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Eco Factor: Anti-desertification device containing seeds to be airdropped on deforested places.
Inspired by the legend that states that after the Second World War, Gale Halvorson, an American pilot, dropped candies in the name of hope for the...
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Eco Factor: Industry giants pledge to reduce the use of plastic bags in order to reduce toxic plastic waste.
Plastic bags are jeopardizing both humans and wildlife in...
made popular Jul 7 2009
The U.S House of Representative just passed a bill that will address global warming by reducing the emission of gasses that cause climate change. It was a watered-down...
made popular Jul 1 2009
For all the right-wing hysteria about President Obama being a socialist, the president is actually quite a centrist and even a corporatist. Depending on one’s...
made popular Jun 29 2009
In a beloved film from my childhood, “Flight of Dragons,” the scientist hero confronts the evil red magician on a dark crag. As menacing snakes sprout out...
made popular Jun 27 2009
After much negotiations, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives finally managed to pass President Obama’s “Cap-and-Trade” bill as part of...
made popular Jun 27 2009
Eco Factor: Synthetic trees to capture CO2 from the air and convert it into liquid CO2.
Research scientists at the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering at...
made popular Jun 24 2009
The Symposium on the Climate Change in London witnessed the US Energy Secretary Steven Chu raising concerns over global warming. He went on to suggest painting roofs...
made popular Jun 23 2009
For the green hoodies New York’s the place to be, because erected outside the Madison Square Garden and Penn Station, by the Deutsche Bank is a 70-feet-tall digital...
made popular Jun 19 2009
Eco Factor: Real-time CO2 counter encourages people to curtail emissions.
Deutsche Bank, a name not directly related to environmental conservation, has lit a...
made popular Jun 19 2009
By mid-century, climate change may have outrun the ability of Africa’s farmers to adapt to rising temperatures, threatening the continent’s precarious food...
made popular Jun 18 2009
Oslo - Can the North Sea basin hold all of the carbon dioxide in Europe? Norway certainly hopes so.
At a high-level conference in Bergen last month, the oil-rich...
made popular Jun 16 2009
Argentina’s Perito Moreno glacier is one of only a few ice fields worldwide that have withstood rising global temperatures.
Nourished by Andean snowmelt, the...
made popular Jun 15 2009
Definition – Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s near-surface air and oceans since the mid-twentieth century and its...
made popular Jun 10 2009
Nuclear warfare is a constant threat to life on earth but climate change is no less serious, says a summit of the world’s Nobel Laureates who, along with Prince...
made popular Jun 6 2009
Jordanian Ministry of Environment will be marking World Environment Day, which is usually celebrated on the 5th of June, through a new campaign titled, “Your...
made popular Jun 5 2009
World Environment Day (WED) was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment.
Commemorated...
made popular Jun 5 2009
People talk about the future, yet climate change is claiming lives now, notably in Africa. The nations, governors and those governed must stand up and be counted.
The...
made popular Jun 5 2009
Eco Factor: Solar-generating roofs coated with reflective tiles to reduce solar gain.
Recently news surfaced that painting the world white would help curb global...
made popular Jun 4 2009
On Tuesday, French climber Alain Robert, popularly known as “Spiderman,” climbed a 41-story Sydney tower with his bare hands, just to make the world aware about...
made popular Jun 2 2009
Carbon Capture & Storage technology has been around for many decades but researchers could not make any substantial progress in its testing. Abandoning this tale...
made popular May 29 2009
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Scene 1: Year 2020, Average Global temperature up by 3 C.
Britain has again experienced a malaria outbreak, for the third time in two years....
made popular Apr 21 2009
Scientists are meeting in Hyderabad to discuss ways of protecting crops from climate change. The initiative is part of a global summit on climate change, which will be...
made popular Nov 22 2007
The China government in an effort to stop the shrinking of the Lake Qinghai, has pledges $870 million. But, will that eventually help it from disappearing form the...
made popular Jan 6 2007
Some predict that in the near future, environmental refugees may outnumber traditional refugees many times over. Global warming and sea-level rise could wipe out large...
made popular Jul 24 2006
Amidst discoveries of underwater sand dunes by the dock of the San Francisco Bay, and that chance of a new ocean of being carved out in Africa, in decades, it has been...
made popular Jul 24 2006
More than one billion people in more than 100 countries are threatened as desertification and land degradation is endangering their livelihood. With this phenomenon...
made popular Jun 2 2006
Turning the global habitats into refugees! Natural calamities and political disruptions have been playing this cruel game for decades, giving birth to homelessness,...
made popular Nov 5 2005
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