Earth Day April 22, 2008 - Earth Day 2008 Events Worldwide
Good News From the South Pole? Does growing sea ice in Antarctica bode well for the future? By Brendan I. Koerner - Posted Tuesday, June 3, 2008, at 7:04 AM ET We've all heard that the Arctic ice is disappearing, surefire proof that global warming will kill us all. But isn't it also true that Antarctica's ice is growing by leaps and bounds? Doesn't that mean we're getting into a lather over nothing? The area covered by Antarctica's sea ice has indeed expanded over the past two decades. So in the most literal sense, yes, you're right. But it's a fallacious leap of logic to argue that this trend bodes well for the planet's health. The increase in sea ice around the South Pole may actually be bad news—an indicator that steadily rising temperatures are already wreaking havoc.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears in the following pages. Following this historic act the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and "to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories."
INTERVIEW-New book puts cost of saving planet at $190 bln 07 Mar 2008 10:19:00 GMT - Written by: Timothy Large What would it cost to wipe out world poverty, guarantee universal health care, stabilise population growth and roll back the ravages of global warming? About $190 billion a year, or the equivalent of a third of U.S. annual military expenditure, a prominent environmental economist says in a new book. "Once you accept that climate change, population growth, spreading water shortages, rising food prices etcetera are threats to our security, it changes your whole way of thinking about how you use public resources," Lester Brown told Reuters in an interview
Kansas museum unveils foul weather exhibit Forces of Nature - Kansas Museum of History Special Exhibits Gallery - Through Jan. 4, 2009 Tornadoes, droughts, prairie fires, floods--Kansas gets them all! Even though modern conveniences and forecasting methods buffer us from the weather, we still experience the effects of nature. Like most humans, Kansans have reacted to the extremes of climate by trying to control it. This is often unsuccessful, and in recent years many Kansans have begun adapting to nature rather than trying to force it to adapt to them.
Earth Hour US - Earth Hour 2008 Created to take a stand against the greatest threat our planet has ever faced, Earth Hour uses the simple action of turning off the lights for one hour to ...Be part of making Earth Hour 2008 a huge, global success by telling your friends and family. Remember, every single light makes a statement and makes a ... In 2008, 24 global cities will participate in Earth Hour at 8pm on March 29. Earth Hour is the highlight of a major campaign to encourage businesses,
Earth is een uniek portret van onze planeet, van de hand van veelgeprezen documentairemakers Alastair Fothergill en David Attenborough. Earth confronteert ons door middel van indrukwekkende beelden en landschappen, uitgelicht door een oogverblindende zon, met de harde realiteit van het leven op onze planeet. De documentaire volgt hiertoe een ijsberenfamilie, een kudde olifanten en twee bultrug walvissen in hun vaste leefomgeving en toont de invloed van seizoenswisselingen daarop. Op indringende wijze wordt duidelijk hoe de opwarming van de aarde de overlevingskansen van vele diersoorten bedreigt.( Bron: IDFA site)
Eco-tourism a hit in Bay of Bengal
Nobel Peace Prize 2007 - Al Gore, U.N. climate panel win Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change" The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. Indications of changes in the earth's future climate must be treated with the utmost seriousness, and with the precautionary principle uppermost in our minds. Extensive climate changes may alter and threaten the living conditions of much of mankind. They may induce large-scale migration and lead to greater competition for the earth's resources. Such changes will place particularly heavy burdens on the world's most vulnerable countries. There may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states.
Yahoo!7 is on a mission to find Australia's most worthwhile environmental initiative and reward it with the sum of $50,000. To make this happen, we're asking the Yahoo!7 Answers community to answer the question, "How would you spend $50,000 to create a more sustainable environment in Australia?" Our panel of judges will review all of the responses on Answers and select the best idea. If your answer is chosen, we will contribute $50,000 to an environmental organisation that will put the funds towards implementing your idea.
Are Crop Circles Land Art, Earth Art or Space Art? Find out for yourself and check out the sacred geometry phenomenon. 2007 Crop Circles. The Crop Circle Connector The Crop Circle Connector is the leading web site on the phenomenon in the world.
FastChanging-Planet.com
FastChangingPlanet, the site about the rapid changes in the global environment and on Planet Earth.
WATERTOALL - In 2002, during his professorship for new media art at the State School of Art and Design in Karlsruhe, artist Uwe Laysiepen (Ulay) initiated the multidimensional art project . At the heart of this project lies Laysiepen's desire to visualise a range of aspects connected with drinking water, e.g. the management and use of water, the availability of pure drinking water for people worldwide, alternative methods of collecting and distributing water, and last but not least cultural values and rituals concerning water.
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EarthTrends, an online collection of information regarding the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world. Committed to the principle that accurate information drives responsible decisions by governments and individuals, EarthTrends offers the public a large breadth of statistical, graphic, and analytical data in easily accessible formats. Much of the environmental information on the internet is fragmented, buried, or only available at a price. EarthTrends gathers data from the world’s leading statistical agencies, along with WRI-generated maps and analyses, into a single database for rapid searching and retrieving. To facilitate the comparison of data from different sources, EarthTrends supplements its content with detailed metadata that reports on research methodologies and evaluates the information’s reliability. All of these resources are made available to the public at no charge.
Human Development Report 2007/2008 Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world Climate change is the defining human development challenge of the 21st Century. Failure to respond to that challenge will stall and then reverse international efforts to reduce poverty. The poorest countries and most vulnerable citizens will suffer the earliest and most damaging setbacks, even though they have contributed least to the problem. Looking to the future, no country—however wealthy or powerful—will be immune to the impact of global warming. The Human Development Report 2007/2008 shows that climate change is not just a future scenario. Increased exposure to droughts, floods and storms is already destroying opportunity and reinforcing inequality. Meanwhile, there is now overwhelming scientific evidence that the world is moving towards the point at which irreversible ecological catastrophe becomes unavoidable. Business-as-usual climate change points in a clear direction: unprecedented reversal in human development in our lifetime, and acute risks for our children and their grandchildren.
