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Ancient Oak Trees Help Reduce Global Warming

The battle to reduce carbon emissions is at the heart of many eco-friendly efforts, and researchers from the University of Missouri have discovered that nature has been lending a hand. Researchers at the Missouri Tree Ring Laboratory in the Department of Forestry discovered that trees submerged in freshwater aquatic systems store carbon for thousands of years, a significantly longer period of time than trees that fall in a forest, thus keeping carbon out of the atmosphere. Read the All Article HERE

Mining Companies Venture into the Peruvian Amazon

The conflicts surrounding extractive industries in Peru could shift from the mountains to the jungles due to the rising number of concessions granted for the Amazonian regions of San Martín, Madre de Dios and Amazonas, with strong opposition from the indigenous communities. "We will not allow any more oil or mining concessions in the indigenous territories," Shawi leader Alberto Pisango, president of AIDESEP, a coalition of native groups in the Peruvian jungle, said. Read the All Article HERE

Reducing Climate Change On Estuaries, Forests, Wetlands And Coral Reefs

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a report that can help reduce the potential impact of climate change on estuaries, forests, wetlands, coral reefs, and other sensitive ecosystems. Read the All Article HERE

Restoration Of A Tropical Rain Forest Ecosystem Successful On Small-scale

When the researchers planted worn-out cattle pastures in Costa Rica with a sampling of local trees in the early 1990s, native species of plants began to move in and flourish, raising the hope that destroyed rain forests could one day be replaced. Read the All Article HERE

Ocean Life Under Threat From Climate Change

“There is an overwhelming bias toward land-surface studies which arise in part because investigating the ocean realm is generally difficult, resource-intensive and expensive,” they said. The disparity in focus on land-based compared to marine impacts was highlighted in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) Fourth Assessment Report (2007), which included 28,500 significant biological changes in terrestrial systems but only 85 in marine systems. Read the All Article HERE

Scorched Earth Millenium Map Shows 'Fire Scars'

Dr Kevin Tansey, of the Department of Geography, a leading scientist in an international team, created a visual impression of the fire scars on our planet between 2000 and 2007. The work was funded by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. The map reveals that between 3.5 and 4.5 million km2 of vegetation burns on an annual basis. This is an area equivalent to the European Union (EU27) and larger than the country of India that is burnt every year. Read the All Article HERE

UNEP Unveils the Climate Neutral Network

The participants are the first to join the Climate Neutral Network (CN Net), launched today by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in cooperation with the UN’s Environmental Management Group, as one inspiring solution to the challenge of rising greenhouse gases. The Network, a web-based project, is seeking to federate the small but growing wave of nations, local authorities and companies who are pledging to significantly reduce emissions en route to zero emission economies, communities and businesses. Read the All Article HERE

Radiation Contained in Quake Area, China Says

Emergency crews worked Friday to secure 15 sources of radiation buried in the rubble of China's devastating earthquake, the government said as it evacuated thousands of survivors downstream from rivers dammed by landslides. One senior official said China faces "a daunting challenge" to prevent environmental contamination from other sources. There has been no leak of radioactive substances into the environment, Wu Xiaoqing, China's vice minister for environmental protection, told reporters in Beijing. Read the All Article HERE

Biodiversity Loss Puts People At Risk: World Wildlife Fund

The stark warning comes as WWF launches its 2010 and Beyond: Rising to the Biodiversity Challenge report which contains the latest Living Planet index – the internationally agreed way to measure progress towards the global target of reducing biodiversity loss by 2010– and which reveals a continuing decline in biodiversity. Read the All Article HERE

Harpooned: Greenpeace exposes scandal at Heart of Whaling

Tokyo, Japan — Stake outs, testimony from informers, hidden cameras and tailing trucks full of stolen goods - it reads like a Hollywood movie, but it was an every day experience for Greenpeace activists in Japan, who have spent four months cracking open a major conspiracy of corruption at the heart of Japan's government-backed, sham scientific whaling operation. Read the All Article HERE

Ocean Dead Zones Growing; May Be Linked to Warming

Researchers have tracked a decline in dissolved oxygen levels since 1960 in the tropical Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, which has extended the size of these undersea deserts and intensified their effects. The oxygen level in these zones "is below the critical oxygen level for fish and other large marine animals," said team leader Lothar Stramma, of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of Kiel in Germany. While the new study suggests human-caused global warming as a possible cause, the team notes that oxygen-deprived seas aren't a new phenomenon. Read the All Article HERE