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Super Cyclone Yasi leaves cassowary in greater peril
The 6ft bird was at risk before the storm hit Australia. Now its survival is even more doubtful [As Yasi hit the Queensland coast Feb 2 I wondered about how it might affect the endangered cassowary...
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8.7 Million Species Run Spaceship Earth and Our Life Support System
We share the planet with 8.7 million species. We’re unconcerned about the ongoing loss of 200 species a day since we fail to realize they are our life support system. And we don’t know how many or...
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Too many of us, taking too much and having too big an impact. Will need 27...
This story was featured on the IPS wire and on the Al Jazeera network . It’s about a study showing that national parks, conservation and protected areas have not and cannot halt the decline in...
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Plastic Circulating Endlessly in Oceans Killing Huge Numbers of Birds,...
“Degradable or compostable plastic should be banned….bio-plastics simply break down into microplastic particles”– scientist By Stephen Leahy HONOLULU, Hawaii, U.S., Mar 24, 2011 (IPS) That plastic...
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Brazil’s Forest Code and Land Speculators To Amp Up Amazon Deforestation Rates
90% of Forest in Apuí Converted into Pasture But the Real Profit is in Land Sales By Stephen Leahy* UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jul 28, 2011 (Tierramérica) Many migrants from southern Brazil who clear forests in...
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Selling Nature to Save Nature and Ourselves?
Humanity faces unprecedented challenge of climate change combined with food, water and energy shortages “Markets are preconditioned on inequality and will only make matters worse” By Stephen Leahy THE...
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Trashing the Oceans: 3 to 6 X More Trash Than Plankton –‘Using Oceans as...
This is a repost from last year. Sad to see little progress on this issue. — Stephen “There is no reason for delay. Governments and industry need to take action and people have to stop pointing...
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Ocean Acidification Leaves Mollusks Naked and Confused
By Stephen Leahy When the carbon dioxide absorbed by the oceans dissolves in seawater, carbonic acid is formed and calcium carbonate, vital for the formation of the skeletons and shells of many marine...
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Oceans Filled with Plastic Trash – Changing Marine Ecology
Ban single-use plastic: bags, bottles, cups etc, scientists say By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, May 10, 2012 (IPS) Plastic trash is altering the very ecology of the world’s oceans. Insects called...
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Ice, Polar Bears & the Arctic Melt Down That's Changing the World
Reblogged from Stephen Leahy, International Environmental Journalist: Ice-free summer in the Arctic is just a matter of time - mostly likely within the next 5 years. Here's a "six-pack" of my recent...
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Help Wanted: 27 Planet Earths
This story was featured on the IPS wire and on the Al Jazeera network in 2011. It shows that national parks, conservation and protected areas do not and cannot halt the decline in biodiversity that is...
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No Safe Havens in Increasingly Acid Oceans
Oil, gas and coal are contaminating the world’s oceans from top to bottom, threatening the lives of more than 800 million people By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 15 2013 (IPS) Oil, gas and coal...
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Water is far more valuable and useful than oil
The water footprint of a half-litre bottle of water is 5.5 litres – yet well over a billion people live in areas with chronic scarcity By Stephen Leahy I have a confession: I knocked back 320 pints at...
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High Seas Represent $148 Billion Carbon Sink But Overfishing is Destroying It
By STEPHEN LEAHY Marine life in the high seas soak up twice as much CO2 from the atmosphere as Canada emits every year, a new study by the Global Ocean Commission revealed Tuesday. Scientists...
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Oceans on the Brink: Dying Plankton, Dead Zones, Acidification
By Stephen Leahy [Originally published Jul 31, 2010 for the Inter Press Service (IPS)] The oceans are the lifeblood of our planet and plankton its red blood cells. Those vital “red blood cells” have...
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Hello Friends. I’m about to launch an email newsletter called “Need to Know: Science and Insight”. I’ve been fortunate to interview some of the smartest and wisest people around the world in my 25...
View ArticleHow big are the California Wildfires?
Enough to burn a strip around the planet twice. Discover more on today’s Need to Know:Stress, Wildfires and Tipping Points
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