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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 ...
16/5/2013
Pardon my french, but Canada`s tar sands suck.
As a Canadian it blows my mind that we can have the second largest deposits of oil in the world, but our government remains billions in debt and one in seven Canadian children live in ...
5/5/2013
Fracking separates fossil fuels from rock more than a mile underground. The drilling technique, a boon for the natural gas industry this past decade, also divides environmentalists. Greens, locally and globally, are losing sight of their common ...
3/5/2013
Within hours of renowned climate scientists announcing a staggering milestone in carbon dioxide emissions, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn rolled out the booster wagons for Big Coal and celebrated his state`s five-fold increase in record coal ...
27/4/2013
As the great research ship Chikyu left Shimizu in January to mine the explosive ice beneath the Philippine Sea, chances are good that not one of the scientists aboard realized they might be closing the door on Winston Churchill’s world. Their ...
27/4/2013
Raymond Ladouceur remembers when he could dip a cup into the Athabasca River for a drink. He remembers when the trout and muskrats were plentiful -- and when his community was healthy.
Despite recent heart surgery, Ladouceur, 72, still ...
17/4/2013
Rising agricultural profitability due to higher prices, improved crop productivity, and
forest conservation itself could make it increasingly difficult for conservation programs tied to payments for ecosystem services to succeed, warns a study ...
9/4/2013
Margaret Thatcher will be remembered for her short lived "green period" in the late 1980s when she helped put climate change (or global warming as it was then known), acid rain and pollution on to the mainstream political map. Tutored by Sir ...
6/4/2013
While global warming is a topic of conversation and news coverage every day around the world,? ?the basic raw materials that drive the global economy are rarely discussed as being involved.? ?But these materials play a key role in global ...
4/4/2013
States to the North and West of Tennessee?Illinois, Ohio and Arkansas?are already fracked. Other surrounding states?Georgia, Alabama and Kentucky?are in the industry`s sights, and it feels like there`s a big bullseye painted on Tennessee. While ...
26/3/2013
Researchers have unveiled new data warning that governments in Latin America are infringing on the rights of their indigenous populations in a bid to fuel development through the extraction of natural resources.
The Rights and Resources ...
18/3/2013
As the old adage suggests, it is important to see the
forests for more than just the trees. While an estimated 500 million people depend directly on
forests for their livelihoods, the entire world depends on them for food,
water, clean air, and ...
15/3/2013
The University of Tennessee faced protests here on Friday over its proposal to let a private company drill for natural gas across a
forest controlled by the university.
Environmentalists say opening the Cumberland
Forest in eastern ...
15/3/2013
President Barack Obama is preparing to tell all federal agencies for the first time that they have to consider the impact on global warming before approving major projects, from pipelines to highways.The result could be significant delays ...
12/3/2013
Local authorities will have to consider international climate change when granting resource consents if an environment group gets its way.
The West Coast Environment Network's lawyer Davey Salmon said the consequences of burning West ...
5/3/2013
In the far southwestern corner of Western Australia, beyond the famed wineries in the shadow of the Margaret River, lies an ecosystem like no other, the South West ecoregion. This part of Australia has been identified as one of 34 global ...
1/3/2013
Nature underpins global wealth creation. The renewable flow of goods and services provided by the earth's ecosystems buttress our economy and yield benefits for business. But this stock of ecosystems -- also known as "natural capital' -- is ...
20/2/2013
Canada`s police and security agencies think citizens concerned about the environment are threats to national security, and some are under surveillance, documents reveal.
The RCMP, the national police force, and Canada`s spy agency CSIS ...
16/2/2013
On Sunday, Natural Resources Defense Council and
Waterkeeper Alliance will join 350.org, Sierra Club and many other partners in holding the Forward on Climate Rally in Washington, D.C. This will be the largest climate rally in American history, ...
9/2/2013
A couple decades ago just prior to my postgraduate studies at The University of Melbourne I had the privilege of visiting an Indonesian rainforest. I encourage everyone to spend one night in a tropical rainforest; its rich array and cacophony of ...
8/2/2013
The world's largest river system is being rapidly degraded and imperiled by dams,
mining, overfishing, and deforestation, warns a study published last week by an international team of scientists.
Writing in the journal Conservation ...
4/2/2013
Early this morning, Norman, Oklahoma resident Elizabeth Leja locked her neck to equipment used in constructing the Keystone XL pipeline. Citing concerns for Oklahoma’s
waterways and their importance for the health of future generations, her ...
19/1/2013
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8/1/2013
For environmentalists, the name Chuck Hagel is synonymous with America's abandonment of the world's only climate change treaty.
But with Hagel facing myriad attacks as President Obama's likely nominee for secretary of Defense, the man ...
8/1/2013
Toxic pollutants released by oil sands
mining operations are accumulating in freshwater ecosystems, research by Canadian scientists suggests.
A study of sediment in nearby lakes showed the level of pollutants, known as PAHs, had risen ...