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	<title>Stephen Leahy, International Environmental Journalist</title>
	
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		<title>Study: ‘Biotech Crops Bring Big Jump in Pesticide Use But Not Yields’ — hmm what would Monsanto say?</title>
		<link>http://stephenleahy.net/2009/11/17/study-biotech-crops-bring-big-jump-in-pesticide-use-but-not-yields-hmm-what-would-monsanto-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
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Report Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops reveals North America&#8217;s use of genetically engineered crops has promoted increased use of pesticides, an epidemic of herbicide-resistant weeds and more chemical residues in foods. Despite the biotechnology&#8217;s loud and well advertised claims they are the only hope for feeding the world and protect [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&blog=466880&post=2434&subd=stephenleahy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amateur Biologists Join Global Bid to Catalog All the Species on the Planet – Join the Fun</title>
		<link>http://stephenleahy.net/2009/11/17/amateur-biologists-join-global-bid-to-catalog-all-the-species-on-the-planet-join-the-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stephen Leahy
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Aug 25 (IPS) 
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Save the living environment and the physical environment will automatically be saved, according to E.O. Wilson, the world&#8217;s leading biologist and father of the online Encyclopedia of Life, which plans to create a web page for every known species &#8211; all 1.8-plus million.
Climate and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&blog=466880&post=2284&subd=stephenleahy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dwindling Fish Catch Could Leave a Billion Hungry</title>
		<link>http://stephenleahy.net/2009/11/16/dwindling-fish-catch-could-leave-a-billion-hungry/</link>
		<comments>http://stephenleahy.net/2009/11/16/dwindling-fish-catch-could-leave-a-billion-hungry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stephen Leahy
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 9 (IPS)
Without action on climate change &#8220;The collapse of fisheries in much of the world would be a sideshow,&#8221; Daniel Pauly. 

Fish catches are expected to decline dramatically in the world&#8217;s tropical regions because of climate change, but may increase in the north, said a new study published Thursday.
This mega-shift [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&blog=466880&post=2297&subd=stephenleahy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Four Degrees of Devastation</title>
		<link>http://stephenleahy.net/2009/11/08/four-degrees-of-devastation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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By Stephen Leahy

UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 9 (IPS) 
The prospect of a four-degree Celsius rise in global average temperatures in 50 years is alarming &#8211; but not alarmist, climate scientists now believe.
Eighteen months ago, no one dared imagine humanity pushing the climate beyond an additional two degrees C of heating, but rising carbon emissions and inability [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&blog=466880&post=2299&subd=stephenleahy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lavish US Lobbying Pushes Nuclear Energy — Taxpayers on the hook for 360 billion to 1.6 trillion dollars (again)</title>
		<link>http://stephenleahy.net/2009/10/27/environment-lavish-us-lobbying-pushes-nuclear-energy-ips-ipsnews-net/</link>
		<comments>http://stephenleahy.net/2009/10/27/environment-lavish-us-lobbying-pushes-nuclear-energy-ips-ipsnews-net/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stephen Leahy*
BERLIN, Jul 31 (IPS)
Climate change and the resulting need for low-carbon energy sources is driving the current interest in nuclear energy despite the industry&#8217;s near universal legacy of staggering cost-overruns, technical difficulties and dependence on enormous government subsidies.
Government interest in new nuclear energy plants seems far more political than practical or economic in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&blog=466880&post=2383&subd=stephenleahy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Out of the Forest and Into the Oven — Millions of Trees Are Being Burned for “Green Energy”</title>
		<link>http://stephenleahy.net/2009/10/26/out-of-the-forest-and-into-the-oven-millions-of-trees-are-being-burned-for-green-energy/</link>
		<comments>http://stephenleahy.net/2009/10/26/out-of-the-forest-and-into-the-oven-millions-of-trees-are-being-burned-for-green-energy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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By Stephen Leahy*
 &#8220;Europe is going to cook the world&#8217;s tropical forests to fight climate change; it&#8217;s crazy&#8221;
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Sep 24 (Tierramérica) 
Millions of trees, especially from the developing countries of the South, are being shipped to Europe and burned in giant furnaces to meet &#8220;green energy&#8221; requirements that are supposed to combat climate change.
In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&blog=466880&post=2205&subd=stephenleahy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon Emissions Can Be Reduced 80% by 2020 – Lester Brown has a plan and he’s not crazy</title>
		<link>http://stephenleahy.net/2009/10/22/carbon-emissions-can-be-reduced-80-by-2020-lester-brown-has-a-plan-and-hes-not-crazy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Leahy interviews LESTER BROWN, founder of the Earth Policy Institute
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 7 (IPS)
Lester Brown says his views sometimes appear extreme &#8211; because the mainstream media largely doesn&#8217;t understand the urgency and challenges in avoiding catastrophic climate change.
The founder and president of the Washington-based Earth Policy Institute, he is also considered by many to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&blog=466880&post=2286&subd=stephenleahy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>G8 Failure to Launch on Potential Climate Catastrophe</title>
		<link>http://stephenleahy.net/2009/10/18/g8-failure-to-launch-on-potential-climate-catastrophe/</link>
		<comments>http://stephenleahy.net/2009/10/18/g8-failure-to-launch-on-potential-climate-catastrophe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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Analysis by Stephen Leahy
BERLIN, Jul 13 (IPS)
The G8&#8217;s failure to make meaningful commitments on climate last week pushes the world ever closer to global climate catastrophe, experts warn. Without commitments to take action, there is little comfort in G8 countries&#8217; agreement to keep overall global warming below 2.0 degrees Celsius.
&#8220;If they took the 2.0-degree commitment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&blog=466880&post=2070&subd=stephenleahy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Global Day of Action Against Monsanto</title>
		<link>http://stephenleahy.net/2009/10/16/global-day-of-action-against-monsanto/</link>
		<comments>http://stephenleahy.net/2009/10/16/global-day-of-action-against-monsanto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canadians are calling and writing the Minister of Health to ask that she immediately halt the introduction of Monsanto’s new eight-trait GM (genetically modified) corn called “SmartStax” because it was not assessed for safety by Health Canada.
“SmartStax” corn was authorized this summer by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency for planting next year but was not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&blog=466880&post=2340&subd=stephenleahy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Food Supply In Deep Trouble – Agriculture Most Vulnerable to Climate Change</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stephen Leahy
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 2 (IPS) 
Rocketing food prices and hundreds of millions more starving people will be part of humanity&#8217;s grim future without concerted action on climate change and new investments in agriculture, experts reported this week.
The current devastating drought in East Africa, where millions of people are on the brink of starvation, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&blog=466880&post=2256&subd=stephenleahy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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