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Food supply under assault as climate heats up	16.5.2013	MSNBC
Food supply under assault as climate heats up
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Climate change brings disease threat for polar bears	15.5.2013	New Scientist: Health
Climate change brings disease threat for polar bears
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Richard Haass, the foreign-policy expert who calls for less	14.5.2013	Seattle Times: Opinion
Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations and a big name in the foreign-policy establishment, is calling for “less foreign policy of the sort the United States has been conducting.” To call for less foreign policy, even qualified the way he does, is notable, especially
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Insecticide spraying will be expanded to control pest caterpillar	9.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
A new £1.5m fund will be spent on a pilot project to increase pesticide spraying to control the oak processionary moth Spraying of insecticide on oak trees will be increased to eradicate a pest moth that causes health problems and can strip the trees bare, under a new £1.5m government fund announced on Thursday. The escalation of efforts to control the oak processionary moth ( Thaumetopoea processionea ) follows the Forestry Commission announcement this week that it will use a helicopter in May to blanket-spray a woodland in West Berkshire, the first time aerial spraying will have been used . The extra funding will be spent on a pilot project to expand spraying in and around areas where the moth's caterpillars have been found around south and south-west London, and on trees where infestations are less obvious. Lord de Mauley, parliamentary under secretary at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), said: "Tree health is a priority for us and this pest not ...
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How science works: follow the money \| Alice Bell	8.5.2013	Guardian: Science
There's a growing campaign in the US to get universities to stop investing in fossil fuels. UK science should take note You might have read Naomi Klein on green investment in fossil fuels last week. She points a finger at NGOs who aren't checking whether their sometimes considerable endowments are being put to work in the same industries they campaign against. The context of this is not just that it makes parts of the environmental movement look a bit silly, but the growing disinvestment campaign that Klein has been involved in promoting over the past year. Disinvestment is, quite simply, the opposite of investment; the campaign invites people to think about where their money is being used. It's a bit like Move your Money , but bigger. There's a good Rolling Stone piece from last February if you want a catch-up on how the campaign has taken off in the US, but really it's growing so fast you'll need to check the 350 website to keep up to date. The campaign has largely been focused on ...
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Voyageurs Park moose population holding steady, bucking trend	7.5.2013	Minnesota Public Radio: Science
The moose population at Voyageurs National Park near International Falls is holding relatively steady, wildlife biologists announced Tuesday.
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Voyageurs Moose Population Holding Steady	7.5.2013	WCCO: National
Wildlife biologists say the moose population is holding relatively steady in Voyageurs National Park in north-central Minnesota.
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Scientist: Cassava disease spread at alarming rate	7.5.2013	Seattle Times: Nation & World
Scientists say a disease destroying entire crops of cassava has spread out of East Africa into the heart of the continent, is attacking plants as far south as Angola and now threatens to move west into Nigeria, the world's biggest producer of the potato-like root that helps feed 500 million Africans.
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Climate changes could bring malaria to the UK	5.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Health experts warn of growing threat from 'exotic' diseases Leading health experts are urging the government to take action against the growing threat that mosquito-borne diseases, including potentially fatal malaria, could soon arrive in the UK. The disturbing recommendation to "act now before it is too late" is being made as a growing body of evidence indicates that what were once thought of as tropical diseases are being found ever closer to the UK. Health experts meeting at the annual public health conference of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health later this week will hear that rising incidences of a growing list of pest-borne diseases are now a "serious" cause for concern in the UK. The conference will be told that it would be complacent to think that diseases such as dengue fever, malaria and Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, now present on the European continent but once considered "exotic and confined to faraway places", will not emerge in the UK. "With ...
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Richard Haass: The second American Century? It's here	4.5.2013	Twincities.com: Opinion
It was in 1941 that Henry Luce exhorted his countrymen to eschew isolationism, enter the war and make the 20th century the first great American century. Fulfilling his vision, the United States managed a historic trifecta, prevailing in two world wars and the subsequent Cold War.
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The giants of the green world that profit from the planet's destruction \| Naomi Klein	3.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
A new movement has erupted demanding divestment from fossil fuel polluters – and Big Green is in their sights The movement demanding that public interest institutions divest their holdings from fossil fuels is on a serious roll. Chapters have opened up in more than 100 US cities and states as well as on more than 300 campuses, where students are holding protests, debates and sit-ins to pressure their to rid their endowments of oil, gas and coal holdings. And under the " Fossil Free UK " banner, the movement is now crossing the Atlantic, with a major push planned by People & Planet for this summer. Some schools, including University College London, have decided not to wait and already have active divestment campaigns. Though officially launched just six months ago, the movement can already claim some provisional victories: four US colleges have announced their intention to divest their endowments from fossil fuel stocks and bonds and, in late April, 10 US cities made similar commitments, ...
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Climate change compounds rising threats to koala	30.4.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Australia's iconic marsupial is at risk from shrinking habitats, road traffic and dog attacks – and increasingly, global warming Australia's iconic marsupial is under threat. Formerly hunted almost to extinction for their woolly coats, koalas are now struggling to survive as habitat destruction caused by droughts and bushfires, land clearing for agriculture and logging, and mining and urban development conspire against this cuddly creature. In the past 20 years, the koala population has significantly declined, dropping by 40 percent in the state of Queensland and by a third in New South Wales (NSW). The Australian Koala Foundation (AKF) estimates that there are between 45,000 and 90,000 koalas left in the wild. Shrinking habitat and climate change is compounding the risk of disease, while attacks from feral and domestic dogs and road accidents add to a long list of risks that this arboreal mammal faces as it moves across the landscape in search of food. It is estimated that around ...
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Doha deadlock on climate finance can be broken next week	26.4.2013	Oxfam International RSS main feed
Governments must move quickly at this year’s first UN climate change meeting to plug the gaping deficit of funds to help developing countries adapt to climate change and lower their emissions. Bonn, Germany – Governments must move quickly at this year’s first UN climate change meeting to plug the gaping deficit of funds to help developing countries adapt to climate change and lower their emissions, international aid agency Oxfam said today. The meeting, starting in Bonn, Germany on Monday April 29, will be the first time governments meet to discuss collective climate change action since last year’s Doha summit, where they failed to agree on any climate finance plans for this year and beyond after the end of the ‘Fast Start Finance’ arrangement in 2012. A new funding period 2013 is a critical year for climate finance. It marks a new funding period when pledges need to be boosted significantly if governments are to honor their 2009 promise to mobilize $100 billion per year by 2020 ...
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Greenpeace blames pesticides for decline in honey bees (Cached)	19.4.2013	New Kerala: World News
Geneva, April 19 : Greenpeace activists scaled the headquarters of Swiss chemical company Syngenta AG in Basel to protest use of pesticides that affect the health of honey bees and have led to a decline in bee colonies.
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Historic human remains yield epigenetic tags	18.4.2013	New Scientist: Sex and Cloning
Historic human remains yield epigenetic tags
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Genetic resources play crucial role in food security: UN (Cached)	16.4.2013	New Kerala: World News
New York, Apr 16 : With climate change affecting agricultural productivity and growing populations demanding more food, it will be crucial for countries to preserve and share genetic resources to ensure food security, the United Nations agricultural agency said Monday.
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Eureka: How the Pre-Penicillin Era Could Help Combat Antibiotic Resistance	16.4.2013	NY Times: Magazine
Eureka: How the Pre-Penicillin Era Could Help Combat Antibiotic Resistance
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100 years ago: Hoping to stamp out the bee disease	15.4.2013	Guardian: Environment
Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 24 April 1913 What could be more perfect than the weather yesterday and again this morning? As I walked through the meadows I found the grass heavy with dew. In the garden the air was full of the scent of wallflowers and white rock, both now in perfection of bloom. We have some large patches of white rock, and as usual they are attracting hundreds of hive bees. As my bee-keeping neighbour is removing to a far country, I am interested to see if the honey-gathering in our garden will decrease or even cease. Some tell me that we shall perceive no change, as where honey is to be got bees will come, even if ten miles away. I sincerely hope that our representatives in Parliament will render Mr. Runciman every assistance possible when, on behalf of the Board of Agriculture, he brings forward the bill by which it is hoped that we may stamp out the bee disease. This unfortunate trouble has spread so far that if the now important industry of bee-keeping ...
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Urban farming	11.4.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
Published Apr 11, 2013 01:01AM MDT In “Welcome to Tijuana!” (Forum, April 3), Mike Hughes portrays the smell of neighborhood farm animals as negative and incongruent with American life. However, nothing affects public health in America more than food. In heart disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes, diet is a primary cause. The root of this hazardous diet is our industrial agriculture system. It has been a major contributor to climate change, enabled the obesity epidemic, poisoned countless volumes of land and water, generated doze... ...
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UK locks up people who want to save the planet	3.4.2013	Guardian: Environment
The climate campaigners should be given a medal for their outstanding bravery and public service, not prison sentences What if, instead of giving Marie Curie and Alexander Fleming Nobel prizes for their life-saving work on radiation and penicillin, they'd been thrown in jail? Or, instead of being awarded the Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur for his work on the germ theory of disease, Louis Pasteur was imprisoned like Napoleon on Elba? It would be perverse to return the favour of great, public works by depriving people of their freedom. Yet that is just what we're doing in Britain right now. The contributions of the people above were remarkable, but how much greater is the challenge of preserving a readily habitable climate, and how thankful should we be to those prepared to throw their life's energy and creativity at the task? The answer according to the British establishment currently is not at all. Their response is the kind of gratitude a Caesar might hand-out to an innocent ...
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