(ClimateRadar) It is an overlooked and yet unbelievable fact: farmed animals produce more greenhouse gas emissions (18%) than the world’s entire transport system (13.5%). Today The Vegetarian Society is launching a [...]
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“The price of potatoes was a headline,” says Professor Rosing. “That would have been a hilarious joke in Greenland a few years ago.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6993612.stm
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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) www.fao.org held a special session in Rome, Italy, [September 10-12] to discuss the impact of climate change on world food security. Experts say that if industrial emissions continue to rise as predicted, the warming temperatures, increased rainfall, droughts and floods resulting from global warming threaten to disrupt [...]
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Cutting world meat consumption by 10 percent would have a substantial impact on greenhouse emissions, say doctors writing in the health journal The Lancet.
http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0912-meat.html
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He may be the hero of the environmental movement for his crusade against global warming but Al Gore is about to be targeted by animal rights activists over his carnivorous contribution to greenhouse gases.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/09/wgore109.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox
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A Times report on food miles vs. the organic food industry.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/real_food/article2182994.ece
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A report on how the demand for biofuels is leading to social and agricultural clashes in Indonesia.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6927890.stm
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Directly and indirectly, livestock account for 18 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, the FAO says – more than “all transport” combined. Makes you want to go vegetarian…
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070801.RREYNOLDS01/TPStory/Business
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The use of bioenergy is gaining in significance in France, as the French government has markedly improved the funding of biogas in the past year. The state guarantees a fixed price for electricity from biogas plants. This means that the French farmers are taking an increased interest in biogas technology. The French organisation SOLAGRO believes [...]
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Article about how climate change is redrawing the map in the USA. Many maps of plants are out of date and now many plants found in Southern states are also found in Northern states.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/20/AR2007072000936.html
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