Published on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 by Environmental News Service (ENS) World Water Crisis Underlies World Food Crisis STOCKHOLM, Sweden – The world’s supplies of clean, fresh water cannot sustain today’s “profligate” use and inadequate management, which have brought shrinking food supplies and rising food costs to most countries, WWF… Continue reading
In what’s left of roadless areas of the nation’s National Forests, wildlife species get some security from human disturbance, harassment and killing. It goes without saying that wildlife can sure use the security, with or without the pressures exerted by our new climate. But homeland security for wildlife isn’t the… Continue reading
Climate, Development, Biodiversity, and Glacier National Park Glacier Park: The next century – Threats from all sides By MICHAEL JAMISON of the Missoulian WEST GLACIER – One hundred years ago, when Glacier National Park first became a park, grizzly bears roamed along the spine of the Rocky Mountains, north into… Continue reading
——————————————— A news blurb about recent increased volcanic activity in Alaska renewed a question for me. Then a new entry posted at Real Climate brought the question even closer. And then an overview in Science News put me over the brink, so here I’ll stick my neck out. My question… Continue reading