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Eco Factor: Solar-powered floating homes.
Researchers estimate that once the glaciers are gone, many metropolitan cities across the world will be submerged in water, making life miserable. No, we are not here to again talk about ingenious ways to..
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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...
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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...
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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...
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After much negotiations, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives finally managed to pass President Obama’s “Cap-and-Trade” bill as part of...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Carbon Capture & Storage technology has been around for many decades but researchers could not make any substantial progress in its testing. Abandoning this tale...
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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...
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AP, Zurich
The world’s glaciers thinned by an average of almost 29 inches (74 centimeters) in 2007, indicating that they are melting twice as fast this decade as during the...
made popular Jan 29 2009
To help figure out what’s happening inside the fastest-moving Greenland glacier, a U.S. rocket scientist sent 90 rubber ducks into the ice, hoping someone finds...
made popular Sep 22 2008
This is exactly what happens when you try and not do enough to prevent phenomenons such as global warming and ignore the warnings of those who have been predicting...
made popular Aug 19 2008
AP, Mount Shasta
Global warming is shrinking glaciers all over the world, but the seven tongues of ice creeping down Mount Shasta’s flanks are a rare exception: They are the only...
made popular Jul 8 2008
AP, Zurich
Glaciers are shrinking at record rates and many could disappear within decades, the U.N. Environment Program said Sunday.Scientists measuring the health of almost 30...
made popular Mar 16 2008
According to initial projections by Climatic Researchers, India is likely to get phenomenally hotter and considerably wetter due to the rising threat of Global warming....
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Global warming has taken its toll on the largest glaciers of New Zealand, according to a report by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA). It...
made popular Nov 20 2007
AP, Bend
Between the North Sister and Middle Sister in Oregon’s Cascade Range, Collier Glacier has advanced and receded for hundreds of thousands of years. But like many...
made popular Oct 23 2007
China has discovered 42 glaciers on the the Qinghai-Tibet plateau. This plateau is also known as the roof of the world, where shrinking of ice due to global warming has...
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More than 40,000 Sherpas face a looming threat of devastation as they live their lives in the path of future destruction. The base of the Himalayas in due course will...
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Until now it were the environmentalists and ecologists raising concerns about the ever-surging levels of what we all call Global Warming, but now a group of eminent...
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Imagine being escorted by dolphins and being so close to penguins that you could touch them. This dream came true for Anne Chalfant when she visited Chile. She got to...
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The future generations might not be able to see the wonders of amazing glacial ice rivers because eventually the glaciers will melt into the oceans due to global...
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Glaciers in the European Alps are melting very fast, so much so that the mountains could be almost ice free by the beginning of the next century. A study, to be...
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Ice sheets and glaciers are melting dramatically and water from these is gushing into the world’s oceans much faster than previously thought possible, leaving the...
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Here is another dilemma between economy and environment. The world’s largest gold mining company, Barrick Gold Corp. of Canada planned to relocate three huge ice...
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Among all fears of the global warming aftermaths, the melting Arctic ice sheets and its consequences provide the maximum burns. But, do you know the Greenland is...
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Though Mars is experiencing temperature rises as the Earth, its rivers’ live spans do not seem that bleak, compared to the Earth. New high-resolution images of...
made popular Oct 20 2005
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