thanks, I'm Trying to Cut Back		05 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Tree? No Thanks, I'm Trying to Cut Back Indonesia said this week that it would tighten its forestry laws to rein in illegal logging. Under the new rules, companies will lose their licenses to log in 2003 unless they can prove they are managing forests sustainably. Enviros cheered the change, though it remains to be seen just how the theory will tr ...
Topics: deforestation, Indonesia, international government agencies, logging, rainforests, wilderness, World Bank (all these topics)

Speedy Gone-zales		04 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Speedy Gone-zales Mexico is losing forests at almost twice the rate previously thought, the country's Environment Ministry announced yesterday. A new multi-agency study of satellite images taken from 1993 and 2000 found that average forest loss in that time was about 2.78 million acres a year, the world's second-highest deforestation ...
Topics: Brazil, deforestation, food and agriculture, international government agencies, logging, Mexico, ranching, wilderness (all these topics)

Sting Like a Butterfly		28 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Sting Like a Butterfly Every year, millions of migrating Monarch butterflies make their way from Canada to central Mexico, where they reproduce and overwinter in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. Trouble is, 60 percent of that reserve has disappeared in the last few decades due to logging. Now Mexican officials say they are getting serious about protecting the reserve, assigning ...
Topics: Canada, international government agencies, logging, Mexico, wildlife (all these topics)

A Mess In-a Messina		16 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
A Mess In-a Messina Italy has declared states of environmental emergency in Venice, Milan, and Messina. Venice is beset with water pollution caused by boat traffic in its canals, while road traffic in the other two cities is producing too much air pollution. The country's parliament may now appoint local commissioners to impose tough new anti-pollution measures, su ...
Topics: air pollution, international government agencies, Italy, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

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