International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
An internal review said the bank and its partners need to do a far better job of considering the environmental effects of projects they finance in poor countries.
India eNews: Top Headlines (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has launched a signature campaign here to promote ecologically sustainable business growth.
Dissertation Editing (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Ecology is a huge and complicated science that studies the interaction between living organisms and environment. Thus, ecology is associated with the environmental issues. It is not surprising, since the results of human activity have a great impact on the environment we are living in. As you can guess, we are also a part of [...]
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 49 minutes ago
(Image: Takakuku ) As the weekend approaches, I'm thinking of the beach and maybe going for a swim. The Pacific Ocean is a wonderful place to go on a steaming hot July day, on this side of it as well. What is not so great is the trash. It was worse a decade ago, and I recently found out why. Local volunteers are making a huge effort to get people to join beach cleanup campaigns along Japan's long...
Re-cycle of Life (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Full coverage of UK Politics I'm not sure how well this will be understood in England, but David Cameron has pulled off an extremely smart move in Ulster by agreeing to a sort of...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Sarah Poyntz: The Burren
The Independent (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Salmon is an easy fish to love. Simple and tasty, its pink flesh is pulled from supermarket shelves and transformed into an array of increasingly exotic dishes.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Britain has a new species of breeding bird, it was announced yesterday – the cattle egret, a white heron which has spread out from Africa across the globe.
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Better late than never , I suppose -- though LA's planned 2010 citywide ban still seems downright meek given that San Francisco , Australia and, yes, even China have already or are in the process of implementing a ban. And, of course, it's important to note that this plan will only go through if (and it's a big if) the state fail...
Re-cycle of Life (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
I made an appearance yesterday on Radio 4's Off The Page with Ozzie author Kathy Lette and Independent sex columnist Catherine Townsend, two extremely feisty and frankly rather intimidating women, discussing ways to leave your lover. Not sure why they the powers that be thought I was qualified for this job, since I have been with the same woman for twenty years. Given that the title was pinch...
Rashid's Blog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
I have found the post on Environment on Earth. The Hindu also published the story. Global warming could trigger a dramatic decline in diversity of plant species on the rangelands in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau in southwest China, American and Chinese scientists warned, as research showed a 26 to 36 per cent drop in plant species from [...]
Environmental Protection Agency (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
(Seattle, Wash. – July 23, 2008) Lakes Highway District, SI Construction, and Hayden Lake Recreational Water and Sewer District, operators at a Hayden, Idaho construction site, recently paid $14,950 to settle a Clean Water Act (CWA) case filed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
:: Help cool down the planet by setting your laundry's spin cycle on cold. :: Keep a beach-ready bod with this healthy Chinese take-out alternative: Black Bean Tofu . :: Get to the bottom of that leaky faucet to conserve water ....
Greenpeace - Making Waves (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
I've just been reading an interesting article in Tuesday's English-language Japan Times . Journalist Bharti Legros eats some whale meat at a restaurant in Shibuya, Tokyo, but then explores the different aspects of the whaling issue - including quotes from our own Junichi (one of the Tokyo 2, recently detained for uncovering a whale meat scandal) and Wakao, both from the Greenpeace Japan office. I'd...
IOL (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
A South African naval expert is not overly optimistic about local law enforcement agencies making the country's maritime borders and ports safe from terror attacks.
