Delegates from 193 nations are in Copenhagen to negotiate an agreement on curbing greenhouse gas emissions, in order to prevent dangerous climate change. Developing nations want rich nations to cut emissions by at least 25% by 2020 – rich nations are reluctant to go so far and want developing countries to curb emissions too. The [...]
Google Earth has a new application that shows carbon dioxide in different layers of the earth’s atmosphere. Tyler Erickson, a geospatial researcher at the Michigan Tech Research Institute in Ann Arbor, responded to a competition call from Google asking scientists to present research results using KML, a data format used by Google Earth. This is [...]
Yolandi Groenewald M&G South Africans should brace themselves for a severely water-stressed future, a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report on the world’s ecological footprint warned this week. The influential international report has been released every two years for the past decade. In 1996 it warned that the world was heading for ecological disaster. The latest [...]
— By Josh Harkinson | Tue July 21, 2009 11:11 PM PST A report released today by California’s Pacific Institute estimates that reasonable water conservation improvements on the state’s farms could save a huge amount of water–far more than what farmers have been forced to relinquish to protect fish habitat during the state’s ongoing drought. [...]
Written by Bryan Nelson Published on April 2nd, 2009 Posted in About Animals, In Global // < ![CDATA[ <! if (document.referrer.indexOf("http://digg.com/") === 0) { jQuery('<div id="digg-related"></div>').insertBefore('.post > .entry'); digg_related({domain:"ecoworldly.com",container:"#digg-related",width:"",height:"",endPoint:"stories/upcoming"}); } // > // ]]> The current rate of extinction is 100 to 1000 times higher than the average, or background rate, making our current period [...]
A new reservoir is filling in central China. The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River —the world’s largest dam—was completed in 2006, and the river is filling up its valley behind the dam to form a narrow reservoir extending more than 600 kilometers. This image from April 15, 2009, is one of the first [...]
Worldwide release of ‘greatest green event ever’ By Anne Chaon PARIS (AFP) — World Environment Day on Friday sees the worldwide release of a movie billed by producers as “the greatest green event ever”, a high-budget documentary to save the planet from Yann Arthus-Bertrand. From New York’s Central Park to the Champs de Mars by [...]
VADODARA: Ever thought of conserving precious rainwater that usually flows into drains every monsoon? While authorities are still engaged in debating how to check depleting the underground water table, a group of retired engineers in the city has begun on the issue. The engineers are spreading awareness about rooftop rainwater harvesting among citizens and encouraging [...]
