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Galapagos sees record rise in penguins, flightless cormorants

Posted by Angel on Tuesday, 27 October 2020 in Wildlife Conservation

Yahoo News October 24, 2020 The population of Galapagos penguins and flightless cormorants, two species endemic to the islands, has seen a record increase, study results released Friday showed. The Galapagos penguin is one of the smallest species of penguins in the world, measuring up to 35 centim...

In Environment Speech, Trump Fails to Mention Climate Change

Posted by Angel on Wednesday, 10 July 2019 in Climate Change

President Trump delivered a major speech on the environment yesterday without mentioning climate change. The 45-minute address in the East Room of the White House featured a president who dedicated much of his first term to unraveling environmental protections established by former President Obama....

Conservatives Try to Seize the Green New Deal Moment

Posted by Angel on Monday, 29 April 2019 in MyBlog

ClearPath Executive Director Rich Powell makes the conservative case for an innovative agenda on climate change. Climate change is having a moment. It’s hard to untangle cause from effect, but some combination of the backlash against Trump, worsening environmental disasters, youth-driven protests,...

Scientists analyze recent extreme weather events in relation to climate change

Posted by Angel on Wednesday, 17 August 2016 in Climate Change

Wartime mobilization is needed to fight climate change, July racks up as the hottest month ever recorded and Antarctic carbon dioxide reaches levels unseen for millions of years. It's What's Up in Climate Change. World War AGW We may not realize it, but we're in the midst of a war. Accordi...

Energy Revolution, How US can transition to nearly 100% renewable energy

Posted by Angel on Thursday, 22 May 2014 in Sustainable Development

Washington DC - The United States can quickly transition to nearly 100% renewable energy and phase out coal and nuclear power, according to a major new report from Greenpeace and the Global Wind Energy Council. Energy [R]evolution - A Sustainable USA Energy Outlook provides a blueprint for transform...

Air Quality Awareness Week

Posted by Angel on Tuesday, 29 April 2014 in Air Quality

This final week of April has been designated as "Air Quality Awareness Week" to better educate people about the effects of ozone and pollution in our air. The Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency is the local organization that monitors Northeast Ohio's air quality and issues advisories when ...

Christmas Consumerism

Posted by Angel on Saturday, 22 December 2012 in General Environment

Written by Richard Wilk We have just been through what has now become an American tradition -- Black Friday -- and big box stores opened earlier than ever before, despite protests by employees at Walmart. Because of the recession, sales in physical retail stores were down 1.8 percent from t...

45 Million Turkeys

Posted by Angel on Tuesday, 20 November 2012 in Food

Thanksgiving should be a time for celebration, not cruelty, yet approximately 45 million turkeys — gentle birds who enjoy having their feathers stroked and gobbling along to music — are killed every year for Thanksgiving dinner. Before they’re killed, turkeys spend several months pa...

Green Job Training Creating More Than a Green Job

Posted by Angel on Thursday, 15 November 2012 in Sustainable Development

Can a community like the South Bronx, which suffers from high unemployment, underinvestment and so-called environmental injustice, fit into the green economy? In 2010 a union-backed training initiative took on the question, enrolling unemployed residents, including many w...

BP to Pay another $4.5 Billion for Criminal Charges

Posted by Angel on Thursday, 15 November 2012 in Oil Spill

Two years ago British Petroleum had an accident in the Gulf of Mexico causing millions of gallons of oil to spill into the gulf. There was lying, hundreds of lawsuits and a major lack of leadership. Today there is some justice. BP, said Thursday that it would pay $4.5 billion in fines and...

Does Hurricane Sandy Bring New Questions for the Climate Change Debate?

Posted by Angel on Sunday, 04 November 2012 in Climate Change

Hurricane Sandy is now a gauge of the region’s new fragility. Climate change and extreme weather are presenting government — and the public — with some overwhelming choices. The authorities must not only reopen the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, but also ponder whether to put up sea gat...

GO VOTE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

Posted by Angel on Sunday, 04 November 2012 in Sustainable Development

In case you’ve been living under a rock, today is election day in the U. S of A – and we’re super excited for the possibilities that this hotly contested presidential election brings. If you are anything like most Americans, you’ve probably been following this election in the news, online,...

Hindu Green Film Festival to Begin

Posted by Angel on Saturday, 06 October 2012 in Arts and Entertainment

Minister for Cultural Affairs K.C. Joseph on Thursday inaugurated the Green Film Festival which started with the screening of one-minute short film ‘Recycle.’ Speaking at the function, the Minister said the State was facing a lot of environment-related problems such as waste management an...

Navy Using Jet Fuel From Sea Water

Posted by Angel on Tuesday, 02 October 2012 in Biofuels

From using vegetable oil and animal fats to trees and grasses as new sources of energy, biofuels are continuing to gain attention due to current oil prices and concern for energy security. As energy is produced from carbon fixation in these biofuels, scientists are experimenting with other types of ...

How to Clean Up Oil Spills

Posted by Angel on Wednesday, 26 September 2012 in Oil Spill

MIT researchers have developed a new technique for magnetically separating oil and water that could be used to clean up oil spills. They believe that, with their technique, the oil could be recovered for use, offsetting much of the cost of cleanup. The researchers will present their...

Mapping Coral Reefs to Save Wildlife

Posted by Angel on Thursday, 20 September 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

SAWFISH and snubfin dolphins on the brink of extinction are top priority in a plan to restore degraded coral habitats and reconnect coastal ecosystems along the Great Barrier Reef. The plan by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority comes as the CSIRO today will launch a report in Brisbane, ...

Enough Wind Power for the East Coast

Posted by Angel on Wednesday, 19 September 2012 in Wind

Recent reports have shown that it’s possible to power the entire world with wind power, but scientists at Stanford University conducted a more focused study that delivered the first-ever quantitative analysis of offshore wind energy on the US East Coast. The study states that there is...

Ivory Fuels Wars and Profits

Posted by Angel on Wednesday, 05 September 2012 in Earth Violators

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN / The New York Times GARAMBA NATIONAL PARK, Democratic Republic of Congo -- In 30 years of fighting poachers, Paul Onyango had never seen anything like this. Twenty-two dead elephants, including several very young ones, clumped together on the open savanna, many kil...

Arctic Sea Ice Death Spiral

Posted by Angel on Monday, 03 September 2012 in Climate Change

This year has predictably and deservedly received a fair amonut of media attention. Jonathan Leake of the Sunday Times recently penned an article on the impending sea ice record. The bulk of the article was quite good, but at the end succumbed to the standard mainstream media practice of...

Not-So-Clean Cleaning Products

Posted by Angel on Friday, 31 August 2012 in Green Products/Services

by Lauren Deville The bad news: We live in a toxic world. There are all kinds of nasty foreign substances all around us, from heavy metals to plastics (otherwise known as phthalates) to pesticides, solvents, molds, and other fat- and water-soluble chemicals. It isn't really possible to avoid toxins...