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BIODIVERSITY: Plants Finally Get DNA Barcodes

BIODIVERSITY: MÉRIDA, Mexico, Nov 20 (Tierramérica) - Advances made in genetic profiling could be used to fight illegal timber trading, provide authentication of herbal medicines and map entire food chains, according to experts at a ...

From STEPHEN LEAHY, Inter Press Service,  20 Nov 2009

ENVIRONMENT: Save At Least Half the Planet, or Lose It All

ENVIRONMENT: Mérida, MEXICO, Nov 17 (IPS) - At least half the planet must be protected if humanity is to survive the next century, declared conservationists at the conclusion of 9th World Wilderness Congress on Friday, Nov. 13. "That is ...

From STEPHEN LEAHY, Inter Press Service,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  United Nations,  Deutsche Bank

CLIMATE CHANGE: Signs and Portents of a Hostile New World

CLIMATE CHANGE: MÉRIDA, Mexico, Nov 12 (IPS) - Lawrence Amos travelled from the Arctic at the top of the world to the tropical middle to recite in a soft voice the ongoing destruction of his home by climate change. The ice is rougher and ...

From STEPHEN LEAHY, Inter Press Service,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Amory Lovins

HEALTH: Southern Researchers Fill Gap on Neglected Diseases

HEALTH: CANCUN, Mexico, Nov 3 (IPS) - With HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis occupying the global health spotlight, few resources are devoted to the "neglected tropical diseases" like dengue fever, hookworm infection and schistosomiasis ...

From STEPHEN LEAHY, Inter Press Service,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Peter Singer,  FedEx

BIODIVERSITY: Earth's Life Support Systems Failing

BIODIVERSITY: UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 13 (IPS) - The world has failed to slow the accelerating extinction crisis despite 17 years of national and international efforts since the great hopes raised at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de ...

From STEPHEN LEAHY, Inter Press Service,  13 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,  Stanford University

BIODIVERSITY: Dwindling Fish Catch Could Leave a Billion Hungry

BIODIVERSITY: UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 9 (IPS) - Fish catches are expected to decline dramatically in the world's tropical regions because of climate change, but may increase in the north, said a new study published Thursday. This mega-shift ...

From STEPHEN LEAHY, Inter Press Service,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Princeton University

CLIMATE CHANGE: Four Degrees of Devastation

CLIMATE CHANGE: UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 9 (IPS) - The prospect of a four-degree Celsius rise in global average temperatures in 50 years is alarming - but not alarmist, climate scientists now believe. Eighteen months ago, no one dared imagine ...

From STEPHEN LEAHY, Inter Press Service,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: University of Oxford,  Chris West,  Barack Obama,  G-20,  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Q&A: "We Can't Afford to Let the Planet Get Much Hotter"

Q&A: Stephen Leahy interviews LESTER BROWN, founder of the Earth Policy Institute UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 7 (IPS) - Lester Brown says his views sometimes appear extreme - because the mainstream media largely doesn't understand the urgency ...

From STEPHEN LEAHY INTERVIEWS LESTER BROWN, FOUNDER, Inter Press Service,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Lester Brown,  Civil Service

CLIMATE CHANGE: Food Supply Hangs in the Balance

CLIMATE CHANGE: UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 2 (IPS) - Rocketing food prices and hundreds of millions more starving people will be part of humanity's grim future without concerted action on climate change and new investments in agriculture, ...

From STEPHEN LEAHY, Inter Press Service,  2 Oct 2009

CLIMATE CHANGE: Time Running Out on Vows to Act, Scientists Warn

CLIMATE CHANGE: COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sep 24 (IPS) - Promises are easy to make. But promises by world leaders will not halt the heat-trapping carbon emissions that are dialing-up global temperatures and altering the climate, say critics and ...

From STEPHEN LEAHY, Inter Press Service,  24 Sep 2009

Related Topics: New York University,  BP p.l.c.,  Barack Obama,  Bill Clinton

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