July 2012
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Last Ocean Adventure →
THE ROSS SEA, ANTARCTICA
The Ross Sea is the most pristine marine ecosystem on earth. It’s a living laboratory, providing our last chance to study and understand how a healthy marine ecosystem functions. But the natural balance of it’s ecosystem is now under threat. Come on an adventure to discover the species living in the Ross Sea that need your help.
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Reasons For Optimism: Why Climate Change is not a...
By Climate Guest Blogger on Jul 30, 2012 at 9:15 am
by Jonathan Koomey, via CSR Wire
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” — Henry Ford
The Pessimism Trap
One of my students at Yale in Fall 2009 emerged from my lecture summarizing the climate problem and told me it depressed her. “It seems so hopeless,” she said. I acknowledged that the problem was a daunting one, but...
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Pollution Can Make Citizens, Both Rich and Poor,...
ScienceDaily (July 30, 2012) — Nothing inspires environmentalism quite like a smog-filled sky or a contaminated river, according to a new study that also indicates that environmentalism isn’t just for the prosperous.
People living in China’s cities who say they’ve been exposed to environmental harm are more likely to be green: re-using their plastic grocery bags or recycling....
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What evidence will it take to convince climate...
Prof Richard Muller’s research showing the world is warming and humans are largely to blame is being rejected by climate sceptics
Earth surface temperatures graph
So, that’s it then. The climate wars are over. Climate sceptics have accepted the main tenets of climate science – that the world is warming and that humans are largely to blame – and we can all now get on to debating the...
“According to estimates by the Humane Society of the United States, if every...”
– Sasha Lyutse, NRDC Policy Analyst, in this blog post: Eat your vegetables. No, wait, don’t. USDA publicly kowtows to Beef Association. (via nrdc)
UNICEF-GIS Work in Haiti feature on unicef.org →
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See the story @ http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/haiti_65428.html
A BEAUTIFUL LIE: Greenpeace finds corals at... →
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The soft coral species known as the Sea Raspberry (Gersemia sp.) © Jiri Rezac / Greenpeace
Greetings from the Chukchi Sea, way up in the Arctic north of Alaska, where the team aboard the Greenpeace ship Esperanza is using a small submarine to study the seafloor in the area…
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“Water is Life!” Saran Kaba Jones, Founder, FACE...
Posted on July 29, 2012 04:01 pm under Leaders, Leadership, Ventures Woman
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Imagine: It’s a scorching afternoon and you’re walking in the hot African sun; you can even see the heat rising from the road. Your first thought as you wipe sweat from your face is “water”, so you reach for your bottle…
For millions of Africans, it is not so simple.
VENTURES AFRICA – Today,...
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25 Years After First Solar Restaurant, Germany...
Christine Lepisto Energy / Renewable Energy July 29, 2012
Rappenecker Huette/Promo image Guests enjoy a pause for beer or a meal at the Rappenecker Huette, Europe’s first solar restaurant; Inset: Solar panels on restaurant roof (Frauenhofer Institute)
25 years to 25 percent. A good start towards Germany’s aggressive renewable energy goals. According to German law (pdf),...
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Lifting the Anchor on Change
There are certain iconic moments that prove to be turning points in history, where the momentum swings towards change.
These are marked by symbolic events that crystalize public opinion, influence investor sentiment or lead to political upheavals.
The financial crisis in 2007-08 that ushered in policy change to limit investment risk, the Arab Spring and calls for reform or the Fukushima disaster...
30 Creative Ads for Global Warming Awareness →
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Which Species Will Live, Which Will Die? →
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Via Scientific American.
Conservation groups can no longer afford to try to protect all animals and plants, forcing heartbreaking choices
Chevron ordered to pay $19bn in environment... →
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QUITO — Chevron has been ordered to pay more than $19 billion in environmental damages, $1 billion more than originally decided, after an Ecuadoran court adjusted the amount on appeal, a source said.
“Due to an involuntary calculation error, the reparations now amount to $19,021,552,000,” said a court source in the northeastern Amazonian province of Sucumbios.
Some 30,000...
A BEAUTIFUL LIE: 7 Nations Face Sanctions Over... →
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Seven nations may lose their ability to legally trade tens of thousands of wildlife species after U.N. conservation delegates agreed Thursday to penalize them for lacking tough regulations or failing to report on their wildlife trade.
The suspensions against the seven nations —…
Nuclear power plants shut down during heat wave... →
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In this must read piece (one that defines my career and the core theme of this tumblr), the New York Times contextualizes the issue of climate impacts on America’s aging infrastructure in this solid piece, “Rise in Weather Extremes Threatens Infrastructure.”
I’ve written about about weather-related nuclear power plant shut downs before (see here). When a power plant shuts...
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Central African nations launch joint initiative to...
Ten countries sign up to $14m scheme that includes cooperation between law enforcement agencies and joint border patrols
Gaia Vince in Geneva
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 26 July 2012 16.56 BST
Seized ivory was burned in Gabon last month in a ceremony to symbolise the country’s commitment to ending poaching and other wildlife crimes. Photograph: James Morgan/WWF-CANON VIA AP IMAGES
Central...
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Half of tropical forest parks losing biodiversity
Jaguar in Brazil. A new study finds that apex predators, like the jaguar, are some of the most sensitive to environmental degradation both inside and outside tropical forest parks. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler.
Governments have set up protected areas, in part, to act as reservoirs for our Earth’s stunning biodiversity; no where is this more true than in the world’s tropical forests, which...
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Loss of Arctic sea ice '70% man-made'
Study finds only 30% of radical loss of summer sea ice is due to natural variability in Atlantic – and it will probably get worse
Alok Jha, science correspondent
The Guardian, Thursday 26 July 2012
Since the 1970s, there has been a 40% decrease in the extent of summer sea ice. Photograph: AlaskaStock/Corbis
The radical decline in sea ice around the Arctic is at least 70% due to...
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McKibben's Climate Change Masterpiece Is Strictly...
Bill McKibben’s recent piece in Rolling Stone, “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math”, is probably (pound for pound) the best piece ever written about the dire straights anthropogenic climate change has presented the human race.
I can’t improve upon Mr. McKibben’s words, but I CAN offer an instruction manual on reading his article:
Read the first couple of...
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Africa: Rio Summit Keeps African Hopes Alive
African expectations were high for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, the biggest UN summit ever. The conference, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June, was “too important to fail,” said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the outset.
Under the theme of “The Future We Want,” many of the 100 heads of state and more than 40,000 participants...
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Antarctic rift 'speeding ice melt'
The interaction between ice and sea is complex, but key to understanding sea level rise
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