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ALERT! Final Push Needed to Stop Australia’s Tasmanian Ancient Forest Pulping for Throw-Away Paper Consumption

Gunns of Australia’s controversial plans to build a huge pulp mill to make disposable consumer items largely from clearfelling ancients forests is close to failing, let us together make a final decisive push to warn off potential investors and environmental approvals and achieve its permanent withdrawal

TAKE ACTION! Plans by Australian woodchip giant Gunns Ltd., to [...]

RELEASE: RAN Sells-Out Canadian Boreal Forests

Press/Social Media Release

Rainforest Action Network greenwashes destruction of half of Ontario, Canada’s boreal forests; despite lack of any detail regarding vague promised protections, and without scientific findings that doing so is ecologically sufficient

By Earth’s Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet
Dr. Glen Barry, +1 (920) 776-1075

(Earth) — Rainforest Action Network (RAN) of San Francisco has long [...]

What If Global Warming is Non-Linear

The interesting and potentially life-defining question of “what if global warming is non-linear” [ark] is worthy of consideration. That is, if we continue to increase carbon emissions, global warming may increase exponentially — ever resulting in more change per unit of pollution — and causing crises much more rapidly. Such abrupt climate change is a [...]

Arctic Going to Hell in a Hand-Basket

The Arctic’s alarmingly rapid loss of summer sea ice [search] continues. The fact the ice has not totally melted this year is no consolation, as last year summer sea ice shrank to a record low, and total loss of sea ice — which was predicted to occur in over sixty years only a few years [...]

ALERT! Fund Ecuador to Keep Oil Underground

It is time for the international community led by Europe to step up and finance large-scale Amazon rainforest preservation to protect the Earth’s atmosphere, biodiversity, and life-giving ecosystems; while helping meet needs for national advancement

TAKE ACTION! The Western Amazon — home to some of the most biodiverse and intact rainforest left on Earth, which are [...]

Australia’s Tepid Overseas Rainforest Aid Provides Little Climate Benefit

PRESS RELEASE

Harnessing ancient primary forests for continued carbon storage requires ending industrial logging, and in Australia too

By Ecological Internet, Dr. Glen Barry, +1 (920) 776-1075

(Earth) — Ecological Internet welcomes Australia’s expression of concern about forests and climate change, demonstrated by yesterday’s release of an initial US$2 million in aid [ark] for Asia-Pacific nations to help [...]

Climate Change and Species’ Deaths (including yours)

We learned today that birds in France are unable to migrate [ark] fast enough to keep up with their habitat. And the Arctic tundra is being invaded by trees [ark]. Humans too are animals with specific heat, moisture and food requirements. Where will we run as we lose our habitat?

Climate change — and the [...]

Climate Skeptic Slap Down: the Earth is Demonstrably Heating

Recently climate skeptics [search] and sympathetic press have claimed there has been no global warming for a decade. New Scientist does a marvelous job of debunking [ark] this selective misreading of climate data by lay skeptics. Using a powerful yet simple analogy, they illustrate that surface temperatures are only one measure of global heat increases. [...]

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