Africa represents roughly 3% of projects worldwide under the UN's Clean Development Mechanism. A combination of better investments to be found elsewhere (particularly in China and India), regional risks such as corruption and political unrest, and overall investor uncertainty towards the continent has kept Africa an also-ran in global carbon markets. Ye […]
For most Europeans, it would be hard to find the Federated States of Micronesia on a map. But the small Pacific island nation is trying to punch above its weight. The country -- with a population of 110,000 spread across more than 600 islands -- is challenging the refit of a coal-fired power plant in the Czech report, according to Reuters. Micronesia says th […]
Global leaders woke up in Copenhagen on Dec. 17 to find a blanket of snow covering the ground. But it was inside the Bella Center—the conference hall where delegates from 192 countries are trying to hammer out a climate change deal—where things were really frozen. With less than 48 hours before the summit closes, policymakers were still at logger […]
This entry is cross-posted from Europe Insight. With protestors staking out the climate talks and politicians continuing to point fingers at each other, one issue isn't getting much play in Copenhagen—yet it could make or break a deal to tackle global warming. Simply put, trade is becoming a central sticking point at the Copenhagen talks. That may […]
This entry is cross-posted from Europe Insight. Snow was thick on the ground in Copenhagen on Dec. 16, but that didn't put off thousands of protestors who tried to force their way in the climate change negotiations. With colorful posters and anti-global warming chants, they had started off early from the Danish capital's city center. But near the B […]
This is a guest post by John Simonetta, owner of Proforma Simonetta Freelance, an eco-friendly promotional items consultancy (see proformagreen.com). John’s blogs are designed to keep us up to date on the “greening” of his industry. Once again Norwood takes a basic idea and makes it a whole lot better. Laminated woven polypropylene bags are not new to the in […]
Most geothermal energy plants inject water deep into the ground where the earth’s heat energy turns it into steam used to generate electricity.
The wastewater from this process is full of elements that are not abundant on the surface and that includes lithium. Without going too far into battery technology lithium batteries last four times as long as conventional ones and can deliver a lot of energy quickly. The latter feature is extremely useful for electronics and hybrid cars. The 150 MPG cars you hear about are made with lithium-ion batteries.
This is a great example of a change needed at the demand level. Energizer makes them but the cost makes them a rare purchase despite the advantages. A synergistic relationship between battery makers and geothermal energy producers is very important. The educated consumer will buy them but needs to realize that you get what you pay for and 99 cent batteries last only hours.
sorry to be callous but the planet is already way above capacity, if we were a restaurant the fire department would shut us down.
Better use and conservation of water, less petrol-fertilizers, genetic engineering, etc. are all good ideas but can come nowhere near solving the problem of global hunger.
Historically overpopulation has always seen a reaction from the forces of natural selection; Plagues
In fact, most of us carry genes that render us immune to the plagues our ancestors survived.
A long term stategy is important and it will be necessary to tell people they do not have the right to procreate if they can’t provide for the offspring.
If we don’t address the problem, mother nature may have to do it for us and I don’t think anyone would like a serious pandemic to solve the problem.
A friend of mine made this video and I think it is a good way to get people’s attention…clearly we need a new approach to get people to take climate change seriously.
The production was done very well and Bill O’Reilly doesn’t like it so that’s a good sign.
I work in a hardware store and we have three basic types of lightbulbs for general use,
Incandescent: The original Thomas Edison invention, they use 3% of the electricity to produce light and the rest of the electricity produces heat. Essentially it is a very small fire.
Compact Flourescent (the spiral bulbs) : A smaller version of the long straight flourescent lights most frequently used in supermarkets, they use about half the electricity to produce the same amount of light as an incandescent. Unfortunately they contain mercury and in a perfect world would be thrown out at a hazardous waste dump.
L.E.D (Light emitting Diode): An old technology redone is our modern age, they can use 4 watts of electricity to produce the same amount of light as an incandescent 60 watt. They also last five times as long as anything else. They cost way too much right now.
So to come up with an “energy efficient” bulb, GE reduced Edison’s 60 watt bulbs to 57 to respond to California’s demand that they waste less electricity.
I just read a book called Zodiac by Neal Stephanson and I liked it very much mostly because it takes place in Boston, the rivers and harbor which I know quite well.
It made me realize how different things are now in terms of pollution. In the eighties even the Charles and the Inner harbor were totally toxic, and I remember seeing the remnants.
44 Pleasant street in Watertown and behind all buildings to the west of there was poison. The small waterfall directly to the east had shopping cart, plastic bags, and all sorts of unidentifiable trash. I saw a large transistor and battery once.
Me and my friends played in the extensive muck surrounding the beginning of the smooth Charles, past the tiny waterfall in Watertown.
Creepy trees growing out of slime
All still water a magic petroleum of rainbow colors
sink to the knees take many showers
But now like many places in Boston, IE Southie and the Combat Zone, the river has been gentrified.
Rich folks lead to clean rivers and corners and I suppose it’s not a bad thing, the Charles River in Watertown smells good and in the former combat zone there is nary a hooker or coke dealer to be seen.
The point is that at least in North America (excluding Mexico) the populous seems to have a proper outrage at being poisoned and so at least on the surface, plants can grow again.
even though he caused a great many traffic jams that I got stuck in…
“Bostonians like the feeling of being steeped in history,” Ted Kennedy wrote. “They give special deference to the old — the ancient building, the small shops, the restaurants with the large overhead fans where their grandfathers ate, …the old characters who stand around the Court House.”
The best and most plentiful source of power on this planet is geological activity. I have mentioned this belief before particularly when talking about what exactly the oil companies will do when the oil runs out.
I have recently become a resident of the State of California so instead of trying to cover national companies, I will focus on companies in the Southwest in addition to ones in New England.
This corporation has a longish history of natural gas plants in Wisconsin and the Southwest and has a truly sustainable geothermal plant in Northern California. It is estimated that the development meets 60 percent of the power demand for the coastal region between the Golden Gate Bridge and the Oregon state line.[1]
The Geysers, a geothermal power field located 72 miles (116 km) north of San Francisco, California, is the largest geothermal development in the world. . The Geysers consists of 22 separate power plants that utilize steam from more than 350 producing wells. The Calpine Corporation operates and owns 19 of the 22 facilities. The other three facilities are operated by the Northern California Power Agency and the Western GeoPower Corporation.
It is currently outputting over 750 MW
And I have a great history of the company from someone who knows them well, both from a financial and personal perspective:
Calpine had a hard time of it
because of the nature of the energy business and its proximity to National
Security. When Enron was overbought and tried to characterize loan
payments to various off-the-books entities such as Chewco and Raptor
(Raptor was also the name of a state of the art jet program at the Defense
Department) as revenue, their competitive entities, the oil companies,
banks, insurers and the U.S. Government, did it in with the Enron Task
Force (ETF is also the acronym for Electronically Traded Funds)–because,
as the saying goes–the public must diversify!). Anyway, the spill-off
from Enron, 911 and the NYSE shut down by Grasso et al., didn’t help
Calpine to say the least. Their funding was cut off and Buffett (yes
Warren) demanded pipeline companies carry more insurance coverage due to
the terrorist threat. It took six years to bankrupt Calpine and in late
2007 they filed Chapter 11. They emerged from bankruptcy with a five
billion dollar loan in 2008. They have various properties generating
geo-thermal power and build gas-fired power plants internationally.
Calpine has several “bases” headquarter loci, among them San Jose
California and Houston Texas and have a large Canadian real estate
portfolio including natural gas related interests.
I got some harsh feedback from the last post, particularly because of the idea that sea levels are not rising. The UN hired some scientists to research levels rising and when they found no positive results they were fired and replaced with scientists who found results more in line with the rest of the report.
don’t overestimate our knowledge of the global climate, particularly it’s influences and reactions, very little about the climate is intuitive
the earth is on a much larger time scale, we have existed for the smallest fraction of time and may not be as powerful as we think…I hope not. Take a look at scenarios showing t what would happen if humans disappeared instantly.
The tides are mysterious, oddly enough in the 19th century we had the tides down to the minute but that’s a secret lost in the modern age. Perhaps this is because it isn’t necessary to sail on the tides anymore, I’ve had to do that when a motor broke and it’s quite a pain in the ass.
-we know more about the moon than the ocean
–this is not a reason to think emissions and pollution are not dangerous
at this point all sides of the political debate are throwing out a lot of BS…lots of spin on both sides.
find the studies by Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner, he’s an expert in the field despite the slander of fools.
As the world continues its quest to use less fossil fuels, the latest possible solution comes from the most unlikely of sources: the tobacco plant. This latest news comes from the University of California, Berkeley. It will be nice to see tobacco used for something other than lung cancer. This new discovery is based [...]Posted in: Biofuels, PhotoVoltaics, S […]
Wind power has recently received a nice boost as one of the hottest forms of energy on the market. When comparing the recent market growth against all forms of energy, both renawables and non-renewables, wind turbines seem to be jumping to the head of the pack. While it still has a way to go [...]Posted in: Inventions, Wind Power, Wind Turbines
People are getting more and more excited about green automobiles, so it was kind of surprising to see such a neutral reaction to the Fuel Cell Car by Riversimple. While this project has a very interesting slant from other cars that we have seen in this niche, it was met with a very lukewarm [...]Posted in: Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Fuel, Transportation
Few people that are ripping around the streets in today’s gas guzzlers will remember wood-powered cars, but if things continue the way they are, they may be lucky enough to see one pull up next to them at the light. Wood-powered cars are starting to pop up again as yet another means of saving [...]Posted in: Biofuels, Transportation
Consumers surely remember the days of seeing pictures off all the funny looking electric cars. They looked like something out of the Jetson’s and were hardly something any of us would be caught dead in. Say goodbye to those old stereo types because the Volkswagon E-Up is raising the bar in electric car technology. YouTube: [...]Posted in: Electric Cars, Indu […]
Photos: Pyua Pyua is a German outdoor clothing company, who were Finalists in the ISPO Brandnew Awards in 2009. This year they've managed to score a ISPO Eco Responsibility Award in the Textile category for their Climate 2L Padded Jacket and Pants. The judges liked that these freeride ski garments was made waterproof, by virtue of a Sympatex membrane, w […]
Photo via Guardian A recent report from Reuters reveals some disturbing news about China: the water pollution levels recorded in the official reports were found to be merely half the actual levels. Meaning that China's water pollution is literally twice as bad as its government claime...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Photo: World66, CC Wild tigers in China are on the Brink of Extinction Xie Yan, the China Country Program Director for the Wildlife Conservation Society, estimates that fewer than 50 South China Tigers are left in the wild, with about "10 still live in the southwestern province of Yunnan, some 15 in Tibet, and 20 or so in northwestern Jilin and Heilongj […]
Image via Climate Progress I think for the most part, the New York Times is still the most reliable source for breaking news and good information out there. But they have been seeming to slip in their coverage of climate change--for instance, they ran a story on the front page today crying U.N. Climate Panel and Chief Face Credibility Siege. But in an irony […]
Photo via the LA Times There's been an unusual spate of tragic birth defects over the last year in the central California town of Kettleman City. Five out of the twenty children born in just over a year have been born with birth defects or "other maladies, including cleft palate and cleft lip," the LA Times reports. Three of them died, and the […]
A new study provides yet more evidence that birds did not descend from ground-dwelling theropod dinosaurs, experts say, and continues to challenge decades of accepted theories about the evolution of flight.
A new study by a top ecological forecaster says it is harder than experts thought to predict when sudden shifts in Earth's natural systems will occur -- a worrisome finding for scientists trying to identify the tipping points that could push climate change into an irreparable global disaster.
Researchers have measured the degradation of the planet's soil using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), a scientific methodology that analyses the environmental impact of human activities, and which now for the first time includes indicators on desertification. The results show that 38 percent of the world is made up of arid regions at risk of desertifica […]
Invasive plants could become even more prevalent and destructive as climate change continues, according to a new analysis of data stretching back more than 150 years. The scientists who conducted the study say that non-native plants, and especially invasive species, appear to thrive during times of climate change because they're better able to adjust th […]
Picture a dinosaur. Huge, menacing creatures, they ruled the Earth for nearly 200 million years, striking fear with every ground-shaking stride. Yet these great beasts were no match for a 6-mile wide meteor that struck near modern-day Mexico 65 million years ago, incinerating everything in its path. This catastrophic impact -- called the Cretaceous-Tertiary […]
If you’re one of many greenies who recently purchased a 2010 Toyota Prius, turn that ride right around. The Japanese company has just announced that it’s recalling 437,000 of its hybrid cars because of a braking system glitch. The company says that the recall applies to 223,000 Japanese vehicles, 155,000 American vehicles and 53,000 [...]
Sydney’s ugliest building may soon be getting a new lease on life through to a plan to ‘reskin’ the entire tower with a high-performance photovoltaic skin. Architecture firm Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) has proposed the retrofit, and if their plan is enacted it would turn the 1960’s brutalist building into a brilliant […]
Project H Design, the design nonprofit founded in 2008 by Inhabitat Senior Editor Emily Pilloton, is in the running for a $50,000 grant from the Pepsi Refresh Project to launch Studio H, a high school design and vocational program in the poorest county in North Carolina. Studio H will be a one-year program, taught by [...]
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Portable wireless mice have a problem: most of them rely upon disposable batteries, which often wind up in landfills as e-waste. Adele Peters’ Corky mouse aims to change all that — it’s a kinetic energy-harvesting mouse that is powered with a flick of the wrist. One of 18 finalists in this year’s Greener Gadgets Design [...]
I attended the State of Green Business Forum today in Chicago, hosted by the Greener World Media. It was an opportunity for industry experts and leaders to share insights and observations on this dynamic topic. Here are some of the ideas and themes that were raised at this event, although it is certainly not an [...]
If you take a bunch of dead trees and grasses and shrubs and bury them underground and wait a couple of hundred million years, you get coal: a highly concentrated energy source which has the unfortunate side effect of releasing a very large proportion of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. But what if you simply [...]
Last week, Tesco, the UK’s largest retailer, opened the world’s first zero carbon supermarket. The store has no net carbon footprint and exports any extra electricity generated back to the national grid. Located in Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, this new supermarket boasts several eco-friendly features, including: A combined heat and power plant which runs on bio f […]
The latest chatter on the Hill is that climate legislation is not likely to pass this year. High jobless numbers, financial reform and the health care debate continue to thwart efforts focused on the environment. It is possible that the Senate will settle for an energy-only bill and call it a day. The likelihood of [...]
Last week’s announcement from the Home Depot Foundation suggests that even with sales slumps and layoffs, the nation’s largest retailer of home improvement products still views charitable giving as good business. The company is expecting lower revenues for 2009 when results are announced in February, and for the third consecutive January is cutting its workf […]
Like all human endeavours, the IPCC is not perfect. Despite the enormous efforts devoted to producing its reports with the multiple levels of peer review, some errors will sneak through. Most of these will be minor and inconsequential, but sometimes they might be more substantive. As many people are aware (and as John Nieslen-Gammon outlined [...]
RealClimate is run by a rather loosely organized volunteer consortium of people with day jobs that in and of themselves can be quite consuming of attention. And so it came to pass that the first I learned about Gavin’s interest in the work of Plass was — by reading RealClimate! In fact, [...]
Starting in June of this year, data center operators can apply for Energy Star status. The new rating system will score data centers based on PUE, or power unit efficiency, on a scale of 1 - 100. The operators will use an online tool that allows them to enter information on energy use and operations to calculate their PUE. The PUE determines efficiency bas […]
A really exciting new bill was introduced to Congress last week by Bernie Sanders of Vermont. The bill lays out a plan to install 10 million solar roofs and 200,000 solar water heaters over the next 10 years through tax rebates and incentives. The installations would equal 30 GW of clean energy or the equivalent of 30 nuclear power plants. The "10 Mil […]
The Windy City area is capitalizing on its most famous attribute with a new wind-powered electric vehicle charging station. Located in Highland Park, 30 miles outside of the city, the charging station uses electricity generated by Illinois wind farms for law firm Emalfarb Swan & Bain. The charging station is the second in the country and the first in th […]
A new federal agency charged with reporting on climate change is being formed. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will set up the Climate Service using members of the National Weather Service and other NOAA offices. Climate operations have been spred out among NOAA offices, but with more and more requests pouring in for information c […]
It's that time of year again! The Greener Gadgets Design Competition has started and 18 cool, eco-friendly gadget ideas are waiting for your votes. This year is the third year for the competition and the Greener Gadgets Conference, which is being held on February 25 in New York City, and I must say, this is the best crop of designs yet. Some of the hi […]
Walk into store full of gadgets and home goods, and you’re generally hard-pressed to find things like clocks, radios, calculators and lighting made with something other than plastic or unsustainably produced metal. If you do manage to score something made of wood, it’s probably a holdover from the paneling-obsessed 70s – not exactly stylish. A company [...] […]
Since “going paperless” has proven to be a difficult challenge for so many companies despite their good intentions, printers are still an integral part of most offices. But even with waste-preventing practices in place, there’s still all that ink and wasted paper. Enter the PrePeat, a new eco printer that uses zero ink or toner, and [...]
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) seeks a Commercial Director for its Americas Regional Office [Seattle, WA]. MSC is the world’s leading certification and eco-labeling program for wild capture fisheries. Through its certification and labelling program, the MSC contributes to reversing decline in global fish stocks by identifying and rewarding and c […]
We’re living in an increasingly green world – but that doesn’t mean the green police are coming to take away all of the fun things in life. Or are they? A series of teaser videos from automaker Audi features dorky green police that bust people for environmentally unfriendly actions – including actual police officers idling [...]
High school and college students are more ecologically aware than ever, but a desire to help the earth doesn’t have to mean giving up your passion for art, literature, education and psychology to focus on traditionally “green” careers. More and more colleges are tying the environment to every program of study, including Vermont’s Green Mountain [...] […]
The last time you encountered WeatherBug — a company that has 8,000 weather tracking stations across the U.S. and sells various weather-based services — could have been when you were trying in vain to uninstall an early version of its ad-based desktop application. Microsoft’s Windows once mistakenly classified it as spyware. Oops. Nowadays, […]
Amid the rubble of the first generation of biofuel projects focused on ethanol derived from corn, a new landscape of biofuel tech has taken shape. As Lux Research puts it in a report released today, the companies range “from backyard brewers to billion-dollar industrial giants,” working in five key technology categories: fermentation, gasificatio […]
Buggy Hybrids: Toyota and Ford’s problems with the electronic interface between the antilock braking system and regenerative braking system in their hybrids highlights how “bugs that nag us while in front of the computer have migrated to our cars. Rather than just a reboot, the fix in this case requires a software upgrade.” — CNET […]
Xcel Energy’s showcase smart grid project in Boulder, Colo. has cost a lot more than originally expected, and the Colorado Public Utility Commission is now asking the utility to prove why it needs its Colorado customers to foot part of the bill. The main culprit for the cost overruns? — fiber. According to a Friday story [...]
As 2009 drew to a close, solar companies faced uncertainty as to whether the new year would bring recovery or a continuation of challenges stemming from oversupply and difficult financing. But Rhone Resch, head of the trade group Solar Energy Industries Association, or SEIA, expressed optimism this morning in a press call held along with [...]
German engineering giant Siemens is looking to throw some money at solar and wind power in India now. It is going to invest $346 million in India’s renewable energy sector over the next three years. Peter Löscher, Siemens’ chief executive, said the firm will increase its Indian workforce by about 50 per cent to 25,000 people [...]
Clean energy is one of the top topics in the world these days, in presidential speeches, economic growth plans and projections, international competition and cooperation, and even in Hollywood. We have seen rapid growth in wind power, rooftop solar, innovative financing, and much more recently. Here is my list of the Top 10 “Clean Energy” Topics […]
In the absence of such legislation "The Invisible Hand" has tended to find that utilities should just continue to source their electricity from traditional sources, with the result that states that do not have an RES have the unhealthiest electricity in the nation.
A new study shows that requiring utility companies to get 25% of their power from renewable energy sources such as solar and wind (by 2025) would result in more jobs. “A strong renewable electricity standard is crucial to create a stable investment environment and grow this highly promising sector,” says Don Furman, senior vice president for [... […]
A new poll conducted by Yale University and George Mason University researchers shows that American voters do want strong climate and energy legislation. “Climate Change in the American Mind: Public Support for Climate & Energy Policies in January 2010” is the name of the poll and it shows bi-partisan support for more clean energy research, c […]
Where are tomorrow's clean energy ideas coming from? From students, of course. To encourage Michigan college and university students to develop clean energy technology, DTE Energy and the University of Michigan created the Clean Energy Prize in 2008, which awards $100,000 to the team with the best business plan.This year eight teams will face off in the […]
Toyota has announced a voluntary but expected safety recall on 133,000 2010 Toyota Prius vehicles and 14,500 2010 Lexus HS 250h vehicles to correct a defect in the software controlling the anti-lock brake system (ABS).Normally, ABS engages and disengages the brakes many times per second in the event of wheel slippage. Hybrids also employ regenerative braking […]
Those of us who work in or cover green technology got a good laugh last night during Audi's Green Police SuperBowl commercial. Accompanied by a rock soundtrack (Cheap Trick rewrote "Dream Police" for the spot), we saw what sometimes feels inevitable: a special police force cracking down on infractions such as choosing plastic over paper and im […]
So much for that whole jobs-in-Michigan thing: one year after opening an office in Pontiac to much fanfare, Fisker Automotive has begun relocating all two dozen employees to its Southern California headquarters, and said it would "dramatically" boost hiring in CA, according to Green Car Advisor.Fisker has yet to begin selling its flagship first car […]
Funny how often earth-friendly products are also budget-friendly. Consider the TrickleStar TrickleStrip. You've probably read about TrickleStar's smart power management devices before. Now you can get a six-outlet strip that's a surge protector and a power manager. The strip offers two outlets that are always on, one that acts as a control, an […]
Since coming back from Maui, I've found the cold weather in NYC quite shocking and have stayed inside, warm and cozy, living vicariously through Cathy Erway's just-out book: The Art of Eating In: How I Learned to Stop Spending and Love the Stove. Actually, for someone who eats in, Erway goes out quite a lot. First off, she seems indefatigable and b […]
Last week, the Obama administration introduced a proposal that every college student and educator in the country should know about. It represents the nation's first comprehensive federal program for clean energy education, and it is a critical step toward regaining American leadership in one of the most important industries of our time. Over the past tw […]
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: 'Snowpocalypse' in Washington, D.C., but snow-less in Vancouver for the Winter Olympics; Toyota recalls some Priuses (Prius's? Priusi?); The Green Police hit the SuperBowl! ... PLUS: Sarah Palin speaks Nookyular Tea Party-eese ... All that and more in today's Green News Report! Got c […]
There's no way around it: Meat production is bad for the environment. Ozone-destroying methane in cow farts, overflowing toxic-pig-poo lagoons, and the cruelty of debeaked hens in battery cages--it's enough to turn anyone vegan. Almost. Thankfully, carnivorous consumption doesn't have to be an all-or-nothing proposition. […]
I was raised in the suburbs and for my family our legacy has always been something that happened somewhere else in a far away land. I did not grow up in a house built from scratch by my forefathers. My dad got a mortgage from a bank and chose his house on specs from a housing developer. If someone came along and destroyed the house I grew up in and poisoned […]
When people talk about eating healthier, one typically thinks about adding more ‘green’ to their diet and this added ‘green’ would traditionally come in the form of vegetables. However, with a recent development pioneered by the algae company Solazyme, adding more ‘green’ has taken on a new meaning. Solazyme, a company dev […]
Wherever Blair goes, our campaign ensures that he can never be free from the fear of arrest... What else can you do? When the entire administration is engaged in a criminal act, when there is no clear separation of powers between the government and the judiciary, when those appointed to hold the government to account are as scary as a litter of kittens, wher […]
Unplggd reports on a machine that can transform waste office paper into rolls of toilet paper. It’s called the “White Goat”, manufactured by the Nakabayashi company of Japan. With the addition of a little water, the White Goat will shred up waste paper products and spit out a functional roll of toilet paper. While the end product may be a l […]
Along with several other international NGOs working in Afghanistan, Oxfam last week published a powerful paper on the damage being caused by the militarization of aid. In many ways it resembles the debate on how to ensure that Haitian reconstruction builds, rather than undermines, its battered state. In the last half hour, one Afghan woman died from pregnanc […]
A team of Spanish researchers has measured the degradation of the planet's soil using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), a scientific methodology that analyses the environmental impact of human activities, and which now for the first time includes indicators on desertification. The results show that 38 percent of the world is made up of arid regions at ri […]
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new University of California, Davis, study by a top ecological forecaster says it is harder than experts thought to predict when sudden shifts in Earth's natural systems will occur -- a worrisome finding for scientists trying to identify the tipping points that could push climate change into an irreparable global disaster.
A University of Rhode Island researcher who studies chemical pollutants in the marine environment has called on colleagues around the world to establish a global monitoring network to verify that the chemicals banned by the United Nations in 2003 are no longer in use.
The climatic warming will increase the carbon dioxide emissions from soil more than previously estimated. This is a mechanism that will significantly accelerate the climate change. Already now the carbon dioxide emissions from soil are ten times higher than the emissions of fossil carbon. A Finnish research group has proved that the present standard measurem […]
(AP) -- Activists vowing to stop the killing of whales exchanged water-cannon fire with a Japanese whaling fleet they are tailing in the Antarctic Ocean, as sea confrontations that have led to collisions and a sunken vessel continue.
In the aftermath of a military coup last March, Madagascar's rainforests have been pillaged for precious hardwoods, including rosewood and ebonies. Tens of thousands of hectares have been affected, including some of the island's most biologically-diverse national parks: Marojejy, Masoala, and Makira. Illegal logging has also spurred the rise of a c […]
Last Friday, the government of Canada and the governments of the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador signed a memorandum of understanding to create a the new Mealy Mountains National Park. Larger than Yellowstone National Park, the new Canadian park will span 11,000 square kilometers making it the largest protected area in Eastern Canada.
Scientists have captured what they believe to be the first footage ever of the oarfish, the species likely responsible for legends told of sea serpents.
El Zoológico del Bronx ha puesto en exhibición los más inusitados batracios: El sapo rociador Kihansi. En primera instancia, este sapo sobrevivió en el desfiladero Kihansi de Tanzania, adaptándose a estas excepcionales áreas, constantemente nubladas por el desfiladero y la caída del agua. Por otro lado, en vez de poner huevos, las ranas rociadoras Kihansi da […]
