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31/3/2013
This spring could be the most miserable one ever for those of us with allergies, and we can blame it on climate change.
People in the Northeast, in particular, will be among the hardest hit in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and this ...
20/3/2013
As bikini season approaches, Jersey Shore beach towns are preparing for their annual influx of tourists. This year, that will mean more than dusting off the cotton candy machines and stocking up on vomit deodorizer. When Hurricane Sandy hit last ...
24/8/2012
Belo Monte dam developer Norte Energia, S.A. has stopped all work on the Belo Monte dam after receiving formal notification of the decision last week by the Brazilian Federal Appeals Court to suspend the project, reports International Rivers. ...
17/7/2012
From Tierra del Fuego to Tijuana, Latin America is highly vulnerable to climate change, which is expected to trigger a series of natural disasters that could even reverse local victories in the fight against poverty.
Droughts will grip ...
12/7/2012
The destruction of great swaths of the Brazilian Amazon has turned scores of rare species into the walking dead, doomed to
disappear even if deforestation were halted in the region overnight, according to a new study.
Forest clearing in ...
14/5/2012
As Brazil braces for president Dilma Rousseff`s forthcoming decision on whether to sign or veto recent legislation that would alter the country`s Forest Code, rights groups are decrying a surge in illegal land grabs that is wrecking environmental ...
10/5/2012
Last year researchers took the first ever publicly-released video of an African golden cat (Profelis aurata) in a Gabon
rainforest. This beautiful, but elusive, feline was filmed sitting docilely for the camera and chasing a bat. The least-known ...
23/4/2012
A coalition of local and international conservation groups warned last month that orangutans in the Tripa forest on Sumatra island could
disappear by the end this year unless action was taken to stop land clearing using fire by plantation ...
15/4/2012
The UN-REDD Programme is trying to unite economic and environmental interests in the deforestation debate by encouraging a sustainable industry.
Deforestation in the Atlantic Forest near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The global rate ...
10/2/2012
If humans are responsible for speeding the climate change currently underway, it may not be the first time. Scientists say a long time ago in Central Africa, early farmers may have contributed to the
disappearance of
rainforests. The question is ...
10/1/2012
The planet is in a bad state but remorseless pessimism is a turn-off. It's time conservationists talked up their successes
IT'S hard to spend your working life charting the demise of the things you love. Ask an ecologist why they chose ...
3/12/2011
It's not the tropical Amazonian
rainforest or even B.C.'s temperate
rainforest, but a stand of lodgepole pine located off the Pelican Forest Service Road about an hour's drive southwest of Prince George.
The federal forests researcher ...
17/11/2011
IN 1888, Brazil became the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery -- a profound moral stain for a nation that prides itself today on being a multiracial democracy.
During the long 19th-century struggle against slavery, at a time ...
13/10/2011
Tropical ecosystems have two basic varieties, forest or grassland, but can switch abruptly between the two with little middle ground, European scientists say.
Researchers say the "tipping point" phenomenon means many of the ecosystems ...
30/9/2011
It's littler and later than first proposed, but I'm not knocking it: the Welsh carrier bag charge is a good thing. Or, to be more precise, it's a good thing as long as it's not mistaken for the second coming.
Listening to some people go ...
5/9/2011
The price of gold is rising for the tenth consecutive year. As a result, more and more investors, financial market operators and central banks are turning to gold as a safe haven in the face of global economic instability. This has troubling ...
28/8/2011
You cannot miss the spot where the two Amazon activists were murdered.Three months ago, José Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife, Maria, were on their motorbike, trying to navigate a dilapidated bridge on a remote track outside the town ...
19/7/2011
While the quasi-apocalyptic tumult over carbon pricing has dominated the Australian media for the best part of 2011, another fierce, albeit less high profile, environmental debate has entered its final stages – the labelling of palm oil on ...
6/7/2011
The World’s Tropical Forests
Are Already Feeling the Heat
Much attention has been paid to how global warming is affecting the world’s polar regions and glaciers. But a leading authority on tropical forests warns that rising ...
28/6/2011
During the years when governments and the media were focused on preparations for the 2009 Copenhagen climate negotiations, a powerful climate movement was emerging in the United States: the movement opposing the construction of new coal-fired ...
15/6/2011
Last chance to see: the Amazon's Xingu RiverEarly morning fishing on the Xingu River.
Not far from where the great Amazon River drains into the Atlantic, it splits off into a wide tributary, at first a fat vertical lake that, when ...
4/5/2011
Arturo Sánchez, 72 years old and nearly blind, dreams of bringing ecotourism to Cachuela Esperanza, a Bolivian town of 1,336 people on the Beni river, and hopes the construction of a huge hydroelectric dam will give a boost to his ...
2/5/2011
On Jan. 12, 2002, in the Australian state of New South Wales, biologist Justin Welbergen was observing a colony of flying foxes for his Ph.D. research. The temperatures that day on Australia’s subtropical, eastern coast reached record highs, ...
7/3/2011
Guyana Deforestation Triples Despite Funding for Forest Protection Environment News Service (ENS)
Guyana Deforestation Triples Despite Funding for Forest Protection
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 7, 2011 (ENS) - Deforestation ...
15/2/2011
Cambodia approves titanium mine in world's 'most threatened forest'
Asian elephants in Cambodia. Photo courtesy of Wildlife Alliance.
The Cambodian government has approved a mine that environmentalists and locals fear will harm ...