Help predict global warming on your PC
Friday 12th September 2003
PC users around the world have the chance to help predict the effects of global warming. The initiative run by climateprediction.net aims to use hundreds of computers, each running their own climate prediction model, to study the likely consequences of climate change over the coming century.--PC Pro
Monday September 15, 2003 #
WTO Bubble Bursts
Talks in Cancun
collapse as trade negotiators wrestled with an overloaded agenda which failed manifestly to put sustainable development at its core.--WWF
Also see:
- Daily reports from Food First in Cancun.
- "Victory for Global Civil Society, Developing Nations as U.S.-EU-Japan Agenda for Major Expansion of WTO Corporate Agenda is Defeated at Cancun WTO Ministerial"--Statement by Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen's Trade Watch.
- Breaking news from Global Exchange
- Who is behind the WTO? Game from Friends of the Earth International
Monday September 15, 2003 #
South Korean Farmer Commits Suicide to Protest WTO
South Korean farmer, Kun Hai Lee, committed ritual suicide during the WTO's opening day to protest the organization's agricultural policies.--AlterNet
Thursday September 11, 2003 #
No Protection for Threatened Species
The global effort to save some of the Earth's rarest creatures from extinction is fundamentally flawed
, scientists say.
They have found that hundreds of endangered species live in areas which offer them no protection at all.--BBC News
Thursday September 11, 2003 #
Chip Maker ST Eyes Fuel Cell Powered Mobile Phones
AMSTERDAM - Franco-Italian chip maker STMicroelectronics
said yesterday it had created technology for a tiny fuel cell to power mobile phones and increase the time between battery charges to 20 days.--Planet Ark
Thursday September 11, 2003 #
Killer Sheep Disease Heads North as Climate Warms
A killer sheep disease as dangerous as foot-and-mouth but previously confined to Africa has jumped into Europe and is heading steadily north as the climate warms, a scientist said this week.Planet Ark
Thursday September 11, 2003 #
Study Finds WTC Fires Spewed Toxic Gases for Weeks
According to Reuters
, a study released Wednesday says the burning ruins of the World Trade Center spewed toxic gases "like a chemical factory" for at least six weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks despite government assurances the air was safe.--ENN
Thursday September 11, 2003 #
White House Won't Back Down on ANWR
According to Reuters
, the Bush administration told Congress Wednesday it was sticking with its plan for a broad energy bill to open an Arctic refuge in Alaska to oil drilling, even though the White House has been warned the proposal could kill the legislation.--ENN
Thursday September 11, 2003 #
Brazil Creates Rainforest Reserve
The Brazilian state of Amazonas said Wednesday it created six new natural reserves with a combined area bigger than Belgium to safeguard the jungle region's rich biodiversity.--ENN
Thursday September 11, 2003 #
Food First Reports from the WTO in Cancún
Food First Co-director Peter Rosset
reports back from Cancún on the Zapatistas' call to "derail the death train of the WTO in Cancún and around the world."
In this daily report, Rossert stated, "The messages from Subcomandante Marcos and Comandantes Esther and David of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) this morning fell like verbal bombshells on the assembled crowd in Cancún, scene of the WTO Ministerial."--Food First
Wednesday September 10, 2003 #
