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Rice an unlikely global warming culpritLos Banos, Philippines (AFP) Dec 5, 2009 Asian rice farmers typically do not fly around the world on holidays or own big-engine cars but scientists say they have an important role to play in helping cut the world's output of greenhouse gases. While much of the globe's focus in the climate change fight is on the burning of fossil fuels and the logging of rainforests, water-logged rice paddies are also a major source of global ... read more |
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Brussels (AFP) Dec 3, 2009Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney has a beef with world leaders' efforts to battle global warming, but the vegetarian's solution -- eat less meat -- was not to everyone's taste as he joined a debate at the European Parliament on Thursday. Ahead of global talks on climate change starting in Copenhagen on Monday, the 67-year-old took his international campaign for 'Meatless Mondays' to Brussels -- hoar ... more  
Mumbai (AFP) Dec 3, 2009One person died and many were injured in a violent protest Thursday against cuts in water supplies in India's financial capital following the worst monsoon rains since 1972, a report said. A crowd of about 3,000 people demonstrated outside municipal headquarters in Mumbai demanding an easing of the 30-percent cut in supplies for many parts of the city of 18 million people, the Press Trust of ... more 
Sydney (AFP) Dec 3, 2009The rotting carcasses of thousands of wild camels who have died of thirst in Australia's desert Outback are polluting vital waterholes and sacred sites, a report said Thursday. The Central Land Council, which administers Aboriginal land in the nation's arid centre, said the corpses were poisoning water supplies, describing scenes of mass carnage. "Some fall into waterholes and won't be a ... more |
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 Water trucked into drought-hit Australian towns   Argentina takes wind power to villages  Global warming threatens food supply: Vietnam |
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New Delhi (AFP) Dec 2, 2009The World Bank said Wednesday it would give India at least one billion dollars in assistance for cleaning up the heavily polluted Ganges, Hinduism's most sacred river. The clean-up involves building modern sewage treatment, revamping drains and other measures to improve the quality of the river, which has been badly polluted by industrial chemicals, farm pesticides and other sewage. ... more 
Qastal, Jordan (AFP) Dec 2, 2009Turkish President Abdullah Gul on Wednesday urged his country's businessmen to invest in Jordan's water sector as he opened offices for a huge Turkish-managed scheme to supply Amman with water. "Turkish businessmen should increase their investments and cooperation with Jordan in the water field," Gul said as he inaugurated the headquarters for the Disi water plan, which is being carried out ... more 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 2, 2009Authorities in China's capital plan to raise water prices by just under a quarter in a bid to discourage residents from wasting the resource and to ease severe shortages, state media said Wednesday. For years northern China has been battling a water shortage that experts say is caused by global warming, drought and rising demand from 96 million people who live in booming areas in and around ... more |
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 Hong Kong shark fin traders criticise US report  China's approval of GMO rice, corn seen boosting yields  Hong Kong markets sell fins from endangered sharks: US study |
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