Kenya Burns Indigenous People Out of Ancestral Lands (via Environment News Service) NAIROBI, Kenya, January 22, 2014 (ENS) – The Kenyan government has sent Kenya Forest Service guards, with police support, to Embobut Forest in the Cherangany Hills to forcibly and illegally evict thousands of Sengwer indigenous people from their ancestral…

We are observing drastic changes in our climate. More changes are predicted, but there are still some people who do not want to believe it. Do they understand the science behind Global Worming? Do we understand it? If your answer is no, then consider learning about it! Here is a golden opportunity to learn the Read More …

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published it’s 2013 edition of ‘Environment at a Glance’ – a compilation of key environmental indicators. “Good” news The report shows progress in some areas such as air pollution, transport and biodiversity protection. Since the 1990s pressure on the environment has generally been at a slower pace than Read More …

Large Carnivores Disappearing From the Earth (via Environment News Service) CORVALLIS, Oregon, January 10, 2014 (ENS) – The decline of large predators such as lions, leopards, wolves, otters, and bears is changing landscapes from the tropics to the Arctic, finds a new study from scientists in the United States, Australia,…

Chemicals 400 Times as Mutagenic as Known Carcinogens Found (via Environment News Service) CORVALLIS, Oregon, January 6, 2014 (ENS) – Newly identified compounds produced by chemical reactions in vehicle exhaust or by grilling meat are hundreds of times more mutagenic than their cancer-causing parent compounds, according to scientists at…

Fantastic new research by Niewiadomska and Gifford sheds light how extraordinary complex evolution can be and how human actions can create newly emergent disease. The human actions involved were all good-meaning and intended as beneficial for the conservation of biodiversity and to combat human disease: captive breeding in zoos and human medicine. Unforeseeable circumstances and Read More …

  Well, we had the International Year of Biodiversity – 2010 –, for which an international commitment to achieve a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss was declared (Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), 2002). It failed. See, for example, the articles by Vié et al. 2009 and Butchard et al. 2010. Now we Read More …