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Chemical Treaty Covers Additional Pollutants

Ben Block

Updated Version An international treaty designed to eradicate the world's most harmful chemicals was expanded this past week to include nine additional pollutants. Five of the pollutants are no longer in production and will be banned entirely. The remaining four chemicals will be phased out with various exemptions. Environmental advocates warned that the exemptions will ensure that health concerns associated with the chemicals will continue for many generations. The controversial additions...

In Gabon, Activists Challenge Chinese Mine

Ben Block

Six relatively unknown grassroots activists from around the globe receive a moment in the spotlight when the Goldman Environmental Prize announces its list of annual recipients. The prize, now in its 19th year, is considered the Nobel Prize for the environment. Past recipients include Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, former Brazilian environment minister Marina Silva, and Nigerian environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was killed seven months after his recognition.The Worldwatch...

Germany Deals Blow to GM Crops

WorldChanging Team

by Kate Connolly Germany has thrown its weight behind a growing European mutiny over genetically modified crops by banning the planting of a widely grown pest-resistant corn variety.Agriculture minister Ilse Aigner said there was enough evidence to support arguments that MON 810, which is the only GM crop widely grown in Europe, posed a danger."I have come to the conclusion that genetically-modified corn from the MON 810 strain constitutes a danger to the environment," Aigner told reporters...

Alliance Formed to Limit Invasive Species

Ben Block

A partnership between the United Nations and global shipping companies will attempt to control the overseas travel of unwelcome invasive species, the international agency announced last week. The collaboration, known as the Global Industry Alliance, will encourage the shipping industry to share approaches on limiting the number of invasive species transferred in ballast water, the leading cause of introducing a marine alien species. The International Maritime Organization (IMO), United...

Oceanographer Charles Moore Talks Trash at TED

Sarah Kuck

Solution to Seas of Plastic: End "Throwaway Culture" Charles Moore captains the Algalita, a marine research vessel belonging to the foundation of the same name. During a research voyage, Moore discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Moore tells the TED audience, 'end throwaway culture to end the growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our seas.' Many of the most encouraging solutions involve stopping the waste stream at the...

Obama Reverses Bush Decision on Endangered Species Act

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by Suzanne Goldenberg US President Barack Obama Barack Obama restored protections for endangered species today in a roll-back of one of the most contentious last-minute rule changes of the George Bush era."For more than three decades, the Endangered Species Act has successfully protected our nation's most threatened wildlife, and we should be looking for ways to improve it - not weaken it," Obama said today.The rule change, which was made final in mid-December last year, left it up to...

Ecosystem Markets Take Off

Ben Block

Image credit: WikipediaEcosystem markets, exchanges of nature's various services, are adding new dimensions to conservation. In addition to using regulation to restrict development, more countries are turning to the invisible hand of the market to protect biodiversity, clean waterways, and fight climate change. In a nutshell, market-based approaches assign an economic value to ecosystem services such as erosion control, flood buffers, and clean air. In some circumstances, developers are...

Picturing an End for Mountaintop Removal

Sarah Kuck

Flying over the Appalachian Mountains of West Virgina will undoubtedly award you with stunning views of rolling blue-green hillsides, deep misty valleys and high plateaus. But from your birds-eye view, you might also be accosted by the sight of unnatural-looking, rocky bald spots where the tops of mountains used to be. Mountaintop removal/valley fill coal mining in southern West Virginia Photo by Vivian Stockman Mountaintop removal is technique used for finding more coal in which miners...

WWF Living Planet Report 2008

Julia Levitt

The Living Planet Report 2008, a study published by the WWF, offers the organization's most in-depth study of global ecosystem decline to date. The report combines data from the Living Planet Index (a survey of 1,313 vertebrate species from both land and water habitats around the world), global ecological footprints, and also studies of water resources (we've covered previous editions of the Living Planet Report). According to Pavan Sukhdev, lead author, The Economics of Ecosystems and...

Ecosystem Services of Tropical Forests to be Protected with Precedent-Setting Memorandum

Sarah Kuck

Earlier this week California, Illinois and Wisconsin joined forces with six states in Brazil and Indonesia to fight climate change in an unprecedented way: the states will develop programs that will protect and restore tropical rainforests to ensure the safety of these essential carbon sinks. According to a recent release from Marshall Maher of Conservation International, by signing the memorandum of understanding (MOU), the governors are stating that they are willing to pay for the...

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