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Natural disasters like mass extinction, hurricanes, wide spread droughts and many others are staring us in the face if we fail to check our consumption of natural resources soon. Development is some thing that every country...
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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
Researchers all over the world are coming up with various suggestions to help tackle the global warming. Accordingly, the US Energy Secretary Steven Chu proposes to...
made popular May 27 2009
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Droughts will get dryer, storms will get stormier and floods will get deeper with changing climate, a government research report said Thursday.Events that have seemed...
made popular Jun 19 2008
Once again, the Amazonian rainforest proved itself to be strong enough. The Amazon forest seems to be more resistant to drought conditions: in contrast to the computer...
made popular Sep 26 2007
The United Nations agency, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), said that the climatic change may cause a risk of hunger in India in coming days. The frequent...
made popular Aug 16 2007
India could face severe droughts and floods in different part of the country due to the increasing global warming in the region. The droughts and floods would further...
made popular May 7 2007
There has always been a controversy among scientists with most of them agreeing that it is emission from coal, oil and gas - and hence human — which is causing...
made popular Mar 22 2007
The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is to be out in April, but a leaked draft in the hand of the Age is making serious headlines. It predicts...
made popular Jan 30 2007
Where has Australia’s all the megafauna disappeared? No, it is not over-hunting which is to be blamed! - but, a series of massive droughts! They were wiped out...
made popular Nov 28 2006
Australia’s climate is found to have permanently become hotter and drier! And scientists fear that the country will be facing major temperature rises and...
made popular Nov 7 2006
Landslides engulf 800-1,000 lives in a year. And to add to this, climate change may be accelerating to the risks from hillside slums in Latin America to Egypt’s...
made popular Jan 19 2006
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