The Nature Conservancy - Protecting land and water for nature and people. Sharks deserve the conservation status we give to the giant panda. If these animals lived on land there would be a global outcry.
But the great beasts roaming the savannahs of the open seas summon no such support. Big sharks, giant tuna, marlin and swordfish should have the conservation status of the giant panda or the snow leopard. Yet still we believe it is acceptable for fishmongers to sell them and celebrity chefs to teach us how to cook them. Understanding Urban Ecosystems - A New Frontier for Science and Education. Book Review - 'Hot, Flat, and Crowded,' by Thomas L. Friedman - Review. Environment Weekly. Fire and Memory: On Architecture and Energy (Writing Architecture): 洋書: Luis Fernandez-Galiano,Luis Gernandez-Galiano. Green news and features & advice on ethical living. Which is the most vital ecosystem?
Palm oil: the biofuel of the future driving an ecological disaster now. The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Wednesday April 11 2007 The estimated emissions from fires in degraded peatlands in Indonesia are 1,400m tonnes of carbon dioxide per annum and not, as we stated in the article below, 1,400 tonnes.
This has been corrected. The numbers are damning. Within 15 years 98% of the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia will be gone, little more than a footnote in history. With them will disappear some of the world's most important wildlife species, victims of the rapacious destruction of their habitat in what conservationists see as a lost cause. Yet this gloomy script was supposed to have included a small but significant glimmer of hope. More startling is that conservationists believe the move to clear land for this "green fuel" is often little more than a conspiracy, providing cover to strip out the last stands of timber not already lost to illegal loggers.
The wasteland: how years of secret chemical dumping left a toxic legacy. The old toxic waste dump at Brofiscin quarry smells of sick when it rains and the small brook that flows from it gushes a vivid orange.
Barton Williams, its owner, says he had no idea exactly what lies below his land, or how dangerous it is. "It's leaking, isn't it? It's the wrong colour. They haven't told me what's in there. The Environment Agency hasn't been open about what's in it at all and the council didn't even tell me it was toxic waste when I bought the land. He remembers tankers dumping drums, slurry and sludge from the Monsanto chemical works in Newport and elsewhere in the 36-metre deep quarry on the edge of Groesfaen village near Cardiff. Groesfaen, now a Cardiff commuter village, is full of recently built £250,000 executive homes - some right on the edge of the quarry. Monsanto dumped toxic waste in UK. Evidence has emerged that the Monsanto chemical company paid contractors to dump thousands of tonnes of highly toxic waste in British landfill sites, knowing that their chemicals were liable to contaminate wildlife and people.
Yesterday the Environment Agency said it had launched an inquiry after the chemicals were found to be polluting underground water supplies and the atmosphere 30 years after they were dumped. According to the agency it could cost up to £100m to clean up a site in south Wales that has been called "one of the most contaminated" in the country. A previously unseen government report read by the Guardian shows that 67 chemicals, including Agent Orange derivatives, dioxins and PCBs which could have been made only by Monsanto, are leaking from one unlined porous quarry that was not authorised to take chemical wastes. The documents show that in 1953, company chemists tested the PCB chemicals on rats and found that they killed more than 50% with medium-level doses. The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate And What It Means For Life On Earth: 洋書: Tim F. Flannery. This book was recommended to me by one of Canada's leading advocates for saving the Polar Regions.
He told me I should read this book if I wanted to read the best book that has been written on climate change. I was skeptical, but he was right. This is the best book I have found on the subject of climate change. The author, Tim Flannery, is a well recognized scientist himself. He begins the book by discussing his reservations about global warming, how scientists are supposed to be skeptical and how much data must be present before scientific consensus can occur. In the book, the author starts discussing climate change from many different scientific aspects. In addition, he does a great job showing how something happening in one place may affect a totally different region of the world. Finally, the author discusses what is being done and by whom. The Nature Conservancy: Nature Stories podcast - Podcasting by The Nature Conservancy. Human Ecology: Basic Concepts for Sustainable Development.
Gerald G Marten Earthscan 2001 The scope and clarity of this book make it accessible and informative to a wide readership.
Ecology books. Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture (Leonardo Books): Books: Matthew Fuller.