Tourists had to be evacuated by helicopter from one of Canada’s major Arctic parks as abnormal temperatures caused severe flooding, washing away hiking trails and a bridge.
“We lost huge proportions of what was formerly the trail in the park. It’s disappeared - gone,” said Pauline Scott, speaking for Parks Canada.
Not only is the Arctic ice cap shrinking, it is shrinking at a pace that places its disappearance two to three decades ahead of the gloomiest previous forecasts.
It is now generally predicted that the Arctic ice cap will totally disappear in 20 - 25 years, leaving the Arctic Ocean totally free of summer ice as early as the summer of 2030. Some scientists even predict that Arctic summer sea ice will totally disappear as early as 2015. The previous most dismal prediction had the Arctic ice cap vanishing by the year 2050.
The recent outbreak of salmonella in the United States has cost the Food industry over 250 million dollars. It now turns out that cost may have been entirely their own fault.
The Food and Drug Administration first thought that the salmonella bacteria was being spread by tomatoes and it took them four months of intensive investigation until they discovered that the culprit was actually jalapeno peppers grown in Mexico.
The East African nation of Kenya has a problem. They import two very expensive commodities, sugar and fuel.
Their solution. Grow lots of sugar cane, which would help reduce their need to import over 200 thousand tonnes of sugar a year, and relieve their dependency on oil by producing considerable amounts of sugar cane bio fuel for Kenya’s vehicles.
The world’s wetlands are in danger and if they are damaged further they could release a “carbon bomb” which could greatly affect Global Warming conditions.
Wetlands are natural carbon traps that contain the same amount of carbon that is currently in the earth’s atmosphere, in all they contain a fifth of the world’s carbon.
It seems that there is concern in Arizona about mosquitoes spreading the West Nile disease.
The main breeding grounds, in the normally dry and arid state, are backyard swimming pools that have been left unattended because the households were foreclosed on or abandoned.
How clean is your kitchen? Not very according to a recent study. Chances are that your bathroom maybe the cleanest room in your house.
Our kitchens are the center of our all home activity, the room we prepare food in, socialize in and eat in. And it maybe the most dangerous room in the house.
The G8 leaders meeting in Japan last week backed away from accepting realistic binding greenhouse gas limits. Adopting a attitude of denial about carbon emissions and in an attempt to coddle U.S. President George Bush during his waning days of office the major leaders of the Western World decided to fudge their math test.
According to some authorities they are the terrorists of the flora and fauna world. They strike at night at unusual places and attack their targets with force and passion. By the time they leave the crime scene the landscape is unrecognizable.
They are Guerrilla Gardeners, a collection of secret cells around the world that sneak around at night; planting, fertilizing and watering plants they purchase on their own into barren spots of earth that have long gone neglected.
A secret World Bank report has revealed that bio fuel production has had a significant influence on the rising global prices of food. Global food prices have increased over 75 percent over the last two years and bio fuels are largely to blame according to the report.
This strongly contradicts the United States government’s claim that bio fuels have only affected world food prices by only 3 percent.
