It’s a sad reflection of reality that my first reaction to the news of Hang Serei Oudom’s murder was not one of shock or surprise.

The Cambodian journalist’s body was found last week in the boot of his own car. He had apparently been axed to death just days after reporting on links between the military and illegal logging there.

Oudom’s story…

An agricultural scientist Professor Wayne Powell has hinted that, the use of Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is more dangerous to humans health than the consumption of genetically modified foods (GMOs).…

Dear colleagues

I have created a new group on this site for anyone who will be at (or is especially interested in) the Conference of Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity -- or COP11 -- which takes place in Hyderabad, India.

You can view or join the group here. The official COP11 page is here:…

CHAOS WITH PESTICIDES



By Kruno Kartus

This article has been published with a support of the Danish network for investigative journalism Scoop www.i-scoop.org. The investigation received "Velebitska degenija", an annual award of Croatian Journalist's Association for the best environmental story in 2011.

LEAD – For the buying of pesticides, at the…

First Results of World Wide Views on Biodiversity: Three quarters of citizens were very concerned about biodiversity loss, people in developing countries feel more affected. Citizens agree that all countries should pay for protection, but the main part should come from developed countries.

The 3,000 participants of World Wide Views on Biodiversity (WWViews) – the first-ever global citizen consultation on biodiversity - were selected to reflect the demographic…

North-Cameroon

Floods leave 15 deads

More than 20 000 persons forced to abandon homes following heavy rains in the region.

Perhaps it should come as no surprise that the commitments to sustainable transportation were some of the greatest achievements of June’s Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD). Very little could exemplify the world’s need for sustainable transport to the delegates better than the average of 6 cumulative hours per day they spent on buses in a traffic-choked commute to the exurban conference site. It was a clear sign that despite having adopted strong language for…

„World Wide Views on Biodiversity“ organizes local consultations of laypeople worldwide. Citizens views on a global challenge - the rapid loss of biodiversity - will be collected on September 15 and might enhance negotiations at the matching UN-Conference in October.

The citizen participation project  „World Wide Views on Biodiversity“ (WWViews) will take place 15th of September 2012 in…

Virunga National Park, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has evacuated staff from three of five patrol posts around Mikeno Sector, the mountain gorilla sector of the park, due to heavy fighting between rebels and the Congolese army over the weekend.

The Chief Warden for Virunga National Park, Dr. Emmanuel de Merode, said in a statement released by the park “We are deeply concerned with the safety of the mountain gorillas who…

Madagascar’s Lemurs Found To Be World’s Most Threatened Mammal Species

New book links sustainable diets, food biodiversity & food security

SciStarter.com is a website devoted to tracking citizen science projects involving everything from bees to sharks to the Mars landing, or as their website says:

SciStarter will bring together the millions of citizen scientists in the world; the thousands of potential projects offered by researchers, organizations, and companies; and the…

UNESCO seeks consultants to produce foresight reports on the use of ICTs in citizen science and by indigenous peoples

This should really NOT be happening..........

PADI DIVE CENTER in Larnaca, Cyprus, killing Sharks by offering Shark-Fishing Tour....

No question to boycott such facility, but even more – share this wherever you can and make it public

Nireas…

Genetically engineered (GE) foods have been heralded as the solution to food shortages in the future, as biotech companies modify the DNA of crops in an effort to make them more robust. Certain GE crops can now withstand freezing temperatures or are resilient to heavy applications of pesticides and herbicides.

GE crops are widespread in the United States. Nationwide, 93 percent of the soybean crop is genetically modified to resist the large volumes of herbicides used to combat…

Although most analysts assume that the world’s population will rise from today’s 7 billion to 9 billion by 2050, it is quite possible that humanity will never reach this population size.

My chapter in this year’s State of the World 2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity, “Nine Population Strategies to Stop Short of 9 Billion,” outlines a series of strategies that would prompt significant declines in birth rates. Based purely on the intention of women around the world to…