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Food and fuel scarcity is rising high day-by-day. There is a vast gap between the demand and supply of these necessary products. We need an urgent balance to check the fast growing inflation. For that, more of farmlands are required to grow food crop and...
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There were/are plenty prophesies threatening the Earth with the end of the world in the nearest feature around-and this BBC story of The Green New Deal Group is, one...
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In a new report, the EPA said “it is very likely” that more people will die during extremely hot periods in future years — and that the elderly, the...
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There is so much buzz around the phenomenon of global warming that one begins to wonder if it is hyped or real. One Mr. Michael Crichton had presented his off-track...
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Global warming may not be really existing as we think it does. At least evidence says so.
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United States was regarded as the worst handler of the global warming issue. It ranked at the bottom in addressing the environmental issue in the recent G-8 summit. But...
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Ultimately, the time has come for human beings to start taking concrete steps to check global warming. After threatening to endanger life forms, submerge land masses...
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Global warming may prove fatal for humans in the long run, but it has proved as an evolution for this new species of bird. This new life has come into existence way up...
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Most of us are aware of the ozone layer problem. Ozone is a gas containing 3 atoms of oxygen. It is a harmful gas if inhaled in large quantities. Naturally it is...
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If you think we haven’t screwed the Earth enough, here’s more bad news. We have, apparently, put almost one third of the world’s coral reefs at risk of extinction...
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Vice President Dick Cheney’s office pushed for major deletions in congressional testimony on the public health consequences of climate change, fearing the...
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New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming, the European Space...
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The collapse of the glacial bridge of Patagonia, Perito Moreno is dominating news in Argentina and here in South America. The famous 60 meter high arc of ice broke on...
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A proposal to reverse climate change by placing mirrors in the sky to reflect sunlight away from Earth won’t give us back the same climate we had before we...
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In my opinion, man did not cause global warming, but man can ease back on fossil fuels because they feed terrorism.
Man can also ease back on pollution, which Mealer...
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The G8 leaders agreed Tuesday in Japan to support a 50% reduction in worldwide greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. However, developing nations including China and India...
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The Group of Eight leading industrial nations on Tuesday endorsed halving world emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, edging forward in the battle against global...
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The great apes, namely the gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and the orangutans are our closest genetic relatives. But that didn’t stop us from slaughtering them as...
made popular Jul 8 2008
In a sudden display of urgency and anxiety the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity has announced that it is targeting zero deforestation in the ASEAN...
made popular Jun 21 2008
According to a paper published in the journal, Science, by authors, Dr Pep Canadell from CSIRO and the Global Carbon Project, and Dr Michael Raupach from CSIRO, better...
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22 million tons of carbon will be released from Papua New Guinea’s forests this year as a result of logging – approximately the equivalent of the annual output...
made popular Jun 15 2008
We all are aware of the deplorable sate the world’s forests are in. Unreasonable, unplanned felling of trees for commercial purposes has rendered the forests scanty....
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Brazil will combat rising deforestation in the Amazon by sending extra federal police and environmental agents to areas where illegal clearing of the rain forest jumped...
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The environmental damage caused by rich nations disproportionately impacts poor nations and costs them more than their combined foreign debt, according to a first-ever...
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A white man is distraught at the way big, bad and unscrupulous Chinese businesses are destroying the world’s crystal clear environment. Bill Miller in the desmogblog...
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A deal has been reached at the climate talks in Bali to tackle green house emissions from deforestation. The deal has been agreed but is yet to be approved formally and...
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A memorandum of understanding has been signed between the United States and China to stop illegal logging. The memorandum is aimed at fighting deforestation, fight...
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Indonesia, which is losing its forests at a faster rate than any other country, launched a campaign Wednesday to plant 79 million trees ahead of a critical climate...
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Africa’s most popular mass migration game reserves seem also to have come under threat from global warming. Even as wild beasts hoped to cross for calving, in search of...
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Indonesia, which is losing its forests faster than any other country, hopes to plant 79 million trees in a single day ahead of a major U.N. climate change meeting this...
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Biofuel is the buzzword which embarks the beginning of an era that would see the world go green. We don’t have an option though, as this is the only entity touted to...
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In the past few years, the world has woken to the concept of biofuels in a big way. Large tracts of land and considerable policy space in both, the developed and the...
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The already endangered black-mane lions with just a thousand living in the wild, the Ethiopian national symbol along with some 300 elephants are in danger, after a...
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Forests throughout the world are shrinking in size due to the ever increasing demand in timber and other resources. The most threatened forest today is Brazil’s...
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After 40 years of long wait a couple of rare and endangered storks in Japan have hatched an egg. It has been considered as one the most significant news for the nature...
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With so many reasons leading to climate change, it might appear confusing on what might be the best solution to climate change!
Just stop the loggers. It is perhaps...
made popular May 14 2007
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