• UN biodiversity report calls for global action to prevent destruction of nature

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Economic report into biodiversity crisis reveals price of consuming the planetSpecies losses around the world could really cost us the Earth with food shortages, floods and expensive clean up costs

• UN biodiversity report calls for global action to prevent destruction of nature

Juliette Jowit guardian.co.uk, Friday 21 May 2010 20.00 BST

In every corner of the globe the evidence of the global biodiversity crisis is now impossible to ignore.

In the UK, a third of high priority species and two thirds of habitats are declining, according to government figures that emerged today on the UK's Biodiversity Action Plan. Since 1994 despite the extra attention provided by the plan, 5% of the species it covered are thought to have gone extinct.

Around the world the picture is as bad or worse: the International Union for the Conservation of Nature believes one in five mammals, one in three amphibians and one in seven birds are extinct or globally threatened, and other species groups still being assessed are showing similar patterns.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/21/biodiversity-un-report



ALSO . . .

BP says doing all it can, everyone's frustrated


The stakes are high, and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar questioned Sunday whether the company knows what it's doing as it tries to stop the deep-water leak, though federal officials have acknowledged that BP has expertise that they lack.

"I have no question that BP is throwing everything at the problem to try to resolve it because this is an existential crisis for one of the world's largest companies. So they are throwing everything that they can at the problem," Salazar said. "Do I have confidence that they know exactly what they are doing? No, not completely."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100524/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill


and . . .

Month after oil spill, why is BP still in charge?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_oil_spill_bp_in_charge

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1. We're 50-100 years too late with this.

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2. Nevermind that. Did you hear about Lindsay Lohan?

*sigh*

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3. K & R nt

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4. K&R