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China’s soaring greenhouse gas emissions are significantly fueled by Western consumerism. That is the conclusion of a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
According to an article in Time magazine, ‘22.5% of the carbon emitted in China is actually exported to other countries’.
So in a way, unofficial ‘carbon markets’ [...]
Back in the headlines after a triumphant Oscar win for Best Documentary Feature, the makers of the anti dolphin slaughter and capture film The Cove have not been relaxing in the glow surrounding the awards ceremonies.
According to an article in the Guardian, The Cove’s director Louie Psihoyos and company have helped bust an American sushi [...]
Major environmental groups are ignoring climate scientists while lining their pockets with money from big polluters and the fossil fuel industry.
That is the gist of Johann Hari’s thorough piece of journalism in The Nation, entitled ‘The Wrong Kind of Green’. Apparently some seriously big players in the environmental movement are helping to greenwash big business [...]
Here’s something good that came out of COP15: The Stupid Show
I could spend hours watching these snippets and interviews from Franny Armstrong and company. They are both alternately and simultaneously interesting, depressing, amusing and sometimes even inspiring.
Armstrong is the filmmaker responsible for the eco-documentary The Age of Stupid. During the climate change conference in Copenhagen [...]
Species extinction is a hot issue. All the reasonably decent papers, TV nature shows and news programs are running stories on bluefin tuna, African elephants, tigers and fluffy polar bears more than ever before. Heck, the New York Times even ran a story about the greater sage grouse – a plains bird from the American [...]
Although a global treaty on climate change is not likely to happen this year either, we may at least see a decent amount of effort put into stopping deforestation.
During the COP-15 event, along with the “accord”, 6 nations also pledged a total of 3.5 billion dollars towards helping developing nations fight the ongoing deforestation [...]
The main opposition to legislation connected to climate change seems to stem from a public and corporate outcry against paying higher taxes. This could in many instances be interpreted as a selfish reason to oppose any government-backed climate or environmental action. A more sympathetic take on the opposition to regulating global emissions could focus on [...]
On Friday, actor/activist Sean Penn appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher to talk about the current situation in Haiti and the continued threat Haitians face from natural disasters. That’s right, the inside scoop on an immediate threat to the erstwhile darlings of the media – Haitian quake victims – brought to you by Jeff [...]
Early this morning an earthquake hit Turkey in the mountainous region of the southeastern part of the country. At least 51 people were killed and 71 injured. The earthquake had a magnitude of 5.8 on the Richter scale and hit at 4.32 a.m. local time.
In the hours following the earthquake, the region was struck by [...]
The lowest country in the world may have found an interesting solution to a rather alarming problem.
The Maldives is an absolutely amazing place, consisting of 26 atolls (a ring of coral reef) and nearly 1200 small islands. It’s also severely affected by climate change. Some people say the islands are sinking. In fact, they only [...]
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