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30/4/2013
The deceptively calm waters of Langa Langa Lagoon on the west coast of Malaita Island in the Solomon Islands is home to thousands of people who have lived on artificial islands for centuries. For generations the islanders in this south-west ...
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 ...
11/3/2013
Tropical
forests may be more resilient to climate change in the coming century than first thought, scientists say.
The news could boost schemes designed to curb carbon emissions by discouraging deforestation, like the United Nation's ...
1/3/2013
Measures to prevent illegally harvested timber from entering the European Union come into force on Sunday.
The EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) requires importers or
sellers of timber and wood products to keep records of the sources of their ...
8/2/2013
China's decision to open up collective
forest for sale by individuals to outside interests will put 345,700 hectares or 15 percent of the giant panda’s remaining habitat at
risk, warns a letter published in the journal Science.
The ...
7/2/2013
Investing in companies that flout local community rights in developing countries often leads to severe economic losses, according to a new report from the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI). A rising trend in "land grabbing" from Africa to ...
14/1/2013
Mali's citizens almost universally prefer firewood and charcoal over gas as a fuel. As a result of their dependence, the west African country is losing large swathes of its
forests, putting at
risk efforts to adapt to climate change.
"A ...
18/12/2012
As someone who knew a thing or two about festive stories once wrote, "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times".
The full quote from the start of Charles Dickens' Tale of Two Cities is actually even more apposite for ...
4/12/2012
The city of Parauapebas, Brazil is booming: built over the remains of the Amazonian rainforest, the metropolis has grown 75-fold in less than 25 years, from 2,000 people upwards of 150,000. But little time for urban planning and both a spatial ...
28/11/2012
Susan Rice, the candidate believed to be favored by President Obama to become the next Secretary of State, holds significant investments in more than a dozen Canadian oil companies and banks that would stand to benefit from expansion of the North ...
24/11/2012
The scrubby desert outside Port Augusta, three hours from Adelaide, is not the kind of countryside you see in Australian tourist brochures. The backdrop to an area of coal-fired power stations, lead smelting and mining, the coastal landscape is ...
23/11/2012
A new World Bank report, “Turn Down the Heat”, says if the global community fails to act on climate change, the world will be four degrees Celsius warmer at the end of the century.
Laura Altinger, Senior Environmental Economist for the ...
14/11/2012
As his helicopter descends through the smoke towards an Amazonian inferno, Evandro Carlos Selva checks the co-ordinates via a global positioning satellite and radios back to base a witness testimony to deforestation.
Flames lick up from ...
1/11/2012
IN A rainforest in Guyana, two men are trying to
sell rain. If you want, they will also
sell you soil, biodiversity, nitrogen-fixing bacteria and all kinds of other things.Tempted? Thought not. But these men are not con artists. They are ...
19/10/2012
It was 12.15am on a Sunday morning last month, in the first floor lobby of an identikit business hotel in north-east Argentina, that a very unlikely deal was done. Two of the last chiefs of that nation's indigenous Guaraní people, hundreds of ...
18/10/2012
Ecosystem services is not exactly a phrase to stir the human imagination. But over the past few years, it has managed to dazzle both diehard conservationists and bottom-line business types as the best answer to global environmental ...
19/8/2012
Call it CSI: Singapore.
Unlike the Crime Scene Investigators from the popular TV series, these detectives are hired to look for evidence of rogue wood from stores increasingly worried about being duped by a global trade in illegal timber ...
6/6/2012
The sun pierces through thin slices of halibut that lie drying across cylindrical pieces of wood as Christopher Stuart continues to delicately cut more of the freshly harvested fish for the sun to bake.
Stuart, a member of Canada's ...
7/5/2012
The World Bank has come under attack after a new report has exposed how commercial projects funded by the Bank are causing poverty, human rights violations in Uganda sparking a barrage of criticisms.Ironically, the report entitled “Land, ...
30/4/2012
María Elena Muñoz industriously weeds a clearing in the
forest and then digs several holes, where she and another four dozen women are planting plantain seedlings, to help feed their families in this poor farming area in El Salvador.
The ...
17/3/2012
The most biologically diverse habitat in the western hemisphere, the Yasuní rainforest in Ecuador, is under threat. The diversity of species in the Yasuní Park is unmatched by any other park in the world. One hectare contains more species of ...
6/3/2012
When I challenged the government in January over its incoherent plans for the
forestry estate, I was dismissed as "hysterical" by the Defra minister for
forests, Jim Paice.
A little discourteous, to say the least. But far more worrying ...
20/2/2012
A Powerpoint presentation obtained by The Daily Caller shows that during a July 2008 meeting, the $789 million Rockefeller Brothers Fund proposed to coordinate and fund a dozen environmental and anti-corporate activist groups’ efforts to scuttle ...
1/2/2012
A scramble to buy African land is threatening the continent’s sustainable development, according to reports launched today at the Royal Society in London.
Of the 203 million hectares of land deals reported worldwide between 2000 and ...
19/1/2012
The National Association of Music Merchants is doing a 'disservice' to its members by misrepresenting the provisions and spirit of the Lacey Act, a law that aims to curb illegal logging abroad, states a letter published by a coalition of ...