Not only polar bears' woes but also President Obama's Defence Department float some ideas on the drastic and potentially deadly results of our loss of Arctic ice; Polar Bear Image ; Credit: © Shutterstock The White House is concerning itself about the loss of ice from the Arctic Ocean...
Neonicotinoid nightmares By Dave Armstrong - 03 May 2013 6:39:38 GMT The aquatic larvae of macro-invertebrates such as dragonflies have been found to be severely affected by many systemic insecticides, even at low concentration; Dragonfly Image ; Credit: © Shutterstock The most widely...
The planet is offering us little help in deciphering the warming connection with our eternal emissions, aerosols and air and ocean effects! - Planet Earth image ; Credit: © Shutterstock Since a great peak in the 90's, the global temperature has refused to rise consistently. Those in t...
Poverty contributes to poor health and poor health anchors huge populations in poverty . Health development is directed by the ethical principle of equality and access to life-saving or health-promoting interventions should not be denied for unfair reasons. Health development is targe...
As always, agricultural waste and sewage need ultra-modern treatment, or at least some treatment to achieve any standards in highly populated regions of the world. In the US, the upper Atlantic seaboard, (e.g. Virginia, Delaware and New Hampshire) has generally better water quality th...
, the species we all expect on the savanna, has only 7,000 animals in central or western Africa. This could explain why poaching of the forest species is so extensive. In 2012, Cameroon saw well-armed poachers on horseback killing several hundred elephants. In mid-November, the Camero...
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) was created on 23rd March 1950 and in 1951 it was designated as being a specialised agency within the United Nations System. There are now 191 members of the worldwide meteorological community. World Meteorological Day is celebrated each yea...
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) was created on 23rd March 1950 and in 1951 it was designated as being a specialised agency within the United Nations System. There are now 191 members of the worldwide meteorological community. World Meteorological Day is celebrated each yea...
The livelihoods of more than 1.6 billion people depend on forests. Not only that, but around 300 million people actually live in forests and these are often among the world's poorest people. Industry that depends on forest production is a source of economic growth and employment, with...
STC recognizes to mitigate the negative impacts of light pollution will require the behavior change of local government, owners, renters, tourists, and businesses. STC continues to work with private beachfront property owners to retrofit problem lights using the latest sea turtle-frie...
And he bought in his staggering, record-breaking 22.4 tonnes per hectare (five times the usual yield) with nothing but some clever and careful nurturing of his crop - without a drop of pesticide , herbicide and fertilizer in sight. Not only that, but Sumant Kumar is far from the only ...
Wetlands Image ; Credit: © Shutterstock On 2nd February 1971 the signing of an important convention took place in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Due to its location it is generally known as the Ramsar Convention, but it is more properly called the Interna...
Auschwitz Camp Image ; Credit: © Shutterstock On 27th January 1945 advancing Soviet troops liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Upper Silesia. Auschwitz was the largest of the German concentration camps and was in fact a major complex consisting of a base camp, an ex...
Orphans Image ; Credit: © Shutterstock The World Day of War Orphans was initiated by the French organisation, SOS Enfants en Detresses . Held on 6th January each year, this special day enables the International Community to recognise the plight of a particularly vulnerable group. The ...
Think island, think nature, think ocean, think tranquillity and think pristine. Natural islands have always been escape destinations from the concrete jungle chaos and pollution . Now think again, think unnatural islands, think strewn litter over the ocean, which eventually accumulate...
Stop Violence Against Women ; Credit: © Shutterstock On 17th December 1999, by Resolution 54/134, the United Nations General Assembly designated 25th November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women This date was chosen in recognition of the brutal assas...
In an attempt to address this, in 1993 RoadPeace, the United Kingdom's charity for road traffic victims, initiated the first Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims . The European Federation of Road Traffic Victims and nongovernmental organisations in a number of other countries s...
Over three days the seaweed declined by 30% in the area, while coral damage decreased by a corresponding 75%. What a great relationship. The fish get protection of course. Any predator trying to catch the short policemen is deterred by the intricate patterns of the coral where they hi...
Projector Image ; Credit: © Shutterstock It was in 1895 that Louis Lumier presented the world's first public film show using his Cinematograph and following that, developments were swift. Other inventors were working on similar project at the same time and early experiments were even ...
Woman Image ; Credit: © Shutterstock Throughout history, women traditionally have been the backbone of society. While men have gone off hunting or fighting, it has always been the women who have quietly stayed behind to run everything in their absence, caring for children and older re...
Kairuku penguins come ashore, passing a stranded Waipatia dolphin; Artwork by Chris Gaskin, owner and copyright owner: Geology Museum, University of Otago Scientists have unveiled details about a fossil of possibly the tallest ever penguin. One of two new fossilised species, Kairuku g...
Throwing down charges of 'reckless' is much more than just hyperbole. A big worry is the extremely hostile environment into which oil companies are stepping. The massive Deepwater oil spill, in the warm benign waters of the Gulf of Mexico - right on the doorstop of the US oil industry...
The current research on Mars is dedicated to discovering evidence of life there. The Mars Curiosity rover is regularly now discovering features of rivers and lakes that flowed vigorously on the surface, while under the surface are reserves of ice, showing clearly on the surface at the...
London's new eco building; Credit: © The Crystal The Crystal is a new eco building in London's dockland area designed by Siemens as a centre for sustainability, to promote energy efficient thinking. I went to its grand unveiling last week. Located in Queen Victoria Dock, the Crystal f...
Credit: © Diversity and Distributions Above: The present localities of the eight great ape species that were available at the time of the study, from the A.P.E.S. database and used as input for the ape habitat model. (names are given in English throughout the article's length; Pan tro...
Comment has been acerbic of course, including Ali Hood, Director of Conservation for the Shark Trust , who asserts, "We will continue to urge all MEPs to promptly remove all confusion in Plenary and clearly endorse a strict EU policy against removing shark fins at sea, without any mor...
Alterations in the speed of the Atlantic circulation pattern, called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, which affects seas around the world as it acts in a similar way to a conveyor belt, transporting water around the earth. These can happen several years running or miss...
Above: (Left) King cheetah sightings have been restricted to a small (grey-colored) region that includes the Northeast corner of South Africa and parts of Botswana and Zimbawe. (Right) The K977Nfs110 mutation is completely linked to the king cheetah pattern under a model of autosomal ...
Rhino horn; Credit: © Act for Wildlife In many ways a rhinoceros is an odd-looking creature. Even its name, meaning a creature with a horn on its nose, betrays its unusual appearance. Rhinos can be very big, with the two largest of the five species weighing up to 6,000 pounds or 2.7 t...
From its inception following the end of World War II, one of the guiding principles of the United Nations (UN) has been the establishment and maintenance of world peace. As long ago as 1954 the UN was presented with a Peace Bell. This was cast from metal obtained by melting down coins...
