Controlling the Ranching Boom That Threatens the Amazon
Monday, August 10th, 2009 Posted in Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Green News | Comments Offby Rhett Butler Clearing land for cattle is responsible for 80 percent of rainforest loss in the Brazilian Amazon. But with Amazon ranching now a multi-billion dollar business, corporate buyers of beef and leather, including Wal-Mart, are ...
Can We Give Fish a Chance?
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 Posted in Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Green News | Comments OffWill the oceans run out of edible fish in our lifetimes? Maybe not, according to a new study. In 2006, a team of scientists led by Boris Worm in Halifax, Nova Scotia, made an alarming prediction: Overfishing ...
Chemical Treaty Covers Additional Pollutants
Thursday, May 14th, 2009 Posted in Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Green News | Comments OffUpdated Version An international treaty designed to eradicate the world's most harmful chemicals was expanded this past week to include nine additional pollutants. Five of the pollutants are no longer in production and will be banned entirely. ...
In Gabon, Activists Challenge Chinese Mine
Thursday, April 30th, 2009 Posted in Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Green News | Comments OffSix relatively unknown grassroots activists from around the globe receive a moment in the spotlight when the Goldman Environmental Prize announces its list of annual recipients. The prize, now in its 19th year, is considered the ...
Germany Deals Blow to GM Crops
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 Posted in Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Green News | Comments Offby Kate Connolly Germany has thrown its weight behind a growing European mutiny over genetically modified crops by banning the planting of a widely grown pest-resistant corn variety.Agriculture minister Ilse Aigner said there was enough evidence to ...
Alliance Formed to Limit Invasive Species
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 Posted in Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Green News | Comments OffA partnership between the United Nations and global shipping companies will attempt to control the overseas travel of unwelcome invasive species, the international agency announced last week. The collaboration, known as the Global Industry Alliance, will ...
Oceanographer Charles Moore Talks Trash at TED
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Green News | Comments OffSolution to Seas of Plastic: End "Throwaway Culture" Charles Moore captains the Algalita, a marine research vessel belonging to the foundation of the same name. During a research voyage, Moore discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- ...
Oceanographer Charles Moore Talks Trash at TED
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Green News | Comments OffSolution to Seas of Plastic: End "Throwaway Culture" Charles Moore captains the Algalita, a marine research vessel belonging to the foundation of the same name. During a research voyage, Moore discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- ...
Obama Reverses Bush Decision on Endangered Species Act
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 Posted in Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Green News | Comments Offby Suzanne Goldenberg US President Barack Obama Barack Obama restored protections for endangered species today in a roll-back of one of the most contentious last-minute rule changes of the George Bush era."For more than three decades, the ...
Ecosystem Markets Take Off
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 Posted in Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Green News | Comments OffImage credit: WikipediaEcosystem markets, exchanges of nature's various services, are adding new dimensions to conservation. In addition to using regulation to restrict development, more countries are turning to the invisible hand of the market to protect ...
Picturing an End for Mountaintop Removal
Friday, December 5th, 2008 Posted in Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Green News | Comments OffFlying over the Appalachian Mountains of West Virgina will undoubtedly award you with stunning views of rolling blue-green hillsides, deep misty valleys and high plateaus. But from your birds-eye view, you might also be accosted by ...
WWF Living Planet Report 2008
Friday, November 28th, 2008 Posted in Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Green News | Comments OffThe Living Planet Report 2008, a study published by the WWF, offers the organization's most in-depth study of global ecosystem decline to date. The report combines data from the Living Planet Index (a survey of 1,313 ...
Ecosystem Services of Tropical Forests to be Protected with Precedent-Setting Memorandum
Thursday, November 20th, 2008 Posted in Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Green News | Comments OffEarlier this week California, Illinois and Wisconsin joined forces with six states in Brazil and Indonesia to fight climate change in an unprecedented way: the states will develop programs that will protect and restore tropical ...
Conservationists Push to Protect Marine Areas
Monday, November 3rd, 2008 Posted in Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Green News | Comments OffConservationists are increasing their efforts to establish a global network of marine protected areas in response to the deteriorating health of the world's oceans. Marine parks, areas that ban fishing, development, and other commercial activity to allow ...
Coalition Releases REDD Advice
Friday, October 10th, 2008 Posted in Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Green News | Comments OffLeaders from the environmental and business communities have released the most comprehensive recommendations yet on the role that forests should play in the next climate change agreement. The Forest Dialogue's Initiative on Forests and Climate Change, ...
Addressing the Source of Species Extinction
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Green News | Comments OffOne of the greatest tragedies of our time is being both witness to and having a hand in the sixth extinction (which you can read more about here and here). Not only is it challenging ...
Addressing the Source of Species Extinction
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Green News | Comments OffOne of the greatest tragedies of our time is being both witness to and having a hand in the sixth extinction (which you can read more about here and here). Not only is it challenging ...
Return of the Plains Grizzly
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Green News | Comments OffBy WorldChanging Canada writer Rod Edwards. The Grizzly bear's Latin name captures its place in popular culture: fierce symbol of untamed wilderness, Ursus arctos horribilis. Among carnivorous North American land mammals, the grizzly is second in ...
Can the Dead Sea Be Brought to Life?
Monday, August 18th, 2008 Posted in Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Green News | Comments Offby Hannah Doherty The Dead Sea has been a religious and cultural landmark of the Middle East for thousands of years. Saltier than the oceans, the lake is like none other in the world. But in the ...
Ontario to Protect Northern Boreal Forest
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Posted in Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Green News | Comments OffTuesday, Primer Dalton McGuinty announced that Ontario will set aside 55 million acres of Northern Boreal Forest for permanent protection from development. The area, one of the world's largest intact forest and wetland ecosystems, is roughly ...