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Poachers Attack Okapi Wildlife Reserve

Posted by EarthDude on Monday, 25 June 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

Early in the morning on Sunday, Simba rebels (Mai Mai) attacked the Institute in Congo for the Conservation of Nature (ICCN) and headquarters for the Okapi Wildlife Reserve near the village of Epulu in the northeastern area of the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to the Okapi Conservation Pr...

Rio +20 makes no fresh, green breast of the new world

Posted by bchristo on Monday, 25 June 2012 in General Environment

by Fiona Harvey Like The Great Gatsby, this summit failed to measure up to the challenge of a new world, preferring to recreate the failures of the past, "And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once ...

Jardim Gramacho dump is being transformed

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 25 June 2012 in Sustainable Development

One of the world's largest open-air landfills, a vast, seaside mountain of trash where thousands of people have made a living sorting through the debris by hand, closes this weekend after 34 years in malodorous service. Long a symbol of ill-conceived urban planning and environmental negligence, Rio...

Youth blast Rio+20 deal as 'pathetic'

Posted by GreenDog on Monday, 25 June 2012 in General Environment

By Roli Mahajan "We are here to articulate and build our vision of a sustainable future," Karuna Rana, 24, one of Rio+20's youth speakers, said in addressing the gathering's opening plenary. But that wasn't quite how youth saw the sustainable development summit turning out as it finished Friday. ...

Aspen Environment Forum: Living in the new abnormal

Posted by bchristo on Sunday, 24 June 2012 in Climate Change

Aspen Environment Forum panel says life as we know it already is changing Scott Condon Living in a world where the population is topping 7 billion and temperatures are rising is going to be anything but normal. A panel Saturday morning at the opening session of the Aspen Environment Forum painted...

Population Growth Leads to Environmental Stress

Posted by henryfool on Sunday, 24 June 2012 in Population

Although it's long been suspected that human activity has greatly contributed to environmental stress, it's only recently that science has begun to show just how great a role that activity is playing. In an article published in the journal Nature Climate Change, Michigan State University's Thomas D...

The Issue of Population is More Than a Little Radioactive

Posted by bchristo on Sunday, 24 June 2012 in Population

By Michael D. Lemonick Talk to people who care about the environment and you'll hear plenty about pollution, deforestation, sustainability and climate change. What you won't hear is the word "population," unless it refers to populations of endangered species. But if you think about it, the Earth's...

The Earth in 2050

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 23 June 2012 in General Environment

By Mikhael Gorbachev, Jane Goodall, Parker Liautaud, Jamie Oliver and Philippe Cousteau Jr. Mikhael Gorbachev - Green Cross International founding president and the last leader of the Soviet Union. The future is not predetermined. It depends on what we do today. In the face of every great cha...

Why there's only one honest objection to wind farms

Posted by August on Friday, 22 June 2012 in Wind

Damian Carrington The daft claim that wind subsidies have driven 50,000 people into fuel poverty exemplifies the dishonesty of most objections. Here's a little gem that exemplifies the fundamental dishonesty underlying all but one of the objections deployed against onshore wind farms. The Sunday T...

Environmental health expert discusses healthy city planning

Posted by Aaron on Friday, 22 June 2012 in Sustainable Development

Regular exercise adds about eight years to a person's life — more even than quitting smoking does. That's why a community should design an environment in which people want to walk and bike rather than drive. That's the message Dr. Richard Jackson, the host of the Public Broadcasting Service series ...

Calif. to get seas rising 6 inches by 2030

Posted by Wolf on Friday, 22 June 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

By JEFF BARNARD The West Coast will see an ocean several inches higher in coming decades, with most of California expected to get sea levels a half foot higher by 2030, according a report released Friday. The study by the National Research Council gives planners their best look yet at how melting ...

Killings of environmentalists appear to be on rise

Posted by bchristo on Thursday, 21 June 2012 in Peace

By DENIS D. GRAY The eulogies called Chut Wutty one of the few remaining activists in Cambodia brave enough to fight massive illegal deforestation by the powerful. The environmental watchdog was shot by a military policeman in April as he probed logging operations in one of the country's last great...

Drastic Cuts Threaten Future of U.S. Water Infrastructure

Posted by henryfool on Thursday, 21 June 2012 in Clean Water

Statement of Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter Washington, D.C.—"The proposal of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies for fiscal year 2013 threatens our nation's critical drinking and clean water resources by cutting the Clean W...

Rio+20: the basics

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 21 June 2012 in General Environment

What's with the name?The official title is the 'United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development'. The '+20' is because the conference is being held on the 20th anniversary of the 1992 Rio earth summit, a huge event which was attended by more than 100 world leaders, including then US president G...

Thousands of Animals Saved During National Day of No Kill

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 21 June 2012 in Animals

Monday, June 11 marked the first national day of no kill in animal shelters in the USA, and, according to Animal Ark and the No Kill Advocacy Center, the event organizers, between 7,000 and 9,000 animals were saved that day because of it. For the event, called Just One Day, 766 animal welfare organ...

Humans are primary cause of global ocean warming

Posted by EarthDude on Thursday, 21 June 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

by Anne M Stark The oceans have warmed in the past 50 years, but not by natural events alone. New research by a team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists and international collaborators shows that the observed ocean warming over the last 50 years is consistent with climate models o...

‘Agriculture the plastics of the modern era’

Posted by Aaron on Wednesday, 20 June 2012 in Agriculture

By Tom Quaife Movie aficionados will remember the scene from "The Graduate" where the main character, Benjamin Braddock, is at a lavish party thrown by his parents, receiving career advice from the well-heeled guests. A man takes him aside and says there is just one word to consider: plastics. Thi...

Rio+20: Aruba To Turn Off the Fossil Fuel Switch

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 20 June 2012 in General Environment

By Leon Kaye Aruba’s government, led by Prime Minister Mike Eman, announced this afternoon at the Rio+20 Conference that the country is partnering with the Carbon War Room (CWR) to transition to an energy portfolio of 100 percent renewables. CWR, one of Richard Branson’s many sustainability initiat...

Rio+20: Progress on Earth issues 'too slow' - UN chief

Posted by EarthDude on Wednesday, 20 June 2012 in Peace

The UN sustainable development summit in Rio de Janeiro has formally opened with a warning from UN head Ban Ki-moon that progress on the issue is too slow. The secretary-general told world leaders and other ministers that "words must translate into action". On the summit's fringes, international f...

The Rio+20 Summit: Don't Expect Much

Posted by August on Tuesday, 19 June 2012 in General Environment

By Bryan Walsh First the bad news: the planet is in peril. On June 6, an international team of scientists published a study in the journal Nature warning that because of human activity, Earth is reaching a potentially catastrophic tipping point. Humans have already radically altered 43% of the pla...