US Opposes Litany of Global Treaties in 2005 US leaders continue to reject the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty on nuclear weapons, the Treaty Banning Antipersonnel Mines, a protocol to create a compliance regime for the Biological Weapons Convention, the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, the International Criminal Court treaty, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Amazon Trees Much Older than Assumed Using radiocarbon dating methods, a research team found that trees in the Amazon forests are much older than initially thought. Up to half of all trees greater than 10 centimeters in diameter are more than 300 years old. Because the trees are slow-growing, the Amazon forests, which contain about a third of all carbon found in land vegetation, have less capacity to absorb atmospheric carbon than previous studies have predicted.
Biodiesel No Solution to Energy Crisis George Monbiot: In promoting biodiesel ... you might imagine that you are creating a market for old chip fat, or rapeseed oil, or oil from algae grown in desert ponds. In reality you are creating a market for the most destructive crop on earth.