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Actualitiés News Environnement, 2009-01-15
L’ancien gouverneur de l’Iowa, Tom Vilsack a déclaré devant le Sénat mercredi qu’il promouvrait les énergies renouvelables telles que les biocarburants et qu’il ferait en sorte que « plus d’aliments nutritifs soient produits de manière durable » s’il était choisi par Barack Obama comme secrétaire américain à l’agriculture (ministre de l’agriculture).
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Intellectual Property Watch, 2009-01-15
By Kaitlin Mara Benefits from sharing and using biodiversity of food crops could soon be making their way to stakeholders, as the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture prepares to make its benefit-sharing fund fully operational. For the first time, say members of the treaty secretariat, this ...
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SciDev.net, 2009-01-15
A new treatment using a mixture of microbes has been developed by scientists in Indonesia to improve the productivity of peat soil.
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Reuters, 2009-01-15
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Gov. Tom Vilsack of Iowa told senators on Wednesday he will promote renewable energy like biofuels and work for "more nutritious food produced in a sustainable way," if confirmed as U.S. agriculture secretary.
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New Scientist, 2009-01-15
Light-powered, bacterial enzyme-containing nanoparticles that release hydrogen from water could lead the way to new strategies for generating the energy-rich gas. The lack of low-cost ways to create hydrogen gas is one of the main barriers to the dream of economies fuelled by hydrogen not oil.
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iol.com.za, 2009-01-15
Germany's environment ministry on Wednesday took aim at a controversial experiment to see whether the ocean can be primed to become a sponge for soaking up dangerous greenhouse gases.
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Science Daily, 2009-01-15
ScienceDaily (Jan. 14, 2009) — The water level in the Great Lakes has varied by only about two meters during the last century, helping them to play a vital role in the region's shipping, fishing, recreation and power generation industries.
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Economic Times (India), 2009-01-15
NEW DELHI: In a major setback to the Indo-German Antarctic expedition LOHAFEX, the German science ministry has suspended its permission to proposed ocean fertilization experiment till its impact is independently reviewed.
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Scientific American, 2009-01-15
It's a topic that is likely to come up more and more after President-elect Barack Obama moves into the White House next week.
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Agence France-Presse, 2009-01-15
Des villes portuaires d'Afrique - Le Cap, Lagos et Alexandrie - sont menacées par la montée du niveau des mers, due au réchauffement climatique et qui pourrait provoquer le déplacement de millions de personnes, ont estimé mercredi des scientifiques au Cap (Afrique du Sud).
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Science Daily, 2009-01-15
ScienceDaily (Jan. 14, 2009) — Global yields of most biofuels crops, including corn, rapeseed and wheat, have been overestimated by 100 to 150 percent or more, suggesting many countries need to reset their expectations of agricultural biofuels to a more realistic level.
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Reuters, 2009-01-15
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama's dedication to addressing climate change will be tested on his first day in the White House, where a few strokes of the pen could radically change Bush Administration policies.
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iol.com.za, 2009-01-15
The massive ocean fertilisation experiment in the Southern Ocean planned by the German research ship Polarstern has been suspended by the German authorities to allow international scientists to review the potential environmental impact.
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Reuters, 2009-01-15
TOKYO, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Shipping, airlines and road transport need to clean up their emissions and help drive governments towards policies to fight global warming, a top U.N. official said on Thursday.
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BBC News, 2009-01-15
The earliest known bird, the magpie-sized Archaeopteryx lithographica , had hearing like a modern emu.
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Reuters, 2009-01-15
LAGOON ISLAND, Antarctica (Reuters) - A group of elephant seals lolling by a damaged wooden hut in Antarctica vastly complicated simple repairs Wednesday, a sign of extra hazards to people on the frozen continent.
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Farm Futures, 2009-01-15
European Union official Dan Rotenberg says the EU must accept biotech food and feed or it won't be able to feed its livestock and would then need to import meat from animals fed biotech crops in the U.S. or elsewhere.
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Reuters, 2009-01-15
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. food supply is at risk of being invaded by unapproved imports of genetically modified crops and livestock, a USDA internal audit report released Wednesday said.
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Farmers Guardian, 2009-01-15
AGCHEM and plant science giants BASF and Monsanto have announced they have moved a step closer to introducing the world’s first drought-tolerant maize.
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El Mundo, 2009-01-15
Científicos del CSIC desarrollan una línea de álamos capaces de absorber mayor cantidad de TNT de las aguas y suelos. Leer . Escuchar
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Reuters, 2009-01-15
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Five months after suing to keep polar bears off the U.S. threatened species list, Alaska's government said Wednesday it plans to issue a similar challenge to block federal protections for a struggling population of beluga whales in Cook Inlet, a mature oil-producing basin.
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Times of India, 2009-01-15
GANGTOK (ANI): Sikkim is making efforts to save endangered Red Panda from extinction.
The Himalayan Zoological Park (HZP), Gangtok in collaboration with the State Forest Department has initiated a programme for the conservation and breeding of Red Panda at a natural enclosure in the park.
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Telegraph (UK), 2009-01-15
The seaside town of Dawlish in Devon could lose its emblematic black swans after the Environment Agency found high levels of pollution in the pond they live next to.
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Actualitiés News Environnement, 2009-01-15
Cinq mois après avoir intenté un procès pour ne pas inclure les ours polaires à la liste des espèces menacés des Etats-Unis, le gouvernement d’Alaska a déclaré mercredi qu’il prévoyait d’agir de la même manière afin d’empêcher une protection fédérale pour une population de béluga dans le Golfe de Cook, qui comprend de larges réserves de pétrole et de gaz.
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African Press Organization, 2009-01-15
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 15, 2009/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Three projects aimed at countering the slide towards extinction of one of human-kind’s closest relatives were spotlighted today as events to mark the international Year of the Gorilla (YOG) 2009 got underway with a ‘Gorillas on Thin Ice” event.
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Seattle Times, 2009-01-15
He was found dazed in a mountain bush in 1967, hanging upside down with an injured wing and smelling like rotten fish, a rare male California condor, a member of a nearly extinct species
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Telegraph (UK), 2009-01-15
A British zoo has become the first in Europe to breed an endangered species of fish.
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SciDev.net, 2009-01-15
A study in Trinidad shows that a pre-seasonal focal treatment on population densities of the mosquito Aedes aegypti significantly reduces dengue fever.
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Intellectual Property Watch, 2009-01-15
BEIJING - China’s newly revised patent law could create a more favourable environment for foreign companies to do research in the country, though measures are still needed to implement the law more effectively, according to some legal experts.
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Telegraph (UK), 2009-01-15
Four millions anglers have united to fight rules that will impose quotas limiting the number of fish they may catch.
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