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Agriculture offsets could earn more than coal

admin /11 August, 2009

AUSTRALIA could develop a trade in agricultural carbon offsets to the United States worth more than the nation’s current global coal exports – but not if agriculture is covered by an emissions trading scheme (ETS), says an international carbon trading expert says. Dr Ken Newcombe, the Australian who helped devlop the first carbon trading model Continue Reading →

Debunking the meat/climate change myth

admin /11 August, 2009

A farmer speaks Debunking the meat/climate change myth 40 (GRIST)   Posted 9:21 AM on 7 Aug 2009by Eliot Coleman Editor’s note: Eliot Coleman is one of the most revered and influential small-scale farmers in the United States, famous for growing delicious vegetables through the Maine winter with little use of fossil fuel. Eliot sent me Continue Reading →

Wikipedia-style website to record every species on earth

admin /10 August, 2009

Wikipedia-style website to record every species on Earth Coming soon to a screen near you: The Encyclopedia of Life – a user-generated database of all living things Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) will have their own webpage. Photograph: Getty Images A complete list of all the species on the planet is, for many biologists and conservationists, Continue Reading →

Australia faces more natural disasters

admin /10 August, 2009

Australia faces more natural disasters August 10, 2009 Article from:  Australian Associated Press AUSTRALIA faces more frequent and more catastrophic natural disasters as the climate changes, but government agencies are hard-pressed to respond, a new study warns. The disasters could occur simultaneously and in regions that have never before experienced such events, the Australian Strategic Continue Reading →

Himalayas rich habitat in danger

admin /10 August, 2009

Himalayas rich habitat in danger   From correspondents in Kathmandu | August 10, 2009 Article from:  Agence France-Presse A FLYING frog, the world’s smallest deer and the first new monkey to be found in more than a century are among 350 new species discovered in the eastern Himalayas in the past decade, the WWF says.But Continue Reading →