Ice melt in Arctic quicker than normal…
Thursday, September 16, 2010
…but it hasnt retreated as far as 2007. So what can we make of this news, given that the BBC story states: Researchers say projections of summer ice disappearing entirely within the next few years increasingly look wrong Walt Meier, a researcher at…
Continue reading...Alaotra Grebe Extinct – BirdLife Story
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Whilst not strictly a rainforest story, I wanted to blog about the extinction of the Alaotra Grebe. We have lost a species for ever. Shameful. Why not read Ade Long (BirdLife International Head of Communications) blog post and the associated comments.…
Continue reading...You are Looking at Dead Rainforests
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
In anticipation of the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day, Rainforest Relief and New York Climate Action Group released a 46-second video to call attention to the New York City’s on-going use of rainforest wood for public infrastructur
Continue reading...James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of the most vivid evidence yet of climate change.
Continue reading...Cazaderos-Progreso Forest Campaign
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
The Cazaderos-Progreso area in southwestern Ecuador is a region of tropical deciduous forest that is 10,000 hectares. This is equal to about 136,000 football fields! Even though this area seems HUGE, it is a small fraction of what once was there. The entire tropical deciduous forest still standing in Ecuador is only about 1% of how big it used to be and this area is just one section
Continue reading...William Kamkwamba – The boy that harvested the wind
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
At age 14, in poverty and famine, a Malawian boy built a windmill to power his family's home. Now at 22, William Kamkwamba, who speaks at TED, here, for the second time, shares in his own words the moving tale of invention that changed his life.
Continue reading...TED – Inspiration to make a difference
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Lewis Gordon Pugh loves to pioneer new swimming routes around or between landmarks once thought unswimmable. In 2006, he swam the drought-stricken Thames; also that year he became the first swimmer to do a long-distance swim in all five oceans of the world. The following year, he made the first long-distance swim across the North Pole -- where climate change made the ice temporarily disappear.
Continue reading...The Copenhagen climate summit
Saturday, September 19, 2009
The climate change summit in Copenhagen must secure a deal between the countries of the world to save our rainforests. It is thought that half of the world’s wildlife live in the tropical rainforests and as deforestation continues, species are being eradicated before they have even been discovered.
Continue reading...Mimicking nature to create alternative energy
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Scientists are looking to nature for answers to the generation of alternative energy, such as solar power. Photosynthesis is the creation of energy from sunlight, the biggest most powerful form of solar power known to man! Here is an interesting article in…
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