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Scientists record Amazon's structure and biodiversity by bouncing laser beams off forest 400,000 times per second... 
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Brussels – The Commission is concerned that Italy has incorrectly implemented EU legislation on environmental liability, leading to insufficient protection... Via pdjmoo
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With Europe facing a “silent crisis” of biodiversity loss, MEPs are considering ways to strengthen protections for habitats and species but are divided over how to compel EU national governments to live up to their commitments.
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The common view of the Amazon is that it is one massive, unbroken forest. This impression is given by maps which tend to mark the Amazon by a large glob of green or even by its single name which doesn't account for regional changes.
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This thought-provoking book raises the question: as the biodiversity crisis spreads from the rainforest canopy to the deepest ocean, how will the world's cleverest species act? In a series of essays, Jeremy Leon Hance, environmental reporter with mongabay.com, explores the challenge of mass extinction and the different ways conservationists, with limited support and funds, are rising to meet it.
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Dangerously high levels have been detected in Northeastern songbirds as the most toxic form of the heavy metal moves through the food chain.
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Treehugger, January 24, 2012 SUMATRAN ELEPHANTS COULD BE EXTINCT WITHIN 30 YEARS Over the next three decades, the human population is projected to reach 9 billion people. In that same time, Sumatran elephants, currently numbering around 2,500, are expected to reach zero... http://www.treehugger.com/endangered-species/sumatran-elephants-could-go-extinct-within-30-years.html Mongabay, August 14, 2014 FEATURED VIDEO: Mongabay SUMATRA'S LAST ELEPHANTS vs PALM OIL http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0805-hance-video-sumatra-elephants.html
March 17, 2013 - Focusing on Wildlife ▶ NEW PLANTATION CONCESSIONS THREATEN BORNEO PYGMY ELEPHANTS http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/new-plantation-concessions-threaten-borneo-pygmy-elephants/ WATCH The Ecologist "LIQUID IVORY: HOW PALM OIL IS KILLING INDONESIA'S ELEPHANTS" http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vwI-N5KSUjQ
June 30, 2013 The Ecologist ▶ PALM OIL'S FORGOTTEN VICTIMS: SUMATRAN ELEPHANTS SUFFER IN RUSH FOR 'LIQUID IVORY' http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/1984027/palm_oils_forgotten_victims_sumatran_elephants_suffer_in_rush_for_liquid_ivory.html June 30, 2013 The Ecologist ▶ DON'T TURN A BLIND EYE TO WHAT'S IN YOUR FOOD - IT COULD BE KILLING ELEPHANTS http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/1985948/dont_turn_a_blind_eye_to_whats_in_your_food_it_could_be_killing_elephants.html EcoWatch, July 05, 2014
Mongabay, February 28, 2014 ▶ 14 PYGMY ELEPHANTS DIE MYSTERIOUSLY IN BORNEO: CLEARING FORESTS, ELEPHANTS BECOME "PESTS" http://sco.lt/6ko0LB ▶ A WORLD WITHOUT ELEPHANTS -- UNBEARABLE -- POACHING TO EXTINCTION http://sco.lt/7F7mXR ▶ THE TRAGIC SLAUGHTER OF TEN OF THOUSANDS OF ELEPHANTS -- JUST FOR THEIR TUSK -- MAY BE EXTINCT BY 2020 http://sco.lt/85wXBZ
▶ ECOCIDE: A PLAGUE OF DEFORESTATION SWEEPS ACROSS SOUTHEAST ASIA WITH TERRIBLE LOSS OF WILDLIFE AND BIODIVERSITY http://sco.lt/4lJ5ZR ▶ SUMATRAN RAINFORESTS RAVAGED WITH ALL LIFE WITHIN IT - FOR INVASIVE PALM OIL http://sco.lt/6Sdg13 ▶ MAJOR PALM OIL COMPANIES ACCUSED OF ECOCIDE, BREAKING ETHICAL PROMISES IN ASIA AND AFRICA http://sco.lt/8TkGjh ▶ SHOULD COMPANIES COMPENSATE SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION FROM WHICH THEY PROFIT? http://sco.lt/5x2tqz -▶ THE NEW CORPORATE COLONIALISM. DESTRUCTION OF PLANETARY LIFE IN THE NAME OF "GROWTH" http://sco.lt/696Tlx
▶ ERADICATING ECOCIDE AND GENOCIDE: WHY BUSINESS LEADERS MUST STEP UP TO THE CHALLENGE http://sco.lt/56vkOH
▶ STOP BURNING RAIN FORESTS FOR PALM OIL AND MONOCROP AGRICULTURE http://sco.lt/5Ylp7h ▶ DEFORESTATION IS DESERTIFICATION - A DEADLY GAME FOR ALL LIFE: GLOBAL ECOCIDE http://sco.lt/7xeu1Z
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VIDEO INTRODUCTION http://eowilsonfoundation.org/introduction/
VIDEO THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE http://eowilsonfoundation.org/the-diversity-of-life/
BIODIVERSITY PHOTO GALLERY http://eowilsonfoundation.org/biodiversity-photo-gallery/
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, a national of Brazil, as Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
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Emagazine.com : Dear EarthTalk: I understand that some companies are now looking to cut down forests and burn them as “biomass” for generating electricity. Is nothing sacred?...
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These images from various ad campaigns around the globe remind us that the planet is in peril. Via pdjmoo
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CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL: Poverty and biodiversity loss are two of the world’s dire challenges. Claims of conservation’s contribution to poverty alleviation, however, remain controversial. Here, we assess the flows of ecosystem services provided to people by priority habitats for terrestrial conservation, considering the global distributions of biodiversity, physical factors, and socioeconomic context
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We Cannot "grow" our way out of the global financial, food and social dilemma International Forum On Globalization - Vandana Shiva...
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The disappearance of 300,000 farmed Scottish salmon from their cages in a storm has left many wondering whether they will breed with wild ones and upset the gene pool. Via pdjmoo
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Despite billions of dollars spent on nanotechnology research and development over the past decade, the human and environmental safety of nanomaterials remains unclear. As a result, a new nanomaterials safety research strategy is needed, and new governmental oversight is required to ensure the essential research is carried out, according to a report released today by the National Research Council (NRC). Via Willy De Backer
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Trees in the western United States are dying twice as quickly as they did three decades ago and scientists think global warming is to blame...
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The focus on technologies is problematic because of the types of controversial new technologies that are promoted, including biomass incineration, synthetic biology, nanotechnology, etc. Nuclear and GMOs are not explicitly endorsed, but would fit with the approach. The market-based approach has been heavily criticised by NGOs as it would mean assigning private property rights to nature, commodifying and privatising nature. Leaving nature to the market would undermine the opportunities of communities and states to protect the commons. Also the bitter lessons from the carbon trading debacle seem to be entirely ignored when UNEP proposes tradeable biodiversity credits. The UNEP reports exposes a misguided belief in markets, which is astonishing after the financial crisis. It is as if that example of the chronic failure of deregulation and market-based approaches had never happened.
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Scientists meeting at the University of Copenhagen have warned that biodiversity is declining rapidly throughout the world, describing the loss of species as the 6th mass extinction event on the earth. The world is losing species at a rate that is 100 to 1000 times faster than the natural extinction rate, with the challenges of conserving the world's species larger than mitigating the negative effects of global climate change.
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One of this generation’s greatest tragedies – and oncoming catastrophes – is the failure to stem the accelerating rate of biodiversity loss. Biodiversity underpins the ecosystem goods and services on which humanity depends, and its loss represents a betrayal for the world’s poor as progress towards development is undermined.
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Eider ducks in the Arctic are already facing a large-scale outbreak of avian cholera. Now, a new threat - polar bears - seems to be affecting the birds.
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The United Nations today launched the Decade on Biodiversity with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urging humanity to live in harmony with nature and to preserve and properly manage its riches for the prosperity of current and future generations.
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London, UK (SPX) Feb 10, 2012 - A new study provides compelling evidence that the arrival of the invasive non-native harlequin ladybird to mainland Europe and subsequent spread has led to a rapid decline in historically-widespread...
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Biodiversity preservation can provide critical services to the poor. The sixth great mass extinction is underway, and because of the threat it poses to global biodiversity, it is as great a threat to human well-being as climate change. The causes of this extinction event are quite clear: humans are out-competing all other species for scarce resources on a finite planet.
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Read the full story of Biodiversity vital for maintaining ecosystem functions in drylands - Washington, Jan 13 : Diverse plant life may play a crucial role in buffering the negative impact of climate change and desertification in dryland...
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This page includes a brief, but thorough, overview of our human impact on the environment, the consequences of such an impact and one important question to consider. Via pdjmoo
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