Rare Conservation Links

One thing you can say about the winter of 2010-'11, for what it's worth: the Arctic doesn't seem so remote anymore. You don't have to be a meteorologist to get the feeling that the polar atmosphere has sprung a leak -- that the freezing down here has something to do with the warming up there.

"In a place like Indonesia, top-down government control simply isn't possible, and community-based management is the only real alternative."

10:10UK makes a complete 180 on how they want to talk about climate change. They made that tasteless video showing children blowing up for 10-10. Now they say the key is to be positive when talking about climate change.

Nestlé officials last year said they would refuse to buy palm oil that was not sustainably harvested. Palm oil, which is used in an increasing number of products, from cosmetics to food, has grown into a $20-billion industry worldwide.

Prince Albert visits Bogor 4 campaign site.

From 1950 to 2006 the United Nation Food and Agriculture Agency (FAO) estimated that 12,700 metric tons of fish were caught in the Arctic, giving the impression that the Arctic was a still-pristine ecosystem, remaining underexploited by the world's fisheries. However, a recent study by the University of British Colombia Fisheries Center and Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences throws cold water on this widespread belief. According to the study, published in Polar Biology, the total Arctic catch from 1950 to 2006 is likely to have been nearly a million metric tons, almost 75 times the FAO's official record.

New research shows that the 2010 Amazon drought may have been even more devastating to the region's rainforests than the unusual 2005 drought, which was previously billed as a one-in-100 year event.

"The photovoltaic collector field will feature a 5.3-megawatt system, and will include 16,500 PV panels. The university says that once installed, the field will generate 5.5 percent of the campus' electrical power and bring down its energy costs by about 8 percent. Not too shabby. The 5.5 percent figure is an average stretched over the year. On super sunny days, the installation is capable of meeting up to 20 percent of the campus' power needs."

"Our paper is the first to publish accurate measurements for whale sharks in the field," says PhD candidate Christoph Rohner. "Other researchers have previously tried to measure the sharks with a tape measure, or by visually estimating size, which is obviously difficult to do accurately," he explains.

Some estimates predict that by 2013, 80% of the North American forests could be gone.

"Peak Oil being that high point on a bell curve where global petroleum extraction reaches maximum output and then starts to decline. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) production of conventional crude oil peaked in 2006, not that this stopped demand from increasing. The issues that stem from Peak Oil have to do with the crunch that will come when our demand exceeds remaining supply.]"

"In addition, it says there are huge environmental benefits: "New Yorkers emit 23 million tons less carbon dioxide per year than they would if they drove as much as the average U.S. urban resident," according to the report."

"I have to say that this one just really depresses me (but please look straight at this one): AFP writes that a new report by the UNEP shows that at current fishing rates, and if we don't do anything to stop it, in 40 years there will not be any commercially-viable amounts of fish left in the oceans. Consider that for a moment before continuing reading. No significant quantities of fish left, due to direct human action."

Today the biggest, most ambitious forest conservation deal ever has been announced: The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement. After more than seven years of hard-fought campaigning to end the on-going destruction of Canada's Boreal Forest, Greenpeace and eight other non-governmental organisations have agreed to a truce with the logging industry: we will suspend the battle for the Boreal."

"Best case: they drill the relief well quickly - two months or less - and P.A. (plug and abandon) the original well. The worst case is that it will take much longer. I am confident that they will succeed."

Amazing footage of a rarely seen giant deep sea jellyfish has been recorded by scientists in Gulf of Mexico.