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Dow Highlights World Water Day
2015-03-22 21:29:00| Chemical Processing
Sunday, March 22 is World Water Day.
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Climate change threatens world iconic ecosystems
2015-03-22 08:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Zee News: Without better local management, world's most iconic ecosystems are at risk of collapse under climate change, warn researchers. Protecting places of global environmental importance such as the Great Barrier Reef and the Amazon rainforest from climate change will require reducing pressures like over-fishing, fertiliser pollution and land clearing, they said. Writing in the journal Science, an international team of researchers warned that localised issues, such as declining water quality from...
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Great Barrier Reef: Australian PM Tony Abbott saving World Heritage site his top priority
2015-03-22 01:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: A plan to save Australias Great Barrier Reef from destruction was announced yesterday as Prime Minister Tony Abbott sought to persuade the United Nations that the World Heritage site was not in danger. The reef has lost about 50 per cent of its coral in the past 30 years, due partly to ocean acidification caused by greenhouse gas emissions; the dumping of spoil from the dredging of sea channels; and pollution from agricultural chemicals. Plagues of venomous crown-of-thorns starfish, which eat...
Monsanto weed killer can 'probably' cause cancer: World Health Organization
2015-03-21 02:17:32| Chemicals - Topix.net
CHICAGO: The world's most widely-used weed killer can "probably" cause cancer, the World Health Organization said on Friday. The WHO's cancer arm, the International Agency for Research on Cancer , said glyphosate, the active ingredient in the Monsanto Co herbicide Roundup, was "classified as probably carcinogenic to humans".
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Shrinking habitats have adverse effects on world ecosystems
2015-03-20 11:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] An extensive study of global habitat fragmentation - the division of habitats into smaller and more isolated patches - points to major trouble for a number of the world's ecosystems and the plants and animals living in them. The study shows that 70 percent of existing forest lands are within a half-mile of the forest edge, where encroaching urban, suburban or agricultural influences can cause any number of harmful effects - like the losses of plants and animals.</p…
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