PLANET IN PERIL

Stephanie Brault - Council on Hemispheric Affairs Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern... Deforested area for agricultural in State of Mato Grosso, Brazil. (flickr photo by leoffreitas)

USA Coal VS Canada Tar Sands? - America's dirty little secret http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/americas-dirty-little-secret/article1331242/ Influence wielded by coal-producing states - 25 of them - is the big reason the U.S. is a climate-change laggard Jeffrey Sachs - Sachs is a professor of economics and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. ======================================= TAR SANDS - Canada's Mordor - Council of Canadians http://www.canadians.org/energy/issues/tarsands/index.html “To me, the tar sands are Canada’s Mordor. The air is foul, the water is being drained and poisoned and giant tailings ponds line the Athabasca river” – Maude Barlow, Council of Canadians Chairperson and Senior Advisor on Water to the President of the UN General Assembly ======================================= Canada's Sorry Climate Change Policies - Sierra Club Canada http://www.one-blue-marble.com/canada-and-clima

By Nell Greenberg, AlterNet. Posted November 5, 2009. Coal River Mountain can be a wind farm that provides 85,000 households with electricity, creates 700 long-term green jobs but inside it is being... Mountaintop Removal site (Wikipedia)

By Sonma Laxmi, in Bhopal 11 Nov 2009 - Telegraph.uk.com Survivors of the world's worst industrial disaster in India's Bhopal city are astonished by plans to throw the site open...

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 06:02 PM PST Ottawa - Sierra Club Canada has learned that Minister Jim Prentice has established a Climate Change War Room.....

By Makenna Goodman, Chelsea Green Publishing. Posted November 6, 2009. Bees teach us how to live our life in... l.p. photo

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - November 10, 2009 WASHINGTON – A new EPA study shows concentrations of toxic chemicals in fish tissue from lakes and reservoirs in nearly all 50 U.S. states. For the first time, EPA is able to estimate the percentage of lakes and reservoirs nationwide that have fish containing potentially harmful levels of chemicals such as mercury and PCBs. “These results reinforce Administrator Jackson’s strong call for revitalized protection of our nation’s waterways and long-overdue action to protect the American people,” said Peter S. Silva, assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Water. “EPA is aggressively tackling the issues the report highlights. Before the results were even finalized, the agency initiated efforts to further reduce toxic mercury pollution and strengthen enforcement of the Clean Water Act – all part of a renewed effort to protect the nation’s health and environment.” The data showed mercury c

Published on Tu. No. 10, 2009 by The Guardian/UK - by Terry Macalister The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the...

BBC - Oct. 10 - '09 - Australia's koalas could be wiped out within 30 years unless urgent action is... photograph by koala.net

CBC - Sun Nov 8 An oil spill in Nova Scotia on Sunday has contaminated the Little Sackville River...

ScienceDaily Nov. 3 '09 The remaining ice fields atop famed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania could be gone within.... Africa Travel Resource