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Friday, July 04, 2008   21:08 GMT


Stories by Stephen Leahy

Stephen Leahy has worked as a freelance Canadian journalist for the past 12 years, including five writing for IPS. Leahy specialises in science, the environment and agriculture. He has been published in leading magazines and newspapers in several countries. Based in Brooklin, near Toronto, Canada, Leahy is a professional member of the Society of Environmental Journalists.

ENVIRONMENT: Emissions Solutions Start at Home
by Stephen Leahy
Making buildings more environmentally friendly is the easiest and most effective way to cut climate-changing carbon emissions, often slashing energy costs by up to 70 percent. So why isn't there a massive effort to 'green up' existing buildings and set green standards for all new construction?
ENVIRONMENT: Polar Bears in Limbo as Drilling Leases Go Forward
by Stephen Leahy
A coalition of environmental groups sued the George W. Bush administration Monday for delaying a decision to protect polar bears threatened with extinction due to the melting ice in its Arctic habitat. Polar bears could be the first species officially threatened by climate change.
CLIMATE CHANGE: The Ostrich Brigades
Analysis by Stephen Leahy
Colder than usual January temperatures in the United States have brought the climate change deniers out of hibernation, flooding websites, and opinion and letters pages about the 'great global warming hoax'. They even organised their own conference on denial in New York City this week.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Big Business Ponders a Low-Carbon Diet
by Stephen Leahy
With a tax on carbon emissions appearing to be inevitable, some of the world's largest corporations will be asking their suppliers to report on their carbon emissions as part of future reduction efforts.
BIODIVERSITY: Fish Farms Pushing Wild Salmon to Extinction
by Stephen Leahy
Vast populations of pink salmon on Canada's west coast will be extinct in four years due to infestations of parasites from open ocean salmon farms, scientists reported Friday in the prestigious journal Science.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Who Should Pay the Carbon Bill?
by Stephen Leahy
The family has just finished up an expensive seven-course restaurant meal, and the late-arriving cousins can only snack on bread sticks. When the bill arrives, the truculent, rich uncles -- Canada, Japan and the United States -- insist that the cousins, although poor and still very hungry, ought to pay a full share.
ENVIRONMENT-US: An E-Waste Free-for-All
by Stephen Leahy
U.S. citizens will buy 30 million new digital televisions this year alone, sending their old lead-laden TVs to the dump, or more likely, overseas to China or India.
ENVIRONMENT: Turning a Blind Eye - O Canada!
by Stephen Leahy* - IPS/IFEJ
In the 1980s, Canada was a bright green engine of change, pushing the global community forward on sustainable development and global warming. But now it is falling behind in almost every environmental aspect.
CLIMATE CHANGE-US: Delay Now, Pay Dearly Later
by Stephen Leahy
The United States is facing hundreds of billions of dollars in weather-related damages in coming years if it does not act urgently on climate change, the first-ever comprehensive economic assessment of the problem has found.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Entire Landscapes on the Move
by Stephen Leahy
The hot breath of global warming has now touched some of the coldest northern regions of world, turning the frozen landscape into mush as temperatures soar 15 degrees C. above normal.
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