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 Rome (AFP) Sept 1, 2009 
A group of 91 countries have agreed on a treaty that will block ships involved in illegal fishing from entering signatory ports and thus help prevent the fish going to market, the UN said on Tuesday. The UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) hailed the agreement to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing as "the first ever global treaty focused ... read more 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Sep 02, 2009New analysis shows that the water scarcity being experienced in southeast Australia started up to 15 years ago. While the results from the work by senior CSIRO researcher, Dr Albert van Dijk, may not surprise many people, it provides scientific evidence of the shift. The finding follows the first ever national and comprehensive analysis of 30 years of on-ground and satellite observations ... 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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Washington DC (SPX) Sep 02, 2009Steep reductions in the abundance of fish, shellfish, and other aquatic fauna in recent centuries are not restricted to animals that live in the sea: historical records show that species in rivers and lakes worldwide also experienced sharp declines. Yet the significance of these declines in freshwater species is frequently overlooked by natural resource managers, according to an article in the S ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 01, 2009Triple-digit temperatures, extremely low relative humidities, dense vegetation that has not burned in decades, and years of extended drought are all contributing to the explosive growth of wildfires throughout Southern California. The Station fire, which began Aug. 26, 2009, in La Canada/Flintridge, not far from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, had reportedly burned 105,000 acres ... more  
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 31, 2009An offshore typhoon lashed Tokyo and eastern Japan with heavy rains and winds on Monday, injuring at least two people and grounding scores of international flights, officials said. Typhoon Krovanh uprooted trees in some coastal areas as it raged along the Pacific coast of Japan, packing gusts of up to 144 kilometres (90 miles) per hour, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The eye of ... more |
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Djeddah-Thiaroye Kaw, Senegal (AFP) Aug 27, 2009Every year, in the rainy season, the floors of Omar Barro's house in the suburbs of Senegal's capital Dakar are submerged, like others all around. "We are like fish," he says. The flooding, which on Thursday led the government to enact an emergency plan, forces this 17-year-old tailor's assistant and thousands like him to "eat, pray and do everything in the water." Sandbags mark out the ... more 
Nairobi, Kenya (SPX) Aug 28, 2009Although agriculture, particularly in the developing world, is often associated with massive deforestation, scientists from the World Agroforestry Centre have demonstrated that almost half of all farmed landscapes worldwide include significant tree cover. The findings were announced at the opening of the 2nd World Congress of Agroforestry, which is being held in Nairobi, Kenya this week. ... more 
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 27, 2009India could record a 15 to 20 percent crop shortfall due to widespread drought caused by a bad monsoon, the finance minister said Thursday. Some 252 out of India's 626 districts have been hit by drought as a result of the weak June-to-September monsoon that is running at 26 percent below normal, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said. "For the impact of production on the kharif (summer) ... more |
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