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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 [...]
British companies with financial ties to Canada’s controversial tar sands oil operations will face considerable pressure this week from UK environmental lobbies and investors with ethical concerns.
The tar sands of Alberta, Canada are the world’s largest deposits of bitumen, a heavy, black form of crude oil extracted via surface mining. Generally considered to be of [...]
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 [...]
BBC News reports that the death toll from Saturday’s floods and mudslides on the Portuguese island of Madeira has risen to 42. Earth Times puts the official number of injured at 120 with 70 still hospitalized and around 250 people homeless.
Saturday’s storms were an unprecedented event for the inhabitants for Madeira. According to Der Spiegel [...]
The depletion of fish stocks in the world’s oceans and the use of increasingly sophisticated industrial fishing techniques are resulting in heavy damage to precious marine ecosystems. Trawling, once relegated to shallow waters with level sea floors, is now commonly used to fish deeper, including among coral reefs.
Deep-sea trawlers use giant, heavy-duty nets that are [...]
To the disappointment of environmental and indigenous rights groups, the construction of a massive hydroelectric dam in the Amazon rainforest has been green-lighted by the Brazilian environmental ministry. The Belo Monte dam project on the Amazon’s Xingu River will be the world’s third largest project of its kind. The hydroelectric dam is part of a [...]
Freezing cold supermarkets equal a hotter planet. As reductionist as this may sound, a recent study by Environmental Investigation Agency – an international campaigning organization – claims that greenhouse gases used in large freezers and fridges by supermarkets are as harmful to the environment as plastic bags.
The problem is HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons) which are coolants that [...]
55 countries signed onto the Copenhagen accord by January 31st, the UN’s ’soft deadline’ for submitting promises to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The 55 signatories – who are responsible for 78% of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning – include China, the US and all 27 European Union states.
So far the pledges to reduce [...]
Water vapor, a potent heat-trapping gas, absorbs sunlight and re-emits heat into Earth’s atmosphere. Its concentrations in the stratosphere, the second of three layers in the atmosphere, appear to have decreased in the last 10 years, according to the study.
–New York Times
I read two articles discussing the relationship between water vapor and global warming on [...]
Back in November we featured a piece on a ‘freeconomist’ conducting an idealistic experiment in living off the grid in a rural part of western England. 80’s pop lyric references aside, Mark Boyle, aka No Money Man has completed a year without using money. Fourteen months from starting his experiment and in the middle of [...]
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