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If you are devoted to the green lifestyle and also have a canine companion, then you may be aware of all the eco-friendly pet products that are out these days. You’ll find dog beds, toys, shampoos, treats, and more. I’ve even found dog collars made from recycled plastic bottles. As always, there is one pet [...]
A study of over 20,000 Israeli military recruits suggests that smokers have lower IQs than non-smokers.
Reuters reports on the Israeli study, which takes a different approach to previous studies by attempting to exclude subjects with mental and behavioral problems.
To better understand the smoking-IQ relationship, the researchers looked at 20,211 18-year-old men recruited into the Israeli [...]
On Friday the annual meeting of UN climate chiefs took place in Bali, Indonesia. Officials from over 130 countries met with the principal aim of establishing trust between China and developing countries on the one hand; and rich countries – especially the United States – on the other.
Despite the call for harmony, Chinese foreign ministry [...]
Germany has talked about cutting back on solar energy support and withdrawing wind power supplied to Taiwan as of late. The question is: Why?
According to a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party, their reasoning for cutting back on supporting the solar energy industry is because they don’t want the market to overheat. Germany is [...]
In less than 24 hours, a good portion of the globe has been hit with a number of natural disasters. Unfortunately for them, the worst of it hasn’t even happened yet.
Yesterday, Chile was hit by an 8.8 earthquake—one of the worst ever recorded. Homes, highways and bridges were torn apart and at least 214 people [...]
Business has always been about supply and demand, and one business in particular is becoming very demanding of their suppliers.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. wants its suppliers to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 20 million metric tons—within the next 5 years. However, don’t think that this giant retailer won’t do their own part in reducing emissions. [...]
A British government adviser has warned that major changes in land management are necessary to deal with the effects of climate change and a growing population over the next 50 years.
Professor John Beddington, who is chief scientific adviser to the UK government, warned of ‘competing issues’ that without proper management – including an integration of [...]
More pieces of ice are floating around the world and those pieces are getting bigger every year.
The Luxembourg-sized B9B iceberg collided with the floating Mertz Glacier, resulting in another large piece of ice breaking off the glacier. How large is it? The new iceberg is approximately 48 miles (78 km) long and 24 miles (39 [...]
Yesterday, it was announced on the official Sea Shepherd blog that they are bringing this year’s whaling campaign to an end.
With one ship sunk and the Steve Irwin heading back to port, that only left the Bob Barker left to contend with the whalers. Fortunately, there were hardly any of the Japanese ships left to [...]
With the help of the U.S. military, a company called Ocean Power Technologies is looking to exploit Hawaii’s massive wave energy potential as a renewable energy source.
Ocean Power Technologies’ wave powered energy producing design is a giant buoy that generates electricity by bobbing up and down in the ocean’s waves, working an internal plunger connected [...]
A massive earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 on the Richter scale has hit Chile early this morning (at 3.34 AM local time). It is the worst earthquake to hit the area since 1960. The earthquake caused a tsunami; placing many countries of the area in a state of tsunami warning.
According to Chilean President Michelle [...]
Alun Anderson is the author of the book After The Ice: Life, Death and Politics in the New Arctic. He was previously editor at New Scientist magazine and has also worked as an editor for the journals Nature and Science.
From a review of After the Ice in The Economist:
Mr Anderson looks in on the extraordinary, [...]
Economic recession, ‘Climategate’ and other ensuing scandals may have shaken both the public’s faith in – and concern about – the realities of man made climate change. Yet a fickle media or confused citizenry have not been enough for most political establishments to break from some kind of platform that takes climate change and other [...]
Well, it seems one of our worst environment fears has been confirmed. A climate change treaty will most likely not happen this year.
According to UN climate chief, Yvo de Boer, there is not enough time to recover from December’s disappointing summit. He believes more time is needed to establish a framework, as well as financial [...]
Imagine living in a home made of recycled waste plastic. Sure, it’s been done before, but Affresol takes it to a whole new level.
Backed by Welsh Assembly Government money, this “modular house construction company” launched a series of eco-friendly homes and four-ton modular, portable buildings. The awesome thing about these structures is not only do [...]
An awareness poster from the Catalonia Department of Environment (Departament De Medi Ambient) reads:
All around the world, 8 million tonnes of waste reach the sea EVERY DAY. All this refuse is generated by human activity. This non-recyclable rubbish is thrown into the toiler, onto the streets, into gullies, onto the sand and into the sea, [...]
Greenhouse gas emission cuts need to be bigger and they need to be bigger now; not next year, not 20 or 50 years down the line. Now.
UNEP claims insufficient commitments have been made since the COP-15 failure. Although a last-minute “Accord” was drawn up at the conference, which set the necessary 2 C (3.6 F) [...]
‘I have turned down Johnny Depp this week and that is not something I ever expected to do’, jokes writer and sixth form teacher Saci Lloyd in an article from the January 17th edition of The Observer.
A former musician, cartoonist, script-editor and advertiser, Saci Lloyd is the author of two books taking the teenage world [...]
Not to be outdone by its fellow large expanse of sea and longtime nemesis, the larger Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean can now claim a colossal plastic garbage patch of its own.
According to reports from the BBC and AP, the Atlantic ‘Rubbish Patch’ – located within the latitudes of 22 and 38 degrees N in [...]
Living in captivity is not all it’s cracked up to be. Imagine: bright flashing lights, being confined to the same small tank day in and day out, and having to perform ridiculous tricks for the entertainment of others. All you get out of it is some stinking fish. Yeah, I’d feel like I got a [...]
This year’s Winter Olympics has a new team to contend with. However, you won’t find them on the ice, snow, or sliding track.
Team Polar Bear is part of the latest campaign launched by Canada-based environmental group, Dogwood Initiative. If you’ve seen the latest Canadian 2 dollar coin, you’ll know it has an image of a [...]
I came across this video on DigInfo’s Youtube Channel. It’s shot during the 2009 Eco-Products exhibition. It’s about a quiet spectacular machine that is supposed to make toilet paper from recycled, shredded paper. The machine is called White Goat (!?) and has all it needs to recycle paper right within itself. You simply put shredded [...]
Have you ever seen a Siberian Crane? It’s an absolutely beautiful bird. Unfortunately, it’s also a critically endangered bird.
The Siberian Crane is a migratory bird. It travels about 3,100 miles (5,000 km) every year from northern Siberia to either China or Iran. Much of the wetlands along its migration route are being drained for farming. [...]
In case you haven’t noticed, Google is not really just a search engine anymore. It has even gone so far as to become a verb in more than one language. That, in and of itself, is no mean feat.
The Wikipedia entry for Google describes it as a ‘multinational public cloud computing and Internet search technologies [...]
Yesterday, an oil spill occurred in one of Italy’s small, northern rivers. Today, that spill reached the Po River.
The cause of the spill is believed to be sabotage at a former refinery, now turned into an oil depot. Apparently, the cisterns of the depot were opened, thus allowing the oil to flow into the Lambro [...]
As China continues to rapidly develop and urbanize, increasing pressure is put on the farmland of the Asian superpower. Pollution from toxic factory waste and an inordinate use of nitrogen fertilizers – more than twice the global average – are deteriorating the quality of China’s soil. Expanding urban areas are also diminishing the country’s precious [...]
The Japanese whaling season in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is drawing to a close. Sea Shepherd has managed to keep the Japanese from killing any whale for the past 19 days and it looks to stay that way until their campaign ends. On an even more positive note, there has been no further ship [...]
China is known for many things, ranging from the Great Wall to the Giant Panda. It’s also known to be one of the top polluters in the world; though that doesn’t mean they aren’t doing something about it.
Eastern China authorities plan to release 20 million algae-eating fish into the Taihu Lake. This particular lake is [...]
The documentary ‘Nasca Lines: The Buried Secrets’, currently airing on the National Geographic Channel, uncovers the mysteries surrounding an ancient and fascinating series of designs carved into the floors of the Nasca – or Nazca – Desert in Peru.
The lines depict simple designs as well as more elaborate representations of animals and are as large [...]
Several days of heavy rain in parts of Java – Indonesia’s main island – have resulted in deadly landslides killing 5 people, with at least 60 remaining buried under mud. Thousands of Indonesians have been made homeless due to recent flooding on Java.
The latest landslide happened on a tea plantation in a mountainous village in [...]
