Copenhagen Talks Last Chance: Gordon Brown
There are now fewer than 50 days to set course of next 50 years and more, PM tells environment ministers from 17 countries responsible for 80% of greenhouse gas emissions
Gordon Brown today warned that the world is on the brink of a “catastrophic” future of killer heatwaves, floods and droughts [...]
In the year 2000, The Millenium Seed Bank Project was launched as an international effort to preserve the biodiversity of Earth’s plant life by collecting, cataloging, and storing seeds from around the world.
The motivation was simple. All animal life depends upon plants, and plants depend upon seeds. so the Project serves as something of an [...]
Honey, Someone Shrunk the Sheep!
Sheep on Soay Island off the west coast of Scotland are getting smaller, defying the evolutionary advantage that typically accrues to larger animals when food becomes scarce during cold weather. Increasingly warmer winters have shortened the season of scarcity, enabling smaller sheep to survive — and give birth to more small [...]
10 Natural Sunscreens for Safe Summer Fun
The Daily Green highlights 10 natural suncreens identified as effective by the Environmental Working Group (EWG).
Full listings of 134 EWG recommended products — and 589 products to avoid — are also available.
Europe Poised to Meet Kyoto Target
The European Environment Agency reports that 2007 marked the third consecutive year in [...]
An Unusually Quiet Sun Baffles Astronomers
Our sun is the quietest it’s been in a long time, producing few solar flares and no sunspots. Instead of becoming more active as it’s 11-year cycle would have predicted, last year’s solar wind pressure and radio emissions were at a 50-year low, and sunspots at a 100-year low, leaving [...]
Nearly one in four of the world’s mammals are at risk of disappearing forever says the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The extinction crisis is confirmed in IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species which contains the world’s most comprehensive assessment of the world’s mammals.
The IUCN report shows at least 1,141 of the 5,487 [...]
Such well-known and beloved species as polar bears, tigers, gorillas, pandas, elephants, whales and rhinos, as well as the lesser-known black-footed ferret and vaquita are among the most threatened species to watch in 2009, according the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).  WWF scientists say these, and many other species, are at greater risk than ever before [...]
Nearly one in four of the world’s mammals are at risk of disappearing forever says the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The extinction crisis is confirmed in IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species which contains the world’s most comprehensive assessment of the world’s mammals.
The IUCN report shows at least 1,141 of the 5,487 [...]
