Provides the latest RSS feeds for Environment News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page International Travel News.com http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/cat/9d3b36ac41649d93/ en-us Sat, 18 May 2013 16:12:30 -0400 Sat, 18 May 2013 16:12:30 -0400 30 The Conservation Land Trust, a project of US philanthropists and environmental activists Douglas and Kris Tompkins, donated 15,000 hectares for the expansion of Perito Moreno National Park in southern Argentina. The donation was formalized at a ceremony presided over by Argentine Tourism Minister Enrique Meyer, who described the CLT's action as "moving". Nine years ago, the CLT provided 60,000 ... http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214597556/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Sat, 18 May 2013 02:20:01 -0400 http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214597556/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 O'BRIEN, Ore. -; Jennifer Phillippi's grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set up a mill, log the trees within range of a team of horses and move the mill to a new stand when those trees ran ... http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214602958/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Sat, 18 May 2013 12:45:10 -0400 http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214602958/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 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.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214602959/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Sat, 18 May 2013 12:09:28 -0400 http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214602959/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 A member of the Canadian Parliament said he wants an investigation with the United States into a three-story mound of coke piling up at a refinery in Ontario. The coke is a by-product of the refining of oil sands and has been piling up quickly at the Marathon refinery in Windsor along the Detroit River. "Here's a little bit of Alberta," said Brian Masse, one of Windsor's ... http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214602520/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Sat, 18 May 2013 11:14:23 -0400 http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214602520/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 The elimination of swaths of rain forest decreases rainfall, and is likely to reduce the energy output of hydroelectric projects in countries such as Brazil, according to a study published by the National Academy of ... http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214601792/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Sat, 18 May 2013 10:32:39 -0400 http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214601792/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 A scientist at the Kenya Forestry Research Institute has said the forests may soon earn Kenya millions of shillings when the carbon offset scheme begins. Researcher Chemuku Wekesa said the scheme will start once the development policies are set by the Environment ministry and discussions take place at the national and international levels. "The carbon trading business is big and will soon ... http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214600829/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Sat, 18 May 2013 08:11:09 -0400 http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214600829/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 The Flintstones , which is set a very, very, very long time ago, Wilma Flintstone and Betty Rubble wear some absolutely darling dresses, hair accessories and even the occasional swimsuit.No one knows who was the first person to invent clothing, but at some point in the very distant past, your ancestors and mine decided to put on some animal skins to keep themselves warm. But more important than ... http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214597593/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Sat, 18 May 2013 02:15:08 -0400 http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214597593/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Peter Robinson, Chief Executive Officer of the David Suzuki Foundation, and David Suzuki are pictured during a meeting with the Editorial Board at The Globe and Mail in 2012. The foudation was part of a coalition that demanded an environmental assessment for 10 power plants planned for northeastern British Columbia. (Deborah Baic/Deborah Baic/The Globe and ... http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214593944/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Fri, 17 May 2013 20:50:19 -0400 http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214593944/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 NASA's lunar monitoring program has detected hundreds of meteoroid impacts. The brightest, detected on March 17 in Mare Imbrium, is marked by the red square. Credit: ... http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214593714/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Fri, 17 May 2013 19:04:36 -0400 http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214593714/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 The U.S. Department of Energy has approved a $10 billion natural gas exporting facility in Texas that has significant economic implications, manufacturers say. The project called the Freeport LNG facility was "not inconsistent with the public interest," said the Energy Department, which studied the facility's "economic, energy security, and environmental impacts." The ... http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214591819/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Fri, 17 May 2013 17:55:57 -0400 http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214591819/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 HS2 rail project has 3.3bn funding shortfall, warns spending watchdog , 16 May) is the land-bound equivalent of Concorde; both scams for spending billions of pounds of citizens' hard-earned wealth in order to benefit a tiny minority of very rich businessmen and multinational corporations so they can reach their destination a few minutes before they otherwise would.This reckless expenditure ... http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214590530/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Fri, 17 May 2013 16:54:42 -0400 http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214590530/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 The U.S. space agency, NASA, has just spotted the biggest explosion on the Moon in the eight years since the agency has been monitoring lunar impacts caused by meteoroids. "On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface in Mare Imbrium," said Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "It exploded in a flash nearly 10 times as ... http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214589406/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Fri, 17 May 2013 16:12:22 -0400 http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214589406/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Stefan Demharter, vice president of wood products for Millar Western, points to telltale blue tinges in rough lumber at the Fox Creek sawmill. The mountain pine beetle infestation is being held back in the region as loggers harvest mature pine trees and trees with signs of beetle infestation while the tree is still alive and green, and the quality of the lumber is ... http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214589172/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Fri, 17 May 2013 15:50:25 -0400 http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214589172/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Peaceful acts of civil disobedience has been at the heart of many major struggles humanity has fought over the past several decades: the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, the Civil Rights movement in the US and Gandhi's fight against British colonial rule in India, to mention just a few examples. Imagine a world without civil disobedience and non-violent direct action. If that's ... http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214589173/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Fri, 17 May 2013 15:41:07 -0400 http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214589173/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 World Trade Center includes checkpoints and guard houses. The $40 million plan, presented Thursday in a required environmental impact statement, shows security checkpoints, numerous "bollards" or vertical posts meant to stop vehicles and an elaborate "sally port" so police can enter and check tour buses, the New York Post reported Friday. The newspaper called it a "plan ... http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214589081/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Fri, 17 May 2013 15:33:03 -0400 http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214589081/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Is hydraulic fracturing – a common, but controversial, technique used to extract oil and gas from shale rock – bad for the environment? ... http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214587812/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Fri, 17 May 2013 14:59:24 -0400 http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214587812/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Since last November's Presidential election, immigration reform with a road map to citizenship for the 11 million unauthorized immigrants living in the country has been gaining momentum. On April 16 the bipartisan Senate ';Gang of 8″ introduced their immigration bill, and diverse groups such ... http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214587813/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Fri, 17 May 2013 14:42:26 -0400 http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214587813/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 A garden gnome painted by Elton John at the Chelsea flower show, one of over 100 decorated for charity by celebrities that the Royal Horticultural Society will unveil next week. Photograph: Nick ... http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214586322/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Fri, 17 May 2013 13:34:55 -0400 http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214586322/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 energy bills. But switching supplier is never going to be enough. We need to start taking energy consumption seriously.The UK currently has a handful of policies in place on this, in an attempt to catch-up with our European rivals on efforts to rein in energy consumption. The majority of UK energy programs are aimed at the housing stock. UK homes are among the least efficient in Europe, burdened ... http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214586323/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Fri, 17 May 2013 13:34:54 -0400 http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214586323/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 According to an email obtained by Media Matters, Bill Sammon imposed an order on Fox News journalists to cast doubt on climate change. Photograph: Stan Honda/AFP/Getty ... http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214584641/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Fri, 17 May 2013 12:13:14 -0400 http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214584641/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Chinese demonstrators shout slogans during a protest against a planned refinery project in downtown Kunming in southwest China's Yunnan province, May 16, ... http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214583080/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Fri, 17 May 2013 11:07:14 -0400 http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214583080/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 wildlife comes from a screen. If you're North American or get US-produced satellite TV, you've probably learned a lot about wildlife from outlets like the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and History. You might trust these channels because you've seen educational, factually accurate shows on them, unlike the 'trashy' material that dominates free-to-air network TV. But not ... http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214583082/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Fri, 17 May 2013 10:54:15 -0400 http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214583082/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Patrick Barkham heads to the north-east of England to visit the Farne Islands, where the National Trust is undertaking an vast puffin census over the next two months. Researchers want to know whether extreme weather has affected breeding ... http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214583081/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Fri, 17 May 2013 10:54:14 -0400 http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214583081/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Suggestions that global warming has stalled are a "diversionary tactic" from "deniers" who want the public to be confused over climate change, according to the world's best-known climate scientist. Prof James Hansen, who first alerted the world to climate change in 1988, said on Friday: "It is not true that the temperature has not changed in the two ... http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214581520/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Fri, 17 May 2013 09:38:19 -0400 http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214581520/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 IAEA officials and staff were treated to a demonstration of the capabilities of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone in connection with a consultancy meeting on using UAVS for rapid environmental monitoring that took place at IAEA headquarters from 14 to 17 May 2013. (Photo: D. ... http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214581630/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Fri, 17 May 2013 09:16:02 -0400 http://www.internationaltravelnews.com/index.php/sid/214581630/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93