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UN: Mountain Glaciers melting at unprecedented speed
Do you know that mountain glaciers are typically only tens of meters thick, which are shrinking with an average speed of 60-70cm every year? More worryingly is the fact that the melting-pace of these glacier was reported three times higher in 2005..
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Top scientists meet in Paris, world awaits the New climate report
'Think globally, act globally', this is the call that has come from IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) scientists to the people living all round the world. Climate experts urged that it's high time that we have to acknowledge our...
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Do your cosmetics harm Animals ?
I don't just mean make up items, cosmetics include shampoos, body washes, sprays... and probably at least 5 items that you use daily. Many consumer products go through precise testing to make sure they are safe and healthy for people and the...
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Queensland's Drought-Parched to drink Purified Sewage
Queensland will become the nation's first to introduce recycled sewage to its drinking water, and the rest of Australia would follow suit as drought threatens water supplies around the nation. A referendum planned for March on the subject was...
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Millions to Go Hungry and Thirsty in The Future
The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is to be out in April, but a leaked draft in the hand of the Age is making serious headlines. It predicts dire consequences of a warmer world. Shortages in food and water, droughts, rising.
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Indonesia to see submersion of its 2,000 islands by 2030
With the 89 centimeters rise in the sea level( as expected)in the costal of Indonesia, a country that consists of 17,000 islands, would submerge its 2,000 islands by the end of 2030. These apprehensions were made by country's environment minister while..
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef Facing Extinction
This is what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is predicting. The culprit again is global warming; coral bleaching in the Barrier Reef is likely to become an annual occurrence by as early as 2030 due to warmer, more acidic...
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Athens Streets: Open Garbage Dump Ground
Athens, a city of four million people, produces 6,000 tons of trash daily. Since most garbage dump areas, that is land fills are brimming over, mountains of refuse have filled the streets in early January. A definite put down for a city famed for...
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China way short of its Environmental assurances
This country has a really fast economic growth, however, as far as improving and protecting the environment is concerned it lags way behind.It holds fast to its rank of the second largest producer of greenhouse gases after the US. Its inexorable...
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Marine Conservation High on Bush's Agenda
President Bush is calling for more federal dollars to conserve America's oceans and coastlines. In his fiscal plan for 2008, the president budgeted an additional $140 million to protect oceans, fish and ecosystems. John Connelly, president of the.
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Eight weird tree sculptures carved by nature
Plants and trees have excellent flexibility. They are capable of creating strange works of unintentional art that you just watch them bewildered. There are artists who have given meaningful shapes to trees such as of tables and mirrors. Tree sculptures ar
The Big Question: Are vertical farms really green?
Why we are asking this nowThe concept of vertical farming is receiving a number of positive as well as negative feedback, right from its inception. Many agriculturalists and socialists have analyzed the usefulness of this concept in the practical world. I
10 Innovative curtains designed to conserve energy
Curtains are primarily meant to avert sunlight and heat from entering our rooms. Draping over the windows and doors curtains secure us. Here we talk about ten innovative curtains that can conserve energy in various ways. There are curtains embedded with s
What’s Next: Future homes to eschew apocalypse
As we know it The claims of an apocalypse-like situation may be wrong. But, it can't be denied that millions of people around the world die every year because of natural disasters like earthquake, flood, tsunami and tornado. The world faces about 600 disa
