All Entries in the "Global Warming" Category

Chinese Companies Emit More CO2 Than Great Britain

Three Companies in China emitted more Carbon dioxide (CO2) in 2008 than the whole of Great Britain, says the Greenpeace report of Huaneng, Datang and Guodian which are the top three firms in China. The report says that inefficient plants and China’s dependency on coal, makes tackling climate change very difficult.[...]

Catlin Expedition Disaster

The Catlin Expedition is a collaboration with scientists to find out exactly how much the ice cap is actually receding and how long polar ice will continue to be a year round event, but it has been a disaster from the beginning.  From equipment failure to frost bite, the beat up members of the expedition can’t last much [...]

Amazon Forest Shrinking Due To Global Warming

A new study of the Amazon Rain Forest carried out by scientists at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, has determined that any rise in temperature in the Amazon area could kill off 85 % of the plant life. Tim Lenton, a climate expert for the University, says that when he was young, he thought [...]

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ENRIN – Capacity Building

Central & Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia
Policy development and planning for sustainable development and coherent environmental management demands information, national data and knowledge of the state of the environment. As assessments and analyses become multi-sectoral, the degree of complexity generates the need for integrated information. These products in turn require organizational [...]

Overpopulation: One Cause Of Global Warming?

Uncontrolled population growth threatens to undermine efforts to save the planet, warns John Feeney, a free lance writer with the BBC. In this week’s Green Room, he calls on the environmental movement to stop running scared of this controversial topic. This is a headline in the [...]

Coal Fired Plants: Will They Be The Death Of Us?

James Hansen, a head NASA scientist and climate expert, is pleading with world leaders one more time. Coal fired plants have been found to be one of the greatest threats to mankind. Pre industrial CO2 levels were at a level of 280 parts per million. The levels have increased to 385 parts per million [...]

Green

Green is not just a color anymore. Green stands for a whole environmental movement or subsequently called the “Green Movement”. In this Green Movement, you can “Go Green” or become “Eco-Friendly”. Environmentalism started in the 1800’s with Henry David Thoreau who wrote the book [...]

Catlin Arctic Survey Of Shrinking Polar Cap

Leading Polar explorer Pen Hadow, will be departing in February, to do an in depth investigation into the shrinking Polar Cap. This pioneering survey is a collaboration with scientists to find out exactly how much the ice cap is actually receding and how long polar ice will be a year round event. [...]

Less Fog In Europe

Less fog in Europe equals more Global Warming and less fog in Europe is contributed to less pollution. Scientists say that since 1970 fog has reduced in occurrence by 50% and 10% to 20% just in the last few years. They have linked the [...]

Chinese Glaciers Are Melting

Glaciers covering China’s Qinghai-Tibet plateau are shrinking by 7 percent a year due to global warming.  Because of warmer temperatures in the area known as “The roof of the world”  Tibet and the surrounding high areas will be turned into a desert.  If the temperature continues to rise it will cause a massive drought.  It [...]