Publication archives

Nov 16, 2007

Investors embrace trees to tap China boom

Investors looking for new ways to cash in on China's strong economic growth are turning to its emerging forestry industry, which is flourishing amid a clampdown on the global trade of unsustainable rainforest timber.
Nov 16, 2007

MRSA and Animal Antibiotic Use

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A new study published in the scientific journal Veterinary Microbiology should cause the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to take notice. The study's findings suggest the agency might start looking at confined hog operations as a possible source for the deadly methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureaus (MRSA).
Nov 15, 2007

Scientists strive to get wildfires' number (CA)

After a day wrestling with the mysteries of fire, Francis Fujioka turned on the TV and watched Southern California burn into the night.
Nov 15, 2007

The western appetite for biofuels is causing starvation in the poor world

It doesn't get madder than this. Swaziland is in the grip of a famine and receiving emergency food aid. Forty per cent of its people are facing acute food shortages. So what has the government decided to export? Biofuel made from one of its staple crops, cassava.
Nov 15, 2007

Carbon-negative bioenergy to cut global warming could drive deforestation

A proposed mechanism for generating carbon-negative bioenergy -- an energy source that reduces atmospheric carbon dioxide levels -- could drive large-scale deforestation in the tropics and undermine efforts to conserve forests for carbon offsets says a biofuel expert.
Nov 14, 2007

Foresters propose climate tactics (OR)

Our forests are in deep trouble, and if we don?t do something about it we?ll all be sorry. That was the twofold message pounded home Tuesday by a leading academic, the chief of the U.S. Forest Service and Oregon?s state forester at the outset of a two-day conference at Oregon State University.
Nov 14, 2007

Tree stumps show speed of climate change (US & Canada)

A U.S. scientist studying the dramatic change in ice conditions in B.C.'s Coast Mountains has discovered freshly exposed and perfectly preserved tree stumps -- some 7,000 years old -- an "astonishing" sign of how fast and far the glaciers of Western Canada are retreating in the age of climate change.
Nov 13, 2007

Deadly threat

Infections are reminder that antibiotics need protection, cultivation - - -