Archive for 'Nature'
Where there is no sunlight, no food, frozen conditions – NASA finds complex life in Antarctica under the Ice Shelf
In a discovery at the bottom of the world that could have implications on the search for extraterrestrial life, researchers were astounded to find an amphipod swimming beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet.
The amphipod—a shrimp-like creature—was caught on video swimming 600 feet below the ice, where the NASA team expected to find no higher life [...]
Posted: March 18th, 2010 under General, Nature.
Tags: Antarctica, science
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Bluefin tuna ban proposal meets rejection – Sad day for a species
A proposal to ban international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, which is a sushi mainstay in Japan, has been rejected by a UN wildlife meeting.
Thursday’s decision occurred after Japan, Canada and many poor nations opposed the measure on the grounds it would devastate fishing economies.
Monaco tabled the plan at the meeting of the Convention on [...]
Posted: March 18th, 2010 under General, Nature.
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Aquatic ‘Dead Zones’ Contributing to Climate Change
As covered in the book ZERO Greenhouse Emissions ‘Since first recorded in 1970 ocean dead zones have been on a dramatic increase, doubling in each decade from recorded areas in the 90’s to 150 in 2003, some stretching 70,000 square kilometers. The United Nations reports over the following two years 2003–2005 estimates were of 200. [...]
Posted: March 17th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature.
Tags: pollution
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Rainforest 2 Reef
Rainforest2Reef: Carbon-offset Conservation is a short (7 minute) documentary about the non- profit Rainforest2Reef, and the importance of protecting standing forests to mitigate climate change.
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Posted: March 17th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature.
Tags: Rainforest destruction
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Trade meeting on threatened species
The only UN body with the power to ban trade in endangered animals and plants starts a triennial meeting in Doha on Saturday with bluefin tuna, African elephants and polar bears on the docket.
Besides the proposal to stop cross-border commerce in bluefin, fiercely contested by sushi-loving Japan, the 1975 Convention on International Trade in Endangered [...]
Posted: March 13th, 2010 under Action Needed, General, Nature, World News.
Tags: endangered wildlife, United Nations
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Climate Change and Sea Level Rise – Crock of the week
In the book Mother Natures Super Salesman put it like this; Excerpt
“During the summer of 2005 we got started on breaking some records for melting of the Greenland ice sheet. Offering to destabilize large parts of the ice sheet on timescales measured in years or decades, not millennia. Just to emphasize the point,” said the [...]
Posted: March 13th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Nature.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, greenland, Ice free Arctic, icesheet loss, science, sea level rise, West Antarctic
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Is there Life in a Sea of Plastic?
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation comment: Although this short 30 second presentation does not dwell on the toxicity of the plastic plague in our oceans, let us not forget that many of these plastics contain BPA now being recognised as a harmful carcinogenic toxin. We are now being warned about its effect, but who will warn the [...]
Posted: March 9th, 2010 under General, Nature.
Tags: plastic bags, plastic pollution, plastics, StoplasticBags
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Awakening with Nature
Over the coming weeks and months the Foundations very special guest contributor Lee Hiller, will share her rekindled love of all that makes our fight on Terra so essential that we win for future generations. The fragility of this ecosystem she is privileged to roam and share will inspire many. Thank you Lee!
When Bob Williamson [...]
Posted: March 9th, 2010 under General, Nature.
Tags: conservation groups, eco-systems, Nature
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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 by [...]
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 from plastic [...]
Posted: March 8th, 2010 under General, Nature.
Tags: Pacific Gaia, plastic bags, plastic pollution
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