Global/International

Rising carbon emissions threaten crop yields and food security

Submitted by takver on Fri, 14/05/2010 - 9:38pm

Crop yields are under threat from rising carbon dioxide emissions with climate change, according to new scientific research. In a new study published in Science on wheat and the mustard plant Arabidopsis at the University of California at Davis, scientists found that increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide interferes with plants’ ability to convert nitrate into protein resulting in lower nutritional yield.

Related: Koalas face starvation, extinction due to climate change | "Why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"

Geography: 
Global/International
Australia
Promotion: 
Feature
Keywords: 
climate change
CO2
food
carbon emissions
nitrogen
plants
crop yields

Turkey: Solidarity call for the "Platform of struggling workers"

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 14/05/2010 - 7:55am

A number of militant workers from recent workers' struggles in Turkey, including National Tobacco and Alcohol Monopoly (TEKEL) workers, Istanbul Water and Sewers Department (ISKI) workers, firemen, Sinter metal workers, Esenyurt municipality workers, Marmaray building workers, dustmen, workers from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and workers from the ATV-Sabah News Corporation, have come together and established a workers' group called the Platform of Struggling Workers.

Geography: 
Global/International
Keywords: 
workers
strike
Labor

Can we trust our media? The shocking behaviour of The Age's journalist John Garnaut

Submitted by Wei Ling Chua on Wed, 12/05/2010 - 3:57pm

This year mark the 2nd anniversary of the Earthquake in Sichuan, China (12 May 2008), 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, USA (29 August 2005), and the 1st anniversary of the Black Saturday (Bush fire) in Victoria, Australia (7 February 2009).

Geography: 
Global/International
Australia
Keywords: 
media disinformation
The Age

The hidden anti-war history of Mothers Day

Submitted by Davey Heller on Sat, 08/05/2010 - 2:38pm

Mother’s Day has been reduced to a highly commercialised retail event but in 1870 in the US pacifist, abolitionist and sufffragette Julie Ward Howe wrote her “Mother’s Day Proclamation” which said women of the world should demand an end to war with the internationalist cry “We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

The full Mothers Day Proclamation reads

Geography: 
Global/International
Keywords: 
anti-war
peace movement
Mother's Day

Nimbin Cannabis Law Reform 2010 mp3

Submitted by huxwell on Tue, 04/05/2010 - 10:47am

http://media.libsyn.com/media/kaputtradio/kr__154_nimbin_cannabis_law_re...

Voices: Heidi, video excerpt " Nimbin Marijuana March Mardi Grass 2010", Oz visitors, US visitors, Japanese visitors, Jennifer, act normal mix

check out this video: "Nimbin Marijuana March Mardi Grass 2010"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQgwWLUhjV4

Length: 15 min 128 kbps stereo 14.7 MB

Geography: 
Global/International
Australia
Keywords: 
Law Reform
prohibition
hemp

Greenpeace, Sea Shepherd criticize commercial whaling resumption proposal

Submitted by takver on Mon, 26/04/2010 - 2:29am

Representatives to the International Whaling Commission from a dozen countries are meeting in Washington negotiating a compromise agreement for the limited resumption of commercial whaling with strong controls for the next ten years. Conservationists from both Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace have attacked the proposal, "At the moment, it appears that the whales are making all the concessions, not the whalers and this proposal keeps dying whaling industries alive and not the whales." said Greenpeace Japan Programme Director Junichi Sato.

Geography: 
Global/International
Keywords: 
whaling
Sea Shepherd
Japan
Greenpeace
Norway
Iceland
IWC