my care2
make a difference

causes & news

news network

socially conscious news and video shared and rated by the community

Zen's News

Environment News

ABC Won't Air the "We Can Solve It Ad " During the Presidential Debates!
Environment  (tags: climate, climate-change, climatechange, conservation, CO2emissions )

Laurel
- 1 day ago - wecansolveit.org
ABC had Chevron. CBS had Exxon. CNN had the coal lobby. ABC refused to run our Repower America Ad! We're working to get 100,000 public comments to ABC before 20/20's next airing.
Carbon Tax Seen as Best Way to Slow Global Warming
Environment  (tags: USA, carbon tax, global warming, climate tax, trade markets, caping taxes, world's energy system )

Kactus
- 14 hours ago - reuters.com
Climate taxes, not cap and trade markets alone, will lead to the vast technological changes the world's energy system needs to fight global warming, a top U.S. economist reports today.
Water, Water Everywhere And Not a Drop for Crops
Environment  (tags: Fresh Water, water shortages, famine, farming )

DC
- 25 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Limited availability of fresh water is often overlooked as a cause of food scarcity and environmental decline. Governments should be ramping up efforts to make sure we have enough to grow crops as well as enough to drink
Big Emitters Facing Carbon Limits
Environment  (tags: greenhousegases, pollution, environment, green, humans, ecosystems, CO2emissions )

Cal
- 1 day ago - enn.com
As talks between the 160 nations party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change grind towards a finale in Copenhagen in December 2009, many heavy industries are keeping a close watch on what emission reduction schemes will emerge from
Ikea Bins Plastic Bags in Bid to Make Stores Greener
Environment  (tags: environment, IKEA, plastic bags, green )

Ananya
- 5 days ago - greenbang.com
Swedish flat-pack furniture seller Ikea will stop offering plastic or paper bags at any of its US stores from this month. Each year, Americans also throw away some 100 billion polyethylene plastic bags, and less than one per cent of them are recycled.
How Trees Talk to Each Other
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, forests, trees )

Janet
- 4 days ago - science-frontiers.com
when trees attacked by caterpillars sound an alarm that other trees in the vicinity detect and heed, some sort of communication system seems required. The evidence is found in trees that react to caterpillar attack or leaf damage by making their leaves
Climate Change Threatens Australian Fisheries
Environment  (tags: climate-change, world, globalwarming, ecosystems, habitat, oceans )

Cal
- 3 days ago - reuters.com
Climate change threatens Australia's A$2.1 billion (US$1.6 billion) commercial fishing and aquaculture industry, but may create new wild fisheries as tropical marine species move south as sea temperatures rise.
Meltdown: A Global Warming Travelogue
Environment  (tags: world, climate-change, animals, CO2emissions, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, endangered, environment, forests, globalwarming, habitat, greenhousegases, habitatdestruction, humans, nature, oceans, pollution, green, protection, research, science, su )

Robert
- 4 days ago - cnn.com
For a long time -- the first 15 years that we knew about global warming, and did nothing -- there were no pictures -- but now there is the meltdown travelogue to view the environmental damages.
Global Warming: Beyond the Tipping Point
Environment  (tags: climate change, greenhouse gases, ecosystems, global warming )

Pekka
- 4 days ago - sciam.com
Hansen et al."If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted," the paper states, "CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm [parts per million] to at most 350 ppm"
 
 
Content and comments expressed here are the opinions of Care2 users and not necessarily that of Care2.com or its affiliates.
Zen Whisperingtree

Zen W.
Zen's contributions:
Stories noted recently:
Stories submitted:

inspiring articles from gaia

Zen's contributions
Stories submitted: 72
Front Page stories: 21
Noted in Past Week: 81
Analyst Ratio* : 0%
* Analyst Ratio is based on success in Note-ing news stories in the past week that make the Front Page, before they are promoted to the Front Page.

care2 news network tools

News Network Bookmarklet

Submit stories from your browser toolbar with the easy to use Add to Care2 News! bookmarklet.

News Network Syndication

Get this page in RSS. Keep up to date with the Care2 News Network in your favorite RSS reader. Yahoo!, Newsgator, Bloglines, and more!
Find out how to subscribe!

Get a Care2 Tee




Copyright © 2008 Care2.com, inc. and its licensors. All rights reserved