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Sunday, May 19, 2013 15:21 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.

Rich Countries Drag Feet at Climate Talks
by Stephen Leahy
Another week of international climate negotiations ended in Bonn, Germany last Friday, but there was little mid-level bureaucrats could do when world leaders remain in thrall to the fossil fuel industry, say environmentalists.

Monetising Human Waste and 101 (Slightly) Crazy Other Ideas
by Stephen Leahy
One, two or more of the 102 newly launched out-of-the box ideas to improve global health could be world-changing breakthroughs.

Eternal Energy Revolution Picking Up Steam
by Stephen Leahy
“Be a climate-protection hero, not a climate victim” is the message energy experts from around the world are bringing to San Francisco Tuesday.

Canada Pulls Out of U.N. Body to Fight Desertification
by Stephen Leahy
Canada is pulling out of the United Nations convention that fights droughts in Africa next year, making it the only country in the world not participating in the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).

Visions of a Sustainable, Pollution-Free New York by 2030
by Stephen Leahy
As usual, midtown Manhattan is packed with whisper-quiet cars and trams while thousands walk the streets listening to the birds of spring sing amongst the gleaming, grime-free skyscrapers in the crystal-clear morning air.

Canada Losing Its Seasons
by Stephen Leahy
"Canada is not a country, it's winter," Canadians say with pride. But the nation's long, fearsome winters will live only in memory and song for Canadian children born this decade.

In Conservatives' Canada, It's Not Easy Being Green
by Stephen Leahy
Canada's police and security agencies think citizens concerned about the environment are threats to national security, and some are under surveillance, documents reveal.

Climate Rally Draws "Line in the Sand" on Canadian Pipeline
by Stephen Leahy
The largest climate rally in U.S. history is expected Sunday in Washington DC with the aim of pressuring President Barack Obama to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

OP-ED
Weird, and Getting Weirder
by Stephen Leahy
Weird is the only way to describe January temperatures whipsawing between record warm and arctic cold over a span of a few days. Experts say that is what climate change looks like: weird, record-shattering weather.

OP-ED
Climate Inaction Is a Clear Failure of Democracy
by Stephen Leahy
Around the world, 2012 was the year of extreme weather, when we unequivocally learned that the fossil fuel energy that powers our societies is destroying them. Accepting this reality is the biggest challenge of the brand new year.

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