- As rivers re-open to shipping, oil threat to Bangladesh's Sundarbans forest continues
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Bangladesh's Sundarbans forest, home of incredibly rich biodiversity, is under unprecedented threat, writes ASMG Kibria. The recent oil tanker capsize on the Shela river puts the forest at risk of widespread biodiversity loss, but just this week, the authorities re-opened the Shela river to shipping with no restrictions on hazardous cargoes.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 5 - December 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Connexions Library: Environment Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
- The contribution of trees to our lives: it is time to take stock
French botanist Francis Hallé makes a case for the defence of trees as a powerful ally in saving the Earth's ecosystems
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
A reflection on the impact of trees in the world and the necessity of improving urban forestry out of self-preservation.
- Corporate Welfare in the Forest
Post-Fire Logging Loses Money and Damages the Health of the Ecosystem
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The Forest Service is under extreme political pressure to log our national patrimony, whether it makes any economic or ecological sense. A good example of a needless, ecologically damaging, and economically wasteful logging proposal is the proposed $1.4 million Pole Creek post-fire logging sale.
- Deforestation
Wikipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Deforestation, clearance or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use. Examples of deforestation include conversion of forestland to farms, ranches, or urban use. Tropical rainforests is where the most concentrated deforestation occurs. Almost 30% of the world is covered by forests, excluding water mass.
- The Encyclopedia of Trees
Canada and USA
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
- A Field Guide to Eastern Forests
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
A "second-generation" field guide to the ecology of the forests and fields of eastern North America.
- Fresh Water Seas
Saving the Great Lakes
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
Weller takes readers on a tour of the Great Lakes region, tracing its natural history from the time before human habitation. He describes how the region has been affected by uncontrolled development to the point where it now contains one of the planet's most intensive concentrations of industrial and agricultural activity.
- The Great Lakes
The Illustrated Natural History of Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- A Green History of the World
The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
Ponting tracks the "green" history of the world showing how throughout history civilizations have collapsed when they exhausted the earth's natural resources.
- In the footsteps of Gandhi: an interview with Vandana Shiva
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Vandana Shiva is more than just a leading scientist, author and campaigner on green issues and anti-globalisation. She is also among the most prominent of Mahatma Ghandi's intellectual heirs. In this interview, she discusses how this led her to be an outspoken voice on such crucial environmental issues as seed legacy, biopiracy and economic injustice.
- Legacy
The Natural History of Ontario
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
A comprehensive, extensively illustrated natural history of Ontario, covering bedrock, soils, birds, mammals, insects, wildflowers, forests, prehistoric life, and much more.
- Leopold, Aldo
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American ecologist, forester, and environmentalist who was influential in the development of modern environmental ethics and in the movement for wilderness preservation. (1887-1948).
- Living with the Land
Communities Restoring the Earth
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
- Neoliberal Ebola: The Agroeconomic Origins of the Ebola Outbreak
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Wallace describes the rise of Ebola, connecting its outbreak to capital-driven shifts in land and changes in the agroeconomic context.
- Networks of Centres of Excellence of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2016
Forests and trees
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
For countless centuries, forests, and the trees in them, have been seen as sources of life, livelihood, and spiritual meaning. For capitalism, however, forests are sites of extraction and profit-making, or obstacles in the way of 'development.' In this issue, we look at some of the threats to forests worldwide, and the ways in which people are resisting and defending the forests.
- The Redesigned Forest
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
An exploration of how forests are utilized, with particular interest paid to the old-growth coniferous forests of the Pacific north-west.
- A Short History of Progress
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
If the population growth, consumption of resources, and technological advances continue according to the trend of the twentieth century, at the expense of the earth, the outcome may be disastrous.
- Simon Fraser University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Trees in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
- Trees of Ontario
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
- A Walk in the Forest
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1966
- Why Logging Forests After Wildfires is Ecologically Destructive
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Bond exposes three prevailing falsehoods about logging that the U.S. Forest Service disseminates.
- World Without Trees
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
Lamb says that "there is one thing of which you can be absolutely certain: if things go one as they are, some day the sun will rise on a world without trees. That day is closer than you think."
- The World Without Us
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
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