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Friday, March 12, 2010   3:42 GMT


Stories by Stephen Leahy

Stephen Leahy has worked as a freelance Canadian journalist for the past 12 years, including five writing for IPS. Leahy specialises in science, the environment and agriculture. He has been published in leading magazines and newspapers in several countries. Based in Brooklin, near Toronto, Canada, Leahy is a professional member of the Society of Environmental Journalists.

ENVIRONMENT: Tsunami of E-Waste Could Swamp Developing Countries
by Stephen Leahy
The mighty mountains of hazardous electronic waste are growing by about 40 million tonnes a year globally. In China, India and South Africa, those mountains are expected to grow 200 to 500 percent in the next decade, a new report warns.
CLIMATE CHANGE: "Canada Is the Dinosaur"
by Stephen Leahy* - IPS/TerraViva
Canada bears a large share of responsibility for any failure to make a breakthrough in reducing greenhouse gas emissions here in Copenhagen, say participants and civil society activists.
ENVIRONMENT: A Dozen Countries Take on Toxic Pollution
by Stephen Leahy
Of the tens of thousands of toxic sites affecting the health of 500 million people in the middle- and low-income countries of world, only 12 are being cleaned up, according to a new report.
BIODIVERSITY: Earth's Life Support Systems Failing
by Stephen Leahy
The world has failed to slow the accelerating extinction crisis despite 17 years of national and international efforts since the great hopes raised at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
BIODIVERSITY: Dwindling Fish Catch Could Leave a Billion Hungry
by Stephen Leahy
Fish catches are expected to decline dramatically in the world's tropical regions because of climate change, but may increase in the north, said a new study published Thursday.
Q&A: "We Can't Afford to Let the Planet Get Much Hotter"
by Stephen Leahy interviews LESTER BROWN, founder of the Earth Policy Institute
Lester Brown says his views sometimes appear extreme - because the mainstream media largely doesn't understand the urgency and challenges in avoiding catastrophic climate change.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Time Running Out on Vows to Act, Scientists Warn
by Stephen Leahy
Promises are easy to make. But promises by world leaders will not halt the heat-trapping carbon emissions that are dialing-up global temperatures and altering the climate, say critics and climate researchers meeting in this U.S. Midwestern city.
ENVIRONMENT: Ozone Treaty May Hold Key to Halting Climate Change
by Stephen Leahy
Will the world take the easy step to phase out &com;super&com; greenhouse gases – hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) - using the existing Montreal Protocol ozone treaty? Doing so would be equivalent to preventing the release of 118 to 224 billion metric tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2050, according to a report by the Environmental Investigation Agency.
BIODIVERSITY: Amateur Biologists Join Global Bid to Catalog Species
by Stephen Leahy
Save the living environment and the physical environment will automatically be saved, according to E.O. Wilson, the world's leading biologist and father of the online Encyclopedia of Life, which plans to create a web page for every known species - all 1.8-plus million.
ENVIRONMENT: Monsanto, Dow Stacking the Deck, Critics Say
by Stephen Leahy
The most complex genetically engineered corn (maize) yet has been approved for use next year in Canada and the United States without its potential health and environmental risks being investigated, anti-biotech activists charged Wednesday.
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