Roads to ruin: The most environmentally destructive highways in Southeast Asia
From ALERT–the Alliance of Leading Environmental Researchers & Thinkers Roads scare the bejeezus out of many scientists because they often open a Pandora’s Box of environmental problems — such as unleashing illegal deforestation, logging, hunting, mining, and land speculation. For that reason it’s crucial not to put roads in the wrong places — such as […]
Football fields of deforestation. But what does that mean?
A recent newspaper article stated that Indonesia lost 4.6 million ha of forest between 2009 and 2013. This was equated to an area of three football fields ever minute. I understand what journalists are trying to do with their frequent reference to football fields. Presumably it makes that obscure, ivory tower world of weird units […]
ATBC Resolution: Halt the Interoceanic Canal in Nicaragua
In June 2013, the Nicaraguan government granted a concession to the Hong Kong Nicaragua Development Corporation (HKND) to build an interoceanic canal connecting the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, through Nicaragua, traversing Lake Cocibolca (also known as lake Nicaragua), along with multiple infrastructure development projects of considerable size. Planned developments include a 400 km2 […]