(Earth) -- A new type of environmental news service launches this week, as "
Earth's Newsdesk" will report upon ecological science, policy and advocacy from the Earth's perspective.
Ecological Internet will begin regularly providing biocentric media releases and feature articles for publication elsewhere. This continues a long list of firsts from EI and its predecessors, including the web's first blog and environmental search engine. The free service will build upon Ecological Internet's
constant...
Leading climate science
Dr. James Hansen [search], who heads NASA's noted Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has called for an
immediate halt in the construction of coal-fired power stations [
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Ecological Internet has strongly supported for years, and this political ecology represents climate science that matters. When being is threatened, it is time for expert academics to come down from their ivory towers and engage in sufficient ecological policy responses. Dr Hansen...
TAKE ACTION! Plans by Australian woodchip giant Gunns Ltd., to continue clearcutting of Tasmania's ancient forests to feed a massive new
paper pulp mill [search],
appear to be near final collapse [
ark]. Gunns is scrambling to raise the cash needed to build the AU$2 billion pulp mill and to meet a looming federal government environmental approval deadline. Chief executive of Leighton Holdings, the proposed builder of the mill, has even stated the project is...
(Earth) --
Rainforest Action Network (RAN) of San Francisco has long been one of America's leading rainforest campaign organizations. Yet in July their campaign to protect Ontario,
Canada's boreal forests [search] doomed half this vital global ecological system to industrial destruction. In return, RAN and other proponents received vague promises of protections over a decade from now, but no protected area boundaries or protection plans. Canada's boreal forests are home to...