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DR Congo hippos 'face extinction'
(Oct 20, 2006)
Poaching has brought the hippopotamus population in Democratic
Republic of Congo to within a few months of extinction, wildlife
experts say. Researchers from the Zoological Society of London
(ZSL) say the population has halved in the last two weeks. They
say the Mai Mai militia has set up camp in Virunga National Park
and catches the animals for meat and ivory.
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more. Source: BBC |
Planet enters 'ecological debt'
(Oct 10, 2006)
Rising consumption of natural resources means that humans began
"eating the planet" on 9 October, a study suggests. The date symbolised
the day of the year when people's demands exceeded the Earth's
ability to supply resources and absorb the demands placed upon
it.
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more. Source: BBC |
Humans 'causing stronger storms'
(Sep 12, 2006)
Increases in hurricane intensity are down to humanity's greenhouse
gas emissions, according to new analysis. Scientists calculate
that two-thirds of the recent rise in sea temperatures, thought
to fuel hurricanes, is down to anthropogenic emissions. Research
published last year found there had been a sharp rise in the incidence
of category 4 and 5 storms – the strongest – in recent
decades.
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more. Source: BBC |
Methane bubbles climate trouble
(Sep 7, 2006)
Thawing Siberian bogs are releasing more of the greenhouse gas
methane than previously believed, according to new scientific
research. Scientists from Russia and the US measured methane bubbling
from a number of thawing lakes. Writing in the journal Nature,
they suggest the methane release is hastened by warmer temperatures,
positively feeding back into global warming.
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more. Source: BBC |
Deep ice tells long climate story
(Sep 5, 2006)
Carbon dioxide levels are substantially higher now than at anytime
in the last 800,000 years, the latest study of ice drilled out
of Antarctica confirms. The in-depth analysis of air bubbles trapped
in a 3.2km-long core of frozen snow shows current greenhouse gas
concentrations are unprecedented. The East Antarctic core is the
longest, deepest ice column yet extracted.
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more. Source: BBC |
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