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Stephen Leahy




We're honored to announce today our affiliation with Mr. Stephen Leahy a globally renowned environmental journalist. We shall be carrying Mr. Leahy's articles on our website prominently displayed. Mr. Stephen Leahy is an independent environmental journalist with 16 years of distinguished service to his profession. Mr. Leahy‘s writing has been published in dozens of publications around the world including New Scientist, The London Sunday Times, Maclean’s Magazine, Earth Island Journal, The Toronto Star, Wired News, Audubon, BBC Wildlife, and Canadian Geographic.

Based outside of Toronto (Uxbridge), he is the international science and environment correspondent for the Rome-headquartered Inter Press Service News Agency (IPS), the world’s 6th largest global news agency.

His IPS articles are published in over 500 newspapers and magazines all over the world reaching an estimated 200 million readers in up to 20 languages. IPS news is also broadcast by over 1000 radio stations, potentially targeting over 150 million listeners.

He writes for an IPS affiliate, Tierramerica, located in Mexico City and IPS bureaus in Johannesburg and New Delhi.

Mr. Leahy is a professional member of the International Federation of Journalists; Society of Environmental Journalists; Canadian Freelance Union; Media & Democracy Group (media training for democracy)

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Recent Articles by Stephen Leahy

DateTitle
02/07/12 The Environmental Crisis Is in Fact a Crisis in Democracy
01/24/12 Shale Gas a Bridge to More Global Warming
01/19/12 Money Is All That's Green in Biodiesel
01/16/12 Melting Ice Makes Arctic Access a Hot Commodity
01/11/12 Rio+20: The Moment When Everything Changed?
12/27/11 No Time Left to Adapt to Melting Glaciers
12/14/11 In Unprecedented Move, Canada Withdraws from Kyoto Protocol
12/12/11 Indigenous Peoples Call for REDD Moratorium
12/11/11 Agreement for New Global Treaty To Reduce Emissions
12/09/11 Draft Climate Deal Dubbed a "Death Sentence for Africa"
12/09/11 End Carbon Apartheid, Say African Faith Groups
12/06/11 CLIMATE CHANGE: Kyoto Protocol on Life Support
12/05/11 Fracking for Shale Gas: Neither Clean nor Green
12/03/11 Sour Seas, Shrinking Stocks
12/02/11 A Recipe for Carbon Farming
11/29/11 Eating Away the Climate
11/24/11 Radical Change Needed at Durban Conference, Experts Say
11/14/11 Toxins Rob More Than a Decade of Life from Millions
11/10/11 Time to Derail Fossil Fuel Train, Energy Agency Warns
11/09/11 Harper Government Guts Environment Programmes
11/01/11 Toxic Electronic Waste Contaminates Nearby Areas
11/01/11 EcoMobility Gaining Ground, Step by Step
10/25/11 Hard Targets Needed to Halt Land Degradation Crisis
10/17/11 Looking to the Sahel for Lessons in Pushing Back Deserts
10/13/11 Conference Renews Eroded Efforts to Combat Desertification
10/11/11 Persistent La Niña Is Back Again
09/27/11 Jail Before Climate-Wrecking Tar Sands, Canadians Say
09/15/11 Inheriting the Whirlwind of Extreme Events
08/31/11 Obama Challenged to Stand Up to Big Oil Lobby
08/23/11 8.7 Million Species Run Spaceship Earth
08/23/11 Keystone XL: A Pipeline to Europe?
08/10/11 Welcome to Bizarro World
07/26/11 Blame Canada?
07/25/11 Small-Scale Land Speculators Contribute to Amazon Deforestation
07/22/11 Mentally Ill Suffer Medieval Treatment Across the Globe
07/13/11 Cook Islands Aims for 100 Percent Green Energy by 2020
07/05/11 Selling Nature to Save Nature, and Ourselves
06/29/11 The Oxymoron of Political Leadership
06/27/11 Nuclear for the Poor, Renewables for the Rich?
06/27/11 On the Road to Green Energy for All
06/20/11 Postponing Emissions Cuts Carries Steep Price Tag
06/17/11 Developing Countries Pledging More Emissions Cuts Than Industrial North
06/14/11 Reducing Soot and Smog Would Help Stabilise Climate
06/13/11 Canada Spurns Kyoto in Favour of Tar Sands
06/13/11 Playing Tricks from Bonn? - A CCECON Exclusive
06/09/11 Millions May Soon Be Fleeing the Floodwaters
06/07/11 Using Forests to Bridge the Carbon Gap
06/06/11 Bike vs Car on a Hot Planet
06/02/11 Lend Your Car, Save, and Save the World
05/31/11 Putting Road Safety on the Development Agenda
05/26/11 Europe Sowing the Seeds of Hunger
05/12/11 Humanity Hitting the Resource Ceiling
05/06/11 Nuclear Cost Shell Game
04/01/11 A Fatal Addiction to Plastic
03/28/11 Fight Against Marine Garbage Runs Into Plastics Lobby
03/24/11 Plastic Circulating Endlessly in World's Oceans
03/23/11 Who controls nuclear control agencies?
03/22/11 Peak Water Has Already Come and Gone
03/17/11 Japan Nuke Disaster Could Be Worse Than Chernobyl
03/06/11 Biodiversity Panel Learns from IPCC Experience
03/02/11 Fossil Fuel Lobby Following the Playbook of Big Tobacco
02/22/11 Permafrost Melt Soon Irreversible Without Major Fossil Fuel Cuts
02/21/11 Why Our Weather is Weird ‘n Wild and Why It Is Getting Worse
02/17/11 Tourism Is Poisoning the Mexican Caribbean
02/14/11 Amazon Drought Accelerating Climate Change
02/01/11 Will Super Cyclone Yasi be Australia’s Katrina? Landfall Wed as Cat 5 Storm
02/01/11 The Great Groundhog’s Day Blizzard – Worst Winter Storm in 60 Years
01/28/11 Arctic Defrost Dumping Snow on U.S. and Europe
01/19/11 Report: +2.4C by 2020 leaves Billions Hungry? Scary but Untrue . . .
01/13/11 In Corrupt Global Food System, Farmland Is the New Gold
12/29/10 Arctic Hothouse Turns Europe into an Icebox
12/29/10 Arctic Melt Down Is Bringing Harder Winters and Permanently Altering Weather Patterns
12/28/10 East Coast Blizzard and Europe’s Snowmaggddon Reveal Fingerprints of Climate Change
12/11/10 Emissions Punted to Durban, Breakthrough Seen on Forests
12/08/10 Climate Changes Herald a Future of Widespread Drought
12/07/10 Cancún Summit Gives Fossil Fuels a Free Pass
12/07/10 As World Warms, Southern Africa Swelters
11/29/10 Will Year of Extremes End with a Whimper?
11/29/10 Will Year of Climate Extremes End Without Progress on Tackling Climate Change?
11/23/10 Forests Rescue Plan Riddled with Uncertainties
11/19/10 A Govt Versus Its People on Climate Change
11/12/10 Runaway Global Economy Decimating Nature
11/11/10 Toxic Hotspots Require Global Superfund
10/31/10 Biodiversity Pact Signed To Halt Species Extinctions and Protect the Web of Life
10/25/10 Geoengineering for a Desperate Planet
10/25/10 Palau Announces Massive Marine Sanctuary
10/22/10 Hard to Put a Price-tag on Healthy Rivers
10/21/10 Canada Seeks to Drop Native Peoples from New Biodiversity Pact
10/19/10 North-South Divide Again Clouds Biodiversity Talks
10/18/10 Biodiversity at the Cliff's Edge
10/16/10 Ending Africa's Hunger Means Listening to Farmers
10/13/10 The Yin and Yang of Climate Extremes
10/08/10 Canada Sees Climate Change "Prosperity" Instead of Calamity
10/05/10 Engineering a Water Crisis in Rivers
09/20/10 Arctic Ice in Death Spiral, Thaws Permafrost — Risks Climate Catastrophe
09/17/10 Record Temperatures Killing Caribbean Corals
09/15/10 Locally-Run Protected Areas Could Reverse Fisheries' Death Spiral
09/10/10 Local Decisions To Protect Nature Boosts Economy, Quality of Life and Secure Jobs
09/13/10 Arctic Melt Down Is Bringing Harder Winters and Permanently Altering Weather Patterns
07/31/10 Ocean Losing Its Green – Planet’s Life Support System In Decline
06/29/10 Free Ride for Oil and Coal Industry May Be Over
06/07/10 Europe’s Green Energy Portfolio Up in Smoke?
06/03/10 Rising Wealth Spells Disaster for the Planet, Study Finds
05/01/10 Oil vs Polar Bears in Alaska
04/29/10 Drug Wars Make Societies More Violent Not Safer Studies Show
03/24/10 Proof of Anti-Global Warming Cabal: Fossil fuel Interests, Christian Evangelicals and the Media
03/16/10 Canada’s Idea of Working on Climate Change Means Muzzling Climate Scientists...
03/08/10 Violent Backlash Against Climate Scientists
03/05/10 Arctic Leaking Methane a Super-Potent Global Warming Gas — Reaching Feared Tipping Point?
01/18/10 Extinction Tourism — See It Now Before Its Gone
12/22/09 OUR Roof is on Fire: Dangerous Climate Change is Here
10/13/09 Earth's Life Support Systems Failing
10/09/09 Four Degrees of Devastation
10/07/09 We Can't Afford to Let the Planet Get Much Hotter
09/02/09 Earth's Fridge Defrosting, With Dire Results