Interesting report – arguably air pollution is transboundary, spreading across the entire globe and anthropogenic in origin, so surely invalidates the report hypothesis? Read on below:
More than 40 percent of Australia, an area the size of India, remains untouched by humans, making the country as critical to the world’s environment as the Amazon rainforests, a [...]
Almost half of Australia untouched by humans: study
August 27th, 2008 · No Comments
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Rockies wilderness at risk from latest dash for gas
August 6th, 2008 · No Comments
A cougar on the banks of the Flathead river in the Canadian Rockies. Photograph: Getty Images/Panoramic RR
It has been called one of North America’s wildest places. Just north of the US-Canada border, the wooded slopes of the Canadian Rockies channel unpolluted water into a valley that remains free of human development. Grizzly bears, cougars and [...]
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500 Square Miles of Montana Wilderness Bought Up, Protected From Development
July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
photo by brklynnovember via flickr
I don’t think it’s enough of a pattern to be called a trend, but after Florida buying up a large chunk of the Everglades for restoration to its natural state, and now something similar happening in Montana, things are looking a little better for US wild spaces.
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Tourism is encroaching on Antarctica.
June 7th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Fragile continent: penguins on an iceberg in Antarctica. Photograph: Corbis
There has been a rush of “see it before it’s gone” tourism in recent years. The advent of “climate tourism“, and its close relative “extinction tourism“, has been reflected in (and encouraged by, no doubt) travel journalism.
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