Monday, January 31, 2011

Chinese philanthropist offers to build cross-strait undersea tunnel - CNA ENGLISH NEWS

Chinese philanthropist offers to build cross-strait undersea tunnel - CNA ENGLISH NEWS: "Taipei, Jan. 30 (CNA) China's best-known philanthropist said in Taoyuan Sunday he would be willing to spend his entire fortune to build an undersea tunnel and high-speed railw"

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

BBC News - World food prices at fresh high, says UN

BBC News - World food prices at fresh high, says UN: "The recent floods in Australia, which also accounts for 11% of global exports, has compounded the problem, he said.

The price of corn has also risen, because of greater support for biofuels in the US and the increased price of oil, which makes biofuels more attractive.

Droughts in Argentina, the world's second biggest exporter of corn behind the US, have also pushed the price up, Mr Torero said.

'The situation is very tight. If we have more natural disasters, we could have a problem,' he said."

Monday, January 3, 2011

Scientists fear mass extinction as oceans choke - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Low oxygen levels, which have been found along south-eastern
 Australia, are known to increase stress on fish. (Reuters: Ho New)
Scientists fear mass extinction as oceans choke - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "Australian scientists fear the planet is on the brink of another mass extinction as ocean dead zones continue to grow in size and number.

More than 400 ocean dead zones - areas so low in oxygen that sea life cannot survive - have been reported by oceanographers around the world between 2000 and 2008.

That is compared with 300 in the 1990s and 120 in the 1980s."