Provides the latest RSS feeds for Environment News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Tucson Post.com http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/cat/9d3b36ac41649d93/ en-us Sun, 19 May 2013 17:44:39 -0400 Sun, 19 May 2013 17:44:39 -0400 30 An environment campaign to enhance international efforts to combat the smuggling of elephant ivory tusks is being undertaken by the Dubai Police General Command. The new campaign is part of an ongoing bid by Dubai authorities to clamp down on the illegal shipment of elephant tusks from Africa to the Far East. According to Gulf News daily, the police awareness campaign was launched in Dubai's ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214610573/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Sun, 19 May 2013 01:00:02 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214610573/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 KINGSTON, Jamaica -; Federal agents have arrested the top enforcement officer for the U.S. Virgin Islands environment agency on drug trafficking charges after he was allegedly caught with a cache of cocaine on a government patrol ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214618526/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Sun, 19 May 2013 16:51:59 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214618526/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 insects , reptiles, amphibians and mammals all take advantage of warmer temperatures, near constant humidity and an absence of biting winds. However, Jonathan Pauli, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his colleagues are concerned about signs that the subnivium is retreating.Writing in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, they say that since 1970 snow cover across the ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214618527/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Sun, 19 May 2013 16:46:17 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214618527/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Esk Buttress has been likened to Notre Dame, resplendent above the Great Moss, and reached from the south by a trod starting below Hardknott Pass. Up soggy Mosedale it goes, past Lincove Beck and under Long and Gait Crags. The buttress finally appears as depicted in William Heaton Cooper's most magnetic ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214618528/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Sun, 19 May 2013 16:46:16 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214618528/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Some of the most extreme predictions of global warming are unlikely to materialise, new scientific research has suggested, but the world is still likely to be in for a temperature rise of double that regarded as safe.The researchers said that warming was most likely to reach about 4C above pre-industrial levels if the past decade's readings were taken into account.That would still lead to ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214617563/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:03:30 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214617563/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Graphic designer turned artist Susumu Nishinaga has used an electron microscope to delve deep into the fabric of petal, leaves and pollen. The Japanese artist then colours the scanning electron micrograph (SEM) images using a computer - to reveal the building blocks of ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214615384/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Sun, 19 May 2013 11:38:17 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214615384/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Prof James Hansen rebukes oil firms and Canadian government over stance on exploiting fossil fuel, which he says would make climate problem ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214614936/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Sun, 19 May 2013 10:48:41 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214614936/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 It is up to consumers and voters to change the lousy behaviour of big banks, energy giants and internet multinationals. They will not change by ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214614542/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Sun, 19 May 2013 09:58:25 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214614542/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 As Britain steels itself for the prospect of yet another washout summer, strawberry growers are finding themselves forced to come up with increasingly sophisticated ways of assessing the threat posed to their livelihoods by inclement weather.For fruit growers, predicting the weather is vital. It causes fruit yields to vary by as much as 70%, making for an erratic growing season if poor conditions ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214611582/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Sun, 19 May 2013 03:11:19 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214611582/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 energy efficiency improvements in their home with no, or little, upfront cost; instead, these are funded by a loan repaid through their electricity bill.Crucially, the "golden rule" of Green Deal is that you should not pay back more in loan repayments than you are saving on your energy bill - but this can mean that, depending on the cost of the improvement, you could be making loan ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214611143/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Sun, 19 May 2013 02:21:17 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214611143/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 fashion producers for traceability of their supply chain, and a mention for brands and services which supply those things to consumers. Frustratingly, at the top end of the market that kind of accountability is easier to come by, but there's no reason the high street should be exempt from offering similar guarantees. ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214611152/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Sun, 19 May 2013 02:21:17 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214611152/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 OCEAN SPRINGS, MS (WLOX) - Coastal residents added their voices to those calling for the end of energy policies that hurt the environment. The Hands Across the Sand demonstrations took place on beaches around the world on Saturday. In South Mississippi, the concern centered around the state government's plan to allow offshore drilling off coastal waters. For five minutes people stood hand ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214609258/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Sat, 18 May 2013 23:06:14 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214609258/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Universidad de La Laguna , recently discovered a new species of cavernicolous true bug in a 30 metre-long water mine on Gran Canaria near Tenteniguada, at about 1,100 metres above sea level. The bug was found in the deepest part of the mine, formed in colluvial deposits of basalt, where seasonal variations are slight; temperature remains 13-17C and the relative humidity 85-94%. The presumed food ... http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214606977/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:19:57 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214606977/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.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214602958/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Sat, 18 May 2013 12:45:10 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.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.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214602959/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Sat, 18 May 2013 12:09:28 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.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.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214602520/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Sat, 18 May 2013 11:14:23 -0400 http://www.tucsonpost.com/index.php/sid/214602520/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93