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Saturday, July 31, 2010 9:51 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.

Free Ride for Oil and Coal Industry May Be Over
by Stephen Leahy
Every day, governments give away an estimated two billion dollars of taxpayer money to the fossil fuel industry. This unmatched largesse to a highly profitable sector by countries verging on bankruptcy or unable to feed large numbers of their own people is &com;complete madness&com;, according to many experts.

Polar Heat Bringing Harder Winters
by Stephen Leahy
Last winter's big snowfall and cold temperatures in the eastern United States and Europe were likely caused by the loss of Arctic sea ice, researchers concluded at the International Polar Year Oslo Science Conference in Norway last week.

Europe's Green Energy Portfolio Up in Smoke?
by Stephen Leahy
Europe seems hell-bent on burning the world's forests for bioenergy, even as it offers billions of euros to save them, critics say.

Loggers, Activists Reach Deal on Canada's Vast Northwoods
by Stephen Leahy
The decades-long war in Canada's northwoods appears to be over. Environmental groups and Canadian logging companies linked arms Tuesday morning and agreed to work together to sustainably manage and protect 720,000 square kilometres of Canada's boreal forest - an area twice the size of Germany.

Q&A
Debunking the Deniers
by Stephen Leahy interviews climate expert NAOMI ORESKES
Even though 2009 was the fifth warmest year since 1850, and 2000-09 the warmest decade ever, according to the World Meterological Organisation, surveys show that public concern about global warming in the United States and Canada has dropped sharply in the past 18 months.

CLIMATE CHANGE
In Canada, No News is Bad News
by Stephen Leahy
Canada's climate researchers are being muzzled, their funding slashed, research stations closed, findings ignored and advice on the critical issue of the century unsought by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government, according to a 40-page report by a coalition of 60 non-governmental organisations.

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.

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