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...Chinese government says that Japan left some 2 million chemical munitions - shells, bombs and barrels of deadly agents such as mustard gas, phosgene, hydrogen cyanide and lewisite. The Japanese Cabinet Office, which handles issues related to the weapons, declined to estimate the number, but Japanese officials have previously said there were at least 700,000. According to the Japanese government's Abandoned Chemical Weapons Office, most of the weapons are in northeastern China, but some have been found as far south as Guangdong Province. Buried in fields and submerged in streams by the defeated Japanese Imperial Army in 1945, they...
...their gene pool deep, will wither, says Molly Gaskin, president of the Point-a-Pierre wild fowl trust where she oversees a breeding and reintroduction program for scarlet ibis. "We don't have an activism-oriented population; we'll need a catastrophe before that happens," Gaskin said. Oil and gas expansion, she said, is for short-term gain, "and when the well known and wealthy say 'I've got ibis on the table,' that encourages the small-time stuff." The way things are headed, Gaskin says, Trinidad's national bird will have to be the carrion buzzard...
...much is a rain forest worth? Until recently the answer was: virtually nothing. A tropical rain forest provides habitat for untold species of animals and varieties of plants; modulates the climate and helps bring precipitation to land thousands of miles away; sequesters billions upon billions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. But the only market value a forest had were the trees within it, cut down. "Forests fall for a simple reason," says Andrew Mitchell, a conservationist and the founder of the London-based Global Canopy Programme, an umbrella group of forest organizations. "They are worth more dead than alive...
...their sovereign forests, are beginning to see that markets could be a win-win, allowing them to keep their trees and capitalize on them. For the rest of the world, stopping tropical deforestation is among the most pressing of environmental tasks. Not only would halting deforestation drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, it would save the most ecologically diverse and valuable land on the planet, home to animals and plants that can live nowhere else. Charity alone, as we've seen over the past several decades, won't be enough - the Stern report, a British government study on climate change released...
...generate electricity. To which Searchinger says: Wonderful! But growing fuel is still an inefficient use of good cropland. Strange as it sounds, we're better off growing food and drilling for oil. Sure, we should conserve fuel and buy efficient cars, but we should keep filling them with gas if the alternatives are dirtier...