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Wild Caught Fish Being Wasted as Food for Pigs and Chickens

An alarming new study to be published in November in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources finds that one-third of the world’s marine fish catches are ground up and fed to farm-raised fish, pigs, and poultry, squandering a precious food resource for humans and disregarding the serious overfishing crisis in our oceans

30 Oct 2008

Bacteria and Microbes in Soil Shown to Pump Carbon into the Atmosphere

Current models of global climate change predict warmer temperatures will increase the rate that bacteria and other microbes decompose soil organic matter, a scenario that pumps even more heat-trapping carbon into the atmosphere

28 Oct 2008

Global Warming Causes Devastating Effect on Coral and Fish

Research work reported on recently by an international research team1, including an IRD scientist, brought out evidence of the impact on the fish communities of a mass bleaching event resulting from the 1997-1998 El Niño climatic episode

28 Oct 2008

Roads Mean Death to Endangered Forest Elephants

A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Save the Elephants that says endangered forest elephants are avoiding roadways at all costs

28 Oct 2008

Industrial Environmental Pollution Influence on Childhood Health

Children are exposed to a wide range of environmental threats that can affect their health and development early in life, throughout their youth and into adulthood

27 Oct 2008

BREEAM Environmental Standards for Building Launched Into The Gulf Region

BRE Global has launched its world-leading environmental standard BREEAM into the Gulf region

27 Oct 2008

Environmental Gains of Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials May Be Offset by Nanotechnology Manufacturing Processes

Environmental gains derived from the use of nanomaterials may be offset in part by the process used to manufacture them

22 Oct 2008

Fertilizer Use Threatening Sea Life

New study on landscape around Chesapeake Bay says imbalance in nitrogen cycle is damaging water quality and fish populations

21 Oct 2008

Climate Change is Moving Faster Than Scientists Previously Expected

Global warming is accelerating at a faster rate than climate change experts had previously predicted, according to a new compendium of scientific research released today by WWF

21 Oct 2008