Among the staple crops, cassava performed best compared to potato, maize, bean, banana, millet and sorghum.
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Conservation Groups Push For The Protection Of The World’s Largest Marine Reserve
The Antarctic Ocean Alliance said waters surrounding the remote frozen continent were facing increased exploitation as fish stocks elsewhere in the world continue to decline.
The World’s Oceans, In Danger From Overfishing, Marine Degradation & Loss Of Habitat – World Bank
About 85 percent of ocean fisheries are fully exploited, over-exploited or depleted, including most of the stocks of the top 10 species, World Bank president Robert Zoellick told the World Oceans Summit in Singapore.
Critically Endangered Sea Creatures Face Extinction Unless Conservation Zones Are Made Mobile
Satellite tracking devices are now small and affordable enough that they can monitor the precise location, including the depth, of large numbers of sea creatures.
South African Government Intensifying Its Efforts Against Rhino Poachers
In 2011, a record of 450 rhinos were killed by poachers in South Africa, the Department of Environment Affairs says.
Poaching Threatens Elephant Population To Extinction Despite Protected Sanctuary
Almost a third of the population or some 200 elephants in the national park in northern Cameroon were killed by poachers and the massacre is still going on, according to a wildlife protection group.
The Expansion Of Water As Oceans Warm & Melting Of Poles’ Ice Caps Are Main Driver Of Sea Level Rise
Melting ice from mountain glaciers particularly in Asia, are having a much smaller effect on sea levels than previously thought, with a ‘negligible mass loss’ over the last ten years.
The Decline Of 200,000 years Old Mediterranean Seagrass, Exacerbated By Climate Change
A patch of ancient seagrass in the Mediterranean sea is up to 200,000 years and could be the oldest known living thing on Earth, after scientists dated them.
North Atlantic Right Whales In Distress Over Ocean Noise Pollution
The North Atlantic right whale species (Eubalaena glacialis) studied in the Bay of Fundy in Canada, is listed as endangered.
A Safe, Permanent Solution In Managing Hazardous Nuclear Waste Materials Is Urgently Needed
The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future, the panel appointed to find alternatives to Nevada’s nuclear waste storage, declared recently that the United States would have to develop a ‘consent based approach’ in choosing site dealing with nuclear waste based on what Finland, France, Spain and Sweden had accomplished, and where U.S. Congress obviously had failed to make the decision.