News Forum Archives: February 2005
Charges fly about monarch’s fall
by Mark Stevenson
Associated Press
Fri, Feb. 18, 2005
With fewer monarch butterflies in Mexico, the government blamed cold weather and farming in their summer home of Canada and the U.S., while activists blamed logging.
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Food Scarcity Predicted with Rising Temperatures, Falling Water Tables
February 04, 2005
By John Heilprin, Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A global warming trend will reduce farm yields and make food supplies scarcer over the next century, an environmental group said Thursday, citing data from the United Nations and the National Academy of Sciences and trends in the world rice market.
“The combination of rising temperatures and falling water tables is likely to lead to a tightening of world grain supplies,” said Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute. “This is already evident with world rice prices, which have risen over 30 percent in the last year.”
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Group: Biotechs Don’t Deliver on Promises
Wed Feb 2, 9:02 PM ET
By Paul Elias, AP Biotechnology Writer
SAN FRANCISCO – The biotechnology industry has failed to deliver on promises to revolutionize agriculture with plants genetically engineered to be healthier, drought resistant and tastier, a consumer interest group said Wednesday.
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