Right-Wingers Humiliate Australia & Hammer the Earth PoliticsBill LauranceSeptember 2, 2018Australia, Liberal Party, Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull, Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, Peter Dutton, political conservative, right-wing, far-right conservative, climate policy, carbon tax, carbon emissions scheme, fossil fuels, coal, global warming, climate change, political instability, Donald Trump, USA, Indonesia, New Guinea, Great Barrier Reef, Tim Flannery, broadscale land clearing, Queensland, heat wave, drought, runoff, mangroves, mining lobbyComment
Deadly Din: The Growing Assault of Noise Pollution Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceJuly 17, 2017noise, car noise, noise pollution, decibels, blood pressure, heart disease, stress, hearing impairments, immune effects, birth defects, developing nations, protected areas, USA, Europe, migrating birds, road avoidance, Henry David Thoreau, invisible habitat deteriorationComment
Habitat Loss Puts Half the World's Ecosystems at Risk Protected AreasBill LauranceDecember 18, 2016ecoregions, habitat loss, crisis ecoregion, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Madagascar, Australia, USA, Canada, protected areas, mangrove forests, subtropical forests, tundra, Convention on Biological DiversityComment
The Mega-Banks Funding Forest Destruction in Southeast Asia RainforestsJeremy HanceNovember 12, 2016banks, lending institutions, deforestation, infrastructure, Forests and Finance, Malaysia Forest, MayBank, ABM Amro, Rainforest Action Network, TuK INDONESIA, Profundo, Malaysia, China, Japan, USA, UK, Indonesia, Australia, ANZ, JPMorgan Chase, HSBC, extinction crisis, World Bank, African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, AIIB, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, BNDES, Brazilian Development Bank, roads, highways, coal-fired generating plant, Indigenous peoples, divestment, publicity, bad publicity, negative publicity, oil palm, logging, timber, paper pulp, rubber, forest-risk companiesComment
Killing Koalas and Poisoning Prairies Bill LauranceOctober 20, 2015Corey Bradshaw, Paul Ehrlich, Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie, University of Chicago Press, ConservationBytes, The Population Bomb, USA, Australia, climate change, habitat loss, pollution, politicsComment
Progress in the battle against illegal logging Bill LauranceNovember 27, 2014illegal logging, Chatham House, timber-importing nations, USA, Britain, France, Japan, Netherlands, FLEGT, Lacey Act, Illegal-logging Prohibition Act, Australia, China, Russia, Malaysia, Alan Oxley, wood products, paper products Comments
Last chance to save the world's primary forests James WatsonAugust 30, 2014primary forests, old-growth forests, deforestation, international conventions, climate change, adaptive capacity, climate refugia, industrial nations, USA, Russia, Canada, Australia, New Zealand Comment
When it comes to climate change, there are two USAs Bill LauranceMay 12, 2014USA, America, climate change, global warming, Democrats, Republicans, Democratic Party, Republican Party, attitudes about environment, industrial nations, developing nations Comment
Crisis underground: We're overharvesting water Bill LauranceApril 15, 2014aquifer, underground water, overharvesting, agriculture, food prices, human population growth, USA, India, ChinaComment
