Timor Spill Creates 'Sea of Oil' - Compared to Exxon-Valdez!

By Najad Abdullahi in Kuala Lumpur - Aljazeera

As specialist teams extinguished a blaze on an oil rig in the Timor Sea, the 610,000sqkm expanse of water is now, according to campaigners, home to one of the worst environmental...

Thousands of species
feared at risk. Aljazeera

Conservationists Fight Proposed Amazon Road

by Ben Block on October 29, 2009 - Worldwatch Institute

Leaders of conservation groups from the United States and South America are requesting that international donors end their support for...

Farmers Set Fire to Imported Sugar in Uttar Pradesh

Sun Nov 1, 2009

LUCKNOW (Reuters) - Farmers in India's biggest cane-producing state set fire to part of a goods train...

The Tar Sands - the Dirty New Gold Rush That is Blackening Canada’s Name

November 4, 2009 - Ben Webster - TimesOnline

A giant mechanical digger gouges out a chunk of topsoil...

Editor's note: Aerial photos
of the tar sands
like this one are now being
touted as works of art!
Our callousness toward the
natural world is surely now
complete. l.p.

Worldwatch Report: Global Environmental Change: The Threat to Human Health

Global Environmental Change: The Threat to Human Health Author: Samuel S. Myers, MD, MPH

Climate Negotiators Grow Impatient at Lack of Leadership From America (& Canada,too?l.p.)

UN and EU pile pressure on US to set ambitious carbon cuts...

• John Vidal in Barcelona
• guardian.co.uk, Monday 2 November 2009