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 Paris (AFP) Aug 11, 2009 
After an absence of nearly a century, Atlantic salmon have returned to France's Seine River, with hundreds swimming past the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame cathedral this year alone, researchers told AFP. The reappearance of salmon and other species chased from these waters by dams and pollution is all the more remarkable because no efforts have been made to reintroduce them. They came ... read more
Paris (AFP) Aug 11, 2009French wines, the country's pride, are looking at a grim future failing an ambitious deal on climate change at the upcoming UN summit in Denmark, 50 top chefs and winemakers and Greenpeace warned Tuesday. "Climate change has made vines increasingly vulnerable," the group said in an opinion column in the daily Le Monde. "Wine," they added, "is the result of an alchemy between a native ... more
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Prisoners used to shovel snow-bound US capital
Heavy rain, snow disrupts transport in Spain Washington slaps fee on plastic shopping bags Vietnam says parched Red River at record low Philippine volcano darkens New Year for 50,000 villagers Shocked residents survey Australia wildfire wreckage Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Residents flee terrifying Australian wildfires Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax Thrill-seeking tourists flock to Philippine volcano 
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Baghdad (AFP) Aug 11, 2009Iraq's water minister accused Turkey on Tuesday of breaking a promise to increase water flows down the Euphrates river, saying Ankara was actually holding back on the precious commodity. He was responding to remarks by Turkey's visiting foreign minister that his country had fulfilled its promises and was considering a further hike. "Despite promises made by Turkish officials to provide ... more 
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 11, 2009India's finance minister said on Tuesday that weak monsoon rains this year would mean that the sowing of summer crops would fall by 20 percent. However Pranab Mukherjee sought to avert fears that the sharp drop would cause food shortages, saying the country had coped with far worse droughts. The monsoon, which sweeps across the subcontinent from June to September, is expected to be 87 ... more 
Manila (AFP) Aug 11, 2009The Philippines is likely to avoid falling into recession this year, but drought could be a problem in 2010, a senior economic official said Tuesday. Rolando Tungpalan, undersecretary of the economic planning department, said President Gloria Arroyo's cabinet has discussed the "threat of possible drought later in the year or early 2010." "We simply had to flag that to temper expectations ... more |
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Kabul, Afghanistan (SPX) Aug 11, 2009Scientists are racing to arm Afghanistan against a new invader-a deadly, airborne wheat rust disease that threatens wheat production and food security in this war-torn nation and the region that stretches east across neighboring Pakistan and into India. Known as "Ug99", this deadly new virulent race of wheat stem rust has thus far been found in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Sudan, and has ... more 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 11, 2009PHASE Two of the pilot scheme recruiting up to 2,400 employees from Pacific Island nations to fill chronic labour shortages on Australian horticultural farms is gearing up for the sector's peak harvest season, which kicks-off from September. Phase One of the scheme, granting temporary visas under a Federal Government-regulated program, saw 56 seasonal workers from Tonga and ... more 
Canberra, Ausytralia (SPX) Aug 11, 2009The National Farmers' Federation (NFF) has declared that international developments have overtaken the Australian Government's proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) as far as agriculture in concerned, petitioning key Ministers to "carve agriculture's direct emissions out permanently". "As the CPRS currently stands, agriculture won't be covered until 2015 at ... more |
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