Click here for more recent postings. Below you will find links to articles connected to the focus of The Skuld Project. Many of these pieces cover conservation, environment (a problematic term in my worldview), species degradation, indegenous issues, climate change, nomadic living among others. The Guardian (UK) figures prominently here and is an excellent source for environtmental news in the mainstream media. Additional resources include The Globe & Mail (Canada), The Independant (UK), monbiot.com, gwynnedyer.net and others. note: dec 18 2008. I have noticed that Globe articles sometimes get put on a pay to read link. I am trying to find alternate sources for past articles and will from now on save the articles to my own web site.
I shoud say that I do have an agenda here. I am not interested in ideas that humans have a right to take whatver they want from the land, the air, the people, the other animals etc. My goal in life is to find ties to, not away from nature. One dear friend asked if I shouldn't be also researching the benefits of our modern civilisation, modern economies, globalisation. Rightly asked. Balance is important. My response is that I have spent the last 51 years being told how our system is the best, the right, the true. I don't need to do extensive additional study to understand that perspective. The dominant culture expresses those ideas quite eloquently. It is around us at all times. I struggle against it within myself. It is a lie.
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tar sands/birds/climate Report predicts millions of bird deaths from tar sands
Last week, the Boreal Songbird Initiative, Pembina Institute and the Natural Resources Defence Council released a report describing the predicted impact of the tar sands on bird populations. |
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Nature Canada
MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2008
report from borealbirds.org
full report on pdf |
tarsands/birds/climate Oilsands development could lead to 166 million fewer songbirds: new study
EDMONTON — A new report by a prominent American scientist suggests that songbirds will pay a hefty price for the development of Alberta's oilsands. |
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Canadian Press
December 2, 2008 |
| law/activism/climate Cleared: Jury decides that threat of global warming justifies breaking the law...The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station, a jury decided yesterday... |
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The Independant, Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor
Thursday, 11 September 2008 |
| waste/trash/oceans The world's rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan A "plastic soup" of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said. |
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The Independant, Kathy Marks, Asia-Pacific Correspondent, and Daniel Howden
Tuesday, 5 February 2008 |
activism Hundreds of Brazil's eco-warriors at risk of assassination
• Study marks 20 years since Mendes murder
• Environmentalists divided over activist's legacy |
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Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
The Guardian, Monday 22 December 2008 |
climate/methane Exclusive: The methane time bomb
Arctic scientists discover new global warming threat as melting permafrost releases millions of tons of a gas 20 times more damaging than carbon dioxide |
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The Independant, Steve Connor, Science Editor
Tuesday, 23 September 2008. ed. note: i have the Monbiot article below but neglected to add the Independant article as well. Here it is. |
2008 overview Change, but at what price?
After 2008 started with panic over food prices, the world seemed to be waking up to global warming. But then the recession hit |
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John Vidal
The Guardian, Wednesday 17 December 2008 |
species Why flowers have lost their scent
Pollution is stifling the fragrance of plants and preventing bees from pollinating them – endangering one of the most essential cycles of nature, writes Environment Editor Geoffrey Lean |
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The Independant, Environment Editor Geoffrey Lean
Sunday, 20 April 2008 |
economy/climate Don't expect recession to mean lower carbon emissions
The economic downturn may not mean a decline in greenhouse gas emissions, writes Adam Vaughan |
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Adam Vaughan
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 16 December 2008 |
climate Coolest year since 2000 but trend still shows global warming
The last 12 months have been cooler, but 2008 is still the tenth hottest year on record |
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James Randerson, science correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 16 December 200 |
| politics/video The End of America and Ten Steps to Fascism: This Is Step Nine ...Here is a snippet of video from The End of America movie. It reveals how shockingly far we(USA) have traveled toward becoming a police state with concerns only for monied-interests... |
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Posted on Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 at 12:00 pm by jsmcdougall
www.chelseagreen.com |
| coal/climate/politics Stopping Coal: Berry and McKibben Call For Civil Disobedience ... Coal is filthy at its source. Much of the coal used in this country comes from West Virginia and Kentucky, where companies engage in “mountaintop removal” to get at the stuff; they leave behind a leveled wasteland, and impoverished human communities. No technology better exemplifies the out-of-control relationship between humans and the rest of creation... |
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Posted on Monday, December 15th, 2008 at 5:46 pm by jsmcdougall
www.chelseagreen.com |
farming/water Brazilian eco-farmers thrive – even as climate change bites
The contrasting fates of two families in the arid north-east of Brazil have important lessons for world leaders in Poznan |
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John Vidal
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 10 December 200 |
climate The big melt
More than two trillion tons of land ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted since 2003, according to new NASA satellite data that show the latest signs of what scientists say is global warming. |
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The Globe & Mail
Associated Press
December 16, 2008 |
| climate/Poznan Mexico leads the way with carbon reduction pledge |
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David Adam, environment correspondent in Poznan, and agencies
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 11 December 2008 |
| species/climate Climate change may make Humboldt squid easy prey |
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Ian Sample, science correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 16 December 200 |
politics/energy/climate Obama breaks with Bush oil bosses and puts environment at top of agenda
• Nobel scientist designated US energy secretary
• New 'climate tsarina' will coordinate agencies |
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Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
The Guardian, Tuesday 16 December 2008 |
mayhem Bush sneaks through host of laws to undermine Obama
The lame-duck Republican team is rushing throuµgh radical measures, from coal waste dumping to power stations in national parks, that will take months to overturn, reports Paul Harris in New York |
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Paul Harris
The Observer, Sunday 14 December 2008 |
climate/politics Meet Britain's new army of young eco warriors
While governments talk of climate change, a growing band of young, committed environmentalists is emerging in the UK. The storming of Stansted was just the beginning |
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Tracy McVeigh
The Observer, Sunday 14 December 200 |
species Fishery killing gamut of marine life, scientists say
Destructive practices, especially bottom trawling and gillnet fishing, must be reduced to end collateral damage, report warns |
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MARK HUME
From Monday's Globe and Mail
December 15, 2008 |
| climate Scientists predict seasonal ice-free Arctic by 2015 Ice in the Canadian Arctic is melting at such an alarming pace due to climate change that the North will be seasonally ice free in six years, according to a study released yesterday from a groundbreaking scientific expedition. |
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RHÉAL SÉGUIN
From Friday's Globe and Mail
December 12, 2008 |
| technology/essay The Coming Collapse of the Age of Technology |
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David Ehrenfeld - Tikkun: A Bimonthly Jewish Critique of Politics, Culture & Society
Jan/Feb 1999 | |
climate At Poznan, no one is listening
At the world climate change summit, few delegates paid attention to the tale of oil's inevitable demise...and Kuwait and Qatar, who are claiming they should qualify for the putative fund compensating victims of climate change because sea-level rise may damage their offshore oil rigs. |
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Jeremy Leggett
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 11 December 2008. science ed note: re: Kuwait/Quatar. I haven't laughed so hard in ages! Man those guys have balls ... as Bill Hicks might have said, 'what balls! they need wheelbarrows to carry balls of such magnitude!' |
| indigenous Patagonia tribe faces extinction - With only an estimated 12-20 pure-blooded members of his nomadic Kawesqar tribe surviving, most of them elderly, another of the far-flung region's tribes will soon disappear. |
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SIMON GARDNER
Reuters
December 12, 2008 |
| climate EU leaders claim historic leap towards low-carbon future Ambitious climate change pact makes generous concessions to the big polluters in European heavy industry |
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Ian Traynor and Nick Watt in Brussels
guardian.co.uk, Friday 12 December 200 |
species Fifth of world's coral reefs dead, say marine scientists
Climate change linked to warmer and more acidic seas pose biggest threat to coral survival, says report |
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David Adam, environment correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 10 December 2008 |
essay Beyond Hope
...But no matter what environmentalists do, our best efforts are insufficient. We’re losing badly, on every front. Those in power are hell-bent on destroying the planet, and most people don’t care... |
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BY DERRICK JENSEN. Published in the May/June 2006 issue of Orion magazine |
| education/species Nature lovers livid as 'blog' replaces 'beaver' in Oxford's junior dictionary |
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JOSH WINGROVE
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
December 10, 2008. Science ed note: We are SO fucked! ...sunuvabitch .... |
climate Press the panic button
It's much worse than we thought. An emergency review of climate change is needed immediately |
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Jonathon Porritt
The Guardian, Wednesday December 10 2008 |
climate Wetter and wilder: the signs of warming everywhere
In the third part of our series on the eve of the Poznan conference, we look at how climate change is already changing ordinary people's lives from Australia to Brazil |
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Vidal Immaculada in Brazil
The Guardian, Wednesday December 10 2008 |
climate Too late? Why scientists say we should expect the worst
As ministers and officials gather in Poznan one year ahead of the Copenhagen summit on global warming, the second part of a major series looks at the crucial issue of targets |
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David Adam
The Guardian, Tuesday December 9 2008 |
footprint Fill your Thermos with hot tap water and save the planet
Just stop for a minute and think about how much you are doing to save the planet, just by being poor. Now think about how much more you will be doing to save the planet in, say, six months' time |
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Tim Dowling
The Guardian, Tuesday December 9 2008 |
species What is killing the bats of Pincher Creek?
Bats are dying as they fly into low-pressure zones around wind turbines. The sudden low pressure causes the air in their lungs to expand and cause tissue damage, called barotrauma. Low-pressure area: most severe immediately out from the blades and decreases as it gets closer to the centre of the turbine. There is also a low-pressure area down the shaft. |
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August 26, 2008 by Katherine O'Neill in Globe and Mail
link: windaction.org |
indigenous Indigenous rights row threatens rainforest protection plan
Green groups accuse US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada of deleting lines on indigenous peoples' rights in draft agreement in Poznan on climate change and deforestation |
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David Adam
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday December 9 2008 |
oil/climate Polluted tar sands ponds leaking, report indicates
The tailings ponds storing waste water left over from the processing of Alberta tar sands oil are leaking an estimated 11 million litres of contaminated water every day, according to a new report. |
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MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
December 9, 2008. Science ed note: fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, those god'damn fuckers. |
climate A Beardful Of Bunkum
David Bellamy’s at it again, with even dafter claims about climate change. |
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By George Monbiot. monbiot.com Published in the Guardian 9th December 2008 |
climate India won't accept emissions limits, says climate envoy
The country's CO2 emissions are only one tonne per capita, compared with 20 tonnes a head in the USA |
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Randeep Ramesh in Delhi
guardian.co.uk, Monday December 8 2008 |
climate Planet under pressure
This week, ministers and officials gather in Poznan at the start of a one-year countdown to the Copenhagen summit, at which experts say a deal must be reached if we are to have a chance of averting catastrophic warming. Today, in the first of a major series, we look at the crucial question: will China and the US sign up? |
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David Adam, Julian Borger, Jonathan Watts, Randeep Ramesh and Suzanne Goldenberg
The Guardian, Monday December 8 2008 |
| politics Tell Barack Obama the Truth – The Whole Truth |
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Dr James E Hansen, Nov 21 2008 (pdf) Highly reccomended reading! |
climate Greenhouse gases will heat up planet 'for ever'
New study shows the effects of CO2 pollution will be felt for hundreds of thousands of years |
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By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor, The Independant
Sunday, 30 November 2008 |
| species/ecology Steve Connor: Why plastic is the scourge of sea life |
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Steve Connor, The Independant, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 |
| climate Steve Connor: The ultimate gas leak that scientists dreaded |
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Steve Connor, The Independant, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 |
| climate Al Gore calls for tougher global limit on CO2 levels |
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David Adam in Poznan
guardian.co.uk, Friday 12 December 200 |
species/ecology/climate 'Super ants' threaten UK gardens, scientists warn
• Ants are already a major pest in Europe
• See how the ants are spreading |
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James Randerson, Science correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday December 3 2008 |
species Slaughter of the giants
There are only 700 mountain gorillas left in the world - 200 in Virunga national park, Congo. The rangers who try to protect them do not always succeed, as photographer Brent Stirton witnessed |
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Brent Stirton
guardian.co.uk, Saturday November 29 2008 |
| ecology Canada's lakes suffer 'osteoporosis' |
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MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail Update
November 27, 2008 |
species/industry Last of the caribou - We are witnessing the disappearance of one of our most iconic inhabitants of the boreal forest, a species some describeas the “grey ghosts”: if industry and logging continue to carve into the forest, Ontario’s woodland caribou may be gone by the end of the century |
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by Ray Ford for On Nature magazine |
climate One Shot Left
The latest science suggests that preventing runaway climate change means total decarbonisation. |
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Posted November 25, 2008. monbiot.com
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 25th November 2008 |
ecology What amount of nature should nations preserve?
Some scientists want Canada to protect at least 50 per cent of its boreal forest and argue other countries should follow suit |
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MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
From Monday's Globe and Mail
November 24, 2008 |
ecology/politics President for 60 more days, Bush tearing apart protection for America's wilderness
• Oil shale mining in Rocky Mountains gets go-ahead
• 'Midnight regulations' to dismantle safeguards |
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Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
guardian.co.uk, Thursday November 20 2008 |
| politics The Threat of Green Obama |
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7 November 2008
By Gwynne Dyer |
food/landbase Rich countries launch great land grab to safeguard food supply
• States and companies target developing nations
• Small farmers at risk from industrial-scale deals |
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Julian Borger, diplomatic editor
guardian.co.uk, Saturday November 22 20 |
species/conflict No Refuge for Congo's Gorillas
Virunga National Park in eastern Congo is home to 200 or more endangered mountain gorillas. But this lush parkland has become a battlefield as armed rebels loyal to Tutsi general Laurent Nkunda took over park headquarters last month, sending more than 50 rangers fleeing into the forest. They have reason to be jumpy – over the past decade 120 rangers have been killed in Virunga. Head ranger Innocent Mburanumwe speaks of his heavy heart as his rangers fear for their lives and gorillas are left unprotected |
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Innocent Mburanumwe was talking to Samantha Newport and Anna Bruce-Lockhart. For more information on the situation in Virunga National Park, visit the rangers’ blog at www.gorilla.cd/blog |
politics Unelected, yes – but a true green hero
Whatever your views on Prince Charles's constitutional position, he has always been right on environmental issues |
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Peter Melchett
guardian.co.uk, Friday November 14 2008 |
| oil US government begins offshore drilling study on Atlantic coast. Soaring energy prices this year eroded long-standing political opposition to offshore drilling |
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McClatchy newspapers
guardian.co.uk, Thursday November 13 2008 |
ecology The woman with a tiny carbon footprint
Forget planes, trains or automobiles - if Joan Pick wants to go anywhere, she runs. And she eats nothing but raw food. Is her lifestyle extreme or the future we must all face up to? Emine Saner meets her |
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Emine Saner
guardian.co.uk, Thursday November 1 |
climate Rising methane levels are cause for concern
Unexplained methane rises raise concerns that our understanding of its role in the global carbon cycle is inadequate, writes Chris Goodall. From Carbon Commentary, part of the Guardian Environment Network |
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From Carbon Commentary, part of the Guardian Environment Network
guardian.co.uk, Monday November 10 2008 |
| water Separate Great Lakes, Mississippi, study urges |
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SOPHIA TAREEN
Associated Press
November 12, 2008 |
food Cancer society turns sights to farm pesticides
Agency holding conference with leading scientists on hotly contested issue of restricting agricultural bug and weed killers |
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MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
November 12, 2008 |
climate/technology A climate change conversion
We cannot tackle global warming by technology alone: we will need ethics, as individuals and as a society |
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Mark Vernon
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday November 11 2008 |
politics Is 'ecoterrorism' really a threat?
Police suggestions that the public should be wary of a growing tide of activism amounts to nothing more than hysteria aimed at a movement that has often been radical but rarely violent |
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Posted by
Bibi van der Zee Monday November 10 2008 |
species Quarter of Atlantic sharks and rays face extinction
New figures show 26% of all sharks, rays and related species in the north-east Atlantic are threatened with extinction |
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Jessica Aldred and Ian Sample
guardian.co.uk, Monday November 10 2008 |
food The slippery business of palm oil
Palm oil is used in a third of all groceries. But can it ever be produced without causing environmental devastation as some big companies are promising? |
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Fred Pearce
guardian.co.uk, Thursday November 6 2008 |
politics Welcome to reality, Mr President-elect
Bill McKibben, a leading American environmentalist, ponders the tough green challenges facing the president-elect. From Yale Environment 360, part of the Guardian Environment Network |
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guardian.co.uk, Thursday November 6 2008 |
atmosphere Ozone hole over Antarctica grows again
Stratospheric levels of harmful CFCs will take between 40 and 100 years to dissipate and have only dropped a few per cent since reaching a peak in 2000, scientists warn |
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John Vidal
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday November 04 2008 |
climate Manmade global warming evident on every continent, polar report finds
Data compiled by the University of East Anglia finds evidence of warming in Antarctica that can for the first time be directly attributed to human emissions |
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David Adam, environment correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Thursday October 30 2008 |
water Is water the new oil?
It's the world's most precious commodity, yet many of us take it for granted. But that's all about to change... Special report by Juliette Jowit |
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Juliette Jowit
The Observer, Sunday November 2 2008 |
coal Time to bury the 'clean coal' myth
In the second of his Greenwash columns, Fred Pearce exposes how energy companies and governments are trying to rebrand coal as a clean fuel of the future despite the evidence |
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Fred Pearce
guardian.co.uk, Thursday October 30 2008 |
species Killer whales disappearing off southern B.C.
Dwindling numbers due to declining birth rates and possible starvation lead scientists to fear orcas are heading toward extinction. ed note: is no one fucking listening to this! As Derrick Jensen so eloquently puts it, the dominant culture (in this case, modern industrial civilisation) must destroy to maintain itself. It will destroy everything that lies in it's path including, quite obviously, itself. It is the only way it knows how. We need a different path and I'm not talking about bloody windmills will save the day ... I am completely beside myself with despair. Shit la Merde. |
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MARK HUME
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
October 29, 200 |
species/climate Rising CO2 accelerates bleaching, study finds
Previous calculations underestimate effect of greenhouse gases caused by humans |
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MICHAEL PERRY
Reuters
October 29, 200 |
| climate Big decline in depth of Arctic winter sea ice |
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Juliette Jowit
The Guardian, Tuesday October 28 2008 |
food Food hunters of the urban jungle
Adharanand Finn learns how to live off the land as he joins foraging experts in search of free and wild food in the city |
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Adharanand Finn
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday October 28 2008 |
ethics Why we hunt deer
Because we love them — their wild blood runs in our veins and their spirit has touched ours |
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L.W. OAKLEY
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail - FACTS & ARGUMENTS ESSAY- October 28, 2008 - listen to podcast |
| climate Climate deal may be too late to save coral reefs, scientists warn |
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David Adam
guardian.co.uk, Monday October 27 200 |
climate Australia's Stern review warns of runaway global warming
Carbon emissions are rising so fast that the world has no chance of hitting climate targets, says Australian economist |
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David Adam
guardian.co.uk, Monday October 27 2008 |
| energy Oil sands projects slashed as credit crisis hits Alberta |
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NORVAL SCOTT
From Friday's Globe and Mail
October 23, 2008 |
climate/methane Time for Geoengineering? Gustafsson's preliminary report, published in "The Independent" of 23 September, is a development far more frightening than the current financial crisis, although it will get only one-thousandth of the coverage. |
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26 September 2008
By Gwynne Dyer, gwynnedyer.com |
| activism Explosion rocks second EnCana pipeline - RCMP have brought in the force's national terrorism unit to investigateed. fiain ed.note: who are the terrorists exactly? In case it is not clear, this is a sour gas line. |
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JAMES KELLER
The Canadian Press, October 16, 2008 |
| ABC deems Gore climate change advert too 'controversial' for TV |
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Elana Schor in Washington
guardian.co.uk, Friday October 10 2008 |
This Is What Denial Does
The economic crisis is petty by comparison to the nature crunch. But they have the same cause. |
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By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 14th October 2008 |
| energy/pollution Oil sands will pollute Great Lakes, report warns |
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MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
October 8, 2008 |
| For the first time ever, the US military is deploying an active duty regular Army combat unit for full-time use inside the United States to deal with emergencies, including potential civil unrest. |
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Amy Goodman from Democracy Now on youtube.com (interesting notes accompany this)
September 27 2008 |
Met Office warns of need for drastic cuts in greenhouse gases from 2010
• 3% a year may keep temperature rise to 2C
• Study says inaction could have dire consequences |
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Juliette Jowit
The Guardian, Wednesday October 1 2008 |
| Seas turn to acid as they soak up CO2 |
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Robin McKie, science editor
The Observer, Sunday October 5 2008 |
| Nearly one quarter of world's mammals face extinction, annual 'red list' reports |
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Ian Sample, science correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Monday October 06 2008 |
| Future looks bleak for many species |
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MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail Update
October 6, 2008 |
| World stocks tumble as crisis escalates ed note: I don't generally put up stuff related to economics since, naturally, my most fervent efforts are geared towards the entire monetary system collapsing in a great crash like a giant piece of ice calving off a desintegrating glacier at the edge of a glowing red abyse. ...Thought I'd put this up in the event that this current clusterfuck actually is a truly significant indication that the world has discovered some sanity and is chosing at some metaphysical... or physical... level to try a different tack. CT. |
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NATSUKO WAKI
Reuters
October 6, 200 |
Revealed: oil-funded research in Palin's campaign against protection for polar bear
• Paper authored by known climate change sceptics
• Governor suing over threatened species ruling |
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Ed Pilkington in New York
The Guardian, Wednesday October 1 2008 |
A new law of nature
Ecuador next week votes on giving legal rights to rivers, forests and air. Is this the end of damaging development? The world is watching |
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Clare Kendall
The Guardian, Wednesday September 24 2008 |
'There are many tiger widows here'
In the Sunderbans forests between India and Bangladesh, climate change is pitting people against tigers - with deadly consequences. John Vidal reports on how extreme weather and shrinking habitats are bringing humans and beasts into closer and more perilous contact |
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John Vidal
The Guardian, Thursday September 25 2008 |
The Tuareg people of Niger struggle to maintain their nomadic way of life in the face of uranium mining, an industry run by foreign companies that many say is having devastating environmental repurcussions. Al Jazeera's May Welsh reports on civilians and rebels in the uranium mining zone. |
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May Welsh, Youtube AlJaszeera video, 16 July 08 |
| Nomadic Bedouins face grim future in the Holy Land |
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CAROLYNNE WHEELER
Special to The Globe and Mail
August 23, 2008 |
Why bees matter
The decline of bees won't just affect honey production – they're as important as the sun and rain in making crops grow |
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Alison Benjamin
guardian.co.uk, Thursday August 14 200 |
| Ocean 'dead zones' proliferating |
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DAVID HUTTON
Globe and Mail Update
August 14, 200 |
Meltdown in the Arctic is speeding up
Scientists warn that the North Pole could be free of ice in just five years' time instead of 60 |
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Robin McKie, science editor
The Observer, Sunday August 10 2008 |
| On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction There's no 'adaptation' to such steep warming. We must stop pandering to special interests, and try a new, post-Kyoto strategy |
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Oliver Tickell
The Guardian, Monday August 11 2008 |
| Global warming has its own language. For our children's sake, we have to start speaking it |
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Thomas Friedman
The Observer, Sunday August 10 2008 |
| One third of reef-building corals face extinction, study shows |
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Tim Radford in Fort Lauderdale
guardian.co.uk, Thursday July 10, 2008 |
Canadians ponder cost of rush for dirty oil
As oil prices continue to reach record highs, the search for new sources of energy has led the world to Alberta, Canada, and its vast oil sands. Now, John Vidal finds, the country famed for its wilderness and clean living finds itself caught between fuelling the world's oil-hungry economy and the ecological devastation and soaring greenhouse gas emissions that exploiting the tar sands produces |
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John Vidal, environment editor, in Fort McMurray
The Guardian, Saturday July 12, 2008 |
Kept Afloat On A Tide Of Money
Why are governments subsidising the destruction of the marine environment. |
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Posted July 8, 2008
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 8th July 2008. |
| I've seen the effects of climate change - and if people won't face up to it, governments must make them |
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Tahmima Anam
The Guardian, Thursday July 3, 2008 |
| Wildlife extinction rates 'seriously underestimated |
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Ian Sample
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday July 2, 2008 |
| Australia's quality of life at risk without urgent action on climate change: report |
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Barbara McMahon Sydney
guardian.co.uk, Friday July 4, 2008 |
Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis
Internal World Bank study delivers blow to plant energy drive |
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Aditya Chakrabortty
The Guardian, Friday July 4, 2008 |
Small Is Bountiful
Peasant farmers offer the best chance of feeding the world. So why do we treat them with contempt? |
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By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 10th June 2008 |
| Brazil Tribes Fight for Their Land. Members of one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes have recently been photographed in Brazil, during flights over a remote part of the Amazon rainforest. These images have restarted the debate of many decades about how these groups should be protected. There are more than 100 such tribes worldwide, all in danger of being forced off their land and threatened by diseases to which they have no resistance. Human rights campaigner Fiona Watson went to Brazil to meet recently contacted tribespeople and to investigate the way that large-scale mining and farming businesses encroach on their land and lives |
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The Guardian Weekly
Fiona Watson
Friday June 6th 2008 |
| The Burrup Peninsula in western Australia contains the largest concentration of Aboriginal rock art in the world – some of it as old as 30,000 years. Last year the federal government placed 99% of the islands in the Dampier archipelago, of which the Burrup is a part, on the National Heritage list. The remaining 1% is leased to Woodside, Australia‘s second biggest oil and gas producer, which is building a processing plant for its offshore natural gas reserve. The development will mean the destruction or relocation of thousands of the petroglyph-covered rocks. It has sparked the outrage of Wilfred Hicks, an elder of the Wong-Goo-Tt-Oo, Aboriginal custodians of the land |
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The Guardian Weekly
Wilfred Hicks speaking to Carmela Ferraro.
Wednesday June 4th 2008 |
| Oil producers urged to boost output as prices soar |
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JOSEPH COLEMAN
The Globe and Mail/Associated Press
June 7, 200 |
'I'd lost the strength to carry on'
Last week, with the resignation of Marina Silva as Brazil's environment minister, the Amazon lost its greatest champion. But how did a poor orphan rise to such power, only to walk away from it? And what is the future for her beloved rainforest? |
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Tom Phillips
The Guardian, Thursday May 22 2008 |
| Earlier spring in Arctic could hit caribou diet |
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Ian Sample, science correspondent
The Guardian, Wednesday May 21 2008 |
| Shell 'selling suicide' by preferring tar sands to wind |
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Terry Macalister
The Guardian, Wednesday May 21 2008 |
| U.S. to protect polar bears |
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MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail, May 14, 2008 |
Floor plans
The rich concentrations of gold, silver and copper on the seabed have until now been out of reach. But what effect will mining have? editorial note: it's ideas like this that make me think, 'we ar SO fucked!' ct |
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Owen Bowcott
The Guardian, Wednesday May 14 2008 |
How the world's oceans are running out of fish
The future of our seas has never been more precarious. Ninety years of industrial-scale overfishing has brought us to the brink of an ecological catastrophe and deprived millions of their livelihoods. As scientific guidelines are ignored and catches become ever bigger, Alex Renton tells why the international community has failed to act |
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Alex Renton
The Observer, Sunday May 11 2008 |
World carbon dioxide levels highest for 650,000 years, says US report
· Rise in chief greenhouse gas worse than feared
· Earth may be losing ability to absorb CO2, say scientists |
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David Adam, environment correspondent
The Guardian, Tuesday May 13 2008 |
| Orangutan population plummets |
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The Globe and Mail/The Associated Press
May 7, 2008 |
Breeding toxins from dead PCs
Children are dying to clear up the developed world's discarded computers |
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Richard Wray, communications editor
The Guardian, Tuesday May 6 2008 |
Bad reactions
The figures just don't stack up for the argument that new nuclear power stations will ensure a secure and sustainable energy source |
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Michael Meacher
The Guardian, Wednesday May 7 2008 |
| Bears could halt Shell Arctic plan |
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Nick Mathiason
The Observer, Sunday May 4 2008 |
Rainforest seeds revive lost paradise
Endangered wildlife returns to tropical wasteland as conservationists work a natural 'miracle |
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Juliette Jowit, environment editor
The Observer, Sunday May 4 2008 |
Travelling Light
Is the airship a viable alternative to jet travel? |
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George Monbiot at monbiot.com
May 6, 2008 |
| Oil sands giant says ‘sorry' for dead ducks |
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LISA ARROWSMITH
The Globe & Mail/The Canadian Press
May 3, 2008 |
| Hundreds of ducks trapped on toxic Alberta oilsands pond |
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CBC News, April 29, 2008 |
| Hundreds of ducks die after landing in oil sands in Canada |
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Thu, May. 01, 2008
Kansas City News
The Associated Press |
The Most Destructive Project on Earth: Alberta’s Tar Sands
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Celcias.com, March 4, 2008 |
| Biofuels starving our people, leaders tell UN |
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Allegra Stratton and agencies
The Guardian, Tuesday April 22 2008 |
| The Coming Food Catastrophe |
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25 March 2008 Gwynne Dyer. gwynnedyer.com |
The Pleasures Of The Flesh
If you care about hunger, eat less meat. |
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By George Monbiot. Guardian 15th April 2008 |
Why costs are climbing
As food prices surge, starvation looms for millions. Experts call for emergency action but admit there's no quick fix |
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ERIC REGULY
Globe and Mail
April 12, 2008 |
Food riots fear after rice price hits a high
Shortages of the staple crop of half the world's people could bring unrest across Asia and Africa, reports foreign affairs editor Peter Beaumont |
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foreign affairs editor Peter Beaumont
The Guardian |
CO2 map zooms in on emissions
Scientists have high hopes for a new system of mapping carbon dioxide emissions in the United Stat |
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Jessica Aldred, Guardian blog |
River delta's rise puts Arctic's future in flux
Climate change in Arctic seas is driving summer water levels at the Mackenzie's mouth to three times normal, B.C. researchers find |
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MARK HUME
Globe and Mail
April 4, 2008 |
Burnt Out
The government’s plans for clean coal are another great green scam. |
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George Monbiot at monbiot.com
March 18, 2008 |
| Thickest, oldest Arctic ice melting, NASA finds |
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DEBORAH ZABARENKO
Reuters
March 19, 2008 |
| Why carbon capture is an illusion |
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BRUCE COX
Special to Globe and Mail Update
March 18, 2008 |
| Shell wants to produce five times more oil from tar sands |
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Terry Macalister
The Guardian, Tuesday March 18 2008 |
| Glaciers melt 'at fastest rate in past 5,000 years - The world's glaciers are melting faster than at any time since records began, threatening catastrophe for hundreds of millions of people and their eco-systems. |
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Juliette Jowit and Robin McKie
The Observer, Sunday March 16 2008 |
Blind date with disaster
We are constantly warned by scientists that our planet is in big trouble, so why can't we change direction? David Suzuki, one of the world's leading ecologists, on how humans have lost the vital skill of foresight |
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David Suzuki
The Guardian, Wednesday March 12 2008 |
| Deforestation: The hidden cause of global warming: In the next 24 hours, deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York. Stopping the loggers is the fastest and cheapest solution to climate change. So why are global leaders turning a blind eye to this crisis? |
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By Daniel Howden, The Independant
Monday, 14 May 2007 |
| Airsick: Industrial devolution |
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Twenty days. Twenty thousand still images. A single message. Toronto Star photographer Lucas Oleniuk captures the issue of global warming in a video created entirely by using still images. |
On the last battle
Beth Powning and her husband have fought environmental degradation from their New Brunswick farm since the 1970s. Only recently has she realized how one-sided the war has been |
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Jan 29, 2008
Beth Powning
Special to the Toronto Star |
Profile: Rebecca Hosking
'She has changed the national perspective about plastic bags in a few months. She should be prime minister'. Happiest behind the lens, the campaigner is now having to endure the spotlight |
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John Vidal, environment editor
The Guardian, Friday November 23 2007 |
| Is farmed fish the new battery chicken?With natural food supplies under threat from climate change, we could soon be relying on farmed fish to feed the world. But that's only part of the problem. Alex Renton reports on the fishing industry's latest can of worms |
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Alex Renton
The Observer, Sunday February 24 2008 |
| 2.5 million lack water in China |
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Tania Branigan in Beijing
The Guardian, Tuesday February 26 2008 |
Feed the world? We are fighting a losing battle, UN admits
Huge budget deficit means millions more face starvation |
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Julian Borger, diplomatic editor
The Guardian, Tuesday February 26 2008 |
An Exchange Of Souls
As government documents show, Sir Nicholas Stern accidentally launched a trade in human lives. |
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George Monbiot at monbiot.com
February 19 2008 |
| Huge study gives wake-up call on state of world's oceans |
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Alok Jha, The Guardian
February 15 2008 |
| Shipping boom fuels rising tide of global CO2 emissions |
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John Vidal, environment editor
February 13, 2008
The Guardian |
The Last Straw
A new generation of biofuels turns out to be another environmental disaster |
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George Monbiot
February 12, 2008
The Guardian |
| It's just water, right? Wrong. Bottled water is set to be the latest battleground in the eco war |
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Lucy Siegle, The Observer
February 10, 2008 |
| Looking at America |
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Editorial, New York Times
December 31, 2007 |
Bali Outcome
Do not be downhearted about the outcome of the Bali talks. |
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Gwynne Dyer
gwynnedyer.net
December 15, 2007 |
Hurray! We’re Going Backwards!
Bush trashed the climate talks. But look what Gore did. |
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George Monbiot at monbiot.com
December 17, 2007 |
Rigged
The climate talks are a stitch-up, as no one is talking about supply. |
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George Monbiot at monbiot.com
December 11, 2007 |
| This guy was the green prime minister?Looking at Canada's stance at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali |
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David Suzuki
The Toronto Star
December 9 2007 |
| Riots and hunger feared as demand for grain sends food costs soaring |
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Jonathan Watts in Beijing
The Guardian
December 4 2007 |
Mud, sweat and tears
Aida Edemariam reports on the dark side of a boom town |
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Aida Edemariam
The Guardian
October 30 2007 |
Shifting tar sands
BP is making a return to the Canadian province of Alberta, which deserves better than to be abused by oil companies |
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Heather Mallick
The Guardian
December 6 2007 |
| The edge of oblivion: conservationists name 25 primates about to disappear – Biofuel plantations, logging and hunting are stealing habitats from our closest relatives, says report |
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James Randerson, science correspondent
The Guardian
Friday October 26 2007 |
Environmental failures 'put humanity at risk'– UN report bemoans lack of urgency by government. Five-year study involved more than 1,400 scientists |
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Martin Hodgson
The Guardian
Friday October 26 2007 |
| African deluge brings misery to 1.5m people |
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John Vidal in Soroti, Uganda
Thursday September 20, 2007
The Guardian |
Retreat of the penguins
These bellwethers of climate change face a grave future |
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Leigh Dayton
The Australian
September 05, 2007 |
Loss of Arctic ice leaves experts stunned
The Arctic ice cap has collapsed at an unprecedented rate this summer and levels of sea ice in the region now stand at record lows, scientists have announced.
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David Adam, environment correspondent
Guardian Unlimited
Tuesday September 4 2007 |
Eco-junk
Green consumerism will not save the biosphere |
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George Monbiot at monbiot.com, July 24, 2007 |
The End of Cheap Food
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Gwynne Dyer, July 6 2007 |
| William Kamkwamba's Malawi Windmill Blog – Willaiam has designed and built a windmill from mostly found materials to create electric power. Very cool, inspirational and visionary if you ask me. Forget about waiting for the big corps to get their act together, we can create the connections ourselves! |
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williamkamkwamba.typepad.com |
Citizens arrest – Tackling climate change is now a worldwide crusade - so what's stopping campaigners driving its simplest solution? |
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David Nicholson-Lord
Wednesday July 11, 2007
The Guardian |
Factory may destroy natural wonder– Rift Valley plan threatens to wipe out flamingos
· 'Bonkers' soda-ash plant will ruin fragile ecosystem |
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Xan Rice in Nairobi
Thursday July 12, 2007
The Guardian |
| Endgame |
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Edward Hoagland essay for Harper's Magazine |
| Seeds of debt sow suicide in India |
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The Globe & Mail |
| Why rock won't save the planet |
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The Guardian |
| A Sudden Change of State |
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George Monbiot |
| Global warming 'past the point of no return' |
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By Steve Connor, Science Editor, The Independant
Friday, 16 September 2005 |
| James Lovelock: The Earth is about to catch a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000 years. |
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James Lovelock for The Independan
January 16, 2006
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| Environmental degradation in Somalia (1997) |
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Feysal Ahmed Yusuf – Tiempo |
| B.C. natives mourn missing eulachon |
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The Globe & Mail |
| Biofuel demand to push up food prices |
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The Guardian |
| China passes US as world's biggest CO2 emitter |
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The Guardian |
| Early springs bring problems for the creatures of the high Arctic |
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The Guardian |
| Don't Mention the Warming |
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Gwynne Dyer |
| China to lift ban on sale of tiger bones |
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The Guardian |
| Weather plays havoc with U.S. south, west |
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The Globe & Mail |
| What if the Oil Runs Out? |
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George Monbiot |
| Ecocide in the Oceans |
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Gwynne Dyer |
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