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Posts Tagged ‘news’
Climate Change, Politics, Sep 1st, 2010,
In the wake of a summer that spawned harsh heat waves and forest fires in Europe; and catastrophic floods in China, Pakistan and elsewhere in Asia, climate debate is back in the news. Debate about the significance or even existence of anthropogenic global warming featured prominently the headlines last winter during the UN climate conference in Copenhagen, the ‘Climategate’ scandal the IPCC and the Met Office were embroiled in; and when parts of Europe and the US experienced unseasonably cold temperatures. These major events were followed by a relative lull in media coverage of climate issues, punctuated by the odd…
Tags: Bjorn, Climate change, ClimateGate, copenhagen, debate, global warming, IPCC, King, Lawson, Lomborg, news, Pachauri, report, review, science, skeptical
Climate Change, Videos & Documentaries, Jun 13th, 2010,
If you like your environmental news to be short, sparkly and easily digestible, then check out Planet 100 from Discovery’s planet green. It’s not exactly hard-hitting, deep or analytical, but it certainly caters to a short attention span, is humorous and the host – Sarah Backhouse, an experienced environmental journalist – is, well… not exactly hard on the eyes. Anyway, it’s only 100 seconds and packs a surprising amount into that limited span of time. Perfect for the post-MTV Nintendo generation. Check out the below video, which explains the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, to see what I mean. Well-done and…
Tags: Backhouse, discovery, news, Pacific, Planet 100, planet green, pretty, Sarah, trash, Vortex
Climate Change, Videos & Documentaries, Wildlife & Flora, May 6th, 2010,
There has been a huge amount of writing on the Gulf oil spill in recent days; from business analyses to stories highlighting the natural catastrophes caused by the massive leak – to rationalizations, political opinions, updates on BP’s efforts to staunch the flow and even the odd bit of weird news – or weird bit of odd news as the case may be. Here are just a few examples of the variety of coverage of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. The New York Times Environment section has a decent selection of articles on the spill. Here is a quote from…
Tags: BP, Deepwater Horizon, disaster, drill, gallons, Gulf, hair, london, mess, Mexico, New York, news, oil, spill, spill baby spill, Times, weird
Climate Change, Dec 30th, 2009,
Though environmental news has slowed considerably since the summit in Copenhagen – a probable combination of post COP15 depression and the holiday season – a slew of opinion pieces and articles on Copenhagen fallout have appeared in those news sources which deign to continue to cover environmental issues. A large number of these pieces focus on China’s role in the summit, with several more covering other environmental issues around China. As the apparent future leader in renewable energy as well as the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, China is the place we should all get used to reading, hearing…
Tags: China, climate, copenhagen, environment, news, summit
Climate Change, Videos & Documentaries, Dec 15th, 2009,
In correspondence to the UN summit in Copenhagen, NBC News has begun a new series of segments documenting the front lines of climate change: A Perfect Storm – Climate Change and Conflict. Located on the world’s largest river delta, Bangladesh has always been vulnerable to flooding, but climate change and resultant rising sea levels are making it all the more so. As usual, it is the poor who suffer the most. The symptoms of climate change in Bangladesh include population displacement, farmlands destroyed by salt water and regional political instability. Watch the video report from msnbc.com embedded below and read…
Tags: Bangladesh, Climate change, NBC, news, sea level
Climate Change, Wildlife & Flora, Aug 27th, 2009,
Greenpeace continued to rack up more victories this month. Corporations such as Adidas, Nike, Timberland, Clarks and Geox have all vowed to discontinue using leather suppliers who contribute to the destruction of the Amazon. The increasing demand for beef and leather products have resulted in forests being eliminated in order to provide more space for grazing. Major shoe manufacturer Bertin has gone further and launched a program to trace the sources of their materials, which will be fully implemented by the end of the year. Kimberly-Clark, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of bathroom paper products (among other things), has…
Tags: amazon, cattle, Greenpeace, leather, news, rainforest
Climate Change, Aug 22nd, 2009,
It’s another eventful time for international organization Greenpeace, as they staged more actions this month as part of their campaigns to save the earth. In an effort to stop bottom trawling in Sweden, Greenpeace’s activists dropped giant granite boulders at the bottom of the sea in Lilla Middelgrund. Bottom trawling is the practice where fisherman drop weighted nets to the sea floor and drag them (usually tied to 2 boats) across the sea, to catch fish indiscriminately, while the nets destroy the fragile corals which many fish call home. Even though this particular area has been protected for years, there…
Tags: fish, fishing, Greenpeace, Nature, news, ocean
Climate Change, Aug 20th, 2009,
Greenpeace activists from Australia, New Zealand, the Fiji, Solomon and Cook Islands were successful in blocking a Queensland coal export terminal this month. This activity was in reaction to a recent Pacific Islands Nations summit, where leaders demanded for faster reductions in carbon emissions from developed nations. However, just days later, those ultimatums disappeared and instead were replaced by pledges to build higher seawalls to protect against higher sea levels. Greenpeace has always believed that “Coal is the single biggest climate criminal,” and continues to fight coal polluters all over the world. The 2-day blockade consisted of a number of…
Tags: environment, global warming, Greenpeace, news
