In Germany, where many consider their cars sacred and most politicians on both the left and right refuse to consider tampering with the unlimited speed on the Autobahn for fear of hurting the car industry, the leader of the Greens party said it is high time for the country to join the rest of the [...]
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By Ecological Internet’s Climate Ark Climate Change Portal TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! Alberta Canada’s tar sands development [search] is the most ecologically destructive project in the world; destroying vast natural boreal ecosystems, perpetuating global addiction to fossil fuels, and ensuring abrupt climate change [search]. Tar sands and their pipelines must be stopped using all means necessary. [...] British woodlands are less biologically distinctive than they were 70 years ago, says a team of UK researchers. The use of fertilisers in farming had increased soil fertility, while tree canopies had grown thicker and cut light levels, they explained. Today activists in India were arrested while demonstrating outside the Indian Parliament during the passing of the Finance bill in Loksabha. The demonstration was to remind the Finance Minister that proposed fertiliser subsidies will not ward off an imminent food crisis. The present crisis – characterised by degraded soils, yield stagnation and decline in agricultural [...] Monaco has tabled a formal proposal to place overfished Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna on the list of the world’s most endangered species — a move that could ban all trade of the fish. for a change we can also bring good news, hopefully this is not an exception and the species will find some habitat and multiply again Bangladeshi conservationists said Thursday the discovery of a rare leopard captured by villagers in the southeast of the country renewed hopes for the survival of the critically endangered species. RSPB Scotland has lodged an objection to plans for Scotland’s largest community wind farm, on Shetland. It takes the equivalent of a massive chunk of ice of 390 cubic kms (150 cubic miles) to raise world sea levels by one millimetre, according to David Carlson, director of the International Programme Office of the International Polar Year. As an example, he says that works out as a lump 39 kms long, 10 wide and 1 km thick. Or [...] |
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