Archive for March 8th, 2010
Dire water supply outlook for Western Australia
Australia’s top scientific research organisation says climate change is responsible for a sharp fall in Western Australia’s water resources and that the worst is yet to come. The CSIRO has released a report showing significant climate change since the mid-1970s has impacted on surface and ground water yields and rainfall over that time has dropped [...]
Posted: March 8th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature.
Tags: Climate Change, science, water shortages
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Huge island of rubbish floating off California
Oceanographers have found that a vast floating island of rubbish in the Pacific has doubled over a decade and is now nearly six times the size of Britain. The giant waste collection, known as the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” lies between California and Hawaii and has been gradually growing for 60 years. It contains everything [...]
Posted: March 8th, 2010 under General, Nature.
Tags: Pacific Gaia, plastic bags, plastic pollution
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Beached whales killed by ingesting plastic
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation Comment: – Although this incident occurred in December 2009 it came to our attention recently via a contact in the United States. As many will know we are endeavouring via the STOPlasticBags campaign to highlight how our profligate consumption of plastic bags impacts on our world. This is another stark example of [...]
Posted: March 8th, 2010 under Action Needed, General, Nature.
Tags: activism, natural systems, plastic bags, plastic pollution, plastics, StoplasticBags
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