Here's another example of how giant agri-chemical corporations are using every means possible to impose their products without respecting the rights of consumers who do not want their risky products.

Following the decision by German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner to ban the cultivation and sale of Monanto's MON 810 genetically modified (GM) maize - Monsanto is now taking legal action to end this German ban in time for the seeds to be sown for this year's harvest.

A Monsanto spokesman said Germany's action to restrict Mon 810 was an "arbitrary ban" that violated EU rules.

This goes to show that Monsanto does not respect scientific warnings for possible impacts on the environment and uncertainties regarding the effects on human health. And it demonstrates that they do not respect governmental decisions aiming to protect citizens and the environment from GM crops under EU law.

Minister Aigner decided to issue the ban as information showed there was a justifiable reason to believe GM maize presented a danger to the environment.

>> Read more about the GMO maize ban in Germany and the science behind it.

UPDATE!

From Bloomberg on May 5th 2009:

Germany’s prohibition on a strain of genetically modified corn made by Monsanto was justified because “a preliminary assessment” showed the plant raises a potential danger, the Braunschweig Administrative Court said in an e-mailed statement today.

Monsanto's unscrupulous attempt to still get this hazardous GE maize on fields has for the moment failed. We're welcoming the court's decision. Here environmental and consumer concerns have been put before the interests of industrial corporations. The decision is also a success for the majority of consumers, who reject GE plants being cultivated.

We are now calling on German Minister, Ilse Aigner, to vote against authorisations of similar GE maize varieties for agricultural cultivation at EU level too. Genetic engineering is not a technology for the future, it is obsolescent. Research findings are showing increasingly often that ecological dangers stem from GE maize.

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A busy day for team Greenpeace in Belgium yesterday. At 8 in the morning activists blocked traffic on the Ring around Brussels, the busiest traffic 'knot' in the country. After safely re-routing traffic, 30 of them unrolled a 180 square meter green carpet on the road and used it to visualise the alternatives for the planned road expansion of the Flemish government. In the run up to regional elections in June, they wanted to put these road expansion plans on the political agenda.

The message was clear: continuing to expand road infrastructure does not match with the urgency of climate change, and will not lead us to a good result from the Copenhagen climate summit at the end of this year. Emissions from road traffic are still rapidly increasing, and to turn this around we need not only fuel efficient cars but also less traffic on our roads.

In fact, several studies show that expanding road infrastructure does not solve congestion problems anyway, because new capacity is overtaken by an increase in new cars on the road in just a couple of years.

Governments need to invest in a modal shift, in order to get more cars off the road.

If they fail, the road ahead will start looking like the highway to hell.

(Read more in Nederlands or Français)

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Guest Blogged by: Mel, Climate Campaigner on the launch of latest Energy [R]evolution video Reasons to Believe: Transport (narrated by Susan Sarandon)

Sustainable Transport. I am often accused of trying to limit people’s freedoms when I mention that phrase. They say that they need a car, and that they have the right to go wherever they please and whenever they please. They don’t want to have to wait, or get on public transport with other people.

But to me, it is not about limiting freedoms, although it cannot be denied that the transport sector is the only sector whose CO2 emissions have actually increased in recent years. To me the phrase sustainable transport should be about the freedom to choose. Making smart transport choices, and encouraging politicians to create the circumstances where we have the right to choose, truly integrated transport in towns, and alternative ways of thinking about journeys in the country. Ok, it may be about not driving oversized cars with big-bore exhausts on the road, but as the Australians have already realised, it’s not big and it’s not clever.

Our new video, the second of three Reasons to Believe videos narrated by Susan Sarandon, shows that there are many choices in a sustainable transport system, and that they are smart choices to make. It also shows that it is possible for us all to help to create the conditions that we need for an Energy [R]evolution, in order to help prevent catastrophic climate change. As Ewan McGregor may have said in Trainspotting:

Choose a bike
Choose a bus
Choose sharing a car and making a friend as you both sing along, too loud, with that song on the radio
Choose a train
Choose to walk
Choose the right size of vehicle for the journey and the load
Choose the climate
Choose Life

Watch the video below:

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What kind of footprint will we leave for our little ones?

Today is a very special "Earth Day" for me because I just heard this morning that someone very close to me is expecting a baby and I am over the moon with this news. I am already starting to make plans for the arrival of this exciting new life and I'm thinking about what the future holds for it. Inspired by the fact that it's Earth Day - I wrote the following for the 'new arrival' in my life but really - it's a letter for the next generation intended to shake up the current one!

To all new arrivals,

You will soon be here on this planet and I hope that you will get the same chances I have had to enjoy this beautiful place we call "Earth". However, I am very worried that you wont because every day it seems that parts of our planet are irreversibly destroyed.

Everyone is supposed to do something today that will make a difference to the future of the planet but I can't help feeling like it is a joke. How can we be happy setting aside only one day for the Earth when every day needs to be "Earth Day"? Sure one day is better than no day but for too many people the other 364 days seem to be "Consume and Destroy" days. And we just can't carry on like this. We only have one planet to live on and that's it. We wont be handed another after we have completely screwed up this one and even if there is a creator and they have a spare planet lying around, I'm sure they wouldn't let us get our filthy hands on it because they know exactly what would happen if we did.

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I saw the Inspiring Action video, and I am still remembering how intense that day was in the middle of the forest destruction - see 1:22 of the video. It was a Friday 14th October, 2005, in the north of Argentina, in the morning, in our way to an indigenous celebration.

We organized a small celebration with indigenous people and the villagers of a small town in Pizarro (Salta province, at northwestern of Argentina). We celebrated the help of the people because we succeed to protect the Pizarro reserve, after a very intense campaign in which we, all together, the Jaguars campaigners (a motorbike activists that stopped bulldozers in the forest), cyberactivists, artists and even Diego Maradona took part. We stopped the ambitions of soya lords to destroy this priceless natural reserve of the Chaco forest for their business.

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Help us sign up 3 million people as climate activists this Earth Day.

http://www.greenpeace.org/me2

P.S. Check out some of the love we're getting via twitter for this after the more link! Keep pushing it, peeps!

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Here's a note from Karli, oceans campaigner at Greenpeace New Zealand, who is has been in in Baltimore, attending the 50th anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty.

My first impressions arriving to this historic meeting of the Antarctic Treaty parties was the urgency of the task ahead. Scientists who have been working on International Polar Year projects gave truly alarming descriptions of climate change impacts already being felt at the Poles.

In the oceans, the impacts of climate change (warming and the loss of sea ice) and ocean acidification (the evil twin of climate change) coupled with increased whaling and fishing activities spell trouble for this fragile marine environment.
Being land mammals ourselves, we humans tend to be a little biased in protecting our planet and the animals and plants we share it with. While the continent of Antarctica is protected (no-one’s been out there shooting penguins or killing seals for a good few years) there seems to be a blind spot when it comes to the oceans. Hello – whales are still being harpooned, krill literally vacuumed out of the ocean and toothfish being plundered by rampant fishing fleets with a fair few pirates amoung them (like the fish-thieving Paloma V and the drug-smuggling Banzare ). Does that sound like a "natural reserve dedicated to peace and science" to you?

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Today we're congratulating one of the world's best photographers Daniel Beltrá, who has often worked with us on forest and climate campaigns. He has just won the new Prince’s Rainforests Project Award at the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards. Most of Daniel’s pictures in the competition were taken while he was working on our campaigns in the Amazon and Indonesian rainforests.

In a video message at the awards night, in Cannes, France - HRH The Prince of Wales, said:

“Photographic imagery can tell a compelling story about the truth of the situation and, the truth is, if we lose the fight against tropical deforestation, then we lose the fight against climate change.”

Daniel, a Spanish photographer now based in Seattle, beat off stiff competition from some of the world’s finest environmental photographers. Upon receiving the award he said:

"This award is a great honor and I am thankful to the Prince's Rainforest Project, Greenpeace and the Indigenous people whose help was invaluable. The greatest reward however would be if the photos alerted world leaders to the urgent need for forest protection. Rainforest's are being destroyed at an incredible rate and under horrible circumstances. This is a catastrophe, not only for those who call the forests home, but for the rest of civilization, which stands to lose both a natural wonder and a natural protection against dangerous climate change. It is imperative that heads of state meeting this December at the Copenhagen Climate Summit, understand the urgency of the situation; I hope my photos can help."

As the winner of this award Daniel will receive funding to photograph the rainforests of the world, and the impacts of deforestation. The resulting images will be exhibited globally, and will form part of a book highlighting the plight of the world’s rainforests. We wish Daniel all the best of luck with this project and look forward to seeing more of his outstanding images!

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I'm chalking down California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer as a supporter of our IT climate leadership challenge. On Monday she told told more than 50 Silicon Valley CEOs to lobby for greenhouse gas emissions reductions in the US:

"We need your help," Boxer said. "Once the price of carbon is set by the free market, your world will change dramatically. Others control the price of oil, and they know exactly what they're doing."

Which is pretty similar to what we are asking for - Tech CEO's to stand up from a strong global deal on greenhouse gas emissions reductions because it makes good business sense. A strong international climate change deal would certainly increase demand for energy saving solutions offered by the IT industry.

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Here's a blog from John Hocevar, our US oceans campaign director

Ahoy!

As Somali pirates have captured the world’s attention over the past week, I’ve been up to my neck in pirates of a different sort. Greenpeace got a tip that several Spanish owned vessels blacklisted for engaging in pirate fishing were en route to Singapore to offload illegally caught Chilean sea bass, or Patagonian toothfish. We alerted U.S. authorities at NOAA, the Coast Guard, and the State Department, each of which deals with pirate fishing. All three agencies were helpful and responsive, sharing the information we provided with other governments, updating databases, and even contacting the Singapore Navy Maritime Operations Center.

The investigation is still unfolding, but it looks like at least one or two of the vessels offloaded a considerable amount of illegal sea bass before local authorities were able to respond. In fact, it is not clear that local authorities planned to respond at all – Singapore is a party to CCAMLR, the Antarctic treaty under which the vessels were blacklisted.

While these pirate fishing vessels may seem to have little connection with the pirates plaguing ships passing through the Gulf of Aden, these issues are in fact tied together by more than a word most of us associate with eye patches and parrots. In all oceans of the world, vessels flying under flags of convenience – registered to countries with little or no concern for what the ships are used for – and owned by shady operators based in countries such as Spain, China, or Korea, pirates illegally catch enormous quantities of fish.

Somalia is a prime example of where pirate fishing thrives – a poor country with weak governance and no capacity to manage or patrol their own waters.

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Toru Suzuki is one of our activists in Japan, now facing a maximum of 10 years in prison for exposing a crime at the heart of Japan's whaling industry.

The so-called “scientific” whaling fleet has now returned to port from the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary for what we hope will be the last time, and it is almost one year since Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki exposed the embezzlement of whale meat by the fleet’s crew.

Junichi and Toru are still on trial for their efforts to expose this crime, however, recently their bail conditions were relaxed slightly, enabling them to come back to work – just not with each other.

Here’s Toru’s reflections on his first few weeks back at work… Junichi posted a few days ago, on his return...

I'm so glad to finally be able to come back home to the office.

Well, I did feel little strange for the first five minutes, as it was my first time here in nine months. But it wasn’t long until it felt like the home it used to be.

Since I was released under bail restrictions, the most disappointing thing for me was that I was unable to see my Greenpeace colleagues.

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Greenpeace Australia Pacific's gorgeous Origami Whales campaign is currently top of its category in the 2009 Webby Awards. The Webbies, in case you don't know, are like the Oscars of the Internet. There's the judges awards - but also the People's Awards, which means YOU get to vote!

Vote for the Origami Whales (Under rich Media: Non profit/educational)

As of today, some 53,000 Origami whales have swum their way to Japan, to tell the Prime Minister to stop whaling, and stop wasting taxpayer's money on fake science and unwanted whale meat. It's part of our to campaign to end whaling in the Southern Ocean for good, along with our work inside Japan, which includes the exposure of the whale meat scandal, and the subsequent trial of the Tokyo Two, Junichi and Toru.

To register vote in the Webbies, you've got to go to: http://pv.webbyawards.com, then click "Register now to vote" and then confirm your registration [you have to wait a few minutes for the activation email to hit your inbox, then just click on the 'Please visit this url to activate your account'].

Then, if you can't find your way back to the voting page for the Origami whales, then click here... and vote for the Origami Whales
(Under rich Media: Non profit/educational)

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This morning Paulo Adario, Amazon Campaign Director sent out an email to staff explaining why sometimes bad news from the Amazon can actually be good news for the fight to protect the forest and fight climate change.

Today the soya trading companies operating in Brazil - this includes giants such as Cargill, Bunge, ADM, Dreyfuss, Amaggi and others - will announce that the monitoring of the current soya crop (2008-2009) found soya planted where it shouldn't be: in areas deforested in the Amazon after July 2006. This is the date when the soya industry announced a moratorium for buying soya coming from newly deforested areas in the Amazon – a direct result of a strong campaign led by Greenpeace and soya European consumers, including McDonalds and its allies.

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The Japanese whaling ship, the Nisshin Maru, is back in Japan, with its cargo of whale meat from the 2008-2009 season, by-product of the so-called scientific hunt in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. It's now a year since Greenpeace activists documented boxes of embezzled whale meat, some falsely labelled "cardboard", being offloaded and couriered to the homes of the ship's crew.

At the time, whistleblowers within the whaling industry said that was standard practice, yet the three organisations involved - the Fisheries Agency of Japan (FAJ), the Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) and Kyodo Senpaku (KS) immediately started contradicting each other. It was only later that the three managed to get their stories straight and claimed that the boxes of prime whale meat were approved as "souvenirs".

The photograph above was taken earlier today, in the Japanese port of Shimonoseiki. Now, we don't know what's in these boxes pictured above, but we're wondering, is the whaling industry so daft as to try and pull the same stunt again? Can they be trusted to have cleaned up their act? We don't know - the whaling industry has so far avoided our calls for documentation of the offloading of whale meat.

The 680
Reports in the media today indicated that the whaling fleet returned with the meat of 680 whales - that's 679 minke whales, and one lone, endangered, fin whale, to add to the already massive stockpiles of whalemeat. The whaling fleet set out to kill up to 935 minkes and and 50 fin whales. The previous season, they came back with no fin whales, saying that they "couldn't find any". As for their lack of minke whales, the whalers blamed anti-whaling protestors and bad weather for their lack of success.

But it's with the 680 whales that things get very interesting. The 935 whales I quoted comes from a desired figure from the whaling industry - 850 ± 10%. In November 2008, we reported that the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, had been told, unofficially, that Japan's whaling industry was slashing the quota for the Southern Ocean hunt by 20%, due to a drop in demand for whale meat. The authorities vociferously denied it, of course.

Now, if I may do a little mathematics, 850 less 20% is.... 680 - precisely the amount of dead whales that came back to Japan. Coincidence? Perhaps, notwithstanding their various logistical issues, they still felt the need to keep hunting until they caught the expected 850 - 20%?

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Junichi Sato is one of our oceans campaigners in Japan, now facing a maximum of 10 years in prison for exposing a crime at the heart of Japan's whaling industry.

After nine months of disconnection from their colleagues and workplace, Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki walked back into the Greenpeace Japan office last week like long-missed adventurers finally home.

Of course they did not come in on the same day, as while the bail conditions binding them have been relaxed enough for them to speak to their colleagues and come back to work, there are still a lot of kilometres left on their road, and they still cannot communicate directly with one another or be in the same place at the same time.

But they’re back, morale is up and we can all throw more energy into getting them justice, and ensuring there is justice for whales too.

Junichi would like to share some of his reflections on his first week back in the office.

“The Greenpeace Japan office is in a very busy part of Tokyo, called Shinjuku. I walked down to the office from one of the biggest stations, passing through the streets that I thought I would be very familiar with, but I was not. There are new buildings, stores and restaurants that all made me realise how long I have been away.



The last time I was here I left the office knowing that I was going to get arrested the next day. 10 months can change somebody’s life, but it can also change quite a bit of landscape.



There is a small Shinto Shrine next to the office called Naruko Tennjin where I came by before coming to the office hoping nothing changed there. Indeed, the only change I could find was that the cherry blossom was about to bloom. It was the perfect moment to come back to this place. The colour and shape of the cherry blossom has a power to make people smile and motivate.



Coming into the office, I realised there are so many pictures blooming on the walls of the office, showing people around the world taking action for us. They are my flowers that never fall from my memory. I am grateful to have a chance to say thank you to all the people who participated in these activities.



Now, being back to the office is not the victory of the campaign. It is surely a great step forward to achieve the end of Japanese "scientific" whaling, and also to realise true civil society where citizens can enjoy the rights of "freedom of expression."

 Today is the day I reboot the campaign in Japan with my great colleagues who stay strong for the great cause.

I sincerely ask you all for your continued support, and I will keep you updated!”

We have now posted a blog from Toru.

Check out the video about the scandal exposed by the Tokyo Two...

... and this great piece "Human rights make whale meat hard to swallow" written by the BBC's Richard Black.

And if you haven't already taken action against this injustice - tell Japan they should arrest you too - for standing against the killing of whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary and opposing the scandal and corruption of their whaling industry.

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Here's a on the sport report from Richard Page, defending Antarctica this week from Baltimore USA!

There are as many facets to the work of a Greenpeace campaigner as an iceberg; and like an iceberg, much of the work is unseen. This week saw Karli, New Zealand oceans campaigner and Southern Ocean veteran and myself ‘suited and booted’, attending the Antarctic Treaty meeting in Baltimore, USA – a week crammed with meetings, side meetings, presentations, receptions and ad-hoc corridor encounters.

This is an historic meeting, in that it marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Antarctic Treaty. There has consequently been much fanfare, and indeed there is much to celebrate. Of huge significance was the securing of a fifty-year moratorium on mineral extraction and the agreement of the Madrid Protocol on environmental protection – achievements that Greenpeace played a key part in bringing about with its World Park Antarctica campaign.

Even with its elevated status as a natural reserve devoted to peace and science, Antarctica is still not safe from a whole slew of damaging human activities, and like the Arctic at the other end of the earth, is at risk from the ravages of climate change.

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Back in March we launched our IT Climate leadership Challenge to the biggest IT companies to stand up and be counted in support of a strong Kyoto deal this year and lead the way in providing climate solutions across the economy.

Since then we've been following up letters sent to company CEO's back in February in preparation for releasing company scores during May. With many companies it's taking a long time to get answers but kudos to Sun Microsystems for sending and now publishing a response which already puts down a good marker for where they will score against others in May.

Sun Microsystems is a founding member of Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy (BICEP). A key principle among the eight put forth by BICEP is that the United States must achieve a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 and at least 25 percent reduction below 1990 levels by 2020. (snip) Sun's CEO Jonathan Schwartz will be featured on a plenary panel at the upcoming (April 2009) Ceres conference. We expect that Sun's support of BICEP and its principles will be featured in his remarks.

I've asked for more details from Sun on a few points but so far this is the best response.

So IBM, Dell, HP, Google, Fujitsu and co, now you know what you have to beat…..

The card image is the Sun CEO and a sneak preview of how the climate leaders website will look come the May launch.

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Over on Greenmonk HP has responded to us giving them a penalty point in the latest Guide to Greener Electronics for backtracking on their commitment to remove toxic PVC and BFRs. It's an interesting post from a consultant who works with both HP and Dell on sustainability. I've posted a response there, seemingly HP PR department still thinks they are leaders on toxics phase out.

Lets just say we see HP far from a leadership position. On Greenmonks partner site, RedMonk there some musings on corporate commitments/goals and how companies can or should be held accountable:

The danger is that if we slam companies too hard for making sustainability commitments they don’t manage to keep then they might avoid putting forward audacious goals at all. The danger is that environmental reporting goes the way of financial reporting - which is all about managing analyst expectations rather than truly reflecting the state of the business. Be conservative about the numbers so you can beat them- that’s the GE Way. But massaging figures to look good has a rather more unpleasant corollary- fraud.

We’re already effectively defrauding the planet by not accounting for environmental damage and degradation on our balance sheets. If environmentalism is reduced to a PR-driven quarter over quarter “continuous improvement” then we’re really screwed. Of course we should hold public statements by companies and governments up to scrutiny, but we should rate organisations on what they do than rather than on what they say.

I'd say if we don't hold companies publicly accountable for meeting goals that their competitors have met then companies can fail to deliver the corporate priority required to meet environmental targets. The right level of 'carrot and stick' is crucial in any corporate campaign.

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A proposed change to Iceland's whaling law could give the Minster of Fisheries the unilateral right to end whaling if he deems it contrary to the nation's interests. This would be a fine thing indeed, if, of course, the next minister should choose to use this power to actually end whaling. But we don't know who he or she will be yet. Iceland's parliamentary election is scheduled for April 25th.

We've actually made this a very simple question. By signing up more than 115,000 people who have pledged to visit Iceland if whaling stops, we've put $US 117 million in potential tourist income on the table, as against a whaling industry that raked in only $US 4 million a year in its heyday.

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Take a look at this picture in der Spiegel, one of Germany's biggest magazines.

Our activist was only fifty meters away from Obama, as you can see here.

Read the full story of the action here.

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More about the science of other Greenhouse gasses here.

Become a climate activist here.

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A victory we won in 2006 has come to fruition this month. Tamara Stark, now the communications director at our office in the UK was one of the Greenpeace forest campaigners who won protection for Canada's Great Bear rainforest. She wrote this piece for our UK website.

An era ended for me this week when the government of the Canadian province of British Columbia finally protected my extraordinarily beautiful Great Bear Rainforest. Today, more than one-third of the largest intact area of temperate rainforest left in the world is legally off-limits to logging - an area half the size of Switzerland. For many people it's a pretty emotional moment.

I say "my" somewhat facetiously, because clearly I'm conscious of the fact that this is a global treasure that belongs to us all. And yet because I'm from British Columbia, and because the Great Bear campaign is where I cut my teeth as a campaigner, it feels a bit like it is my forest. It was a long, hard slog to get to this week, I must say, but along the way we 'baby' campaigners certainly learned a lot.

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Moo-moo, poo-poo and fish! Following on from our little rant last week about the absurdity of claiming that ocean fertilization could save blue whales, Willie has posted a fantastic little blog over on the Greenpeace UK site about something that could have comes from pages of Swift's Gulliver's Travels (remember trying to get sunlight from cucumbers?). Willie, take it away:

Sometimes, you are a bit dumbfounded by stories that make the news. Seriously, you couldn't make some of it up, could you? I couldn't let this one pass (so to speak) without comment.

Today's belter is the new study suggesting that feeding fish to cows will help climate change. Yes, you read that right. The theory is something like this – cows, which we farm for milk, meat and leather, produce methane. Most of this is by burping, not flatulence as the comics would prefer. Methane is a bad, nasty, evil greenhouse gas. And we want to cut those down, don't we?

Continue read: If feeding fish to cows is the answer, somebody's asking the wrong question... »

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It seems it's going to be another grim year in the Arctic. The Ice Sheets have reached their maximum extent for the year, and it's the fifth lowest on record.

The NSIDC have the details.

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