Tag: environment

If the current pledges under the UN flag to cut carbon emissions are not improved, then it is estimated that ...

It's a black period for Brazil's environment, and things will get even worse in days to follow; the government just ...

Various animals and plants faced with the danger of extinction may be one step closer to making the official endangered ...

When Biosphere 2 was launched in 1991, the idea seemed to be absurd. A few years after that, it suddenly ...

The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project was launched by physics professor Richard Muller, a long time critic of studies led ...

A week before the UN Copenhagen climate summit, a disheartening new study conducted by scientists from University of Exeter in ...

In case you don't know, a few days ago a toxic red sludge "broke free" from a Hungarian metal plant ...

Seahorses are just as elusive as they are cute, so diver Neil Garrick-Maidment, the executive director of the Seahorse Trust ...

The race for oil drilling is tougher than ever, and the effects are quite often extremely damaging for the environment ...

Ethiopian authorities announced that thanks to large-scale reforestation campaigns the forest cover of their country has tripled since 2000. The ...

To be quite honest, I was never really fond of the man, but ever since he quit his executive positions ...

As any fourth grader will tell you, photosynthesis is (in layman terms), the process through which plants (and bacteria, algae, ...

I had some serious thought on whether to write this or not. It's not a paid post or anything, and ...

James Lovelock is one of the world's most brilliant minds alive at the moment; he developed numerous technologies for NASA, ...

The mimic octopus, Thaumoctopus mimicus is a species of octopus that grows up to 60 cm (2 feet) in length ...

At nearly 200 meters below the ice, there is no light, the temperature is way below 0 degrees, and scientists ...

Parts of the car's bodywork could double up as it's batter in a not so far away future; at least ...

Well I have to say, I'm really thrilled about the Winter Olympics that have just started, and even though they ...

Her name is Severn Suzuki, and here you have one of perhaps the most impressive speeches of all time, delivered ...

Global warming is one of the main concerns on everybody's lips, causing more and more damage to the environment every year, ...

The Siberian tiger is the biggest feline to walk the face of the Earth at the time, but if today's ...

When it's really hot and sunny outside, a black roof gets really hot, while a white roof reflects rays from ...

Because of insufficient time and man power (if you want to help, just look at the banner in the right), ...

It's one of the rarest phenomena you can see.

Biofuels seems to be the word on everybody's lips today, and for good reason. It's necessary that people understand the ...

Who here doesn't spam? No, not the damn meat, I'm talking about spam mail. Yup, there you go. You go ...

Whether we want to accept it or not, mankind has caused significant (to say the leased) damage to the amount ...

Renewable energy has found a considerable support in wind farms, as more and more people seem to be adopting this ...

It's hard to say that during last year's G8 summit the "world leaders" made promises and predictions that were just ...

A few days ago, I wrote about the damage that a well intended, but wrongly conducted mangrove restoration could cause; ...

The environmental challenges we have to overcome (fast) cover virtually every field in human activity. Focuses such as finding green ...

Lester Brown is "one of the world's most influential thinkers", according to the Washington Post, and the Calcutta refers to ...

  Think about China today; the country with the most people in the world, who's surface is in the top ...

Who isn't paying attention when Al Gore is talking? The impact he has on people from America and all around ...

If you think girls like sport cars, bling, and fancy clubs... you're so last year! Well that's not really what ...

Photo by konaboy Contrary to popular belief, "going green" is not something you can do just when you finish work ...

    The controversy between the climate and energy researchers has been fuelled by the recent studies which suggest the ...

After things seemed to be going a bit towards the right way, when fishing was banned in the 2nd largest ...

A problem which a decade ago would have seemed just absurd is now becoming more and more pressing: water. More ...

Recently, more and more people are beginning to claim that the melting of glaciers caused by global warming is all ...

A long time ago, sharks had no natural enemy; they were on top of the trophic chain. All this has ...