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UK’s Soil Association has been a tireless advocate for sustainable, planet friendly farming for years. In preparation for the upcoming Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, the organization has released a report that states organic farming as the “missing link” at COP15. Up to 86% of climate change mitigation in the field of agriculture lies in [...]
China-made drywall causes over 2,100 homeowners in Florida, Louisiana and Virginia to move out of their homes for health reasons. Most of these houses were built between 2005 to 2007 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and Wilma during which a shortage of US-made building materials occurred due to massive rebuilding and construction.
A recent study [...]
It seems everyone excited over KLM announcing that it will run the first ever commercial flight using biodiesel fuel. For years we’ve been hearing all about biodiesel fuel, perhaps more so jokes about the french fry smell it emits when being burned. But what exactly is biodiesel and can it really help the environment?
First, let’s [...]
In the oceans around the world tuna stocks are disappearing due to massive overfishing, causing imbalances in ecosystems and a loss of livelihood for many who depend on their healthy stocks. General Santos City in the southern Philippines is one place where plummeting tuna populations spell economic hardship for many of residents. Much of the [...]
Some very old ice in northern Greenland may provide insights into how our climate might change in the future. Scientists at the NEEM ice coring project in Greenland are drilling into ice sheets to retrieve ice from the previous interglacial period. Interglacials are warm intervals within ice ages. The previous interglacial, called the Eemian, ended [...]
Do any of you know a person who brags about the size of their brain? You know the type—they go on and on about how smart they are, they may have an x-ray of their brain framed somewhere in their home, and most likely they rank their intelligence as that of Einstein (or higher). If [...]
Cute, furry and vulnerable despite being the largest land dwelling carnivore species on the planet, polar bears have become icons for climate change. Now they are being used in a controversial new anti flying campaign by the environmental activist group Plane Stupid. If it’s attention they want, it seems to be working.
According to Plane Stupid, [...]
The Republic of Sudan in East Africa has been the focus of much media attention in recent years due to its brutal civil war and the practices of ethnic cleansing and genocide associated with the conflict, particularly in the region of Darfur. Though the civil war has now ended, Sudan’s strong divide between the north [...]
CNN’s Going Green reports that the inequalities of gender in many developing societies are intensified by the increased hardships brought on by the changing climate.
It is the developing world that contributes less to global emissions, benefits less from them and suffers more because of them. Within these poorer nations, it is women more than men [...]
A new form of migration is taking place and it does not involve any creature of air, sea or land. This movement is of land itself—and one that should not be happening at all. Hundreds of icebergs have broken away from Antarctic ice shelves and are making their way towards New Zealand; which, according to [...]
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