Archive for January 21st, 2006
Methane from Trees Not Responsible for Global Warming: Frank Keppler
Posted by jennifer, January 21st, 2006 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 27
A week or so ago I explained how researchers had discovered that plants are a source of methane: that a new study led by Frank Keppler of the Max Planck Institute in Germany calculates that all the world’s living vegetation (forests included) emit between 62 and 236 million tonnes of methane per year. This is [...]
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Ecoterrorism: 11 Charged
Posted by jennifer, January 21st, 2006 - under Uncategorized.
Comments: 66
According to an online NBC news report the FBI considers ecoterrorism the most widespread and damaging form of domestic terrorism in the US. It has been carried out against forestry activities and against biotechnology (genetically modified plants) and for animal rights. Yesterday 11 ecoterrorists were charged:
“The indictment tells a story of four-and-a-half years [...]

