The garden of the future?

6.12.07
Forest gardens that replicate woodland ecosystems provide food, fuel and medicine, support wildlife, and could boom in popularity as the climate changes. Jill Tunstall explores a horticultural haven
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/dec/06/ethicalliving.conservation

Food Prices Climbing, With No End in Sight

5.12.07
Globalisation, climate change, and the mass production of biofuels are pushing up food prices worldwide, which could jeopardise the livelihoods of the world's poorest, according to a report released Tuesday by the International Food Policy Research Institute
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40359

Food prices: Cheap no more

6.12.07
Rising incomes in Asia and ethanol subsidies in America have put an end to a long era of falling food prices
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10250420

Plant extinctions could cut ecosystem productivity in half

21.11.07
A meta-analysis of 44 experiments in natural habitats shows that plant extinctions reduce ecosystem productivity by up to 50%.
http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2007/nov/science/np_speciesextinct.html

Localise and go organic to avert post-peak famine - Heinberg

http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=100

How Chocolate Can Save the Planet

19.11.07
Many people agree that chocolate is good for the soul, and researchers are finding that chocolate can be good for the body, too. But the environment? How could chocolate help with global climate change?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16354380

Water woes, water wars?

10.8.07
When water ecologist David Schindler shouts "mush" these days, he really means it.
The University of Alberta professor had been driving and breeding sled dogs since the late 1970s in Manitoba, but more recently has seen his passion melt away with the warming
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=ccd57d5e-df19-4981-b7c8-b3eec0bab31d&k=71301

Ice Caps Melting Fast: Say Goodbye to the Big Apple?

10.10.07
The talk of sea level rise should not be in centuries, it should be decades or perhaps even single years. And coastal regions like New York and Florida are in the front line for devastation.
http://www.alternet.org/environment/64735/

fishery collapse in the North Sea

10.9.07
Once they were a national treasure chest, teeming with fish and wildlife. Now the waters of the North Sea are quiet, almost dead
http://society.guardian.co.uk/societyguardian/story/0,,2162131,00.html

Global food crisis looms as climate change and population growth strip fertile land

31.8.07
Climate change and an increasing population could trigger a global food crisis in the next half century as countries struggle for fertile land to grow crops and rear animals, scientists warned yesterday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/aug/31/climatechange.food

Food prices set to surge 50 per cent within five years

2.9.07
http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/food-prices-set-to-surge-50-per-cent/2007/09/01/1188067435964.html

Arctic sea ice is melting at its fastest rate since records began

15.8.07
The sea ice of the Arctic will melt further and faster than at any time since records began nearly 30 years ago, according to the latest data collected by a satellite survey of the polar region

http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article2864214.ece

The Earth from Space

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2007/aug/08/2?picture=330352718

Organic farming can feed the world

good news

Organic farming can yield up to three times as much food on individual farms in developing countries, as low-intensive methods on the same land

http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=5936

Nasa foto artic ice 1979 / 2003

http://lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/PostOilBulletin/DwindlingARcticSeaIce.html

A Primeval Tide of Toxins

Runoff from modern life is feeding an explosion of primitive organisms. This "rise of slime," as one scientist calls it, is killing larger species and sickening people.
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/62/21496

Two necessities, fuel and food, create spiral of rising prices

While we worry about gas prices, the costs of milk, meat and fresh produce silently soar. So like the end of cheap energy, is the era of cheap food also finally over?
http://origin.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_6248755?nclick_check=1

23.6.07
THE INDEPENDENT: The fight for the world’s food
http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article2697804.ece

23.6.07
Brian Bloom: WHY (really) IS OUR PLANET WARMING
http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/bloom/2007/0623b.html