You know when climate change is biting hard when instead of a vast expanse of snow the North Pole is a vast expanse of water. This year, for the first time, Arctic scientists are preparing for that possibility.
In honor of Earth Day on April 22, The Nature Conservancy launched the Plant a Billion Trees campaign in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. One dollar plants one tree in this on-the-ground reforestation effort that will help to remove 10 million tons of CO2!
Warming conditions in recent decades have continued to raise concern about global climate change, which many weather and climate experts believe is related to gases released into the atmosphere by industrial and transportation processes.
To all who care about the future of our children and the integrity of our planet Earth:
Please sign the following letter to the UN Secretary General, add your comment for a personal touch, and return to Anthony Marr at Anthony-Marr@HOPE-CARE.org for p
The world's top greenhouse gas emitters meet in Paris this week to work out ways to slow global warming with uncertainty about whether the U.S.-backed talks will help or hinder plans for a new U.N. climate treaty.
Using science and revelatory visual events, NGC delivers an extraordinary personal audit of how much of the world's resources each of us consumes, illustrating the average American's human footprint.
he Interior Department limited its environmental review of oil industry plans for drilling in Arctic waters to veil plans for building a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility and establishing year-round tanker traffic, according to documents released by
The Earth’s climate is warming. While scientists continue to examine the impact of human activity in this dilemma, we know that it is helpful for all of us to reduce our level of carbon dioxide emissions. Many daily activities result in the release of
Westinghouse Electric, a unit of the Japanese Toshiba Corp., said Tuesday it had struck a deal with Georgia Power to build two nuclear power plants in the southern United States, the first such projects in 30 years....
World-wide panic is expected in pubs throughout the world as a decline in the production of malting barley in Australia and New Zealand hits breweries. "It will mean there will be pubs without beer," climate-watching brainiac Jim Salinger told the..
Since the beginning of the Mauna Loa data stream in 1958, no annual mean period has been observed with a CO2 concentration lower than the previous year although it came close in the mid 1960s.
Every day 16,000 port truck drivers haul containers to and from the busiest twin ports in the country to move the goods that Americans buy at Wal-Mart, Target and other big retailers. These workers keep our world's economy moving, yet they ...
The World Bank says it will help finance a $US4.2billion coal-fired power plant in India, despite environmentalists' calls for the decision to be delayed until more analysis on costs and impacts is carried out.
At 140 lumens/watt, these pill-sized plasma light bulbs by Luxim are a pretty awesome contender for "light of the future". They are almost 10 times more efficient than traditional incandescent light bulbs, twice as efficient as current high-end LEDs, and
Ask your representative to help protect public health and make polluters, not taxpayers, pay to clean up Superfund toxic waste sites. Please take a moment to ask your U.S. Representative to help protect public health and make polluters, not taxpayers...
