Be good to bugs … and they’ll be good to you

Got bugs?  Ever thought of using more bugs to solve your gardening woes?

Doctors neglecting their duty over climate change, says Sir Muir Gray

Doctors are neglecting their duty by staying silent on the issue of climate change and its implications for public health, a leading doctor warns.

Deformities in Chinese sturgeon linked to chemical

A paint chemical that is widely used in China is leaking into the Yangtze river and may be responsible for deformities and decreasing numbers of rare wild Chinese sturgeon, a study has found.

Kenya ill-equipped to fight climate change, UN body says

UNEP’s Climate Change Adaptation Unit says despite the fact that the effects of climate change such as floods, droughts and diseases are evident in Kenya, the country lacks the capacity to address the environmental disasters.

Big impact of climate change on India’s farm yields: World Bank

Dryland farmers in Andhra Pradesh may see their incomes decline by 20 percent, the sugarcane yield in Maharashtra may go down 30 percent, and there may be much more flooding in the Orissa coast, says a new World Bank report.

India One of the Least Carbon Intensive Countries in the World

India’s stand that the current climate change negotiations under the auspices of UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) are being skewed in favor of of the industrialized nations got another shot in the arm this week.

Protecting oceans vital in warming fight

Governments seeking to stop global warming must give a higher priority to protecting marine ecosystems, scientists said Sunday in Washington.

Climate change amplifying animal disease

Climate change is widening viral disease among farm animals, expanding the spread of some microbes that are also a known risk to humans, the world’s top agency for animal health said on Monday.

Climate change ‘means more disasters’ for Mozambique

Floods, droughts, cyclones and epidemics will increasingly plague Mozambique in the coming years as climate change raises temperatures, the national disaster centre said in a study Monday.

Climate change making Everest ascent harder: sherpa

A Nepali sherpa who holds the world record for climbing Mount Everest said on Monday rising temperatures were melting snow and turning the slopes barren, making it even harder to scale the world’s tallest peak.

Hypermilers squeeze the most out of a gallon of gas

Robert Wyler was tooling along the interstate near Lexington on Thursday afternoon in his ‘86 Honda Civic with manual transmission, his speedometer pointing to 60, doing his part to lessen the nation’s dependence on foreign oil.

Power-hungry gadgets must learn to diet

COME 2030, electronic gadgets will gobble three times as much electricity as they do today, requiring 280 gigawatts of new generating capacity, unless we do something about it.