http://compasslumber.com/aggregator Compass Lumber Products, Inc. - aggregated feeds en http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011122153536/National-news/logging-in-the-wild-west.html Phnom Penh Post: Illegal logging of staggering proportions abetted by military personnel is decimating stocks of luxury rosewood in the Central Cardamom Protected Forest, while the conservation group tasked with protecting the area and its government counterparts deny the trade is even happening. In a period of several hours beginning late on Sunday night, the Post witnessed at least nine industrial transport trucks, seven pick-up trucks and one Land Rover packed with timber drive out of Koh Kong province’s Thma... Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:11:00 -0600 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/19/business/energy-environment/low-natural-gas-prices-threaten-carbon-capture-projects.html New York Times: A federal proposal to ban the construction of coal-fired power plants that release all of their carbon dioxide into the atmosphere would seem to smooth the way for carbon capture, a budding technology that traps the greenhouse gas for storage or other uses. But even as the Environmental Protection Agency prepares to open hearings on the proposed rule, unveiled in March, industry experts say the persistently low price of natural gas is threatening the viability of the nation’s carbon capture projects.... Sat, 19 May 2012 09:00:00 -0500 http://mg.co.za/article/2012-05-17-gathering-urges-rethink-on-carbon-emitters/ Mail and Guardian: Divisions over who should lead the fight against climate change should be laid aside say ministers from some of the world's poorest countries. The vexed issue of which countries should bear the greatest responsibility for cutting greenhouse gas emissions has been a sticking point in international negotiations for two decades. Under the original settlement reached in 1992 at the Rio Earth Summit and formalised in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, some rapidly emerging economies such as China were left out... Sat, 19 May 2012 04:00:00 -0500 http://www.afriquejet.com/germany-durban-platform-climate-talks-in-bonn-2012051838637.html AfriqueJet: Africa stresses ‘fair emission cuts’ as key to moving climate talks forward - African countries attending the opening of the 'Durban Platform' climate talks in Bonn, Germany, on Thursday expressed worry that there had been no change in proposed emission cuts, even though the current inadequate pledges risk 2.5-5C of warming. In the first session of discussions on the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, the European Union and other developed countries' proposed emission that cuts remained... Sat, 19 May 2012 03:59:00 -0500 http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=107848 Inter Press Service: The 18,000 litres of clean water that Jakarta consumes per second are expected to hit 26,000 litres by 2015. The solution? A 54-km stretch of toll road cut through prime paddy land to access the water resources of this salubrious hill district. Jakarta’s administrators expect the capital city to be a show window for its efforts in achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, including those for water supply and sanitation. The government, by stated policy, is looking to private-public... Sat, 19 May 2012 03:03:00 -0500 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/magazine/last-ones-left-in-treece-kan-a-toxic-town.html New York Times: One problem with Treece, Kan., is that the ground keeps caving in. It has happened more than a hundred times over the last century. On most occasions, the subsidences — that’s what the scientists call them — are small, like when a sofa-size crater opened up on 10th Street last year. Other times, they are much worse. In 1966, a 300-foot-wide, 200-foot-deep abyss swallowed up the road out on the edge of town. Somehow no one died. I first visited Treece in 2010. From the airport in Kansas City, it’s... Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0519/1224316360898.html Irish Times: CLIMATE CHANGE has the potential to bring 20 new breeding species of birds to Ireland, according to a new book. Bird Habitats in Ireland is one of the most comprehensive attempts to date to document the location of the entire bird population in Ireland, ranging from cities to bogs, sea cliffs and wetlands. It features the work of 25 academics and 12 photographers and was launched yesterday at a symposium in the RDS on bird species in Ireland. The chapter on climate change warns that hotter, drier... Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10806900&ref=rss New Zealand Herald: We are heading for hell in a fossil-fuelled handcart, spinning towards implosion. Planet Earth is not able to keep pace with humanity's demands nor cope with its wasteful by-products. And the gap - the "ecological overshoot" - is growing. This bleakest of prognoses for our planet's future comes from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), which this week released its ninth Living Planet Report. It is a cry for help (if anyone is listening): * Biodiversity - the number and range of species - is in freefall,... Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/19/us-alaska-mine-idUSBRE84I00620120519?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29 Reuters: Large stretches of salmon-spawning streams and thousands of acres of wetlands would be wiped out if a large-scale mining project were to be built in southwestern Alaska's copper-rich Bristol Bay region, according to a report issued Friday by the Environmental Protection Agency. The report, while not directly addressing it, is a potential blow to the massive Pebble copper and gold mine operation proposed by an international alliance of mining interests, and opposed by environmentalists and local... Fri, 18 May 2012 19:15:00 -0500 http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0519-imazon-sad-deforestation.html Mongabay: Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is lower in 2012 relative to the same period last year according to satellite-based data released by Imazon, an NGO. Imazon's Deforestation Alert System (SAD) detected 830 square kilometers of clearing between August 2011 to April 2012, down about 35 percent from the 1268 square kilometers recorded at this time last year. Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon last year was the lowest since annual record keeping began in the late 1980s. Imazon's deforestation... Fri, 18 May 2012 18:36:00 -0500