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Global Warming For Dummies

Opinion Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor I work in Environmental Sciences (20 years) and I see a lot of stories and comments made by people who watch either a Politician - Rock Star or Hollywood...

Innovation Villages Tackling MDGs

With the deadline of 2015 fast approaching for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, and many believing they are far from being achieved, concrete examples now exist of villages who are achieving...

Sentinel-3 ESA’s Next Generation Satellite Scheduled to Launch in

Sentinel-3 satellite which is scheduled to launch in 2013 is the third in a series of five space missions European Space Agency (ESA) is developing for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative. The missions main objective is to determine the...

Activists Block Oil Sands Mine In Alberta

Greenpeace activists have shut down a 155,000 barrel a day operation in Shell's Albian Sands mine just north of Fort McMurray, which is located in northern Alberta, Canada. The 25 activists from Canada, the U.S....

Mercury Found In All US Fish

All wild fish in the United States contain mercury, according to a federal survey released August 19. The survey looked at over 1,000 fish from nearly 300 streams around the U.S, and found that they were all...

World Environment Day, June 5 2009: Your Planet needs you

World Environment Day is celebrated every year on June 5, and the theme for this year is 'Your Planet Needs You-UNite to Combat Climate Change'. Started in 1972 by the UN General Assembly, it marked the opening of...

Lighter wine bottles use less glass which helps the environment

Lighter wine bottles using 27 percent less glass than ordinary wine bottles, will go on sale for the first time ever in Australia this July.Banrock Station at Constellation Wines is starting the project, in the hope of reducing the impact on the environment and also...

2 'Probable' Cases Of Swine Flu In Newberry, SC

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC)  has identified two probable cases of Swine Flu in the small town of Newberry, South Carolina forty miles northwest of State Capital in...

Empire State Building to get a green makeover

The iconic Empire State Building in New York is set to get a $20 million green makeover, to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emissions the building puts out by 105,000 metric tons over the next 15 years. This is...

Pepsi starts testing green vending machines

Soft drink giant PepsiCo is starting to test their lastest environmental idea: green vending machines. These will hopefully reduce carbon footprints and electric bills. In Washington DC, 30 machines have been set up for testing, and Pepsi hopes to release them worldwide in...

Orca habitat in BC to be protected

The Canadian federal government yesterday voted to protect the critically endangered killer whale (Orca whale) habitat off the coast of BC, and environmental groups couldn't be happier. Canda has an act called the...

March 31st deadline to save BC's Great Bear Rainforest approaches

Three years ago the BC government made a promise to save what is known as 'the Great Bear Rainforest'; an area of old-growth trees in British Columbia that is playing key role in the ability to prevent climate...

Environmentalists disappointed by World Water Forum

This from an edie.net story:"NGOs have lashed out at what they see as a lack of progress at the World Water Forum in Instanbul last week, saying not enough countries are signing up to an international treaty that could secure water supplies in many parts of the world. ...

Cities join together to turn off lights for Earth Hour, March 28

March 28, 2009, cities around the world have pledged to take part in Earth Hour, when as much electricity is turned off as possible for one whole hour, to try and give the Earth and its resources a break. Earth Hour...

Exotic Diseases in the U.S. May Rise

We know about Dengue Fever, West Nile Virus and Lyme Disease - but have you heard of Leishmaniasis Disease, Chagas Disease and/or Chikungunya Virus? Probably not, unless you've been to places outside of the U.S....

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