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Posts Tagged ‘planet’
Science & Technology, Videos & Documentaries, Dec 22nd, 2011,
If the schlocky TV show Terra Nova left you grumbling and disappointed, as it did me, perhaps the real life search for a new Earth might spark your interest and inspire your imagination. NASA’s Kepler Mission is exploring the Galaxy in search of Earth-like inhabitable planets. Terrestrial planets are one half to twice the size of Earth and Kepler is particularly on the lookout for such planets that orbit stars at a distance allowing liquid water – and thereby the possibility of life – to exist. From NASA’s Kepler Mission homepage: The Kepler Mission, NASA Discovery mission #10, is specifically…
Tags: Earth, kepler, NASA, planet
Climate Change, Green living, Politics, Sep 23rd, 2010,
A three-day forum debating environmental issues will take place on the 24, 25 and 26th this month in the city of Lyon in France. Dubbed The Sustainable Planet: three days of debate, opinion and discussion, forum topics will include nuclear energy, biodiversity, GM food, climate change, politics, food, water and a variety of other subjects relating to European and global environmental questions. The Sustainable Planet forum is being hosted by the UK’s Independent newspaper, France’s Libération and Italy’s la Repubblica and will feature 150 intellectuals, politicians, activists and members of industry. For a list of UK speakers, which includes Britain’s…
Tags: forum, France, Lyon, planet, sustainable, UK
Climate Change, Nature, Science & Technology, Mar 29th, 2010,
A new report, which will become available today in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, argues that human activity has affected the planet in such consequential and lasting ways that a new geological age should be declared: the Anthropocene. Officially the planet is still in the Holocene age, an interglacial period within the current ice age, which includes the entire span of human civilization up to the present time. The Holocene began some 12,000 years ago. From an article in the Toronto Star: Scientists behind the report say that in just two centuries, humans have wrought such vast and unprecedented…
Tags: age, Anthropocene, Environmental Science & Technology, era, geological, Holocene, human, planet, scientists
Green living, Mar 21st, 2010,
Prove your eco-knowledge or humiliate yourself by exposing your green ignorance with these short quizzes on the environment. Don’t cheat by googling and no do-overs! Start with this eco-quiz called ‘Clearing up the smog‘ from CNN Earth’s Frontiers, which aims to shed light on ‘energy myths’. I am slightly ashamed to say that I got only 7/10 questions correct, but some of them were tricky. I was still awarded ‘boffin’ status so I don’t feel too bad. I then scored an embarrassing 50% on msnbc’s ‘How eco-savvy are you?’ quiz. My excuse is that some of the questions are in…
Tags: ECO, environment, Green, myth, planet, quiz, quizzes, score
