We Feed the World

The 2005 Austrian documentary film We Feed the World has been showing on the Sundance channel in the US recently. (IMDB entry.) It’s incredibly well done.
WE FEED THE WORLD is a film about food and globalisation, fishermen and farmers, long-distance lorry drivers and high-powered corporate executives, the flow of goods and cash flow [...]

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Living Planet Report 2006

Since 2000, the WWF has issued the Living Planet Report every other year. Read about it in this Mongabay news article.
From the forward:
The Living Planet Report 2006 confirms that we are using the planet’s resources faster than they can be renewed – the latest data available (for 2003) indicate that humanity’s Ecological Footprint, our [...]

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UNEP Year Book 2008

The United Nations Environment Programme’s annual report, UNEP Year Book 2008 (PDF, 62 pg, 7 MB), “documents some of the many insights, events, and issues that have emerged during 2007 and, not surprisingly, it is dominated by the theme of climate change.” (See here for translations and individual sections.)
Excerpt:
If average global temperatures increase 3.4° [...]

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Acidic seas killing coral reefs

Acidic seas may kill 98% of world’s reefs by 2050 by Ian Sample, science writer for the Guardian.
The majority of the world’s coral reefs are in danger of being killed off by rising levels of greenhouse gases, scientists warned yesterday. Researchers from Britain, the US and Australia, working with teams from the UN and the [...]

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Altered Oceans

Altered Oceans, a five-part, Pulitzer Prize winning series published by the LA Times in the summer of 2006.

A Primeval Tide of Toxins: Runoff from modern life is feeding an explosion of primitive organisms. This ‘rise of slime,’ as one scientist calls it, is killing larger species and sickening people.
Sentinels Under Attack: Toxic algae that [...]

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