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11/6/2013
The expanding coal industry in B.C. is a classic battle between economic benefits and environmental concerns.With 10 existing coal mines in B.C. and eight proposed mining projects, the debate is not going away anytime soon. So, health ...
8/6/2013
PREVENT LAND GRABBINGAn ugly side of current scares over future
food supply is wealthy, land-poor states, like those in the Gulf and South Korea, acquiring tracts of undeveloped countries to use as allotments. It is a campaigning cause of ...
7/6/2013
A new report says that the world will need to more than double
food production over the next 40 years to feed an expanding global population. But as the world's
food needs are rapidly increasing, the planet's capacity to produce
food confronts ...
6/6/2013
Today is World Environment Day, and to mark it, the U.N. Environment Programme and the World Resources Institute are releasing a paper calling for concerted action to reduce
food loss and
waste.
UNEP and WRI estimate that one-third of ...
6/6/2013
The importance of managing
food in the fight against global warming was reinforced by national and international diplomats during the Environmental Community Health Organisation’s (ECHO) first National Environmental Youth Convention on Wednesday, ...
5/6/2013
A coalition of health and environmental groups have joined together to congratulate the Rockland County Board of Legislators for voting unanimously to prohibit the sale, application and disposal of
waste products in the county from natural gas ...
4/6/2013
How can the world feed more than 9 billion people by 2050 in a manner that advances economic development and reduces pressure on the environment? This is one of the paramount questions the world faces over the next four ...
28/5/2013
In south London, Viridor has finally got the go-ahead to build an energy recovery facility next to its landfill site in Beddington.
The incinerator will provide South London
Waste Partnership and businesses with a cost-effective ...
25/5/2013
In 1940, as Nazi armies marched across Europe, United Automobile Workers Union (UAW) president Walter Reuther made a stunning proposal: Retool the Depression-ravaged auto industry to build 500 planes a year for national defense. Many scoffed. ...
22/5/2013
Chancellor Angela Merkel appointed him for his charm and political skill as marshal of her vision of a 'green revolution' in Europe's biggest power market. A year on, Peter Altmaier finds himself spurned by many environmentalists, disdained by ...
22/5/2013
A mother otter in Moss Landing Harbor, CA, tries to free her cub from a plastic bag. Photo courtesy of the Central Coast Sanctuary Alliance.
According to Bag Monster, a bill is under consideration that would regulate single-use plastic ...
21/5/2013
Two foreign-owned mining companies, betting that the world will quickly forget the horrors of Fukushima, plan to sink a pair of shafts into the rugged New Mexico landscape near near Mt. Taylor and begin 0perating the nation’s biggest uranium ...
19/5/2013
To ensure sustainable growth, green tax in India is a mixture of incentives and, of late, a rise in penalties.
The economist Kenneth Boulding once warned that anyone who believes exponential growth can continue forever in a finite world ...
17/5/2013
In the financial markets, volatility is rising and all manner of derivatives are employed to hedge against potentially catastrophic losses. In the real world, the climate is becoming more volatile, yet cities and businesses – make that entire ...
15/5/2013
The
food industry should be forced to audit its supply chains regularly to cut down on the amount of
food being thrown away, according to
waste campaigners.The group This is Rubbish (TiR) called for more transparency in the system, ...
14/5/2013
It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground.Killing these iconic ...
14/5/2013
The Obama administration has never fined or prosecuted a windfarm for killing eagles and other protected bird species, shielding the industry from liability and helping keep the scope of the deaths secret, an Associated Press investigation has ...
14/5/2013
Threats of landslides have delayed the relocation plans of two coastal villages that have been badly affected by coastline loss and frequent sea flooding. The Fiji Government has set aside more than half a million dollars for the relocation of ...
13/5/2013
The civil war in Syria has been devastating, generating a death toll fast approaching 100,000, while uprooting millions of civilians from their homes.
But as the US and Russia signed an unprecedented accord on Wednesday in search of a ...
12/5/2013
Two Vietnamese firms bankrolled by Deutsche Bank and the International Finance Corporation – the World Bank's private lending arm – are leading a wave of land grabs in Cambodia and Laos, causing widespread evictions, illegal logging and
food ...
12/5/2013
There will be a dramatic global decline in the number of animal and plant species this century if the world continues to procrastinate over measures to cut carbon dioxide emissions to limit climate change, a study has found.
Current CO2 ...
11/5/2013
Farming in the British Isles is on the verge of a dramatic step towards industrialisation with the establishment of "mega-farms" for salmon, pigs and cows, which opponents claim put the environment and human health at risk. The Government ...
11/5/2013
THE world’s worrisome decline in biodiversity is well known. Some experts say we are well on our way toward the sixth great extinction and that by 2100 half of all the world’s plant and animal species may disappear.Yet one of the most ...
4/5/2013
More than 70 years ago, a chemical attack was launched against Washington state and Nevada. It poisoned people, animals, everything that grew, breathed air, and drank water. The Marshall Islands were also struck. This formerly pristine Pacific ...
3/5/2013
Last year, the RSPB, Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace published a report, called Dirtier than coal?, that shone a light on some evidence that the biomass industry would prefer was kept hidden.
We revealed two important ...