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Yesterday’s House passage of cap-and-trade legislation designed to confront climate change is a landmark achievement, the first tangible step taken by the country that emits more greenhouse gas per capita than anyone in the world.
The bill itself still faces a tough test in the Senate. Passage is far from assured, and ... | <urn:uuid:dbaccb35-1074-476c-9b46-8f3c424bfecd> | http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2009/06/27/passage-of-climate-change-bill-a-landmark-achievement/?cp=all | 0.9717 | fineweb |
GEF and UNEP Launch Global Platform for Efficient Lighting
25 September 2009: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have launched the “Global Market Transformation for Efficient Lighting Platform,” a public-private partnership directed at reducing global energy demand... | <urn:uuid:57eddd85-d7cb-491b-bf06-f4c7e0f03a21> | http://climate-l.iisd.org/news/gef-and-unep-launch-global-platform-for-efficient-lighting/ | 1 | fineweb |
Reversal of fortune
To unlock the vast, untapped potential of the world’s drylands, we must learn from the people who live in them, says Dr Jonathan Davies.
Drylands are a major global biome, home to a great diversity of species and some of our most treasured natural heritage. They are also home to over 2 billion peopl... | <urn:uuid:f420729b-433d-4fa6-8cfe-c81ae093a2da> | http://cms.iucn.org/knowledge/focus/previous_focus_topics/saving_our_drylands/opinion/?8350/Reversal-of-fortune&add_comment | 0.8407 | fineweb |
Creator: Gust, Iris
Description: The brochure promotes urban transportation policy to increase the use of renewable energy to 100%. Seen globally, transport is one of the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions. Yet fossil fuels are becoming scarce, will become increasingly expensive and will eventually stop being via... | <urn:uuid:5579e9d4-6e68-4bcf-87a3-ff20ed6954c4> | http://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/partners/UNT/browse/?fq=str_location_country%3AChina&fq=str_location_country%3ADenmark&fq=str_location_country%3AAustralia | 1 | fineweb |
Fewer rare sea turtles will die on the swordfish industry's longlines in Hawaii under an agreement between environmental groups and the government. The agreement settles a lawsuit challenging the federal government's plans that would have dramatically increase the number of turtles that could be killed. The Turtle Isla... | <urn:uuid:e36683d3-ded6-4e38-af4d-7bc73d1ec7e3> | http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2011/endangered-sea-turtles-saved-from-capture-in-hawaii-swordfish-fishery | 0.7809 | fineweb |
Rodrigues, A.S.L., Andelman, S.J., Bakarr, M.I., Boitani, L., Brooks, T.M., Cowling, R.M., Fishpool, L.D.C., da Fonseca, G.A.B., Gaston, K.J., Hoffmann, M., Long, J.S., Marquet, P.A., Pilgrim, J.D., Pressey, R.L., Schipper, J., Sechrest, W., Stuart, S.N., Underhill, L.G., Waller, R.W., Watts, M.E.J. and Yan, X. (2004) ... | <urn:uuid:dad32c9e-d851-4b8f-98db-dcfb254b028c> | http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/233/ | 0.523 | fineweb |
World’s poorest on front line in climate change fight
24 July 2008 | News story
Climate change is already happening – and it hits poor people most. The effect of more frequent hurricanes, floods and droughts on developing countries is devastating, as this year’s cyclone Nagris proved again in southern Myanmar, leaving ... | <urn:uuid:2091854b-1b3b-428e-9a84-00e3f22edf16> | http://iucn.org/fr/nouvelles_homepage/nouvelles_par_date/2008/juillet_news_2008/?1370/Worlds-poorest-on-front-line-in-climate-change-fight | 1 | fineweb |
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State gets more rain, except in plains
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - Slightly higher averages of rain in New Mexico this summer masked big differences in precipitation levels statewide, the... | <urn:uuid:0057e9c8-4a05-4d1f-9ef8-63a69171c58d> | http://lubbockonline.com/stories/091998/LG3074.shtml | 0.999 | fineweb |
Arctic meltdown not caused by nature
Rapid loss of Arctic sea ice - 80 per cent has disappeared since 1980 - is not caused by natural cycles such as changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun, says Dr Karl.
The situation is getting rather messy with regard to the ice melting in the Arctic. Now the volume of the ice va... | <urn:uuid:3a4ac59c-d59d-470b-adad-88e5e1c8a45a> | http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/11/27/3640992.htm?topic=latest | 0.9997 | fineweb |
The transportation sector is responsible for an enormous amount of pollution, from fuel extraction and processing to greenhouse gas emissions and smog. Thankfully, old and new technologies alike can help us clean up our footprint as we get from here to there. Here are three options to consider.
1. Cargo Bike
A cool tre... | <urn:uuid:6a0a6961-4806-438a-bb35-91c953bcb2ce> | http://www.care2.com/greenliving/smart-green-transportation-options.html | 0.6367 | fineweb |
NOAA scientists agree the risks are high, but say Hansen overstates what science can really say for sure
Jim Hansen at the University of Colorado’s World Affairs Conference (Photo: Tom Yulsman)
Speaking to a packed auditorium at the University of Colorado’s World Affairs Conference on Thursday, NASA climatologist James... | <urn:uuid:f9441dcc-dc2a-4077-aac8-1b49394182e2> | http://www.cejournal.net/?p=1590 | 0.9998 | fineweb |
Indonesia is known for being prone to natural disasters of all kinds, ranging from climatic (floods, drought) to geologic (earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis, volcanoes, etc.), biological (avian influenza) to man-made (deforestation, mining, conflicts). With an already high level of food insecurity, households' vulnerab... | <urn:uuid:148006ce-2cf9-4b2a-a5c6-7bc1a406a114> | http://www.crs.org/countries/indonesia | 0.9882 | fineweb |
the energy [r]evolution
The climate change imperative demands nothing short of an Energy [R]evolution. The expert consensus is that this fundamental shift must begin immediately and be well underway within the next ten years in order to avert the worst impacts. What is needed is a complete transformation of the way we ... | <urn:uuid:b6cc700a-55c3-47a6-baaf-dbe7c04a4b04> | http://www.energyblueprint.info/1332.0.html?L=0 | 1 | fineweb |
Located above the surface of our planet is a complex mixture of gases and suspended liquid and solid particles known as the atmosphere. Operating within the atmosphere is a variety of processes we call weather. Some measurable variables associated with weather include air temperature, air pressure, humidity, wind, and ... | <urn:uuid:f2e6ad28-ec98-4ea9-bc37-81a91724d073> | http://www.eoearth.org/topics/view/49664/ | 0.9984 | fineweb |
Bali Climate conference has a message for rural community
The world leaders recognised that 20% of the global emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) can be contained by forestation. The programme, Reducing Emissions From Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) aims to compensate the developing countries in the tropical regio... | <urn:uuid:425ca78c-1053-44ec-b60e-8912cf2cb747> | http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Bali-Climate-conference-has-a-message-for-rural-community/251129/0 | 1 | fineweb |
India's rice output expected at 100 mn tons in 2012-13: FAO
The global body on the farm sector had earlier forecast the rice output in India, the world's second largest producer, at 98.5 MT. This was due to late onset of monsoon rains leading to deficit in key northern and southern growing areas.
FAO in its latest 'Foo... | <urn:uuid:de94cbf7-7105-41ea-a519-55d8d8171cb1> | http://www.financialexpress.com/news/indias-rice-output-expected-at-100-mn-tons-in-201213-fao/1031026 | 0.8915 | fineweb |
Australia's “exceptional” heatwave has produced record-breaking temperatures, with at least six of the first seven days of 2013 among the top 20 hottest days in the past century.
The extreme January heat has prompted the Bureau of Meteorology to issue a special climate statement, with further updates planned as the sco... | <urn:uuid:23156681-3a82-4757-a6c9-f172faa662dd> | http://www.hillsnews.com.au/story/1222764/exceptional-heatwave-challenges-records/?cs=2452 | 1 | fineweb |
In fact, the United States apparently just emerged from the hottest spring on record.
The period between June 2011 and May of this year was the warmest on record since NOAA record keeping began in 1985. Aside from Washington, every state experienced higher-than-average temperatures during that period, which also featur... | <urn:uuid:628e935a-7678-4d56-8179-04a384233ade> | http://www.ibtimes.com/us-just-had-warmest-year-record-noaa-report-702027 | 0.9999 | fineweb |
The satellite images displayed are infrared (IR) images. Warmest (lowest) clouds are shown in white; coldest (highest) clouds are displayed in shades of yellow, red, and purple. Imagery is obtained from the GOES and METEOSAT geostationary satellites, and the two US Polar Orbiter (POES) satellites. POES satellites orbit... | <urn:uuid:17aa89d7-2e77-436d-8420-15d2c5bd50ff> | http://www.intellicast.com/National/Satellite/Regional.aspx?location=UKXX2049 | 0.9911 | fineweb |
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SOURCE Ford Motor Company
DEARBORN, Mich., March... | <urn:uuid:268706f9-7219-4f86-8f3c-9f7fa5608ffb> | http://www.kcentv.com/story/21763361/ford-cuts-global-water-use-85-percent-per-vehicle-from-2011-to-2012-total-usage-down-62-percent-since-2000 | 0.9345 | fineweb |
The aviation sector is renowned as a carbon intensive business, but an increasing number of airports are looking to change that by integrating the latest green-tech into their daily operations.
Air travel and transport accounts for two percent of all human generated greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Intergover... | <urn:uuid:aa0f19b1-b112-4860-b14c-9875543a1d51> | http://www.ketv.com/news/money/Green-airports-on-carbon-cutting-mission/-/9674314/16815520/-/14tc1sf/-/index.html | 0.9992 | fineweb |
On February 1st, the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (the “Convention”) announced the pledges made by countries under the Copenhagen Accord (the “Accord”). Developed country parties to the Accord pledged greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets to be achieved by 2020. Mo... | <urn:uuid:7a4001a3-a36b-492a-9b85-d3408119e643> | http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=7a718b20-b3df-42cc-a2bf-e2dc617af9ef | 1 | fineweb |
My Beef With Meat
If it has a face, it probably gobbles up global resources along with its grass
By Stett Holbrook
Last month, the federal government released a much-anticipated report on global climate change. It paints a chilling picture of what will happen if global warming continues unabated. "This report is a game... | <urn:uuid:3c0c98ac-e4c9-4bfb-9570-c1be0ef28106> | http://www.metcruz.com/bohemian/07.08.09/eats-0927.html | 1 | fineweb |
Air pollution health alert and advisory issued through Wednesday, March 10
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has issued an air pollution health ALERT for today and tomorrow, March 8 and 9 and an air pollution health ADVISORY for Wednesday, March 10 for the Twin Cities and Rochester area. The Air Quality Ind... | <urn:uuid:5474c268-15f9-4136-9e33-d0cdebb36edd> | http://www.minneapolismn.gov/news/news_20100308airqualityalert | 0.9971 | fineweb |
You're using more water than you think
A water footprint is the total volume of freshwater used to produce the goods and services consumed. Here are some ways to lighten your water footprint.
Fri, Aug 31 2012 at 11:28 AM
Prodded by environmental consciousness — or penny pinching — you installed low-flow showerheads and... | <urn:uuid:cca5126a-d443-4b80-89a5-01bc0108a268> | http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/youre-using-more-water-than-you-think | 0.9998 | fineweb |
If a powerful hurricane slams the Louisiana coast during the Republican National Convention, the resonances with Katrina will be bad enough. But the storm would also showcase the GOP’s position on climate change, which is, increasingly, to deny the scientific consensus that fossil-fuel pollution contributes to a warmin... | <urn:uuid:a343b949-d710-4711-96a9-41e21a9584fe> | http://www.nationaljournal.com/daily/as-isaac-bears-down-little-talk-of-climate-change-20120827 | 1 | fineweb |
Oct. 9, 1998 COLUMBIA, Mo.--Ducks, geese and bald eagles soaring over areas the size of small towns are envisioned when talking about federally protected wetlands, not areas that are maybe as big as a small swimming pool and apparently void of life. University of Missouri-Columbia Professor Ray Semlitsch is trying to c... | <urn:uuid:33275736-ac37-49fe-a13a-d130e6ad29c6> | http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/10/981009081539.htm | 0.7418 | fineweb |
Giant Water Scavenger Beetle
|Geographical Range||North America|
|Scientific Name||Hydrophilus triangularis|
|Conservation Status||Not listed by IUCN|
The name says it all. This large beetle lives in water, where it scavenges vegetation and insect parts. The insect can store a supply of air within its silvery belly, mu... | <urn:uuid:469863a4-9f80-47c2-ad04-ee7f0adecfd5> | http://www.stlzoo.org/animals/abouttheanimals/invertebrates/insects/beetles/giantwaterscavengerbeetle/ | 0.9979 | fineweb |
They are not expecting any angry birds, but bird-watchers are already seeing evidence of what is expected to be a major invasion of hungry birds winging through the region.
Normally content to hang out in the deep forests of Canada, grosbeaks, pine siskins, finches, redpolls and other seed-eaters are winging their way ... | <urn:uuid:9a6028aa-f264-4fb8-8c7f-9dfe336820d7> | http://www.telegram.com/article/20121208/NEWS/112089902/0/hometeam_magazine | 0.8634 | fineweb |
WAKING the GIANT Bill McGuire
While we transmit more than two million tweets a day and nearly one hundred trillion emails each year, we're also emitting record amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2). Bill McGuire, professor of geophysical and climate hazards at University College London, expects our continued rise in greenhou... | <urn:uuid:46ed79e4-97dd-492f-bf29-99304e01f4ee> | http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Earthly+disruptions.-a0287635319 | 1 | fineweb |
SEA level rises and climate change are linked, say top scientists as they prepare the next major global climate change update.
More than 250 experts from 39 countries are in Hobart this week to review the latest draft of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's report including a new chapter on sea level.
The co... | <urn:uuid:4b0a824e-2759-4652-bb9b-cadd0312b57c> | http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2013/01/16/370451_tasmania-news.html | 1 | fineweb |
At Walmart, we talk a lot about learning from one another and working in partnership to create global change. A recent report, “Smart Moves,” examines some of the best practices by companies working to cut emissions from transportation.
Emissions from freight transportation are no small problem. The report’s author, Ja... | <urn:uuid:095407aa-8504-499b-b006-f52a907f9941> | http://www.walmartgreenroom.com/2012/02/forbes-how-nike-wal-mart-and-ikea-save-money-and-slash-carbon-by-shipping-smarter/ | 1 | fineweb |
What is Rainwater Harvesting?
Rainwater harvesting is an ancient practice of catching and holding rain for later use. In a rainwater harvesting system, rain is gathered from a building rooftop or other source and is held in large containers for future use, such as watering gardens or washing cars. This practice reduces... | <urn:uuid:14a860e9-8430-426b-8c1a-80c7f022fb96> | http://www.waterresourcesgroup.org/ | 0.8696 | fineweb |
by Bruce Boyers,
Our system of factory agriculture is exacting a great toll on our planet: 40 percent of the land and 70 percent of the fresh water on Earth is devoted to the growing of food, which, in the process, creates some 30 percent of greenhouse gases. Compounding these issues is the fact that commercial produce... | <urn:uuid:2451548b-a149-48b0-833a-9e93037b7cb3> | http://www.westerlynaturalmarket.com/promog/featuredarticle.asp?storeID=QWCSN3N89ASR2JS000AKHMCCQAB04FN2&ID=12 | 0.7113 | fineweb |
Eighteen years ago, the eminent conservation biologist Gary Meffe warned of what he considered to be the greatest problem in human history – humanity’s inexorable and exponential increase in numbers.
Meffe’s paper, entitled ‘Human Population Control: The Missing Agenda’ published in the journal Conservation Biology, ou... | <urn:uuid:64dc3877-7576-45b7-ba6f-426f5ac11fa2> | http://www2.imperial.ac.uk/blog/studentblogs/christopher-n/2011/12/01/the-human-flood-perceptions-of-the-threats-posed-by-population-growth/ | 0.9364 | fineweb |
Australian Bureau of Statistics
1301.0 - Year Book Australia, 2009–10
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FEATURE ARTICLE: HOUSEHOLDS AND RENEWABLE ENERGY
Householders have increased their use of energy saving measures in their homes. In 2008, ... | <urn:uuid:211b6c3f-1e09-477b-999f-d04f198cf5e3> | http://abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Previousproducts/35B5CD10E6AADA1FCA25773700169C30?opendocument | 0.6667 | fineweb |
Report Highlights Declining Health of Caribbean Corals
7 September 2012: A new International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) report highlights that average live coral cover on Caribbean reefs has declined to just 8% of the reef today, compared with more than 50% in the 1970s. The report stems from a workshop he... | <urn:uuid:263ac1bf-33fa-4b18-8d48-715c94ebc9dd> | http://biodiversity-l.iisd.org/news/report-highlights-declining-health-of-caribbean-corals/ | 0.8915 | fineweb |
The well-being of people all over the world depends on the various goods and services provided by ecosystems, including food, fuel, construction materials, clean water and air, and protection from natural hazards. Ecosystems, however, are under increasing pressure from unsustainable use and other threats including outr... | <urn:uuid:1f6b9831-1ffd-4a9a-96e8-9d9b2d8b2c4b> | http://iucn.org/about/work/programmes/ecosystem_management/ | 1 | fineweb |
News tagged with renewable energy
Related topics: energy , wind turbines , electricity , solar panels , fossil fuels
Renewable energy is energy generated from natural resources—such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat—which are renewable (naturally replenished). In 2006, about 18% of global final energy... | <urn:uuid:1408e655-896d-4edf-80ab-9e169370da2f> | http://medicalxpress.com/tags/renewable+energy/sort/date/all/ | 0.9994 | fineweb |
Like the Sound of Music‘s Von Trapp family hiding in the Alps, plants may find refuge from a warming climate in the mountains.
Research in the Swiss Alps suggests diverse mountain habitats could act as stepping stones to allow plants to escape into more hospitable hideaways as their usual homes heat up.
A large, flat s... | <urn:uuid:e12fbfc8-76ea-4109-8fcc-20b3e9f9c58f> | http://news.discovery.com/earth/plants/mountains-may-be-climate-change-refuges.htm | 0.9773 | fineweb |
Washington, Aug 9 (IANS) The formation in the air of sulphuric acid, which smells like rotten eggs, is significantly impacting our climate and health, says a study.
The study led by Roy Lee Mauldin III, research associate at the University of Colorado-Boulder's atmospheric and oceanic sciences department, charts a prev... | <urn:uuid:597b3d2d-8580-4486-a845-d0f996cf51af> | http://news.smashits.com/833362/Sulphuric-acid-formation-affects-climate-health.htm | 0.8326 | fineweb |
DUBAI, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- With new oil and gas nations coming up and renewable energy usage gaining global momentum, the fossil fuels-rich Gulf states might run into rough waters in the upcoming decades.
The Gulf states like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are today synonyms for oil, but that could change soon.
According to t... | <urn:uuid:f95463bb-cac0-4d2f-9ef3-f4608252a4f2> | http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-01/21/c_132115427.htm | 0.6362 | fineweb |
Warmer temperatures, variable monsoons, and other signs of climate change are a hot topic of conversation among many Himalayan villagers, according to scientific sampling of climate change perception among local peoples.
“This area is cold and it’s often raining. Even during the non-monsoon times there is mist and fog ... | <urn:uuid:666a34c3-a3b0-48d9-822b-04ba99c0d218> | http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2011/09/09/changing-climate-a-hot-topic-among-himalayan-villagers-study-finds/ | 1 | fineweb |
I’ve seen several articles debating when oil production will peak. For those of you who have missed them, oil prices rise due to scarcity (real or not) or increased production costs, and the latter become important sometime around when oil production peaks. Also, the time for us to go through the second half of the wor... | <urn:uuid:1f33fe76-fd4e-4211-8d6f-f209603fa1a6> | http://pathsoflight.us/musing/2005/03/peak-oil/ | 0.9948 | fineweb |
With the worlds energy needs growing rapidly, can zero-carbon energy options be scaled up enough to make a significant difference? How much of a dent can these alternatives make in the worlds total energy usage over the next half-century? As the MIT Energy Initiative approaches its fifth anniversary next month, this fi... | <urn:uuid:e056fb34-f179-4408-9978-c5312487a2df> | http://phys.org/news/2011-10-power-global-carbon-emissions-electricity.html | 0.9532 | fineweb |
According to news reports, the recent heat wave in California resulted in about 150 deaths. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that global warming will exacerbate the problem dramatically, doubling or tripling the number of heat-related fatalities in North American cities in the next... | <urn:uuid:7cc090fe-4c5a-497d-85d8-8ab810906aec> | http://spectator.org/archives/2006/08/23/urban-heat-urban-legends | 0.9998 | fineweb |
Coral reefs aren't just pretty, they're also vital to marine species and island communities. But they're also facing threats from warming seas. NBC's Anne Thompson reports.
More than half of 82 species of coral being evaluated for inclusion under the Endangered Species Act "more likely than not" would go extinct by 210... | <urn:uuid:341895fc-0dbb-4ebb-a24c-bce9caf290b6> | http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/04/15/11209607-us-56-coral-species-face-extinction-danger-from-warming-acidic-seas?pc=25&sp=50 | 0.944 | fineweb |
“Eau Canada” brings together 28 of Canada’s top water experts to debate Canada’s most critical water issues, and to map out solutions.The diverse range of contributors – geographers, environmental lawyers, former government officials, aquatic scientists, economists, and political scientists – reflects the broad range o... | <urn:uuid:fee2d1f8-4fc8-465c-bbe4-b36beb3bb9bc> | http://watergovernance.ca/projects/water-in-canada/eau-canada/ | 0.997 | fineweb |
- Date: January 25, 2011
- In This Story:
Asian tiger reserves can support more than 10,000 wild tigers—three times the current estimate—if they are managed as large-scale landscapes that protect core breeding sites and benefit local communities, according to the world’s leading conservation scientists in a new study p... | <urn:uuid:0f63be90-a486-431d-b2d2-80abce277e86> | http://worldwildlife.org/stories/a-future-for-tigers | 0.9902 | fineweb |
The Americas IBA Directory
The conservation of rare birdlife has been the focus of Birdlife International for many years. In 1995 they began a project by the name of IBA, or Important Bird Area Program, to pinpoint areas across the globe that are home to endangered species, identifying the various species and protectin... | <urn:uuid:952beb80-6af2-4d67-a30b-a71f85aae699> | http://www.birds.com/blog/the-americas-iba-directory/ | 0.9674 | fineweb |
Drive by a local wetland on an early spring evening, and if you're lucky you'll hear a harbinger of the changing season - the clear chirping chorus of tiny frogs known as spring peepers, classified by biologists as Pseudacris crucifer.
Few themes in literature are more alluring than the lost world. Places such as Atlan... | <urn:uuid:572d7f03-130f-473f-a0f8-8e2b0e2ca193> | http://www.caryinstitute.org/newsroom?page=14%2525252C3%25252C1%252C3&field_news_cat_tid=All&field_rel_issues_nid=All | 0.9945 | fineweb |
Michael Specter has an interesting article in The New Yorker about global warming and how "dazzlingly complex" it all is once you start to take all of the factors into account.
the calculations required to assess the full environmental impact of how we live can be dazzlingly complex. To sum them up on a label will not ... | <urn:uuid:160c2282-eac8-4b62-9c89-4ff7d3b014ff> | http://www.design21sdn.com/organizations/197/posts/1466?page=1 | 0.9983 | fineweb |
Food systems are often described as comprising four sets of activities: those involved in food production, processing and packaging, distribution and retail, and consumption. All encompass social, economic, political, and environmental processes and dimensions. To analyze the interactions between global environmental c... | <urn:uuid:407d1f99-5473-423f-ae4c-f7bac085d37e> | http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art14/appendix1.html | 0.8979 | fineweb |
Satellites are tracing Europe's forest fire scars
Burning with a core heat approaching 800°C and spreading at up to 100 metres per minute, woodland blazes bring swift, destructive change to landscapes: the resulting devastation can be seen from space. An ESA-backed service to monitor European forest fire damage will he... | <urn:uuid:fd153b67-1ade-4ef6-a92e-d45919430591> | http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Satellites_are_tracing_Europe_s_forest_fire_scars | 0.9693 | fineweb |
|"money doesn't grow on trees" = don't waste money because it isn't always easy to come by|
"Watch how much you spend because money doesn't grow on trees."
"have a green thumb" = special ability at making plants grow well
"She has a real green thumb for growing beautiful decorative trees."
More of Randall's Favorite Le... | <urn:uuid:c52aa678-b504-46e9-b27a-9cb8da04003f> | http://www.esl-lab.com/trees/treerd1.htm | 0.8649 | fineweb |
With predictions of polar bears being extinct in 50 years, On Thin Ice follows bears as they emerge from their dens and navigate their rapidly changing environment. On Thin Ice shows how the frozen expanses of the Arctic are shrinking at an unprecedented rate, with the very survival of the polar bear literally on thin ... | <urn:uuid:8c66f849-1d92-4331-be00-558239f3ff81> | http://www.graingertv.com/graingerTVDocumentariesWildlifeOnThinIce.php | 0.9934 | fineweb |
Amid doubt, disappointment and division, the world's governments came together in Rio on Friday to declare "a pathway for a sustainable century".
At the close of the Rio+20 Earth Summit, heads of state and ministers from more than 190 nations signed off on a plan to set global sustainable development goals and other me... | <urn:uuid:ae3aaa5f-f643-4b03-9c4f-987c1257321c> | http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jun/23/rio-20-earth-summit-document | 0.9659 | fineweb |
The water runs low at Lake Harbor park in Norton Shores, Mich. Lake Michigan's water levels set record lows in January. / Kimberly P. Mitchell, Detroit Free Press
NEW BUFFALO, Mich. - This town has 1,884 residents and almost 1,000 boat slips filled by summer visitors, so low water levels in Lake Michigan threaten its e... | <urn:uuid:5c210e58-8757-4d4d-b9c5-3478f3637f59> | http://www.indystar.com/usatoday/article/1992719 | 0.9612 | fineweb |
Improve community infrastructure, health, resiliency and economic opportunities in Indonesia’s most challenging urban and coastal areas.
About half of all Indonesians live on less than a dollar a day. Employment growth has been slower than population growth. Public services remain inadequate by middle-income standards,... | <urn:uuid:474fd89a-1233-4a2c-b50b-c762e3d8fb7e> | http://www.mercycorps.org/indonesia?page=27&gclid=CM-24dG2rbICFatV4godUjcAlA&source=79700 | 0.6396 | fineweb |
Take a $20 bill. Now strike a match and watch the money go up in smoke. Pretty crazy idea, right? Yet many of us do something similar every time we drive. We fill up our gas tanks, then burn through extra fuel - and money - that we could be saving.
The good news is that it doesn't take much to start saving money at the... | <urn:uuid:cfb3960c-bade-4aa4-beff-5c670555c33f> | http://www.ncdot.gov/travel/drivegreen/default.html | 0.8847 | fineweb |
Global climate change presents challenges associated with balancing potential environmental impacts with a wide variety of economic, technical, and lifestyle changes that may be necessary to address the issue.
A government-industry task force is working to develop technologies and infrastructure for carbon capture and ... | <urn:uuid:41b7ca46-e07e-4fb6-9a6b-6e954a5a4459> | http://www.ogj.com/articles/print/volume-105/issue-18.html | 1 | fineweb |
Water and sediment testing
EPA is currently collecting and analyzing water and sediment samples to help states and other federal agencies understand the immediate and long-term impacts of oil contamination along the Gulf coast. The results and the interpretation of all data collected by EPA will be posted to www.epa.go... | <urn:uuid:7de73c8d-5f61-40e7-bd98-90d076d2c127> | http://www.restorethegulf.gov/release/2010/09/07/water-and-sediment-testing | 0.9286 | fineweb |
More 60-Second Science
Plants can pull carbon dioxide, the planet-warming greenhouse gas, out of Earth’s atmosphere. But these aren’t the only living organisms that affect carbon dioxide levels, and thus global warming. Nope, I’m not talking about humans. Humble sea otters can also reduce greenhouse gases, by indirectl... | <urn:uuid:988dc99a-1448-437e-9ce7-9be18141d267> | http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=sea-otters-fight-global-warming-12-09-14 | 1 | fineweb |
Electrical research institute selects IPP as participant in carbon dioxide study
The Intermountain Power Project has been selected as one of five electric utilities in the United States and Canada to participate in a study of technology for capturing carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fueled electrcity generation facil... | <urn:uuid:e72b94a0-eaf5-4afc-87be-12f1cb211d61> | http://www.sunadvocate.com/index.php?tier=1&article_id=15683 | 0.9994 | fineweb |
Cloudy outlook for climate models
More aerosols - the solution to global warming?
Climate models appear to be missing an atmospheric ingredient, a new study suggests.
December's issue of the International Journal of Climatology from the Royal Meteorlogical Society contains a study of computer models used in climate for... | <urn:uuid:ee3fdce7-621c-4026-a762-105cef4462ab> | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/27/anton_wylie_climate_models/ | 0.998 | fineweb |
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The Kyoto Protocol: Changing Climates
This site makes concepts like climate change and the Kyoto Protocol interesting and fun for teenagers. It contains information on climate change, t... | <urn:uuid:09d2e0eb-edd6-4c39-a9a9-2c728bec7ac3> | http://www.thinkquest.org/pls/html/f?p=52300:100:4425064156679575::::P100_TEAM_ID:501580413 | 1 | fineweb |
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|Already inundated from previous cyclones, Madagascar’s northern and northwestern regions were hit by Cyclone Indlala on 15 March.|
By Blue Chevigny
NEW YORK, USA, 19 March 2007 – The rain is coming down in sheets over the capital city of Madagascar, Antananarivo, in the aftermath of Indlala, the latest c... | <urn:uuid:5c5039a3-36bb-45fa-8f10-2dafc4d0a4d4> | http://www.unicef.org/emergencies/madagascar_39111.html | 1 | fineweb |
If you really want to hit a home run with a global warming story, manage to link climate change to the beloved rainforest of the Amazon. The rainforest there is considered by many to be the “lungs of the planet,” the rainforest surely contains a cure for any ailment imaginable, all species in the place are critical to ... | <urn:uuid:1d043e2c-548a-4380-aff6-44daad02285d> | http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2010/04/19/amazing-amazon-analysis/ | 1 | fineweb |
5th Forum Top 25 Highlights - Thematic Programme
During the scores of discussions in over one hundred sessions, some overall messages emerged:
- Water is a common denominator for many development issues and the key to successfully resolving those challenges.
- Because of the interrelatedness of water issues across so m... | <urn:uuid:5f06d30b-3404-4da2-80fc-1f227258a4f9> | http://www.worldwatercouncil.org/index.php?id=2544&L=0target%3D_blank%22%20onfocus%3D%22blurLink(this)%3B%20target%3D | 0.9982 | fineweb |
Japan has been hit by the worst crisis since 1945, as an earthquake and tsunami have killed 10,000, destroyed tens of thousands of buildings, displaced hundreds of thousands, and left millions without power or water. As the nation braces for more aftershocks, people have resorted to using sea water in an attempt to pre... | <urn:uuid:f8f50eee-35e0-4fe2-8425-891ee98718b0> | http://yourheartsontheleft.blogspot.com/2011/03/nuclear-meltdown-is-not-alternative-to.html | 0.6281 | fineweb |
If the city feels hotter to you in the summer, you're right.
The Japan Meteorological Agency has proved that all the asphalt and tall buildings and exhaust heat are indeed to blame.
"Urban heat islands" raised the daily August temperatures by 1 to 2 degrees in Japan's three biggest megalopolises of Tokyo, Osaka and Nag... | <urn:uuid:ecb6b354-28af-45b3-9398-6ade895716d1> | http://ajw.asahi.com/article/economy/environment/AJ201207100069 | 0.9924 | fineweb |
In a new study launched Wednesday by the International Energy Agency (IEA), weeks ahead of the Durban Climate Change talks, scientists warn that if the current trend to build high-carbon generating infrastructures continues, the world's carbon budget will be swallowed up by 2017, leaving the planet more vulnerable than... | <urn:uuid:2adf5ab5-5523-43c6-83a2-23a3360b0e2c> | http://allafrica.com/stories/201111120077.html | 1 | fineweb |
Hinsley, S.A., Hill, R.A., Bellamy, P. E., Broughton, R.K., Harrison, N.M., MacKenzie, J.A., Speakman, J.R. and Ferns, P.N., 2009. Do Highly Modified Landscapes Favour Generalists at the Expense of Specialists? The Example of Woodland Birds. Landscape Research, 34 (5), pp. 509-526.
This is the latest version of this ep... | <urn:uuid:73270d67-6a72-45f1-ba47-59fcfe240afe> | http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/12027/ | 0.9465 | fineweb |
Monday, April 2, 2012 - 15:31 in Earth & Climate
Corals may be better placed to cope with the gradual acidification of the world's oceans than previously thought – giving rise to hopes that coral reefs might escape climatic devastation.
- Corals 'could survive a more acidic ocean'Mon, 2 Apr 2012, 10:11:13 EDT
- Studies... | <urn:uuid:4db93cc5-ea5d-424c-8382-3c6ac6cf74d6> | http://esciencenews.com/sources/biology.news.net/2012/04/02/corals.could.survive.a.more.acidic.ocean | 0.9993 | fineweb |
The characteristic features of the climate of Malaysia are uniform
temperature, high humidity and copious rainfall and they arise
from the maritime exposure of the country.
Winds are generally
light. Situated at the equatorial doldrum area, it is extremely rare
to have a full day with completely clear sky even in perio... | <urn:uuid:51c6d028-a39f-4c71-878e-76eb0d45ff94> | http://go2travelmalaysia.com/tour_malaysia/weather.htm | 0.7121 | fineweb |
A few months ago we wrote about Kristianstad, Sweden, an area that now uses biomass to generate all of its heat and some of its electricity. That city pioneered use of this renewable technology, and gradually biomass evolved from a niche component of its fuel mix to the backbone of its fuel supply.
A number of rural ar... | <urn:uuid:13940d0b-06e8-4997-b246-39c74fa8ce80> | http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/u-s-expands-seeding-of-biomass/ | 0.894 | fineweb |
By Alan Mozes
THURSDAY, Jan. 3 (HealthDay News) -- It's possible that a serious mosquito-borne virus -- with no known vaccine or treatment -- could migrate from Central Africa and Southeast Asia to the United States within a year, new research suggests.
The chances of a U.S. outbreak of the Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) va... | <urn:uuid:854b0942-211a-407b-9a15-294436c7edf1> | http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2013/01/03/climate-change-may-bring-another-mosquito-borne-illness-to-us | 0.6111 | fineweb |
Heaven and Hope
The Wilderness Society 2010-2011, “Heaven and Hope” written by Jeff Rennicke
The lands that belong to all Americans have long provided wilderness, recreation, and heavenly scenery. Now, scientists say, protecting them just might hold our best hope of saving the planet.
“As confusing as these numbers see... | <urn:uuid:bbeeb097-3cfa-472a-b4a6-16b4118262d1> | http://natureneedshalf.org/heaven-and-hope/ | 0.9937 | fineweb |
I’ve been looking for a good, easy to read document outlining the latest climate science research and putting it in context for Copenhagen and I think I’ve found it.
Today in Sydney, the Climate Change Research Centre, a unit of the University of New South Wales, released The Copenhagen Diagnosis. It’s free to download... | <urn:uuid:6de73326-296f-4b7a-b8ba-84761d55c25e> | http://sciblogs.co.nz/griffins-gadgets/2009/11/25/copenhagen-the-science-explained-in-simple-terms/ | 1 | fineweb |
Hugh Pickens writes writes "Until recently, geothermal power systems have exploited only resources where naturally occurring heat, water, and rock permeability are sufficient to allow energy extraction but now geothermal energy developers plan use a new technology called Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) to pump 24 mil... | <urn:uuid:69cee299-0766-4ba9-90b1-4d172309fcc1> | http://slashdot.org/submission/1909928/pouring-water-into-a-volcano-to-generate-power | 0.8563 | fineweb |
The TCBH! Climate Change Report: A Palm Tree Grows Outside Philadelphia
I went out today and checked on my palm tree. It’s a small thing: the trunk is only about a foot from the ground, with the palmate fronds spreading out from the upper part. New fronds appear as compressed blades sticking up from the center. They ha... | <urn:uuid:fd4c2023-fae0-42e2-84c6-b3f1b1740a48> | http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/1457 | 1 | fineweb |
By Mike Stark, Associated Press Writer
SALT LAKE CITY Hey, Great Salt Lake: Your shoreline is showing.
All summer and into the fall, warm temperatures kept evaporation humming, drawing down the lake to near-record low levels and exposing more shore than normal.
But the shrinking appears finally to have stopped.
Wallace... | <urn:uuid:c2a5a45c-d7e3-4fc9-874a-4c3d98e2bb02> | http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/weather/news/2008-11-12-shrinking-great-salt-lake-utah_N.htm | 0.6656 | fineweb |
Barbara Heath Land Race – 2012
By the time Barbara Heath visited Horsham, the town and the surrounding Wimmera District of Western Victoria were in the process of recovering from a decade-long drought. To inform her work, which was initially to address issues of drought, Heath held a number of planned and fortuitous co... | <urn:uuid:c1e616f0-c628-4e79-8c4f-63212b07cee3> | http://viewersite.wordpress.com/2012/02/ | 0.986 | fineweb |
Community Based Adaptation
The IFAD adaptive approach to participatory mapping: Design and delivery of participatory mapping projectsSubmitted by c.baldin on Fri, 2013-01-25 20:00
This document reports on an adaptive approach to designing and implementing participatory mapping initiatives within IFAD-supported projects... | <urn:uuid:84ab4d10-c521-467e-b052-5ae68116c607> | http://www.adaptationlearning.net/category/tags/community-based-adaptation-0 | 1 | fineweb |
This is an introductory level presentation exploring the various definitions of the term "environmental sustainability" and the connection between climate change and human population growth and its impact on the viability of the earth's systems.
To explore the various perspectives of the term "environmental sustainabil... | <urn:uuid:b9c4ef10-1e5f-48fa-aa53-c665a3b6a9cd> | http://www.camelclimatechange.org/resources/view/169009/?topic=66063 | 1 | fineweb |
February 24, 2013 in Sustainable Development
EMBARGOED until 1800 GMT on Sunday 24 February
By Alex Kirby
A United Nations scheme intended to guarantee everyone access to clean energy could help to keep global temperature rise below 2°C, researchers say, although it would not achieve this without sharp cuts in emission... | <urn:uuid:9682a9f9-97a1-41de-86ff-df1b7a3278bf> | http://www.climatenewsnetwork.net/tag/energy-efficiency/ | 1 | fineweb |
(CNN) -- Months after rescuers found them struggling and covered in oil, 33 endangered and threatened young sea turtles are finally going home to the Gulf of Mexico.
Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and the Audubon Nature Institute f... | <urn:uuid:175d2a4c-efc9-4cbc-bc2e-5701d5cd4d07> | http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/10/21/gulf.turtles.oil/index.html?iref=allsearch | 0.9901 | fineweb |
What a waste! Picture from space reveals how new U.S. oil field is burning off enough gas to power Chicago AND Washington - because it's cheaper than selling it
This incredible picture from space shows how the U.S. oil industry has boomed to such an extent that a gas field now burns as brightly as a major city.
The rap... | <urn:uuid:ac506cdc-33cc-42de-b430-3bfbf4342560> | http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2269517/The-picture-space-shows-U-S-oil-field-burning-gas-power-Chicago-AND-Washington-cheaper-selling-it.html | 0.9776 | fineweb |
Solar could be answer to rising energy bills
Research by leading free solar installer A Shade Greener shows that solar could be the answer to rising energy bills.
Recent research shows that energy prices have double from 1990 to 2011 leaving consumers struggling to pay their energy bills. According to official figures ... | <urn:uuid:d0f45ebc-41ff-4c1d-9bea-a8a6599e8211> | http://www.easier.com/103363-solar-could-be-answer-to-rising-energy-bills.html | 0.9794 | fineweb |
Hurricane Joan's passage westward across Nicaragua is a story of extremes. Joan built up strength as it moved across the Caribbean Sea until it came ashore at the town of Bluefields on Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast. The hurricane threw everything it had at Bluefields and Corn Island. Now there is nothing left of either co... | <urn:uuid:5c627f7a-ebe0-426f-8670-8893d07243c9> | http://www.envio.org.ni/articulo/3071 | 0.9053 | fineweb |
In 2006, high sea temperatures caused severe coral bleaching in the Keppell Islands, in the southern part of the reef — the largest coral reef system in the world. The damaged reefs were then covered by a single species of seaweed which threatened to suffocate the coral and cause further loss.
A "lucky combination" of ... | <urn:uuid:5e2f2baf-ab5a-40e4-ad86-116c02b20572> | http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/apr/22/coral-barrier-reef-australia | 0.9994 | fineweb |
Participatory Video created by members of various indigenous communities in Itogon, Philippines, tracking the impacts of large-scale mining and now climate change on their environment and culture.
This film was created by members of various indigenous communities in the Cordillera region of the Philippines, during a Pa... | <urn:uuid:8e21dd22-c3b3-4956-ade9-66549e3c9812> | http://www.insightshare.org/watch/video/voices-experience | 1 | fineweb |
Corn estimate lowered to reflect harvestThe U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday slightly lowered its projection for the nation’s corn crop for a fourth straight month, reflecting worse-than-expected news about the actual impact of this year’s withering drought from the farmers busy harvesting their fields. The U... | <urn:uuid:50e97a58-db58-4d45-9687-f30bbc62615b> | http://www.jamestownsun.com/event/article/id/171240/group/News/ | 0.9906 | fineweb |
Hurricane Sandy has churned northward through the northern Caribbean, across Cuba, and through the Bahamas during the past three days, leaving in its wake plenty of mayhem. Sandy's story may not yet be finished.
While it is quite normal to see tropical cyclones rear their ugly heads across the Caribbean during October ... | <urn:uuid:08f1366c-edbb-4512-b5a3-29c1b54ccccf> | http://www.northernag.net/AGNews/tabid/171/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/7489/Hurricane-Sandy-Bears-Down-on-East-Coast.aspx | 0.9999 | fineweb |
Brazil deforestation hits record low
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has dropped to its lowest level in 24 years, the government said Tuesday.
Satellite imagery showed that 1,798 square miles (4,656 square kilometers) of the Amazon were deforested between August 2011 and July 2012, E... | <urn:uuid:b952b7ad-2411-47e8-be27-c8df6faafc0f> | http://www.nwherald.com/2012/11/27/brazil-deforestation-hits-record-low/asj5qam/ | 0.8835 | fineweb |
The Danone Fund for Nature
After a 10-year partnership with Ramsar, another major environmental milestone was achieved in 2008. During the Conference of the Parties to the Ramsar Convention in Changwon, South Korea, the Ramsar Convention, IUCN and Danone signed an agreement: the “Danone Fund for Nature”. This agreement... | <urn:uuid:25c6779c-fe4c-4478-8fa6-debcbc12ee34> | http://www.ramsar.org/cda/ramsar/display/main/main.jsp?zn=ramsar&cp=1-63-98-398%5E23925_4000_0__ | 0.9932 | fineweb |
Adopting a New Flight Plan Whooping Crane Migration Route Shifted West into Safer Air Space
By LEN WELLS Courier & Press correspondent (618) 842-2159 or firstname.lastname@example.org
The route of the annual 1,250-mile migration of endangered whooping crane juveniles, led by an ultralight aircraft, has been shifted thi... | <urn:uuid:1fea6546-1d45-4f80-b956-022db1d4eed7> | http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1559276/adopting_a_new_flight_plan_whooping_crane_migration_route_shifted/ | 0.6018 | fineweb |
Wind Energy Technology
photo of Judith Gap Wind Project by Pat Judge
Harnessing the wind for our power is cost-competitive today. The region has a good start in develooping wind projects, but we could be doing much more with very little effort.
Download this Wind fact sheet here. (536kB PDF file)
As the above table sho... | <urn:uuid:6c83d7f9-9c9b-4e6b-85d3-8805c84ba9d8> | http://www.rnp.org/node/wind-energy-technology | 0.932 | fineweb |
5 October 2011 | EN | FR
The East Africa famine calls into question the wisdom of investing in early warning systems without improving take-up, writes Linda Nordling.
When the UN declared a state of famine in the Horn of Africa in July, one group of scientists was not surprised. In August 2010, the USAID-funded Famine ... | <urn:uuid:6e359426-55f1-4f0a-ae6d-43ee3c6950c2> | http://www.scidev.net/en/south-asia/opinions/africa-analysis-disaster-warning-not-just-about-science-1.html | 0.9315 | fineweb |
As the years tick by with most of the planet doing little in the way of reducing carbon emissions, researchers are getting increasingly serious about the possibility of carbon sequestration. If it looks like we're going to be burning coal for decades, carbon sequestration offers us the best chance of limiting its impac... | <urn:uuid:0f4b5328-483d-437b-b4b6-8cf4bfa3968b> | http://arstechnica.com/science/2010/01/pangea-era-rift-makes-east-coast-perfect-for-carbon-storage/ | 0.9988 | fineweb |
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