Monthly Archives: October 2009
Biodiversity Conservation Information
Biodiversity is a modern term which simply means ” the variety of life on earth”. This variety can be measured on several different levels.
Genetic – variation between individuals of the same species. This includes genetic...
Go Veggie And Save The Earth
The world must turn veggie if it is to prevent catastrophic climate change, a global warming expert warned yesterday.
Lord Stern of Brentford cited meat-eating as a major cause of greenhouse gases.
He claimed direct emissions of methane from...
Golden Ticket Encourages Recycling
Residents in Cambridge will soon find it easier and cleaner to recycle their glass, plastic, metal, and paper products. The Cambridge Council has announced that it will wheel out thousands of new bins for residents which will replace the old...
O2 Offers Mobile Phone Recycling
One of the fastest growing segments of the recycling is businesses dealing with the recycling of small electronic devices like mobile phones, cameras, and Mp3 players. According to a recent report, there are over ninety million unused mobile...
Glacial Melting May Release Pollutants Into The Environment
Those pristine-looking Alpine glaciers now melting as global warming sets in may explain the mysterious increase in persistent organic pollutants in sediment from certain lakes since the 1990s, despite decreased use of those compounds in pesticides,...
Urban Growth Versus Global Warming
Houses on stilts, small scale energy generation and recycling our dishwater are just some of the measures that are being proposed to prepare our cities for the effects of global warming.
A three-year project led by Newcastle University for the...
Download And Read E-book: Climate of Extremes
Is the weather truly getting worse? When it comes to global warming, dire predictions seem to be all we see or hear. Climatologists Patrick Michaels and Robert Balling Jr. explain why the news and information we receive about global warming...
Climate Change Threatens Rice Production
Once-in-a-lifetime floods in the Philippines, India’s delayed monsoon, and extensive drought in Australia are taking their toll on this year’s rice crops, demonstrating the vulnerability of rice to extreme weather.
Rice Today’s October-December...
Harvest And Save Water To Increase Crop Yields, Say Researchers
On-farm water management could increase global crop production by about one fifth, a modelling study by German and Swedish researchers indicates. However, even intensive water management on present cropland will not be sufficient to accommodate...
