Arctic sea ice coverage appears to have reached its lowest extent for the year and the second-lowest amount recorded since the dawn of the satellite era, according to observations from the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder. While slightly above the record-low minimum set Sept. 16, 2007, [...]
Guillemots are a bird that can be found around the world. They are fishers and breed in colonies nestled among sea rocks and cliffs.
Some of those colonies have turned into killing grounds as the birds attempt to find a way to deal with their collapsing food supply.
Just as Hurricane Ike was about to lash against the southern Bahamian island of Great Inagua its population of flamingos began to disappear.
The Island is popular with tourists and bird watchers who come to marvel at the 60 thousand strong flamingo population.
Before Hurricane Ike hit the Island most of the flock began to evacuate to parts [...]
Noting that Brazilian authorities have significantly reduced deforestation over the last years, Norway will contribute US$1 Billion to Brazil’s Amazon Fund over the next seven years starting with US$20 Million this year. This makes Norway the first international contributor to the Amazon Fund, a major Brazilian effort to sharply curb deforestation of the world’s largest rainforest [...]
Shallow ecology? Deep ecology?
Satish Kumar believes that earth was not created solely to serve the needs and desires of humans — that its features and inhabitants have intrinsic value apart from how we use them for our own purposes — and presents a compelling case as he explains the meaning of Deep Ecology.
To learn more [...]
There is a large amount of forest acreage buried underwater as a result of the rapid construction of hydro and irrigation dam projects built from the 1960’s until the end of the last century.
Harvesting the underwater trees could be worth billions of dollars for tropical countries.
Ghana alone has submerged over 14 million cubic meters of [...]
According to the recently published book, “Green to Gold,” by Daniel C. Esty and Andrew Winston, the top ten environmental issues facing the world today are:
1. Climate Change
2. Energy
3. Water
4. Biodiversity and Land Use
5. Chemicals, Toxics and Heavy Metals
6. Air Pollution
7. Waste Management
8. Ozone Layer Depletion
9. Oceans and Fisheries
10. Deforestation
These issues clearly cut across and [...]
This enhanced satellite image shows the current extent of the Arctic Ice Cap (August 25, 2008). It is now 220,000 square miles larger than 2007’s lowest extent which was the smallest the ice cap had ever reached. (Image: National Snow and Ice Data Center)
The space surrounding Earth is becoming a giant landfill… or shall we call it spacefill? Space junk - also known as space trash or debris - floats throughout our solar system at extraordinary speeds, most reaching 17,000-plus miles per hour.
In the past 50-plus years of space exploration, we have generated a vast wasteland of junk in [...]
They are called “dead zones”, increasingly large areas of coastal ocean that can no longer support life.
Fishermen off the shores of Oregon report that more amounts of dead rockfish, crabs and other bottom fish have been appearing in their nets and along the coast line.
