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Wednesday, October 27, 2010environmentamazon rainforest

Green light: Nagoya summit, food prices and new species in the Amazon

Wildlife and biodiversity summit • Harrison Ford calls on US to ratify treaty on conservation • One-fifth of world's vertebrates face extinction, study warns • More than 1,200 new species found in the Amazon in past decade • Costa Rica recognised for biodiversity protection • Nagoya biodiversity summit is showing depressing parallels with Copenhagen Jonathan Watts brings you the latest wildlife news this week from the UN's COP10 biodiversity summit in Nagoya . Climate change and energy • Tea Party climate change deniers funded by BP and other major polluters • South Africa unveils plans for 'world's biggest' solar power plant • Cabal of climate sceptics to descend on UK parliament • Appeal begins over Kings Cliffe radioactive waste dump plans Food • Industrial farming puts ecosystems at risk of collapse, warns Prince Charles • Global food crisis forecast as prices reach record highs • Wild mushroom foraging is damaging forests, warn nature groups Multimedia • In pictures: Timor-Leste scuba photo competition 2010 • In pictures: Amazon drought leaves Brazil's Rio Negro dry • In pictures: Bald parrots and turnip-tailed geckos among new Amazon species • In pictures: The week in wildlife Green living • Compostable tray heralds new era for chocolate boxes • Summer Rayne Oakes's innovation: sustainable design • Are you turned on by Philips' new 'green' TV? Best of the web • BusinessGreen: Space tourists could speed up global warming • Grist: Obama, Gates, and Gore come out against Prop 23 • The Ecologist: Maldives 'tourism boom' putting manta rays at risk For more of the best environment comment and news from around the web, visit the Guardian Environment Network . ... And finally • Bees' tiny brains beat computers, study finds Bees can solve complex mathematical problems which keep computers busy for days, research has shown

Source: The Guardian ↗

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