 Shell Eco Ad Deemed Deceptive A British organization charged with regulating truth in advertising has criticized Shell's advertising about its planned exploitation of tar sands, an unconventional source of petroleum found in great quantity in Alberta, Canada. La pub écologique de Shell jugée «mensongère» Selon l'autorité britannique de régulation de la publicité (ASA), la publicité de Shell utilise le terme «ambigu» de développement durable sans donner «d'éléments qui montrent comment Shell maîtrise concrètement ses émissions de CO2 dans ses projets de sables bitumineux»... (08-14-2008) |
 Children Losing Touch With Natural World Children have lost touch with the natural world and are unable to identify common animals and plants, according to a survey. Sir David Attenborough warned that children who lack any understanding of the natural world would not grow into adults who cared about the environment. (08-03-2008) |
 Acidifying Oceans Endanger Coral Reefs Studies concerning the effects of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide on oceans has concluded that coral reefs are gravely endangered by the resulting acidification of the water. The reefs become soft and vulnerable because they are calcium-based and cannot withstand even subtle increases of acidity. (07-12-2008) |
 Sharks Disappearing Some shark populations in the Mediterranean Sea have completely collapsed, according to a new study, with numbers of five species declining by more than 96 percent over the past two centuries. (06-11-2008) |
 Starving Polar Bear Shot A polar bear believed to have swam approximately 200 miles was shot and killed by police in Iceland, although witnesses suggested that this was utterly unnecessary. (06-07-2008) |
 An Epidemic Of Extinctions Scientists say the current extinction rate is now up to 10,000 times faster than what has historically been recorded as normal. (05-17-2008) |
| Wildlife and environment already hit by climate change Global warming is disrupting wildlife and the environment on every continent, according to an unprecedented study that reveals the extent to which climate change is already affecting the world's ecosystems. Scientists examined published reports dating back to 1970 and found that at least 90% of environmental damage and disruption around the world could be explained by rising temperatures driven by human activity. (05-15-2008) |
 Polar Bears Elevated To Threatened Status While there are about 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears now in the Arctic, scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey predict two thirds of the world's polar bears will disappear in the next 50 years because of declines in Arctic sea ice. (05-14-2008) |
 Biofuels A Dead End Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) resulting from the burning of fossil combustibles are said by a vast body of scientists to provoke global warming and consequently climate change. (04-19-2008) |
| Gorillas Endangered By Mining In The Congo Within the Dem. Rep. of Congo as a whole, the U.N. Environment Program has reported that the number of eastern lowland gorillas in eight Dem. Rep. of Congo national parks has declined by 90% over the past 5 years, and only 3,000 now remain. (04-16-2008) |
 Guyanese Rainforest Saved In Groundbreaking Deal The agreement will secure the future of one million acres of pristine rainforest in Guyana, the first move of its kind, and will open the way for financial markets to play a key role in safeguarding the fate of forests. (03-27-2008) |
 Huge Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapses A chunk of Antarctic ice about seven times the size of Manhattan suddenly collapsed, putting an even greater portion of glacial ice at risk. This is the result of global warming, said a British Antarctic Survey scientist. (03-25-2008) |
 Americans Protest New Nuclear Plans Residents and environmental activists are in a bitter dispute with large U.S. energy corporations and the federal government over the safety of nuclear power, as more than a dozen corporations plan to, or have filed, paperwork to open new nuclear power plants, primarily in the U.S. South. (01-15-2008) |
| Arctic Sea Ice Melting Extraordinarily Fast Revised estimates suggest that summer sea ice in the Arctic may disappear as early as the summer of 2012, twenty-eight years sooner than was projected recently. What happens in the Arctic has implications for the rest of the world. Faster melting there means eventual sea level rise and more immediate changes in winter weather because of less sea ice. (12-11-2007) |
 Guns Beating Green Despite all the government incentives, the really big money is turning away from clean energy technologies and banking instead on gadgets promising to seal wealthy countries and individuals into high-tech fortresses. Key growth areas in venture capitalism are private security firms selling surveillance gear and privatized emergency response. Put simply, in the world of venture capitalism, there has been a race going on between greens on the one hand and guns and garrisons on the other (11-30-2007) |
 Climate Action This Decade Or Else Unless the international community agrees to cut carbon emissions by half over the next generation, climate change is likely to cause large-scale human and economic setbacks and irreversible ecological catastrophes, according to a new United Nations report. (11-27-2007) |
 Urgent Action Needed On Global Warming Climate change is severe and so sweeping that only urgent, global action can head it off, according to a United Nations scientific panel report on global warming written by Nobel Prize winning scientists. (11-17-2007) |
 Net Metering Spreads in the United States Laws permitting individuals and businesses who produce more electricity than they use to sell it back to the electrical utilities are spreading in the United States. Such laws are critical to the economics of transition to renewable energy, since investments are necessary to produce solar or wind energy. (10-23-2007) |
 German Team Wins Solar Decathalon The students from the Technical University of Darmstadt prevailed over competition from the U.S., Canada, and Spain. The competition demanded that houses of 600-800 square feet be powered entirely by the sun, among other restrictions. The houses were constructed on the Mall in Washington, D.C., and can be toured virtually online. (10-23-2007) |
| Researchers to track movement of Arctic ice island An ice island the size of a small city is adrift in the Arctic after breaking free from one of Canada's largest ice shelves, scientists said today.
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| Bush Lies To World Leaders About Environmental Goals Less than a week after administration correspondence emerged demonstrating that the Bush administration has been attempting to undermine efforts by California and other states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Bush delivered a speech to representatives of several large countries claiming that he is doing the opposite. (09-28-2007) |
 Courts Uphold Tougher Emissions Standards A federal judge in Vermont gave the first legal endorsement yesterday to rules in California, being copied in 13 other states, that intend to reduce greenhouse gases emitted by automobiles and light trucks. (09-15-2007) |
 Two Hundred Added To Endangered Species List 16,306 species are now endangered, according to the International Union for Nature Conservation. The coral reefs have been added to their list for the first time. The director of the organization says that the drum beat of loss of biodiversity is getting stronger, and that it is necessary to address the crisis of extinction immediately. (09-12-2007) |
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