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Half a century after Mao Zedong’s “Great Leap Forward” brought irrigation to the arid grasslands in this remote corner of northwest China, the government is giving up on its attempt to make a breadbasket out of what has increasingly become a stretch of scrub and sand dunes.

Moroccan officials blame the drought for an expected slump in Morocco’s economic growth this year, showing how farming in the kingdom still relies on smallholdings that lie beyond the network of dams and irrigation channels that guarantee water in dry years.

Greenpeace set up booths at four British airports on Tuesday aimed at persuading people to help fight global warming by traveling by train instead of plane.

Seven years ago, with the desert creeping south at the rate of 3 km (2 miles) a year and the dust storms getting worse, the Chinese government decided to act and the solution was typical of a country where the Great Wall stands as the ultimate grand project.
It began building a “Green Great Wall”, a 700-km (435 mile) barrier of trees and enclosed grassland which will stretch across Inner Mongolia, Hebei and Shanxi provinces by 2010.

“Arctic Tale,” produced by the company behind “March of the Penguins” and narrated by singer-actress Queen Latifah, depicts the lives of female polar bear cub “Nanu” and female walrus calf “Seela” from birth to parenthood. The characters are composites of animals filmed in the Arctic over 10 years.

From the deck of a research ship moored in these gusty north Atlantic islands, workers are offloading three bright orange buoys whose sonar devices will help Bogi Hansen fill more gaps in an intriguing twist on climate change forecasts.

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore denounced a deal by world leaders on curbing greenhouse gases as “a disgrace disguised as an achievement”, saying on Thursday the agreement struck last week was insufficient.

Southern Baptists approved a resolution on global warming that questions the prevailing scientific belief that humans are largely to blame for the phenomenon and also warns that increased regulation of greenhouse gases will hurt the poor.

Уже второй раз в продукции компаний Coca Cola и PepsiCo в Индии обнаружены линдан, гептахлор, гексахлорбензол и другие опасные химические вещества. Об этом сообщил Центр по науке и окружающей среды Индии. Первый раз перечисленные вещества были найдены в напитках, произведенных этими корпорациями, три года назад. Continue reading СОЗ ОБНАРУЖЕНЫ В ПРОДУКЦИИ КОМПАНИИ СОСА СОLA И PEPSI В ИНДИИ

The Transportation Department acknowledged Tuesday encouraging members of Congress to weigh in with the EPA on California’s request to implement global warming controls on automakers.