Biodiversity

ENVIRONMENT-ARGENTINA: Jaguars on the Run

By Marcela Valente
Two centuries ago, the jaguar (Panthera onca) reigned across more than half of Argentine territory. Today these predators survive in limited spaces where they are becoming easy prey for hunters.

BIODIVERSITY: Farming Will Make or Break the Food Chain

By Stephen Leahy
As the world population swells to nine billion by 2050, global biodiversity will be under extreme pressure unless new ways to grow food are developed, experts say.

BIODIVERSITY: Cities Eating Up Resources and Habitat

By Haider Rizvi
Disproportionate growth of the world's urban population could result in further loss of many forms of life on Earth, warn experts in the sciences of climate change and biodiversity.

ENVIRONMENT: "Green Nobel" for Fighting Extractive Industries, Defending Wildlife

By Eli Clifton
The common denominator of all six winners of this year's Goldman Prize, often referred to as the "Green Nobel", is their effectiveness in fighting big fights to protect the environment despite their relative anonymity.

EARTH DAY: Happiness Is a Smaller Eco-Footprint

By Stephen Leahy
Today's children will live in a new world of climate change and greatly diminished natural resources, which may give way to a nightmarish reality, or it could give birth to a happier and lighter way of living on the Earth, say environmentalists.

HONDURAS: Fragile Truce on Deforestation in Olancho

By Thelma Mejía
The unpunished assassinations of two environmentalists in the Honduran department of Olancho and the violations of a logging ban threaten a tenuous truce in this area convulsed by forest conflicts.

ENVIRONMENT: Malaysia to Enforce Labelling of GM Foods

By IPS Correspondents
A long-awaited law to make the labelling of genetically modified (GM) products mandatory is expected to be finally passed in Malaysian parliament this month and come into force by the end of the year.

MALAYSIA: Indigenous Groups Resist Biodiversity Park

By Baradan Kuppusamy
In the thick rainforest outside this town, about 150 km north of the national capital, the guileless Semai aborigines, famous to anthropologists for their for non-aggressiveness, are falling sick from stress brought about by sudden land development that threatens to uproot them.

ENVIRONMENT: World Bank Failing to Rein In DRC Logging

By Eli Clifton
The World Bank is failing in its efforts to bring the Democratic Republic of Congo's rainforest logging industry under control, leading to negative implications for climate change, and rampant corruption, according to a new report.

ENVIRONMENT-US: “Bush Effect” Boosts Green Economy

By Enrique Gili
A low-rise bungalow on a busy street here serves as the world headquarters and nerve centre for Whale Tails, a tortilla chip company dedicated to making healthier snack food - and healing the planet.

ENVIRONMENT-DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: A Balancing Act for Whales

By IPS Correspondents
In a rhythmic, coordinated underwater choreography, a humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) and her calf rise to the surface off the Dominican Republic's Atlantic coast, showing the mesmerised spectators just their dorsal fins and blow-holes.

ENVIRONMENT: Top U.S. Sushi Company Linked to Whaling

By Stephen Leahy
An investigation has revealed that the U.S. supplier of sushi to more than 6,000 restaurants is associated with a Japanese company that sells millions of tins of whale meat.

POLITICS: Security Council to Take Up Climate Change

By Thalif Deen
The U.N. Security Council, whose primary mandate is to prevent wars and preserve world peace, will once again break tradition next week when it debates the newest threat to international security: climate change.
Credit: LBA Conference

ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: The Amazon Jungle as Vast Savannah

By Mario Osava
An Amazon region that is less lush, where forest is replaced by grasslands, is the image drawn by the latest scientific reports in which meteorologists are taking the lead, going beyond even the direst warning of ecologists.

Q&A: “Our Homes Are Going Into the Sea”

By IPS Correspondents
"The ice is not only our roads but also our supermarket," says Sheila Watt-Cloutier, an Inuit leader who has been fighting for the rights of indigenous peoples in the Canadian Arctic region for many years.

CLIMATE CHANGE: The Challenge of the Century?

By Stephen Leahy
Climate change is already altering the Arctic, sub-Saharan Africa, small islands and Asia's river deltas, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported Friday in Brussels.

CANADA: Seal Hunt Opens Again Amidst Outcry

By IPS Correspondents
The Canadian seal hunt began again in earnest this week despite protests in Canada, the United States and Europe.

ENVIRONMENT: &#39Global Warming Will Decimate Biodiversity&#39

By Julio Godoy
Thousands of plant and animal species are disappearing every month under the impact of global warming, leading environmentalists say.

BIODIVERSITY: As Sharks Vanish, Chaotic New Order Emerges

By Stephen Leahy
Major declines in large sharks along the U.S. coast have in turn triggered declines in shellfish and reduced water quality, proof that the ocean's food web is collapsing, a groundbreaking new study reveals.

ENVIRONMENT-MALI: Forests in Decline

By Almahady Cissé
The figures tell the story. In 1990, forests in Mali extended over more than 14 million hectares. But by 2000 they covered 13,117,643 hectares, according to a national report on the state of the environment made public in 2005. This marked a reduction of about seven percent in the West African country's forests, in just a decade.

ASIA: Facing the Threat of GE Rice

By Marwaan Macan-Markar
With an eye to the future of rice farming in Thailand, a local grassroots organisation is bringing together youth in a north-eastern rice-growing province in a celebration of the diverse varieties of this staple grown in the traditional way.
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