Imagine A World Without Fish
Friday, September 4th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffDeadly Ocean Acidification -- Hard To Deny, Harder To Geo-Engineer, But Not Hard To Stop -- Is Subject Of Documentary Global warming is “capable of wrecking the marine ecosystem and depriving future generations of the harvest of ...
Imagine A World Without Fish
Friday, September 4th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffDeadly Ocean Acidification -- Hard To Deny, Harder To Geo-Engineer, But Not Hard To Stop -- Is Subject Of Documentary Global warming is “capable of wrecking the marine ecosystem and depriving future generations of the harvest of ...
The Bioluminescent Metropolis
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments Off[Image: "Lightning Bugs in York, PA," by tom.arthur, courtesy of a Creative Commons license]. While staying in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney for a few days last week, I managed to re-read W.G. Sebald's book The Rings ...
Biodiversity Hotspots: Certain Places Are Richer Than Others
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffConservation International's Biodiversity Hotspots page is worth a visit. It offers a good overview of why certain places are biologically richer than others, and why protecting those places is an important part of any plan to ...
Biodiversity Hotspots: Certain Places Are Richer Than Others
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffConservation International's Biodiversity Hotspots page is worth a visit. It offers a good overview of why certain places are biologically richer than others, and why protecting those places is an important part of any plan to ...
The EDGE of Existence
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffThe EDGE of Existence aims to spread awareness of the world's evolutionarily distinct and globally endangered animals, and build support for their protection. Their site is not only educational, it's beautiful and absorbing. Read more in the ...
The EDGE of Existence
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffThe EDGE of Existence aims to spread awareness of the world's evolutionarily distinct and globally endangered animals, and build support for their protection. Their site is not only educational, it's beautiful and absorbing. Read more in the ...
Encyclopedia of Life: A Comprehensive Guide to the World’s Species
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffThe EoL is an emerging online reference and research tool, which aims to compile existing databases and efforts, mix their data with other content gathered from a variety of sources, and then have experts edit the ...
Encyclopedia of Life: A Comprehensive Guide to the World’s Species
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffThe EoL is an emerging online reference and research tool, which aims to compile existing databases and efforts, mix their data with other content gathered from a variety of sources, and then have experts edit the ...
OpenStreetMap: Collaboratively Mapping the World
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffEven our minute migrations throughout our cities are now being recorded and studied. Using webtools such as OpenStreetMap, thousands of individuals are collaboratively mapping the entire world. OSM was created to provide free geographic data, such ...
OpenStreetMap: Collaboratively Mapping the World
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffEven our minute migrations throughout our cities are now being recorded and studied. Using webtools such as OpenStreetMap, thousands of individuals are collaboratively mapping the entire world. OSM was created to provide free geographic data, such ...
The Atlas of Hidden Water
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffAn Atlas of Hidden Water has been created to reveal where the world's freshwater aquifers really lie. "The hope," New Scientist reports, "is that it will help pave the way to an international law to govern ...
The Atlas of Hidden Water
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffAn Atlas of Hidden Water has been created to reveal where the world's freshwater aquifers really lie. "The hope," New Scientist reports, "is that it will help pave the way to an international law to govern ...
Atlas of the Real World
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffThe Atlas of the Real World by Daniel Dorling, Mark Newman, Anna Barford The latest book from worldmapper.org creators Daniel Dorling, Mark Newman and Anna Barford includes 366 digitally modified maps ‘depicting the ...
PLANET: Under a Green Sky
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffUnder a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future by Peter D. Ward Paleontologist Peter Ward warns us that "our world ...
Under a Green Sky: Exploring the True Magnitude of the Climate Crisis
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffUnder a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future by Peter D. Ward Paleontologist Peter Ward warns us that "our world ...
An Atlas of Radical Cartography
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffAn Atlas of Radical Cartography by Lize Mogel & Alexis Bhagat Far from being neutral accessories, maps are often used as instruments for controlling and shaping beliefs. Conversely, maps can also be at the ...
An Atlas of Radical Cartography
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffAn Atlas of Radical Cartography by Lize Mogel & Alexis Bhagat Far from being neutral accessories, maps are often used as instruments for controlling and shaping beliefs. Conversely, maps can also be at the ...
Miliband Delivers Message To Forest Tribes Deep In The Amazon
Monday, August 3rd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments Offby Tom Phillips Energy minister to meet Brazil's environmentalists, policy makers and people on the frontline of deforestation Halting deforestation is essential to preventing dangerous global warming, the energy and climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, has told indigenous ...
Mountaintop Mining Legacy: Destroying Appalachian Streams
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 Posted in Green News, Planet | Comments OffThe environmental damage caused by mountaintop removal mining across Appalachia has been well documented. But scientists are now beginning to understand that the mining operations’ most lasting damage may be caused by the massive amounts of ...