Hold the Earth in your hands

Visit earthhour.org/earthinyourhands and you can see a video of yourself holding the earth in your hands. You can add your own name, see everybody else who has done it, and save a photo to send to your friends. The...

Five countries list the polar bear as threatened

Five countries, the United States, Norway, Canada, Russia and Denmark, have all come together to list the polar bear as threatened by climte change. They say this is the longest term threat to the bears. ...

How About You Flipping It Off

What are you going to be up to on Saturday March 28, 2009?  If you don’t have any big plans, at 8:30 pm, how about joining Cate Blanchett, Linkin Park, Gavin DeGraw, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Coldplay,...

Obama: ‘Let the Purge of the Intellectuals Begin!’

Though President Barack Obama refuses to publicly describe himself as a socialist or a communist, the pages of non-revisionist history books are full of details about purges similar to the one he recently launched. Purges often work like this: When a new socialist/communist...

Amazon Rainforest could be 85% gone in 100 years

Scientists at the Climate Change conference in Copenhagen this weekend, deliver some alarming news for the Amazon Rainforest: a rise in 4 degrees will kill off 85% of the whole forest in the next 100 years. The fact...

Japanese Scientists Claim Global Warming Not Man Made

Some of Japan's top scientists recently expressed data against the popular belief that global warming is a trend caused by human influence. Going against the generally accepted western idea that human interaction and...

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Global Warming - impressions through sketches

Potent Greenhouse Gas Methane on the Rise

While much of the world is now focussing on reducing the production of carbon dioxide, a more potent greenhouse gas has been on the rise.  Methane levels have begun a slow creep upward after about a decade...

Volunteer Abroad Zambia Orphanages Volunteering abroaderview.org

Our programs in Lusaka and the surrounding towns allow you to take part in meaningful community service work, while discovering the people, sights, smells and tastes of Zambia. Volunteering in Zambia is a way to...

Five places to go before global warming changes them forever

If you are looking to travel this year and want to go somewhere a little bit special, perhaps you could go to a place that may not be around much longer due to the fact that they are being ruined by climate change. ...

Death of Chocolate?

     It's hard to believe but some scientists are claiming that chocolate will become as rare and expensive as caviar in the next 20 years. The study comes from the Ghana-based Nature...

Salamanders declining rapidly in Central America

Salamanders are declining rapidly in areas like Central America, and scientists studying them have attributed this to global warming. Two species are already extinct and a few others are losing numbers so quickly...

Discovery of world's largest snake has clues for global warming

 South American researchers have unearthed the vertebrae of the largest snake ever discovered.  It dwarfs the largest recorded snakes alive today, at four times the weight and almost 1.5 times the length. "...

Rhododendrons blooming early due to global warming?

The farmers are already facing crisis of waterfor irrigation due to less snow this year.the global warming effect is evident in...

Climate change undermines Oxygen Producing Ecosystems

What happens when humans continue to pursue a capitalist economic system, that destroys vital oxygen-producing organisms from phytoplankton, to trees in fragile rainforest ecosystems? That is an easy one, yeh. The result would be a decreasing supply of oxygen in Earth's...

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