Red Sky News | The Global Meltdown
Month: April 2008
Mercury found in birds in U.S. rivers
WASHINGTON - Mercury contamination in rivers can spread to nearby birds, even ones that don't eat fish or other
US secretary concedes biofuels may spur food price rises
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Setting aside farmland to produce biofuels like ethanol may be partly to blame for driving up
Virus outbreak in Chinese city kills 19 children
BEIJING (Reuters) - A virus outbreak in an eastern Chinese city has killed 19 children and left hundreds ill,
Japan detects bird flu in wild swans
TOKYO. Japan has detected a strain of bird flu in a flock of wild swans after stepping up checks
Hundreds flee US wildfires
Five hundred homes have been evacuated in California after the first wildfire of the year broke out near Los
Human warming hobbles ancient climate cycle
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Before humans began burning fossil fuels, there was an eons-long balance between carbon dioxide emissions and
Asia’s rainforests rapidly vanishing as timber, food demand surge.
Asia's rainforests are being rapidly destroyed, a trend accelerated by surging timber demand in booming China and India, and
UK Super Bug deaths rising sharply
There are 10 times more deaths across the UK from the superbug clostridium difficile among over 65-year-olds than in
Reno urged to prepare for worse as earthquakes continue
RENO, Nev. - Scientists urged residents of northern Nevada's largest city to prepare for a bigger event as the
Artificially cooling Earth may prove perilous
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Radical proposals to inject sulfur particles into the Earth's stratosphere to cool it down and battle