EcoEarth.Info Environment News and Archives
Non-profit
environment
news links & archives provided on these terms to help find solutions & for posterity
News Home |
| Disclaimer & Conditions for Use
21/5/2013
Everyone knows water is life. Far too few understand the role of trees, plants and other living things in ensuring we have clean, fresh water.
This dangerous ignorance results in destruction of wetlands that once cleaned water and ...
21/5/2013
Qatar-based author Mari Luomi says the Persian Gulf monarchies will have to
change to be sustainable in the era of
climate change. But reaping the benefits of the fossil fuel economy has blinded most of them to that.
DW: Why do you ...
21/5/2013
Biofuels have long been hailed as one of the potential answers to
climate change. Their environmental credentials are controversial, but a handful of countries are now looking at them from another angle entirely: they want to use biofuels to try ...
19/5/2013
An increasing number of New Yorkers are likely to die from heat-related causes as global warming causes more extreme heat events, according to a new study released Sunday.
The study found that heat-related mortality may rise 20 percent ...
19/5/2013
New York city could experience up to 22% more deaths from extreme summertime heat in the coming decade under global warming, according to a study of the impact of
climate trends.
The higher deaths will be partially offset by a reduction ...
19/5/2013
Climate change is already melting the Arctic, queering weather and threatening food supplies. So who's paying the price for all these global warming
impacts?It might seem like insurers are most at risk. Indeed, insurers did pay out some ...
19/5/2013
On Wednesday night, Minnesota State Representative Glenn Gruenhagen (R-Glencoe) took to the House floor to talk about
climate change and renewable energy.
Using sources such as the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), ...
19/5/2013
We love our forests in California. After a century of rapidly losing them to farming and logging, we finally succeeded in virtually ending deforestation in California. We were driven by our interest in the natural beauty, the wildlife, the ...
18/5/2013
A bill introduced Friday calls on the federal government to craft a national strategy for dealing with the public health effects of
climate change.Rep. Lois Capps (D-Calif.) is sponsoring the measure. She said
climate change has factored ...
16/5/2013
The Arctic Council added China and five other countries as official observers yesterday, expanding the focus of the organization and underscoring the complicated politics created by newly open waters in the north because of
climate ...
16/5/2013
Everest isn't the same mountain it was when Jim Whittaker became the first U.S. climber to summit the peak in 1963. The world's highest peak has been shedding snow and ice for the past 50 years, possibly due in part to global warming, new ...
16/5/2013
Palm oil touches our lives every time we take a trip to the supermarket. Palm oil and its derivatives are used in a ubiquitous array of packaged foods, including ice cream, cookies, crackers, chocolate products, cereals, breakfast bars, cake ...
16/5/2013
Two months ago a story started ‘leaking’ out of Western Colorado about a fracked-gas pipeline break--loaded with cancer-causing benzene--with fluids heading toward and eventually into Parachute Creek which is a tributary to the Colorado River. As ...
16/5/2013
After four years of studies and more than 150 peer-reviewed papers, The EU-funded ice2sea program has concluded that melting ice may not contribute as much to sea level rise as some other studies have suggested.
Under a moderate ...
16/5/2013
When the history of humanity’s struggle to combat
climate change is written, few characters will play as prominent a role as Charles David Keeling. A geochemist, Keeling developed an accurate method of measuring CO2 in the atmosphere, and in 1958 ...
15/5/2013
Ocean warming has already affected global fisheries in the past four decades, a new international study has found, driving up the proportion of warm-water fish being caught and posing a threat to food security worldwide. The new study, conducted ...
14/5/2013
A deadly outbreak of E. coli in 2006, traced to a California spinach field, spurred an overhaul of food-safety regulations in the leafy-greens industry — and that’s got to be a good thing, right? Not so fast, says a study published last week in ...
14/5/2013
In the face of "clear and present danger," the United Nations
climate change body is warning that a stepped-up coordinated response is needed to fend off the
impacts of
climate change after the world`s carbon-dioxide concentrations surpassed ...
14/5/2013
Threats of landslides have delayed the relocation plans of two coastal villages that have been badly affected by coastline loss and frequent sea flooding. The Fiji Government has set aside more than half a million dollars for the relocation of ...
13/5/2013
Around 800,000 people in Niger face food insecurity in coming months, according to the UN's Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Rising food prices and refugees from Mali, which is plagued by conflict, have made access to ...
13/5/2013
University of Queensland researchers have been studying other coral systems to see how damage to the Great Barrier Reef can be averted.Researchers have studied
climate modelling and data on reefs in the Caribbean.Professor Peter ...
13/5/2013
If global temperatures increase by more than two degrees Celsius, it could have a dramatic impact on the biodiversity of both plants and animals, according to new research published in the latest edition of the journal Nature
Climate ...
13/5/2013
It`s springtime at the Point Reyes National Seashore, about an hour outside of San Francisco, and the cold wind whips off the sea and through the tall grass along the cliffs. Cows wander and graze along the fingers of land that reach out into the ...
13/5/2013
Using satellite photos from Landsat, a joint mission between the USGS and NASA, Google has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University to put together a very cool series of time-lapse images of the earth, showing
changes in the earth, including ...
13/5/2013
It might be regarded as some sort of sick joke that the Great Barrier Reef happens to nestle beside the heart of Australia's fossil fuel export boom.
When the coal ships leave the Queensland ports, the two become one as the captains make ...