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Sun, Nov 30, 2008
from Telegraph.co.uk:
Screw cap wine bottles threaten rare species
Cork oak forests, which cover 2.7 million of hectares worldwide and support rare species such as Iberian lynx, black storks and booted eagles, are already disappearing in some areas.
Faced with falling demand for cork stoppers, which make up 70 per cent of the income from cork harvests, farmers are ripping up trees that have been on their land for hundreds of years in an attempt to grow alternative crops, such as eucalyptus.
The land that cork oaks grow on, however, is poor quality and when the trees are removed, the land often turns into desert. In the Algarve, Portugal, cork forests have declined by 28 per cent in the past 10 years. ...
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Who woulda thought that would screw something up?
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Sat, Nov 29, 2008
from Salt Lake Tribune:
Drought deepens strain on a dwindling Colorado
The drought gripping Utah, Southern California and the rest of the Southwest this century shows no sign of ending. Scientists see it as a permanent condition that, despite year-to-year weather variations, will deepen as temperatures rise, snows dwindle, soils bake and fires burn.... Making matters worse, the Colorado -- the 1,450-mile-long lifeline that sustains more than 30 million souls and 3.5 million acres of farmland in seven states, 34 tribal nations and Mexico -- is in decline, scientists warn....Trend analyses by federal scientists, probably conservative, predict the population dependent on the river will reach at least 38 million during the coming decade. ...
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Sounds like in our lifetime the Colorado will be the Coloradone.
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Fri, Nov 28, 2008
from New York Times:
Asian Beetle Spells Death for Maples So Dear
[M]ost of the maples ... will be chopped down as early as next month because of an infestation of Asian long-horned beetles that is plaguing thousands of Worcester's trees.... When a tornado devastated Worcester in 1953, maples were planted as replacement trees. "Norway maples were readily available back then," said Brian Breveleri, the city’s urban forester. "And they were popular because they could weather the cold."
But when Worcester plants new trees this time around, it will vary the type. A tree inventory, completed in 2006, showed that 80 percent of its street trees were maples, which the beetles find irresistible.... "Tree diversity helps prevent pests from gaining a foothold," said Mike Bohne... ...
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Oh, that so-called "monocrop problem" again. As if Nature's diversity has anything to teach us.
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Thu, Nov 27, 2008
from Guardian (UK):
The 10 big energy myths
Myth 1: solar power is too expensive to be of much use; Myth 2: wind power is too unreliable; Myth 3: marine energy is a dead-end; Myth 4: nuclear power is cheaper than other low-carbon sources of electricity... ...
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Myth 11: people want their beliefs challenged by reality.
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Mon, Nov 24, 2008
from Mongabay:
Madagascar denies 'land grab' by South Korean conglomerate
Officials from Madagascar are denying they have reached an agreement to turn over half the island nation's arable land to a South Korean corporation for food production, reports Reuters. The controversial deal -- which would have paid Madagascar nothing and turned over 1.3 million hectares to produce corn and palm oil for export at a time when one-third of country's children are malnourished -- was reported last week by the Financial Times.
"Several announcements have been made regarding Daewoo Logistics' project which are erroneous and we would like to set the record straight," Eric Beantanana, of the Economic Development Board of Madagascar, told Reuters on Thursday.... "Furthermore, we are talking about a search for 100,000 hectares ... It is only after this stage that the rest of the process will continue."
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A lot of fauna -- not to mention flora -- are happier today.
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