Jungle logging threatens tribes in Peru's Amazon
>>Source: Environmental News Network
PUCALLPA, Peru (Reuters) - Delia Pacaya grew up in Peru's Amazon in a nomadic tribe that shunned contact with outsiders, but when loggers invaded the land she fled the virgin rain forest and settled in a tiny village.
Kenya pushes traditional crops for food security
>>Source: Environmental News Network
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's government began giving farmers seeds for traditional food crops on Monday, hoping to shore up stocks in the face of rising prices and shortage fears.
California first state to adopt green building code
>>Source: Environmental News Network
The California Building Standards Commission announced on Friday the unanimous adoption of a statewide "green"_ building code, the first in the nation.
UAE academy to tackle regional water shortages
>>Source: Environmental News Network
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has launched an Arab Water Academy (AWA) to tackle water shortages in the region that will increase as a result of climate change.
About 20 percent of EU timber illegal or suspect: report
>>Source: Reuters
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Nearly a fifth of wood imported into the European Union has been harvested illegally or comes from suspect sources, mostly in Russia, Indonesia and China, according to a report by environmental group WWF.
Lonesome George may end bachelor days on Galapagos
>>Source: Reuters
QUITO (Reuters) - After decades of solitude, "Lonesome George" may finally save his species of Galapagos giant tortoise from extinction, his keepers said on Monday.
Rebuilding a Dutch tradition, one windmill at a time
>>Source: New York Times
The Dutch are building windmills again. Up and down the coast, out from port cities like this one, you can see them: white and tall and slender as pencils, their three slim blades turning lazily in the North Sea breeze.
