About 20 Percent of EU Timber Illegal or Suspect: Report Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:46pm EDT BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Nearly a fifth of wood imported into the European Union has been harvested illegally or comes from suspect sources, mostly in Russia, Indonesia and China, according to a report by environmental… Continue reading
Published on Monday, July 21, 2008 by Reuters Destroying Wetlands Could Unleash “Carbon Bomb” by Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON – The world’s wetlands, threatened by development, dehydration and climate change, could release a planet-warming “carbon bomb” if they are destroyed, ecological scientists said on Sunday. Wetlands contain 771 billion tons of… Continue reading
Soil Database to Help Map CO2 Storage, Food Output Mon Jul 21, 2008 3:21pm EDT MILAN (Reuters) – New database of the world’s soils will help better map agricultural output and storage and sequestration of heat trapping carbon dioxide (CO2), one of its creators, the United Nations’ food agency FAO,… Continue reading
Is Earth’s Wettest Place Getting Drier? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7511356.stm —————————————————————————— Continue reading