Hundreds of Kuwaiti firefighters battled yesterday to contain a massive fire in a dump for used tires, with some members of parliament calling the huge blaze an environmental catastrophe. Firefighters from the national guard, the army, and the oil sector joined in the battle to put out the fire that was still raging 10 hours [...]
It’s almost here. The WWF‘s Earth Hour – an event that started in a single city and now reaches over 5,000 cities and towns. We only have one planet. You can help protect it. Participate this year in the world’s largest single campaign for the planet: WWF’s Earth Hour. It starts with a simple flick [...]
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Both sides have reached a settlement deal in the legal battle over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the largest in U.S. history. BP estimates that it will need to pay approximately $7.8 billion in the Deepwater Horizon disaster settlement. “The proposed settlement represents significant progress toward resolving issues from the Deepwater Horizon accident [...]
The U.S Geological Survey has confirmed that radioactive fallout from the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan was measured in minimal amounts in precipitation in the U.S. in approximately 20 percent of 167 sites sampled in a nationwide study released earlier this week. The USGS led the study as part of the National Atmospheric Deposition [...]
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If you’re a tablet junkie or thinking about purchasing your first slate, tablets are dramatically affecting the way we live. From hospitals to schools, from our homes to remote villages in the poorest parts of the world, the planet is changing one tablet at a time. See the amazing infographic below for more. Provided by [...]
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There’s no doubt about it. America is a car country. People drive everywhere…and we all pay the price. Transportation alone accounts for 20 percent of an American family’s budget, the second largest cost after housing. A sedentary lifestyle doesn’t just kill our pockets either, it kills US. After tobacco, inactivity-related diseases are the number one [...]
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Santa knows whether or not you’ve been good girls and boys, but he seems pretty clueless when it comes to the environment. Did you know that Santa Claus uses as much carbon as Qatar does in one year? We all like getting toys on Christmas morning, but perhaps there’s a better method of delivery, eh [...]
Seven billion people matter. Recently, the population on our little planet hit 7 billion people. We’re clearly stretching our resources to capacity and the global population is still exploding. Society as a whole is changing in some amazing ways and people are living much longer. So what does all this mean? Find out in the [...]
Oil from a container ship grounded off the coast of New Zealand has begun leaking, with some of it washing ashore in a popular surfing beach resort area. Birds are now becoming contaminated by the slick and local residents are angry. Concerned citizens tried to clean up the mess, but officials warned people not to [...]
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Look…up in the sky…it’s a bird…it’s a plane…oh, it’s just NASA‘s P-3B research plane. That’s right, Maryland. NASA will be measuring the air quality over our great state today, according to the Baltimore Sun. The space agency is will be taking air quality samples as part of its DISCOVER-AQ air quality field campaign. The special [...]
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Here’s one that came in to us via email. Check out this bizarre sneak preview from the Power Episode of #hungrybeast at 9:30 p.m. ABC1 Wednesdays. In the media landscape there are climate change deniers and believers, but rarely are those speaking about climate change actual climate scientists. “Yo….we’re climate scientists.. and there’s no denying [...]
Is global warming to blame for this? Has the greenhouse effect gotten so bad that large bodies of ice are being turned into giant penises? This massive cockberg was spotted and photographed in the Bransfield Strait near Antarctica. How long will it be before our seas are overrun with a flotilla of giant ice schlongs? [...]
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