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Understanding Climate Change: Powerpoint and Propaganda

Posted by Wolf on Wednesday, 25 July 2012 in Climate Change

By Chris Eberhardt When asked what Chinese youth think of when they hear the words climate change (气候变化), common answers included rising temperatures and sea levels, the disappearance of island nations, or that the winters in his or her hometown were getting warmer. In response to an online Chines...

Colorado fires, severe storms, floods and record-setting heat: The summer of hellfire and brimstone?

Posted by Wolf on Saturday, 14 July 2012 in Climate Change

By Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite “They will be tormented with fire” (Revelation 14:10) and burn (Revelation 19:20). Those are the biblical images of hellfire and brimstone that best describe the burning heat and violent storms this country is experiencing. They also describe the hellish cond...

Flushed drugs risk to health

Posted by Wolf on Friday, 29 June 2012 in Human Health

by Miles Kemp LARGE quantities of illicit and prescription drugs are being flushed down toilets. And they are starting to risk people's health, a UniSA study has found. The authors have warned there is no policy on the safe disposal of the drugs into treated wastewater, surface water, drink...

Jardim Gramacho dump is being transformed

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 25 June 2012 in Sustainable Development

One of the world's largest open-air landfills, a vast, seaside mountain of trash where thousands of people have made a living sorting through the debris by hand, closes this weekend after 34 years in malodorous service. Long a symbol of ill-conceived urban planning and environmental negligence, Rio...

Calif. to get seas rising 6 inches by 2030

Posted by Wolf on Friday, 22 June 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

By JEFF BARNARD The West Coast will see an ocean several inches higher in coming decades, with most of California expected to get sea levels a half foot higher by 2030, according a report released Friday. The study by the National Research Council gives planners their best look yet at how melting ...

THE troubled coastline of Jimmys Beach

Posted by Wolf on Friday, 15 June 2012 in Climate Change

THE troubled coastline of Jimmys Beach has again been swallowed by king tides and massive swells."We had swell over seven metres on a two metre plus tide which was not pretty," Great Lakes Council's manager of parks and recreation David Bortfeld said. Mr Bortfeld said during the worst...

The Dying River

Posted by Wolf on Friday, 15 June 2012 in Lakes/Rivers/Wetlands

The Niger River ( /ˈnaɪdʒər/ ny-jər) is the principal river of western Africa, extending about 4,180 km (2,600 mi). Its main tributary is the Benue River. Severely affected by recent turmoil across its northern frontiers, Nigerien touris...

5 Most At-Risk Rivers in the World

Posted by Wolf on Friday, 15 June 2012 in Lakes/Rivers/Wetlands

It is often said that life began on a river bed. It's no surprise that, still today, the world's rivers make up some of the most fundamental sources of fresh water and habitats for life of all kinds. Unfortunately, some of the largest and most highly-needed rivers are under attack from environmental...

Global Algae Biodiesel World 2012

Posted by Wolf on Sunday, 10 June 2012 in Biofuels

Introducing the real world of Algae and its scientific commercialization for Development of Sustainable Non-Food Algae Oil Crop Projects, Programmers and Priorities to Feed Biodiesel Industry Worldwide This is a programmed where you shall study & learn the ALGAE System in totality fro...

Warming Arctic Tundra Producing Pop-Up Forests

Posted by Wolf on Tuesday, 05 June 2012 in Climate Change

By ANDREW C. REVKIN Even as insect infestations and other factors accompanying warming have led to the “browning” of some stretches of boreal forest between temperate regions and the Arctic tundra, the tundra appears to be greening in a big way, various studies have shown. The newest such work, foc...

Memo to Rio+20: 'green economy' doesn't mean monetising nature

Posted by Wolf on Thursday, 31 May 2012 in General Environment

by Hannah Griffiths Official support for marketising nature to stop its destruction means the practical action at Rio+20 will be at People's summit The 1992 Rio Earth summit established "sustainable development" firmly in the global political lexicon – even though the term meant, and continues to ...

Green Power Sources & Baby Products are Winners at UCD

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 28 May 2012 in Green Products/Services

"The biggest bang in this year's UC Davis business plan competition came from the S2E Energy founder who touted a thin, clear window like material said to conduct the sun's power more cheaply and efficiently than existing solar technology." The biggest bang in this year's UC Davis business plan com...

An LED Bulb That Lasts 20 Years

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 28 May 2012 in Green Products/Services

A new LED (light-emitting diode) from Philips promises to last 20 years – more than 25 000 hours. The LED light bulb was launched commercially in stores on Earth Day. For more than one hundred years, Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb has been on the market. Though providing excellent light qu...

California Expands Rooftop Solar-Power Subsidies

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 28 May 2012 in Solar

California regulators approved a plan Thursday to expand a subsidy for rooftop solar power generated by homeowners and businesses, handing a victory to the solar industry. The plan, adopted by the California Public Utilities Commission, allows more homeowners and businesses that install their own s...

Rio+20 Summit Planning is not going well

Posted by Wolf on Friday, 11 May 2012 in General Environment

The largest-ever United Nations conference, a summit billed as a historic opportunity to build a greener future, appears to be going up in smoke. U.S. President Barack Obama likely won't be there, and the leaders of Britain and Germany have bowed out. The entire European Parliament delega...

Bottled water industry wages PR battle against tap water movement

Posted by Wolf on Thursday, 05 April 2012 in Clean Water

Worried by an eco backlash, the bottled water industry is waging a PR battle to turn the public back onto plastic bottled water Bottled water is the totemic bête noire of the environmental world, a multibillion-dollar industry that takes what in the west is clean and readily avail...

Is The Military Using Whales to Test Weapons

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 26 March 2012 in Earth Violators

A couple of years ago, there were rumblings at exactly 7: 30 a.m. every morning At the same time, we were told that the ocean floor was being banged on right where there is a marine reserve for whales. Not much later, dead whales washed up on the beach in Washington state. The U.S. air fo...

Brazil Arrests 17 Chevron Oil Execs For “Environmental Crimes”

Posted by Wolf on Saturday, 24 March 2012 in Fossil Fuels

Brazil is going to great lengths to protect its commons. Seventeen executives, including American citizens, working with Chevron and oil rig contractor Transocean, have been charged with crimes against the environment in Brazil after an oil spill off the coast poured about three thousand ba...

The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Posted by Wolf on Saturday, 24 March 2012 in Fossil Fuels

Just after midnight, a series of errors on board the Exxon Valdez oil tanker led the ship aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound. About 30 million litres of crude oil leaked from the tanker's breached hull, causing massive destruction along hundreds of kilometres of once-pristine coast. ...

Charge - The Electric Motorcycle is here to stay

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 19 March 2012 in Transportation

Charge documents the inaugural grand prix for electric motorcycle racing at the venerable Isle of Man TT. Choosing the IoM as the GP debut for electric motorcycle racing both solidified the class as a credible racing format as well as ostracized it among racing traditionalists. “This is the...