Africa is facing an unprecedented surge in road and railway building with 33 huge 'development corridors' planned that threaten 2,400 of the continent's protected wildlife areas, writes Bill Laurance. We must block the most destructive plans and limit avoidable impacts on natural areas - before it's too late.
… a paper published late last year in Current Biology , my colleagues and I assess the …
The sudden shift from 'Least Concern' to 'Vulnerable' status for all four species of giraffe is a red flag for their survival, writes Bill Laurance. Hunted down by poachers with automatic weapons for their 'trophy' tails, their range fragmented by roads and mines, and their woodland habitat cleared for farms or burnt for charcoal, giraffes need our help, fast.
It's time to stand tall for imperilled giraffes Bill Laurance James Cook University | 15th December 2016 Comment Africa Giraffes Extinction Development 2-giraffes-cut.jpg The sudden shift from 'Least …
Roads, mines, dams, power lines, pipelines and other infrastructure projects are fast eating into the world's 'core forests', writes Bill Laurance. These rare and precious places where wildlife and ecological processes can flourish undisturbed must come before the evanescent gains of 'development'. To save what's left, governments and funders must learn the word 'No!'
Saying 'No!' A last chance for the world's forests Bill Laurance James Cook University | 5th February 2016 News Forests Development Transport Conservation Africa Brazil Malaysia amazon-dam-cut.jpg …
New development financiers like China's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank are driving a global attack on the environment, writes Bill Laurance. With their fast track 'no questions asked' procedures, they are financing a wave of destructive mega-projects, giving the World Bank and other lenders the excuse to lower their already weak safeguards.
New development banks propel environmental 'race to the bottom' Bill Laurance James Cook University | 8th April 2016 Comment Finance Development Ecocide China aiib-cut.jpg New development financiers …
Ingested Uranium is linked with health impacts far greater than is explained by orthodox risk models. Chris Busby explains how the 'demon metal' does its damage - and why the nuclear industry is desperate to hide the truth.
… mainly physicists and not interested in the biology of internal exposures. Who knows? …
The discovery of a tiny but deadly radioactive 'hot particle' in mud from the Esk estuary near Sellafield has highlighted the dangers the nuclear site poses to residents and visitors, writes Chris Busby. Independent measures of radiation show far higher levels that those of regulators, similar to readings in the Chernobyl and Fukushima exclusion zones. Local villages should be evacuated.
Killer 'hot particle': Sellafield coast 'like Chernobyl and Fukushima exclusion zones' Chris Busby | 20th March 2017 News Nuclear Radiation Health Regulation UK Energy hot-particle-cut-cut.jpg The …
'No deforestation' pledges by global food corporations are yielding results, writes William Laurance. But now the Indonesian and Malaysian governments are calling on them to abandon their promises - even as the region's rainforests go up in smoke, cleared for new oil palm plantations. The companies must hold firm to their commitments.
As Indonesia burns, its government moves to increase forest destruction William Laurance James Cook University | 24th November 2015 Comment Forests Indonesia Malaysia Corporations Food Farming …
As the evidence of the extreme harm to health inflicted by nuclear radiation mounts, the denialists are resorting to ever greater extremes, writes Chris Busby. On the one hand, advancing the absurd claim that ionising radition is not merely harmless, but health-enhancing. On the other, closing down the experiment that would have provided the strongest evidence yet.
… is due to Elena Burlakova, Head of Radiation Biology at the Russian Academy of Sciences. …
Following the atomic bombs exploded over Japan in 1945 a second crime against humanity took place, writes Chris Busby: the deliberate falsification of science to hide the dangers of ionising radiation, perpetrated to quell public opposition to a new age of nuclear bombs and energy. The fraud continues to this day, but finally the truth is winning out.
After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a third nuclear atrocity: the corruption of science Chris Busby | 6th August 2015 Activism Nuclear War Health Japan Science nagasaki-dead-cut.jpg Following the atomic …