Because they're home to creatures such as the pen-tailed tree shrew, a tiny mouse-like creature with a feathery tail that dwells in the tropical rainforests of Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. They're not only cute enough to star in animated movies like Madagascar, but guess what, they can even ... keep reading
Written by Shom Teoh this week, about Deforestation, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Health (1 comment)
In February 2008, four countries made a public commitment to going carbon neutral; New Zealand, Norway, Iceland and Costa Rica. Of those, Costa Rica set the most ambitious target - carbon neutrality by 2021. Reaching such a goal by that date will make it the first country in the world to ... keep reading
Written by Leslie Berliant this month, about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Deforestation, Economics, Emissions, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife, Politics, Transport (1 comment)
In what must surely be the absolute height of tragic irony, Kimberly-Clark is using a movie about conservation to sell Kleenex, a disposable paper product containing absolutely no recycled content. Disney/Pixar's new animated film Wall*E is set in a distant future when the Earth is barren of ... keep reading
Written by Greenpeace this month, about Consumerism, Deforestation, Media (3 comments)
Editor's Note: This post comes to us courtesy of Tan Copsey of China Dialogue as part of our series on China that we will be running throughout the 2008 Olympics. Despite gloomy pre-games predictions, in Beijing face-masks are yet to join lycra and running shoes as an athletes accessory ... keep reading
Written by Tan Copsey this month, about Air Quality, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Consumerism, Deforestation, Economics, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Health, Politics, Pollution, Protest
In June, Florida's governor, Charlie Crist, announced that U.S. Sugar Corp. (the nation's largest sugar producer) and the state were close to finalizing an agreement on the purchase of U.S. Sugar's 300 square miles of Everglades holding. Environmentalists like Kirk Fordham of the Everglades Foundation ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts this month, about Agriculture & Food, Deforestation, Economics, Environment & Wildlife, Industry, Politics (2 comments)
Preservation of globally important wild spaces like wetlands and tropical forests tends to hinge on a question of economics; how can developing regions preserve these vast swaths of land without losing the financial benefits of developing them? Logging, for example, threatens old growth and tropical forests around the world, but ... keep reading
Written by Amy Anaruk this month, about Climate Change, Deforestation, Economics, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Politics
If you thought the Canadian boreal forest preservation plan was big, get a load of this one straight out of Southern Africa. The Democratic Republic of Congo recently announced the designation of the Ngiri-Tumba-Maindombe area around Lake Tumba as a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention. It's ... keep reading
Written by Amy Anaruk this month, about Agriculture & Food, Carbon Sequestration, Deforestation, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Water
Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins The Bad News: Almost half the world's primate species are under threat of extinction because they are being eaten or having their homes destroyed by Man. Monkeys, lemurs, langurs and great apes are among the primates under threat of eradication in a review ... keep reading
Written by Marc Roberts this month, about Deforestation, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters
The home of the Surui tribe in the western Brazilian state of Rondônia was once the centre of an enormous lush rainforest. Today, the 600,000-acre reserve is a small green island standing alone amidst a barren wasteland. In time, if nothing is done to prevent it, the Surui ... keep reading
Written by John P. this month, about Climate Change, Deforestation, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Industry, Logging, Media (12 comments)
Zimbabwe, which currently faces seemingly intractable social, political and economic problems, also has some of the worst environmental indicators in the world with ecosystems either in decline or under severe threat. The country did institute some good environmental protection programmes in the decade following independence from British rule in 1980 ... keep reading
Written by Masimba B. this month, about Agriculture & Food, Deforestation, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Politics, Water
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