Climate

The tiny islands leading the green transition
ust off the north coast of Northern Ireland, in the chilly waters of the Atlantic, lies a tiny, L-shaped island called Rathlin. It is home to around 160 people. Mains electricity only arrived on Rathlin in the early 1990s, with the construction of three wind turbines. One islander enthused to local media about the benefits it would bring – she would no longer have to light a candle when getting up to feed her baby in the middle of the night.
By Fra Tusha3 years ago in Earth
The mystery of Mexico's vanishing stream oaks
y the banks of a seasonal riverbed in north-western Mexico, a collection of towering, gnarled oak trees stand guard. These trees descend from ancestors that lived more than 50 million years ago and their species has faced, and survived, any number of challenges.
By Baru Ku3 years ago in Earth
The rush to claim an undersea mountain range
One of the most mysterious mountain ranges in the world is not visible on any ordinary map. You can’t see it on the most popularly used flat map of the world, the Mercator projection, or on the Peters projection that is a popular (and more accurate) alternative. On a spinning globe, the plastic axle at the North Pole often covers it up, as if there’s nothing to see.
By Baru Ku3 years ago in Earth
The factories turning West Africa’s fish into powder
unjur, a town of some 15,000 people, sits on the Atlantic coastline of southern Gambia, the smallest country on the African continent. During the day, its white-sand beaches are full of activity. Fishermen steer long, vibrantly painted wooden canoes, known as pirogues, toward the shore, where they transfer their still-fluttering catch to women waiting at the water’s edge.
By Udley3 years ago in Earth
How the world's deepest shipwreck was found
On 23 October 1944, the first engagements of a gigantic naval battle began in Leyte Gulf, part of the Philippine Sea. It was the biggest in modern human history.
By Holy horse3 years ago in Earth
The record-breaking dive under the Arctic ice
On 3 August 1958, the commander of the world's first nuclear submarine made an extraordinary, if somewhat tongue in cheek, entry in his logbook: "Embarked following personage at North Pole…" wrote USS Nautilus commander William Anderson, "…Santa Claus, affiliation: Christmas."
By Udley3 years ago in Earth
The mysterious disappearance of the world's longest shrubbery
n a second-hand bookstore in London, in late 1994, author Roy Moxham made a discovery that would consume the next three years of his life. Wedged in the footnotes of a colonial-era book published in 1893 that he had just purchased, was a fascinating, long-forgotten piece of Indian history.
By Baru Ku3 years ago in Earth
The Perishing Kelp
Scientists are increasingly alarmed that the kelp forests world wide are dying out at a disturbing pace. It appears that the kelp forests are 93 percent smaller on the California coast than before because of warmer waters resulting in a population increase of urchins which feed on the kelp.
By Sinha Ceni3 years ago in Earth
Types of Environmental Remediation
The Environmental Protect Agency and other federal and state agencies have over twenty-year experience managing the environmental reclamation and site remediation activities at mine and industrial sites. Since this time they have developed, tested and deployed multiple cleanup technologies that have proven successful in the cleaning up of polluted mine and processing sites.
By Sinha Ceni3 years ago in Earth
Climate change
Today, more and more harmful human activities around the globe have become a threat to the natural environment, its biodiversity and the longevity of human generation. Therefore, as humans, we have to find global solutions to overcome these environmental problems. Hence, in my first post, I would like to bring you through hot topics on global environmental problems. They are Global warming, depletion of the ozone layer, Acid rains and Desertification.
By Miley3 years ago in Earth
How Greenhouse Gases Affect the atmosphere
Recent wildfires all over the world including Australia, United States and Canada etc., droughts in Africa, USA and worldwide have been occurring and increasing in frequency and intensity for decades. Major cities In Asia and other countries now have air pollution at toxic levels, and around the world- pollution and water temperatures have increased to levels where marine life is at risk of becoming extinct making it abundantly clear that climate change is affecting every aspect of life on earth. Climate change has reached the point where if action is not taken the entire world will soon be in jeopardy of mass extinction.
By Fester Hammer3 years ago in Earth
Do the Government’s climate objectives really matter?
Do the Government’s climate objectives really matter? Yes! But not to them. Before I start this article I would like to foreshadow for you its following contents much like Shakespeare at the beginning of Romeo and Juliet. Although I don't foreshadow two star crossed lovers taking their lives, I do say the Government's distant relationship with the climate emergency could spell an unfortunate Romeo and Juliet type ending.
By Miley3 years ago in Earth