Age: BEIJING - Global warming may cost China two thirds of its glaciers by mid-century, putting 300 million people at risk, state media reports. The country's glaciers are melting at an unprecedented rate, threatening the livelihoods of Chinese dependent on the water they provide, the China Daily said, citing local experts. "Glaciers are much more than scenic gifts from ... http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=6900 2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Associated Press: GLAND, Switzerland - The world's cod stocks could be wiped out by 2020 because of overfishing, illegal catches, and oil exploration, the environment group WWF said Thursday.WWF (the World Wide Fund for Nature) said the world's largest remaining cod stock, in the Barents Sea, is under particular threat.In a report, WWF said the world's cod fisheries are disappearing fast, with a ... http://www.enn.com/news/2004-05-13/s_23853.asp 2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

BBC: Global conservation efforts should focus strongly on whole ecosystems as well as individual species, two US scientists argue in the journal Nature. Anthony Ives and Bradley Cardinale modelled extinctions and found they could have unpredictable effects on the animals and plants left behind. Remaining species could thrive because they had lost a competitor; and they could also ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3707857.stm 2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

GreenBiz.com: WASHINGTON - Energy-efficient manufacturing practices that protect the bottom line can take the sting out of complying with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's new smog rules, according to the Alliance to Save Energy.Under new classifications recently issued by EPA and set to become effective June 15, a large number of states and communities will be required to take measures to ... http://www.enn.com/news/2004-05-13/s_23283.asp 2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Associated Press: TARAWA, Kiribati - On the beach at "Bloody Tarawa," where U.S. Marines died by the hundreds, the broken bottles, crushed boxes, and plastic bags are now piling up by the millions.Rotting under the equatorial sun, the garbage of an open dump is spreading over a section of World War II's Red Beach, a strip of sand hallowed in American military history.It's a sign of the ... http://www.enn.com/news/2004-05-13/s_23852.asp 2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

New Stateman: The first warning signs would have come from the sunsets. Weird splashes of red, yellow and purple-painted evening horizons all around the globe. Only those living near the eruption site would have seen the cause - vast volcanic outgassings of carbon dioxide, ash and sulphur. The end-Permian apocalypse had begun. By its conclusion, up to 95 per cent of species had been wiped out, the oceans ... http://www.newstatesman.com/site.php3?newTemplate=NSArticle_Ideas&newDisplayURN=200405170018 2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Environment News Service: MARINA DEL REY, California, May 13, 2004 (ENS) - Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS) are big business today. Participants in a three day conference here say a $227 billion U.S. marketplace has emerged for goods and services that appeal to consumers who value health, the environment, social justice, personal development, and sustainable living. The LOHAS 8 Forum: The ... http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2004/2004-05-13-096.asp 2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Environment News Service: WASHINGTON, DC, May 13, 2004 (ENS) - After a boom year in 2003, the American wind power industry has stalled this year because its production tax credit has been stalled in Congress. On Tuesday, the Senate passed legislation containing a three-year extension of the credit, to December 31, 2006, but it comes too late to help the wind industry this year, according to a report issued ... http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2004/2004-05-13-091.asp 2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Reuters: MIAMI (Reuters) - Greenpeace, charged with the obscure crime of "sailor mongering" that was last prosecuted 114 years ago, goes on trial on Monday in the first U.S. criminal prosecution of an advocacy group for civil disobedience.The environmental group is accused of sailor mongering because it boarded a freighter in April 2002 that was carrying illegally felled Amazon ... http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=5135881§ion=news 2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) - 

Environment News Service: LUDLOW, Pennsylvania, May 13, 2004 (ENS) - U.S. Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth toured logging projects in the Allegheny National Forest Monday that conservationists contend are illegal, but he did not resolve their concerns. Despite controversy over a previous tour with Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, the USDA Forest Service offered no invitation to conservationists but did give ... http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2004/2004-05-13-093.asp  2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Associated Press: LOS ANGELES - A Southern California water agency approved a new plan thie week that will pay farmers to rotate their crops so irrigation water can be diverted to residents in coastal communities.The Metropolitan Water District, a consortium of 26 cities and local water districts, supplies water to nearly 18 million people in parts of Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Riverside, San ... http://www.enn.com/news/2004-05-13/s_23857.asp 2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Telegraph: The forthcoming Hollywood climate catastrophe film The Day After Tomorrow was welcomed by the Government's chief scientist yesterday because it highlights the need for more action to curb global warming."It's a spectacular action film," said Sir David King, who praised the script for conveying important ideas about climate change, despite its questionable science.In ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/05/13/nclim13.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/05/13/ixhome.html 2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

New York Times: In the second half of the 20th century, the world became, quite literally, a darker place.Defying expectation and easy explanation, hundreds of instruments around the world recorded a drop in sunshine reaching the surface of Earth, as much as 10 percent from the late 1950's to the early 90's, or 2 percent to 3 percent a decade. In some regions like Asia, the United States and Europe, ... http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/13/science/13DARK.html  2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Reuters: TORONTO - The Inuit living in the Arctic region are being "poisoned from afar" as climate change takes its toll on the area and threatens their existence, the head of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference said Wednesday. Sheila Watt-Cloutier, chairwoman of the group that represents about 155,000 Inuit in the Arctic regions of Canada, Russia, Greenland, and the United States, said ... http://www.enn.com/news/2004-05-13/s_23841.asp 2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Guardian: Hail stones the size of tennis balls are knocking people out in Japan. Shortly afterwards it is snowing in India. But that is only the beginning. The fuel in the helicopters sent to rescue the royal family in Balmoral freezes in flight and within days all those living north of Washington have been abandoned by the US military as beyond help of evacuation. Meanwhile, those from the southern ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/news/story/0,12976,1215798,00.html  2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Environment News Service: WASHINGTON, DC, May 13, 2004 (ENS) - The National Park Service has directed its superintendents to apply for prior approval before they depart from ''talking points” provided to them on controversial issues, according to internal emails made public Wednesday by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Following revelations by retired parks employees that current park ... http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2004/2004-05-13-094.asp 2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Environment News Service: ALCOA, Tennessee, May 13, 2004 (ENS) - One of the greatest expanses of wilderness in the eastern United States was preserved Monday as 21 national and local environmental and regulatory groups and Alcoa Power Generating Inc. signed an agreement to protect lands around Calderwood Lake. Alcoa Power operates four hydroelectric dams in Tennessee and North Carolina under operating licenses ... http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2004/2004-05-13-092.asp 2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Environment News Service: WASHINGTON, DC, May 13, 2004 (ENS) - Retail giant Wal-Mart will pay a $3.1 million civil penalty to settle violations of the federal Clean Water Act's storm water runoff provisions at 24 construction sites across nine states, federal officials said Wednesday. The penalty is a record for storm water construction permitting violations, officials said, and is part of a renewed federal commitment ... http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2004/2004-05-13-11.asp 2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Reuters: NAIROBI, May 13 (Reuters) - The World Bank has approved its largest environment grant to help the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar protect its unique environment and native species, the bank said on Wednesday.Madagascar, the world's fourth largest island, has a unique array of wildlife, flora and fauna but the impoverished country has few funds available to address conservation ... http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L13399028.htm 2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Environment News Service: ALBANY, New York, May 13, 2004 (ENS) - The day that Adirondack Council Executive Director Brian Houseal has been waiting 10 years to see has arrived. Some electric power plants in upstate New York are installing pollution controls because it costs more to avoid cleanup of air emissions by purchasing pollution credits than it does to actually reduce the emissions. ''The price of a ... http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2004/2004-05-13-095.asp 2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Guardian: The celluloid power-brokers of Hollywood have recently faced a great impediment: a shortage of contemporary villains. In the old days it was easy. The action hero - the world being rarely saved by heroines - would foil the plots of thinly-veiled Communist networks named Spectre or Thrush. This reflected the mentality of the cold war, and the threat in the minds of potential western audiences. ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1215635,00.html 2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Age: Both sides of the logging debate are unhappy with a key piece of legislation to be introduced in State Parliament today.Accusing the State Government of poor consultation, four environment groups met ministerial advisers yesterday in an unsuccessful effort to get the legislation delayed."This is a new bill, but it is business as usual," Lawyers for Forests president ... http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/12/1084289748084.html 2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Environment News Service: SYDNEY, Nova Scotia, Canada, May 13, 2004 (ENS) - The Sydney Tar Ponds, a blight for years on the Nova Scotia environment, are on the final road to cleanup. The federal and provincial governments Wednesday announced an agreement to fund the enormous remediation project in the amount of C$400 million. Environment Minister David Anderson, Public Works Minister Stephen Owen, and Nova ... http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2004/2004-05-13-03.asp 2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Associated Press: VANCOUVER, British Columbia - With dry weather predicted for a third summer in a row, British Columbia may experience its worst drought since the Great Depression, water experts warned."We're in such a drought situation that even if we did get torrential downpours for the next few weeks, it wouldn't matter," provincial fire information officer Nancy Argyle said Wednesday, ... http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/8658150.htm?1c 2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Environment News Service: ARLINGTON, Virginia, May 13, 2004 (ENS) - Transmission of chronic wasting disease can take place not just through animal-to-animal direct contact but also by exposure to environments contaminated by whole carcasses or excrement of infected animals, a team of researchers from Colorado and Wyoming reports. Colorado Division of Wildlife veterinarians Michael Miller and Lisa Wolfe, ... http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2004/2004-05-13-097.asp 2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Environment News Service: OAKLAND, California, May 13, 2004 (ENS) - U.S. researchers have found high levels of chemicals used as flame retardants in household dust within every home they sampled. The human health impacts of the chemicals, known as polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), are not well known but scientists have found they cause neurological damage in laboratory animals. PBDEs are added to ... http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2004/2004-05-13-10.asp 2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Associated Press: BANGKOK, Thailand - The extinction of species and diseases like bird flu are among environmental problems to be tackled by thousands of delegates at a global conference later this year, organizers said on Wednesday.More than 3,000 activists, scientists, and government officials are expected in Bangkok for the Nov. 17-25 meeting of the World Conservation Union, known by its French ... http://www.enn.com/news/2004-05-13/s_23855.asp  2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Reuters: WASHINGTON - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has agreed to pay a $3.1 million fine to settle charges of violations of the federal Clean Water Act at store construction sites across the country, the U.S. government said Wednesday. The fine was the largest civil penalty ever against a company for storm water runoff violations. Officials said they hoped the settlement with the world's biggest ... http://www.enn.com/news/2004-05-13/s_23832.asp 2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

USA Today: Booming numbers of wild hogs are colliding with motorists, devouring crops, spreading disease and terrifying landowners from tony towns on the Pacific Coast to the swamps of the Carolinas.Feral pigs wield four-inch razor-sharp tusks and breed so prolifically that their populations are escalating dramatically in some places."We know that Texas has more feral hogs than any ... http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0513Wild-Hogs-ON.html 2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Australian: The Australian federal government has allocated a record $2.4 billion across all portfolios to the environment over the coming financial year.But environmentalists say they're disappointed and say this week's budget delivers very little new money.Environment and heritage minister Dr David Kemp said spending by the environment and agricultural portfolios will reach a record $1.1 ... http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1106882.htm 2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

ScienceDaily: The cataclysmic ice age scenario depicted in the upcoming movie, "The Day After Tomorrow," gets the mechanics of global warming mostly right, but wildly exaggerates the speed at which it might occur, says a Duke University oceanographer who studies North Atlantic ocean currents.The type of global climate change that happens in the movie -- where global warming diverts warm ... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/05/040512044611.htm  2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

People's Daily: Scientists estimate global warming may cause two thirds of China's glaciers to melt by mid-century, putting at least 300 million people at risk. Yao Tandong, director of the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences was that up to 64 percent of the glaciers could disappear by 2050. Of China's 1.3 billion people, 23 percent live around glaciers in ... http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200405/13/eng20040513_143224.html  2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Scoop: The National Party has abandoned both principle and independence in its latest position on the Kyoto Protocol, says the Convenor of the Ministerial Group on Climate Change, Pete Hodgson."National governments signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, negotiated New Zealand's Kyoto Protocol target, signed the Protocol and began developing policy to meet New ... http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0405/S00288.htm  2004-05-13 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Environment News Service: SAN FRANCISCO, California, May 12, 2004 (ENS) - Many U.S. residents carry unsafe levels of pesticides in their bodies, according to study released Tuesday by the Pesticide Action Network. Children, women, and Mexican Americans carry disproportionate levels of the dangerous chemicals, many of which have been linked to serious short term and long term health effects including infertility, birth ... http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2004/2004-05-12-10.asp 2004-05-12 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

National Geographic: It's one of the first rules learned in kindergarten: Hold hands and look both ways before crossing the street. But while stoplights and crosswalks can help people get safely to the other side, animals may need a bit more assistance. Now special "ecopassages" are helping wildlife reach the other side of the road, giving them a better chance at finding food, meeting mates, and ... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/05/0512_animaloverpasses.html 2004-05-12 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

b HARBIN, May 12 (Xinhuanet) -- The ecology of the Dahinggan Mountains in northeast China has recovered 17 years after it suffered a big forest fire, experts said after completing a survey and research. A major forest area in China, Dahinggan Mountains was almost swallowed by the flames of a disastrous fire in May 1987, which forestry and ecological experts said would lead to changes in ... http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-05/12/content_1465784.htm  2004-05-12 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Reuters: LONDON - It is just another digitally enhanced disaster movie, but campaigners hope "The Day After Tomorrow," a climate change Armageddon blockbuster, will have a lasting special effect on respect for the planet.20th Century Fox's $125 million film opens in cinemas worldwide on May 28.Riding on its coat tails is an army of environmentalists hoping it will win new ... http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/25086/story.htm 2004-05-12 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Pioneer Press: Two federal courts have struck down a Clinton-era rule limiting road-building in national forests, deciding that the rule was a back-door attempt to create new national wilderness areas, a power reserved to Congress.Now the Bush administration, after years of explicit support of the roadless rule, is hinting that rather than fight for the forest protections, it will come up with its ... http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/editorial/8642040.htm?1c  2004-05-12 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Associated Press: WASHINGTON - Companies in Canada and seven other foreign countries have obtained hardrock mining rights on one-fifth of all current and former public lands in the United States, an environmental group's analysis said this week.Some 28,000 companies and individuals paid less than $5 an acre to patent land with precious metals and minerals under terms of the 1872 Mining Law, the ... http://www.enn.com/news/2004-05-12/s_23670.asp  2004-05-12 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

New York Times: LOS ANGELES, May 11 - Any studio that makes a $125 million movie about global warming is courting controversy. But 20th Century Fox does not seem to have fully anticipated the political firestorm being whipped up by its film "The Day After Tomorrow." Environmental advocates are using the film's release, scheduled for May 28, as an opening to slam the Bush administration, ... http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/12/movies/12AFTE.html 2004-05-12 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Environment News Service: WASHINGTON, DC, May 12, 2004 (ENS) - Former Vice President Al Gore says no one should confuse the forthcoming disaster movie "The Day After Tomorrow" with an accurate account of global warming. But neither should they believe Bush administration statements that global warming may not be real, said Gore, who hopes the new Hollywood film will throw the national spotlight on the issue. ... http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2004/2004-05-12-11.asp 2004-05-12 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Associated Press: OLYMPIA, Wash. - The sea is rising, and the city is sinking.But so far, while some adjustments are being made, no one here is drawing up plans to build dikes and floodgates to keep the waters of south Puget Sound from turning Olympia's streets into streams. Public works planners and port officials know oceans have been rising at an average rate of nearly half a foot per ... http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2004/05/12/news/science02.txt  2004-05-12 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Environment News Service: BOISE, Idaho, May 12, 2004 (ENS) - Based on satellite data, wildfire management teams across the West are bracing for one of the worst fire seasons ever to hit the Rockies and Southwestern United States. The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), the nation's support center for wildland firefighting, predicts another difficult fire season for most of the interior West in 2004. ... http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2004/2004-05-12-093.asp 2004-05-12 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Hindu: New Delhi, May 12. (PTI): India and other developing countries are the worst affected by climate change and to mitigate this, it was imperative to promote adaptation measures. "Climatic change, including drought, flood, extreme temperatures and other natural hazards have been affecting the poor in developing countries as most of them are dependent on natural resources," ... http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/00 200405121825.htm 2004-05-12 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Reuters: BRUSSELS - The long-running renovation of the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels hit a new snag Tuesday when Greenpeace accused the contractors of using wood logged illegally from nature reserves.The European Union's executive body had to quit the vast Berlaymont building in 1991 after it was found to contain health-threatening asbestos, and it is due to move back ... http://www.enn.com/news/2004-05-12/s_23715.asp  2004-05-12 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Scotsman: TASMANIA prides itself on a clean, green image. More than 1.3 million visitors travel to Australia's island state each year to see its rugged landscape and indulge in its famed outdoor pursuits. Yet the island's idyllic, eco-friendly image has been shattered in a bitter environmental controversy, which has caused a major political row in Australia, and even led to calls for UK tourists ... http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=540062004 2004-05-12  Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Nature: A 50-metre high tsunami engulfs Manhattan. Helicopters plummet from the sky when their fuel freezes solid in the mother of all blizzards. Monster hailstones rain down on Tokyo. These are all scenes from The Day After Tomorrow, a US$125 million eco-disaster film showing in cinemas worldwide from 28 May. The film is already causing a stir as some scientists question its premise, and ... http://www.nature.com/nsu/040510/040510-6.html 2004-05-12 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Associated Press: WASHINGTON - The U.S. government is moving on a new front to cut air pollution. This time ferry boats and harbor tugs, farm tractors and train locomotives, and dirt movers at construction sites are the targets.The Environmental Protection Agency is issuing new regulations aimed at cutting the amount of smog-causing chemicals and fine soot that comes from these off-road diesel-powered ... http://www.enn.com/news/2004-05-12/s_23723.asp 2004-05-12 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Prairie Star: BILLINGS, Mont. - As Montana enters its sixth year of drought, producers are starting to remember the day of the Dust Bowl."Some of the numbers are quite close even though we're only five years into the drought," said hydrologist Gina Loss of the National Weather Service office in Great Falls, Mont. "Temperatures were above normal and then cooled off with below normal ... http://www.theprairiestar.com/articles/2004/05/12/ag_news/local_and_regional_news/local01.txt 2004-05-12 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org) -

Salt Lake Tribune: WASHINGTON -- Federal land managers are burning through firefighting money at a record pace while making untimely decisions that could dramatically hinder crews' ability to control catastrophic blazes this summer, members of a Senate panel said. "Fire spending seems to be out of control," Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., told ... http://www.sltrib.com/2004/May/05122004/utah/165662.asp 2004-05-12 Glen Barry (mailto:gbarry@forests.org)