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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

IPCC – 5th – 2015

Image: IPCC Logo – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Below are some discretionarily selected parts – with no further comments – from the summary of 5th IPCC report. Ref: IPCC,…

Political monkey-business?

The first story seems to suggest a London politician wants to lead the way for divestment from fossil fuels … especially ‘dirty coal’. Bravo! Or not? http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/17/britain-coal-investment-fossil-fuel-assets-worthless-divestment The second story…

Another great story from Discover Conservation

Thanks to James Borrell for his organisation; to Jessica Plumb for her interview; & most importantly to Ashish for his first-class fieldwork and all of those folk who have helped…

Visiting countries - last 24 hours - 2015.03.17

Our achievements in two weeks, since our website is public

Hi Everybody, below is a short summary of what we have achieved since March 3., the 2nd World Wildlife Day when I announced our website on LinkedIn and lifted the…

Sustainable fish-eating!

Well done to Caerdydd, good effort 🙂 http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/mar/16/cardiff-worlds-first-sustainable-fish-city

Faeces First?

Well done First West 🙂 http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/15/uk-first-poo-bio-bus-bristol-regular-service 0 0 https://edfarmaciaonline.com

Water World and the impact of climate change

Image: People in the industrialised world often don’t understand why climate change might be of any concern. Too often they frame their viewpoint in terms of how it affects their…

Incense stick production in Hue, Vietnam

TPP and TTIP: What are these all about?

Image: As TTIP came up recently in Mike’s post, I made a search and found plenty of writings discussing all the potential dangers on the horizon resulting from these trade…

The ‘poodle’ bites back!!!

This is the first bit of noise concerning this issue. We know that politicians are remarkably untrustworthy, therefore cannot believe anything they say. Such platitudes as ‘don’t worry, it’ll be…

Water, water everywhere, yet not a drop to drink

As many of us already know the most precious resource on Earth is drinking water ~ life soon collapses without it. Not only do we use it very unsustainably, but…

David Hill: Palm oil fields in Peru

Palm oil yet again

Image: Four oil palm plantations connected to the Palmas del Espino company are proposed in the northern Peruvian Amazon. Photograph: David Hill/David Hill Although this is potentially dire for the…

Marriage equality support in US

BIG team to support marriage equality

Image: First I was really disappointed to see that this topic is important enough for the blue-chips to spend effort on it. But soon after I realized that actually it…

The impact of road-building on biodiversity loss

As this article makes clear: building roads improves access to previous wilderness areas. We know for sure that where people can get to, they will take. Greed, lack of responsibility,…

The East India Company: A lesson from the past?

If you’ve never read about the British Raj, you might appreciate this insightful and very well-written piece. Look at how many threads are being rewoven by mega-corporates today; dodgy politicians…

Fossil pushes Homo genus back to nearly 3 million years ago

I like this. I’ve had a long interest in this part of the world and its remarkable treasures 🙂 Jaw bone discovery in Ethiopia is oldest ever human lineage remains

Does the global human population mean an end to biodiversity?

Garrett Hardin wrote in The tragedy of the commons (1968) [Science 162: 1243?1248] that the complete freedom of human reproduction, which already resulted in overpopulation of the Earth fifty years…

Solar-powered flight going well.

Things getting better every day 🙂 Solar impulse plane flight

Tongareva Atoll: we are going solar!

Kia Orana everyone, very exciting news from this extremely remote atoll in the South Pacific. Last Friday a ship arrived with everything required to build a solar-power station on our…

Confiscated smuggled pangolins

Rescued pangolins sold as food by rangers

Image: How such deliberate cruelty can be handled – and more importantly – prevented in the future? What has to be done to get the message through to these people…

Sustaining Nature for Sustainable Living-The Legal Aspects

Nature, biodiversity and human health: how strong is the evidence? Posted on February 2, 2015 by Policy In recent years there has been a growing recognition of the vital links between the natural…