Provides the latest RSS feeds for Environment News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Nigeria Sun.com http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/cat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e/ en-us Fri, 24 May 2013 06:40:47 -0400 Fri, 24 May 2013 06:40:47 -0400 30 The Environment Agency Abu Dhabi (EAD) has revealed that it has cited more than 1,000 violations in the first three months of 2013. The top three most common violations cited by EAD at industrial and developmental projects were: inefficient recordkeeping and staff training; the transfer of hazardous materials and their storage and handling on sites and; safety and emergency response protocols in ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214735278/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 24 May 2013 06:19:09 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214735278/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e A meeting next week will consider the effects of a proposed 5,200-acre development project north of Elverta on nearby wetlands. A meeting next week will consider the effects of a proposed 5,200-acre development project north of Elverta on nearby wetlands. Placer Vineyards, which would include 14,000 homes, 165 acres of retail and other developments, will be the subject of a public meeting next ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214735279/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 24 May 2013 06:05:02 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214735279/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e George Monbiot's dream of a wilder Britain would replace entire areas of sheep farming with natural ecosystems and restore species that have long since ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214733280/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 24 May 2013 05:06:25 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214733280/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e A small plane crashed near the Gregg County Regional Airport Thursday night.Sgt. David Roberts, with the Rusk County Sheriff’s Office, said the crash occurred about 6:30 p.m. on County Road 2156D and Farm-to-Market Road 2011, near the county line.The crash site was near the Elderville-Lakeport Volunteer Fire Department, which arrived within ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214731201/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 24 May 2013 01:16:38 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214731201/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e BY LINDA STEWART - 24 May 2013 Environment Minister Alex Attwood has been accused of presiding over a "broken planning system" after a damning report by Unesco criticised the handling of a planned 100m golf resort development that threatens the setting of the Giant's ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214730693/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 24 May 2013 00:44:07 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214730693/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expect that unusually warm water and other factors will produce as many as six major hurricanes during a busy 2013 Atlantic hurricane ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214728855/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 20:52:18 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214728855/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Opala (map) . The teacher had received the monkey from a family member who had killed the youngster's mother. The lesula monkey is one of ten newly described species from the past year that researchers at Arizona State University (ASU) hope will help raise awareness of biodiversity on Earth. On Thursday, the ASU researchers released their list of what they say are the top 10 newly discovered ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214727957/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 19:41:08 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214727957/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- New Hampshire forest officials say an invasive beetle that destroys ash trees has been found in about 5 percent of trees surveyed in central Concord. Officials discovered the beetle earlier this year in Concord and Bow. Agencies have been testing ash trees within a six-mile radius. Gov. Maggie Hassan has declared this Emerald Ash Borer Awareness Week. The state has put a ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214724327/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 17:21:47 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214724327/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e tornado safety guide recommends going into an enclosed basement or underground shelter if a tornado is imminent. But many suburban homes built in so-called Tornado Alley don't have basements due to rocky soil conditions and high water tables, which often make building basements impossible. An interior room or closet--often recommended for those without basements--may not be effective when ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214725465/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 17:14:48 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214725465/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Honesty is flowering all around the dark pile of leaves. Hellebores, fading from burgundy to antique pink, are creating a screen. Under the leaves a hedgehog is sleeping out the daytime, here in the same place that it spent the winter. This is its hibernaculum made from leaves that I heaped on this border last autumn. Perhaps thanks to my feeding it in November, it has survived the lengthy ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214722844/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 16:13:03 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214722844/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Mark Hoon , a molecular geneticist at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research in Bethesda, Maryland, said in a statement. And because mice and people share similar biology, the scientists suspect that people also have this circuit. The discovery could also someday identify a way to block the molecule from producing itching--a potentially life-changing intervention for millions ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214723969/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 15:59:13 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214723969/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Scientists say they've found bacteria growing in the Canadian arctic at temperatures below freezing, nearly as cold as the surface of Mars. Growing at just 5 degrees Fahrenheit, the coldest temperature ever reported for bacterial growth, the bacterium offers clues about some of the necessary preconditions for microbial life on other worlds, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus and Mars, ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214722846/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 15:42:16 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214722846/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e horsemeat scandal as more caterers have turned away from processed meats and started making meals from scratch, according to the company. Chief executive Charles Wilson said: "We are the biggest meat supplier to the catering industry in the country and since the scandal we have seen quite a lot of the caterers turning back to making their own burgers and lasagnes. So, we've moved from ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214721259/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 14:56:34 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214721259/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Jeanne Bell, CEO of CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, talks to the Pittsburgh Business Times about the state of the nonprofit industry. If you talk to the executive director at any nonprofit, they will tell you there is no such thing as too much funding. The recession, federal and state funding cuts, and now the sequester, have all an impact. Nonprofits are finding it more difficult than ever to ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214722845/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 14:51:44 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214722845/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e BOSTON - A group of environmental activists led by California billionaire Thomas Steyer that spent nearly $900,000 during the U.S Senate primary in plans to return to the state to work against Republican nominee Gabriel Gomez.Chris LeHane, a spokesman for the NextGen Committee, said in a memo to Steyer's Massachusetts supporters on Thursday that the group planned to be a "politically ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214721263/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 14:34:41 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214721263/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Jenny Wright, former director of the Office of Student Judicial Affairs at the University of Tennessee, under investigation for whether she had improper relationships with student-athletes. (University of ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214721034/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 13:41:08 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214721034/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e The nearly 35 volunteers from Whitehall and neighboring South Hills communities who came together May 4 for the tree planting and park improvement event, included residents from the Whitehall Place, formerly Prospect Park, housing complex and members of the borough's public works ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214719655/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 13:20:40 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214719655/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e "The harbour of Antwerp is being filled with windmills, and the chemical industry is next to it. If there is an accident like a break in one of the wings, that is a guillotine. If that goes through a chloride pipe somewhere, it will be a problem of a bigger magnitude than what can happen at [Belgian nuclear power plant] ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214719656/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 13:18:00 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214719656/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e BUCHAREST, Romania - Authorities say 18 people have been taken to hospitals, including one in a coma, after a tent collapsed when heavy rain and strong winds hit the Romanian capital. Interior ministry spokeswoman Andra Chesaru said trees were uprooted in and around the capital and billboards collapsed during the hour-long thunderstorm. The National Weather Institute says winds reached 80 ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214719657/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 13:16:58 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214719657/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e MANILA, Philippines – The Greenpeace on Friday asked the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) to stop the field trials of the genetically engineered (GE) Bt eggplant because it won’t be helpful and there are a lot of safety ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214719658/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 13:02:26 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214719658/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e desert locust , the most notorious of about a dozen locust species for its ability to rapidly multiply and travel long distances, threatens an area of 32 million square kilometres, stretching across 50 countries from west Africa to India.The fearsome insect has been farmers' foe since the earliest days of agriculture.When solitary, locusts are harmless. But when they congregate into groups ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214718087/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 12:22:28 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214718087/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e A glow-in-the-dark cockroach, a harp-shaped carnivorous sponge and the smallest vertebrate on Earth are among the top 10 newly discovered species selected by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University. A global committee of taxonomists - scientists responsible for species exploration and classification - announced its list to coincide with the anniversary of ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214718086/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 12:22:28 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214718086/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Illegal waste site in Slough, run by Amrik Johal, 55, has now been jailed for three years after he was stopped while boarding a flight to Delhi on 16 May. Photograph: Environment ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214718088/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 12:22:27 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214718088/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Matt Ridley discussed his interpretation of a new paper which suggests that the Earth's climate sensitivity may be a bit lower than current best ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214718089/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 12:22:25 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214718089/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e The Federal Reserve seems to be the enemy of savers and the enabler of a government addicted to debt. Its zero-interest-rate policy accommodates deficit spending at the expense of people who want to put their money somewhere safe and collect a decent income stream. These days you need to take on risk if you want respectable yields, a fact probably not lost on Fed ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214718012/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 12:21:55 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214718012/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e INDONESIA'S president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, is not known as a conviction politician. Rather, his leadership has been characterised by compromise. On the environment, though, Mr Yudhoyono has been uncommonly courageous. In 2009, two years after world leaders met on the island of Bali to agree on a "road map" to slow climate change, Mr Yudhoyono pledged Indonesia to cutting its ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214718090/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 12:20:39 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214718090/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says a proposed west-east pipeline project will not go forward unless it addresses key environmental concerns. Calgary-based TransCanada Corp. is in the process of lining up potential producers who would use the proposed pipeline, which would run from Alberta to New Brunswick. The federal Liberal leader told the CBC's Information Morning Fredericton on ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214718091/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 12:11:36 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214718091/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e . Three-quarters of the way from London to Brighton, on my biggest training challenge yet, I turned to my riding partner and laughed smugly at the people who had tried to frighten us with tales of hilly woe. We both agreed we must be much fitter than we thought, our fears about riding 100 miles in August quickly fading.Those of you who have ridden the 56-mile route before are probably having a ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214716466/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 11:08:57 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214716466/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e The secret life of internet trolls: part one - video Climate Desk are invited to dinner by their most pernicious, climate-denying troll, Hoyt ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214716467/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 11:08:56 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214716467/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e For the most part, we got along pretty well, but there were a few people who rubbed each other the wrong way. When you're hungry, cold, and tired, you forget about almost everything else and are only thinking about surviving. Watson, one of the nurses, said, "Anything a medic can do, I can do," and that's exactly what she did. That's how most of the nurses were. They ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214716361/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 10:55:50 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214716361/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Uganda loses nearly 100,000hectares of forest cover annually through encroachment, exposing the population to the risks and costly consequences of climate change. It is therefore for this reason that the Norwegian Embassy has pledged continued support to Uganda in form of increased funding in forest restoration, environment management and conservation as part of their micro-development projects ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214716468/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 10:42:53 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214716468/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Millions of cicadas are emerging across the US east coast for the first time in 17 years. The Guardian traveled to the New York City borough of Staten Island where Adam Gabbatt found cicadas and their exoskeletons littering the area as the insects prepare to mate -and then ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715021/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 09:56:14 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715021/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e those workplaces that just feel … off . Negativity fills the air. You can practically cut the tension with a knife. People look miserable. The environment makes you want to turn around and run as far away as possible – and that's whether you're a client or an employee. Clearly, these negative work spaces can have devastating consequences on the people who inhabit them and ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214713645/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 08:53:54 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214713645/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) announced this week that it will accept findings from a panel of experts, which determined that fault lines running beneath reactor #2 at Japan Atomic Power Company's (JAPC) Tsuruga nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture are active. Japanese law prohibits operation of nuclear reactors over active faults, because of the risk they could incur if a ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214713646/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 08:23:33 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214713646/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e running shoes typically generates 30lbs of carbon dioxide emissions, the researchers found.That's an unusually high carbon footprint for a product that does not use electricity, or require sophisticated components. The researchers said it compared to leaving a 100-watt bulb burning for an entire week.Sports apparel companies have been leaders in trying to reduce their environmental impact. ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711241/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 06:22:21 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711241/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e The Committee on Climate Change argues that, in the long term, low-carbon energy will cost less than gas. Leo Hickman, with your help, investigates. Post your views below, ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711240/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 06:22:21 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711240/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e land rights .If you work on food security, climate change, women's empowerment, conflict or economic growth, chances are that you've also encountered the land elephant - the big, complex, disruptive element that frustrates so many development efforts.Precisely because land is a complex and controversial issue - one that can be expensive to address in addition to being politically and ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711242/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 06:22:19 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711242/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e food wasted by its customers and elsewhere in its international supply chain.After criticism of the prevalence of supermarket "bogofs" (buy one get one frees) and other deals which help to create an annual mountain of ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711148/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 06:22:18 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711148/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e World Turtle Day , I hatched a plan. I know that to an international audience 'turtle' covers a multitude of reptile species, but rather than getting all Queens' English-y over what is ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711991/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 06:02:50 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711991/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e The Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Mrs Edna Molewa today, 22 May 2013 on the occasion of the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB), launched the Mining and Biodiversity Guideline: Mainstreaming biodiversity into the mining sector, in Kirstenbosch, Cape Town. The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) also handed over the Life: State of South Africa's ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711184/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 05:57:24 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711184/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Investing in new renewable power generation, rather than a "dash for gas", will be the lower-cost option for keeping the lights on while cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the government's climate change watchdog has said.The sooner the UK makes large investments in low-carbon generation - including offshore and onshore wind, nuclear power ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214708207/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 02:53:20 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214708207/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Dhaka, May 23 (IANS) Nature lovers in Bangladesh can tune in to 89.6 FM for their daily dose of green awakening, courtesy a 45-minute programme which aims at bridging the gap between environmentalists and laymen by keeping them abreast of burning topics related to the sector. "As our country has become the most vulnerable nation to climate change, we thought of making a dedicated programme ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214706434/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Thu, 23 May 2013 00:24:36 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214706434/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e