Ecological Debt Day means the day when human kind begins to live beyond its ecological means. So, as of October 6, 2007, humanity has consumed the total amount of new resources that our planet can produce this year.
Currently, we are using 30% more in.
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What is it that can save our earth from turning into a pressure cooker? Is it the carbon trading or carbon offsetting or carbon capping that would become the savior of mother earth? Think and you will get the answer.
No matter when the question of.
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It seems like Indonesians are becoming greener day by day. Recently, in a drive to preserve the natural forest habitats, Indonesia is going to plant about 79 million trees in a single day! This is to make up for the 4.2 million acres destroyed…
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The yawning hole in Earth’s ozone layer has shrunk 30 percent in size compared to last year, according to new measurements made by the European Space Agency’s Envisat satellite. This has lead people to wonder whether the ozone layer could actually be…
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Policymakers, scientists and officials told a Reuters summit this week that climate change will likely cost every global citizen something in the years ahead, although the payback will be much greater.
Achim Steiner, head of the U.N. Environment…
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Climate change has affected a lot of things through out the world. Starting from plants to animals, almost everything is being influenced. It is predicted that the climate change will endanger polar bears as well. So the polar bear is more than…
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The amount of ice that has been melting away in the North pole has been on the rise due to manmade climate change, although, that’s not the only reason.
This year, a record amount of ice melted. People from around the world find the rapidly…
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Global warming is causing climate changes, and these changes are posing newer risks to insurers! The global insurance industry is facing risks from increased incidence of cyclones, floods, drought and bushfires. This was the topic that was discussed and..
Insurers! Take climate change seriously or you may be swept away Read More »
The Philippines has tightened laws on fishing and species collection on Apo Reef to help it recover from near destruction. Gregg Yan of the World Wildlife Fund, Philippines said,
It has been declared a ‘no-take zone’ to allow the reef and the various..
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Chinese agricultural expert Qifa Zhang has called for the development of a new hybrid high-yielding rice. He said that this rice should not only be nutrient-rich, pest-and drought-resistant, it should also reduce the need for use of pesticides and…
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