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Climate science update: from bad to worse

AFP - Yesterday, 04:57 pm

PARIS (AFP) - The planet could warm by seven degrees Celsius (10.8 degrees Fahrenheit) and sea levels could rise by more than a metre (3.25 feet) by 2100, scenarios that just two years ago were viewed as improbable, scientists said on Tuesday. More »

Helicopter crash kills four off Israeli coast
Reuters - Yesterday, 03:13 pm
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - All four people on a civilian helicopter were killed on Tuesday when it crashed into the Mediterranean Sea off central Israel, police and rescue workers said. More »
Botswana tries spicy solution to keep elephants at bay
AFP - Sunday, November 22 11:22 pm
GABORONE (AFP) - Tourists love to watch herds of elephants trekking across Botswana's famed Okavango Delta, but nearby farmers watch in dismay when the animals trample their crops, leaving them little to eat. More »
Antarctic ice loss vaster, faster than thought: study
AFP - Sunday, November 22 06:33 pm
PARIS (AFP) - The East Antarctic icesheet, once seen as largely unaffected by global warming, has lost billions of tonnes of ice since 2006 and could boost sea levels in the future, according to a new study. More »
Tree-eating bugs threaten Monarch butterfly in Mexico
AFP - Saturday, November 21 04:47 pm
MORELIA, Mexico (AFP) - The mysterious Monarch butterfly, which migrates en masse annually between Canada and Mexico, is now facing a new peril: another insect thriving in Western Mexican forests. More »
Dutch build more dunes against rising seas
AFP - Friday, November 20 01:16 pm
MONSTER, Netherlands (AFP) - On the beach at Monster, bulldozers painstakingly turn sand dredged from the bottom of the North Sea bed into dunes in an ambitious effort to safeguard the Netherlands from flooding. More »
Shun beef to stop climate change, says India
AFP - Friday, November 20 09:39 am
NEW DELHI (AFP) - India, a stronghold of vegetarianism where the cow is a sacred animal for the majority Hindu population, has urged the rest of the world to give up eating beef to help reduce global warming. More »
Japan whale fleet leaves for Antarctic: Greenpeace
AFP - Thursday, November 19 03:57 am
TOKYO (AFP) - Japanese whaling ships left port Thursday for Antarctic waters for the annual hunt of the ocean giants, Greenpeace said, setting the stage for high-seas confrontations with anti-whaling activists. More »
Bears get satellite collars in Indian Kashmir
AFP - Wednesday, November 18 11:46 am
SRINAGAR (AFP) - Wildlife experts in Indian-controlled Kashmir have fitted black bears with satellite-tracking collars to study their behaviour and help conserve the endangered animals, officials said Wednesday. More »
Baghdad's once ravaged zoo comes back to life
Reuters - Tuesday, November 17 12:46 pm
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - More than six years after the U.S. invasion left Iraq's main zoo a wasteland of starving animals and deserted cages, the park in central Baghdad is enjoying a vigorous revival and needs to grow. More »