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Ecosystems

Ground-level ozone pollution to increase
October 6, 2008 10:30 AM - The Independent

Ground-level ozone pollution is contributing to hundreds of deaths a year in the UK - and climate change could help make the situation worse, a report from the Royal Society warned today. The study said that background ozone levels had been growing by 6 per cent a decade since the 1980s, and were now at a level where they were having an impact on health and the environment.

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Water shortage cripples Palestinian farming
September 19, 2008 09:15 AM - Reuters

BARDALA, West Bank (Reuters) - In the plains around the village of Bardala, the Israeli-Palestinian tug-of-war over land and water plays itself out in vivid colour -- largely brown Palestinian farms border green fields owned by Jewish settlers.

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SPOTLIGHT

Norway pledges $1 billion to Brazil Amazon Fund

Fernando Exman, Reuters
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Norway will donate $1 billion to Brazil's Amazon protection fund through 2015, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday, to help Brazil fight deforestation.

COMMENTARY

Making Markets for Ecosystem Services

Ecosystems thinking is slowly changing from concern about losing species to concern about losing the services that keep our own species — and its civilization — thriving. The 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), the largest and most comprehensive multi-stakeholder review of ecosystems and their services, concluded that some two-thirds of the ecosystems assessed and their services were being degraded or used unsustainably. The rate of ecosystem degradation has been swifter in the last 50 years than in the 150 years previously.

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