The hour is late as the world's last great forests are fed into the Chinese Foundry to supply America amongst others with ill-gotten timbers. The Washington Post has written an excellent front-page expose on Chinese timber market, corruption, illegal logging and more. "Some of the largest swaths of

New polls show the vast majority of Australians and Americans to be concerned with climate change. Bipartisan majorities of Americans (90% Democrats, 80% Independents and 60% Republicans) say "the heating of the earth?s atmosphere is having serious effects on the environment now or will soon and th

The fact that all biofuels are not created equal in terms of environmental benefits is starting to get more press coverage and policy-makers are being forced to face the issue of "deforestation biofuels" [search] -- those like palm and soya oils that destroy rainforests releasing much more carbon th

Even as the Bush government continues its criminal climate change obstruction [search], yet another U.S. institution has entered the fray regarding the seriousness of dramatically reducing carbon emissions to mitigate against the worst possible impacts of sudden or abrupt climate change. This time i

Ugandan police have opened fire at hundreds of Mabira rainforest protection campaigners in Uganda protesting against government plans to allocate forest land to a sugar company. Ecological Internet is sad to report that two local rainforest conservationists, protesting to save the Mabira protected

The atmospheric system scored a rare victory in the United States' political system, as the Supreme Court in an important climate change [search] test case voted 5-4 that the EPA must regulate automobile's carbon emissions. It was ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to r

It was so hard not to be blogging on climate change these past few weeks with so much going on in climate policy as I had to put in hours instead setting up and tweaking Ecological Internet's new server hardware, software and moving over the content. OK enough crying about that. Now thankfully that

In order to get on with major reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, within both a still functional biosphere and viable capitalistic system, the price of emitting carbon must be set -- and quickly and accurately. There are two primary methods of doing so - the establishment of carbon markets [sear

Dear colleagues,Over the last several weeks the Climate Ark and other Ecological Internet web site have been moved to a massive new server with over four times the capacity of its former host. This was necessary as on recent high-volume traffic days, such as the release of the UNFCCC first summary r

The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) -- the main UN international group studying climate change -- has released the second installment of the IPCC fourth assessment report enitled "Impact, Adaptation and Vulnerability" [more | more2]. Building on February's IPCC report which found human