AFP – Indonesia has proposed that eight countries home to some 80 percent of the world’s tropical rainforests join diplomatic ranks amid rising climate change concerns, a senior official said Saturday.
Indonesia proposes rainforest nations climate group (AFP)
AP – Climate change could worsen Africa’s struggle to feed itself, but simple steps ? a cistern to catch rainwater, a solar panel, or hardier seeds for crops ? could help the continent’s subsistence farms, specialists and activists said Friday.
Talks on climate change impact in Africa (AP)
A little change of pace… Is this really Cupacabra?
AP – Phylis Canion lived in Africa for four years. She’s been a hunter all her life and has the mounted heads of a zebra and other exotic animals in her house to prove it. But the roadkill she found last month outside her ranch was a new one even for her, worth putting in a freezer hidden from curious onlookers: Canion believes she may have the head of the mythical, bloodsucking chupacabra.
Has a mythical beast turned up in Texas? (AP)
