Naomi Klein for The Guardian The Deepwater Horizon disaster is not just an industrial accident – it is a violent wound inflicted on the Earth itself. In this special report from the Gulf coast, a leading author and activist shows how it lays bare the hubris at the heart of capitalism Everyone gathered for the [...]
Gulf oil spill: A hole in the world
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Filed Under biodiversity, conservation, delta, disaster, fish, flora and fauna, forestry, habitat, mangrove, oceans, pollution, salinity, wetland, world water Tags: biodiversity, bp, british petroleum, Deepwater Horizon, environment monitoring, habitat loss, loss of biodiversity, mangrove forests, mangroves, oilspill, pollution
Species' extinction threat grows
By admin in November 3rd 2009 No Comment »
Filed Under biodiversity, climate change, communications, conservation, flora and fauna, habitat, wetland, world water Tags: authoritative assessment, biodiversity conservation, conservation group, extinction crisis, habitat loss, IUCN, iucn red list, iucn red list of threatened species, red list, species extinction
Filed Under biodiversity, climate change, communications, conservation, flora and fauna, habitat, wetland, world water Tags: authoritative assessment, biodiversity conservation, conservation group, extinction crisis, habitat loss, IUCN, iucn red list, iucn red list of threatened species, red list, species extinction
From The BBC | Science & Environment More than a third of species assessed in a major international biodiversity study are threatened with extinction, scientists have warned. Out of the 47,677 species in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 17,291 were deemed to be at serious risk. These included 21% of mammals, 30% of [...]
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