Climate impacts in northern forests
Northern forests hold around 54% of the world’s total terrestrial carbon stock and contribute more than one-third to our global terrestrial carbon sink. This report reviews the impact of human induced
Northern forests hold around 54% of the world’s total terrestrial carbon stock and contribute more than one-third to our global terrestrial carbon sink. This report reviews the impact of human induced
Transport volumes and structures in China change drastically as a result of economic and social development in the country. These changes are associated with increasing energy consumption and negative impacts on the environment, e.g. emissions of greenhouse gases and toxic air pollutants affecting not only the micro and macro climate but also health.
The anticipated impacts of climate change on grassland systems and appropriate management responses have been reviewed extensively, though the emphasis has been on European temperate and North American rangeland systems.
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Livestock auctions are not normally the stuff of headlines, but then it's not every day that cows as unusual as Dundee Paradise and Dundee Paratrooper are going under the hammer. The dairy cows were due to be sold at Easter Compton cattle market near Bristol, UK, last month, but at the last minute their owner withdrew them, reportedly unsettled by negative media coverage and local opposition. The problem? The cows' mother was a clone, conceived in a laboratory from a cell taken from the ear of a prize-winning Holstein in Wisconsin.
In recent months, China has taken center stage in the international debate over global warming. It has surpassed the United States as the world's largest source of greenhouse gases, and it became developing nations' diplomatic champion at the recent United Nations climate negotiations in Bali. Now China may become the target of a full-fledged trade war that could destroy
European Union plans to restrict chemical use by farmers in Europe could reduce harvests at a time of global food shortages, farmers, academics, regulators and pesticide makers warned yesterday. Crops such as apples and hops could no longer be grown on the continent if EU draft plans are not amended, they said. Wheat and potato yields could drop by almost a third, according to industry-sponsored research.
With prices of commercial and residential property falling, investors are increasingly turning to a more traditional asset: farmland. Long seen as a declining industry, farming has received a fillip in the last few months as global demand for food has increased. As a result, the cost of agricultural holdings across the European Union has risen to record levels.
The world's third-largest uranium producer, Energy Resources of Australia, expects future demand for the fuel to remain strong thanks to growing need for electricity. ERA, which is majority owned by Rio Tinto, produced almost 10% of the world's uranium in 2007 from its Ranger mine in the Northern Territory.
The nascent biofuels industry that dawned in the aftermath of massive meltdowns of polar icecaps and Himalayan glaciers, rising sea levels, tsunamis and unprecedented droughts in some regions with attendant floods in others, has already witnessed much tumult in its short history of under a decade.
More cross-border energy deals are in the pipeline