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Category: Americas
Brazil says Amazon deforestation rising
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Destruction of the Amazon is again on the upswing despite a recent crackdown on
U.S. food price rise to be largest in 18 years
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. food prices will rise by 5 percent this year, the largest increase since 1990 and
Global Greenhouse Gas emissions ‘will double by 2020
GLOBAL greenhouse-gas emissions will almost double by 2020, a rate much faster than previously predicted, according to a paper
Warmer Ocean Water Means Less Oxygen
WASHINGTON - Low-oxygen zones where sea life is threatened or cannot survive are growing as the oceans are heated
Hundreds of ducks die after landing in oil sands in Canada
FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta - Canada's government was investigating an oil sands company after hundreds of ducks that landed on
Pittsburgh surpasses Los Angeles as nation’s sootiest city
LOS ANGELES - A city outside California has for the first time been named the sootiest in the nation,
Food buying panic hits Canadian stores
With food riots spreading from Haiti to Thailand and retail giants such as Wal-Mart implementing rice rationing in the
Brazil forecasts record ethanol production in 2008
BRASILIA (AFP) - Brazilian officials forecast on Tuesday record sugar cane crops and record ethanol production for 2008 that
CO2, methane up sharply during 2007
A U.S. government study shows global levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide increased by 19 billion tons last year, while
Mississippi River floods doom promising year for farmers
REDWOOD, Miss. — Farmers here are experiencing water torture as they wait for the flooded Mississippi River to recede