Mining For Smartphones: Devastation In Indonesia, Bangka Islands
In recent years about one-third of all the tin mined in the world has come from Bangka, its sister island Belitung, and the seabeds off the islands’shores. Tin mining is taking its toll on the islands’ coastline, damaging coral reefs, mangrove forests that help protect it from tropical storms and big waves. A Friends of the Earth video documentary.
Alaska’s Clash Over Salmon and Gold Goes National
Mostly roadless and undeveloped, the Bristol Bay watershed doesn’t look like a battlefield, yet it has become the Gettysburg of natural resource conflict in Alaska.
Australia Creates World’s Largest Marine Reserve
Australia Friday created the world’s largest network of marine reserves, protecting a huge swathe of ocean environment.
Mozambique creates Africa’s largest coastal marine reserve
The Primeiras and Segundas have been approved as a marine protected area in Mozambique making this diverse ten-island archipelago Africa’s largest coastal marine reserve.
Billions in Subsidies Prop up Unsustainable Overfishing
Calls are mounting for the world’s big fishing powers to stop subsidising international fleets that use destructive methods like bottom trawling in foreign coastal waters…
War’s Silent Victim
November 6th, marks the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict. In the havoc and destruction spread by war, damage to the environment is almost always regarded as a necessary price to be paid. We must not allow the environment to remain a silent casualty.
Small Organisms Have Large Impact on Seabed
Not only physical forces such as tides and sand transport but also small organisms such as molluscs, tube worms and sea urchins have a large impact on seabed formation.
Deep Concern As Deal To Protect Antarctic Seas Fails
Governments meeting in Australia have failed to reach agreement on new marine protected areas for the Antarctic ocean.
Greening Havana
According to international studies, a key action for mitigating the effects of global warming is to increase forest cover in each country. The Cuban government’s National Forestry Programme has set a target of increasing forest cover to over 29 percent by 2015.