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About Stephen Leahy
I’ve been an journalist for 15 years covering environmental issues around the world. More and more people are aware of the crisis we face and want to know what they can do. That’s what this blog is about — what you and I can do in our lives, communities and ... Continue reading »
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Latest Articles by Stephen- New Projects Dispel Myths and Spread the Truth About VaccinesBy Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, May 3, 2012 (IPS) In northern Pakistan, one in ten children dies before the age of five from diseases such as polio, measles or hepatitis, despite the availability of vaccines. And while health workers feared visiting this region, which includes the mountainous Swat district controlled by the Taliban until 2009, [...]
- Global Forest Decline with Warming Temperatures Scientists Warn“Forests diebacks are taking place all around the world. The evidence is quite sobering,” said tropical biologist Daniel Nepstad of IPAM in Belem, Brazil. This reinforces the urgent need to reduce emissions of fossils fuels and to develop a global land strategy to turn sources of CO2 into sinks for CO2, he said. “Most of [...]
- Limited Liability - Nuclear Energy's 'Mother of all Subsidies' Reblogged from Stephen Leahy, International Environmental Journalist: By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, May 6, 2011 (IPS) The nuclear energy industry only exists thanks to what insurance experts call the “mother of all subsidies”, and the public is largely unaware that every nuclear power plant in the world has a strict cap on how much the [...]
- Wealthy Countries and Investors Buying Up Farmland in Poor CountriesLopiso Lagebo, 25, comes from Kambata, a small town 800km away from Metahar. He starts working at 0500, cuts up to 5 tons (5,000 kg) of sugar cane a day and earns $0.8. The company recruits most of the work force around his home town, where land shortage drives the workers to emigrate. Caption and [...]
- New Projects Dispel Myths and Spread the Truth About Vaccines
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