Stephen Leahy

Stephen Leahy is an environmental journalist based in Uxbridge, Ontario.

His writing has been published in dozens of publications around the world including New Scientist, The London Sunday Times, Maclean's Magazine, The Toronto Star, Wired News, Audubon, BBC Wildlife, and Canadian Geographic.

For the past few years he has been the science and environment correspondent for Inter Press Service News Agency (IPS), a wire service headquartered in Rome that covers global issues, and its Latin American affiliate, Tierramerica, located in Mexico City.

Stephen Leahy graciously allows Straight Goods to reprint his articles. However, he earns very little compensation for his valuable work. His solution is Community Supported Journalism.

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Please contact Stephen if you have any questions. This article previously appeared on the InterPress Service wire. Website: http://stephenleahy.net

The other 99 percent

Mar 272012

Features

An interview with Braulio Ferreira De Souza Dias, executive secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.

by Stephen Leahy for InterPress Service

The Earth's life support system, which generates the planet's air, water and food, is powered by 8.7 million living species, according to the latest best estimate. We know little about 99 percent of those unique species, except that far too many are rapidly going extinct.

What can be done to slow down this process, which could eventually lead to the extinction of the human species?

Three months to Rio+20

Mar 202012

Features

Governments ignoring global conference on planet stewardship.

by Stephen Leahy for InterPress Service

UXBRIDGE, March 9, 2012 (IPS) — The upcoming Rio+20 conference has to be the moment in human history when the nations of the world come together to find ways to ensure the very survival of humanity, many science and environmental experts believe.

Gaia calls for moratorium

Mar 132012

Features

Extraction industries expanding methods, exploration.

by Stephen Leahy for InterPress Service

UXBRIDGE, March 1, 2012 (IPS) — A global scramble for land and mineral resources fueled by billions of investment dollars is threatening the last remaining wilderness and critical ecosystems, destroying communities and contaminating huge volumes of fresh water, warned environmental groups in London recently.

No national park, delicate ecosystem or community is off limits in the voracious hunt for valuable metals, minerals and fossil fuels, said the Gaia Foundation's report, Opening Pandora's Box. The intensity of the hunt and exploitation is building to a fever pitch, despite the fact the Earth is already overheated and humanity is using more than can be sustained, the 56-page report warns.

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