Rising seas create first climate refugees
NEW YORK–When sharks started showing up in the garden, Ursula Rakova knew her home and native islands were doomed.
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Mining the Crown jewels | Pundit
By all means, let’s have a conservation conversation about mining for minerals in Schedule 4 protected areas -
Report reveals fear of toxins in milk | Stuff.co.nz
FUNGI that produce deadly toxins that could pass into the human food chain through cow’s milk were found in imported palm kernel animal feed, according to a confidential AgResearch report that came to public attention only last week.
How New Zealand palmed off butter consumers with 100% pure bullshit
There’s hardly a living Pom who doesn’t remember Anchor Butter’s “singing cows” TV commercials. They featured pure-bred, full-tailed Jerseys prancing around lush green fields, sometimes even playing football (but not Rugby) and trilling on about their “free-range” life, feeding on grass all year long – unlike their poor UK and Irish cousins, forced to live in sheds and eat man-made supplements in Winter.
How New Zealand palmed off butter consumers with 100% pure bullshit | Gog.org.nz.
Greenpeace Accuses New Zealand Dairy Giant of Destroying Rainforest via Palm Oil Use : TreeHugger
First it was the Brazilian cattle industry and global shoe brands which Greenpeace outed for their aiding and abetting deforestation and, therefore, accelerating climate change. Now, it’s New Zealand’s dairy cooperative Fonterra — an investigation of which reveals that through its use of and encouragement of use of oil palm-based animal feeds is contributing to the destruction of rainforest in Indonesia and Malaysia:
Greenpeace Accuses New Zealand Dairy Giant of Destroying Rainforest via Palm Oil Use : TreeHugger.
Pacific climate change refugee warning for NZ
Greenpeace and the Labour Party are warning New Zealand will soon have an influx of climate change refugees from the Pacific.
Dairy industry rejects environmental group’s claim
A dairy farming leader has challenged Greenpeace’s accusation that the New Zealand industry’s high use of palm kernel feed is contributing to the destruction of rain forests in south-east Asia.
Case against palm products goes to parliament
Dunedin sisters Clare and Judith Curran are setting up a presentation for Parliament on New Zealand’s use of palm products.
Case against palm products goes to parliament | Otago Daily Times Online.
Dairy farmers urged to stop using palm oil by-product
Dairy farmers are being blamed for the destruction of tropical rain forests. New Zealand cows ate more than 1 million tonnes of palm kernels last year – a quarter of the world’s total consumption of the palm oil by-product.
Fed Farmers fight off palm kernel criticism, says waste product
Federated Farmers is rejecting claims that the importation of palm kernel extract for dairy feed is contributing to the destruction of rainforests.
Dairy farmers ‘killing rain forests’ | Stuff.co.nz
DAIRY farmers have been implicated in a new palm oil scandal after revelations that last year the national herd ate one-quarter of the world’s palm kernel stock food supply.
Our destructive ways
Felled trees, burnt stumps. Once tropical rainforest, now palm plantations spread across this Indonesian island like a plague.
We drive and drive and drive. Past broken-down machinery. Past empty fertiliser sacks, rigged for shade outside workers’ huts. The heat is intense, but you can’t see the sun because here in Riau province 2400 fires are burning out of control. The smoke is so thick the local airport has closed and 31,000 school children have been sent home.
It looks like Armageddon. It’s just a palm plantation.
Stuff.co.nz | Sunday Star Times
Fonterra implicated in rainforest destruction
A Greenpeace investigation has revealed that the iconic New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra is implicated in Indonesian and Malaysian rainforest destruction, dead orangutans and driving global greenhouse gas emissions.
As Arctic Ocean warms, megatonnes of methane bubble up
It’s been predicted for years, and now it’s happening. Deep in the Arctic Ocean, water warmed by climate change is forcing the release of methane from beneath the sea floor.
AFP: French wine at risk without climate pact: Greenpeace
French wines, the country’s pride, are looking at a grim future failing an ambitious deal on climate change at the upcoming UN summit in Denmark, 50 top chefs and winemakers and Greenpeace warned Tuesday.
French Winemakers Sound Alarm Over Climate Change
Leading figures from the French wine and food industries are urging their government to push for a strong global agreement at a United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen in December, warning that failure to cut greenhouse gases will devastate their sector.
Climate talks undermined by feeble New Zealand target
Bonn, International
Arctic Melt Unnerves the Experts
The Arctic ice cap shrank so much this summer that waves briefly lapped along two long-imagined Arctic shipping routes, the Northwest Passage over Canada and the Northern Sea Route over Russia.
