 One Quarter Of Mammals Threatened One in four mammals in danger of disappearing because of habitat loss, hunting and climate change. The findings were presented at the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona. They are the most detailed study of mammals conducted by the conservation union in more than a decade. (10-06-2008) |
 Power Cars With Wind Power Plug-in electric and hybrid electric vehicles should be powered by electricity from wind power rather than using carbon emitting natural gas, as T. Boone Pickens has been advocating in television advertising. New car technology is matched by new wind-turbine technology, setting the stage for an automotive-fuel economy powered largely by cheap wind energy. The Energy Department notes that North Dakota, Kansas and Texas alone have enough wind energy to easily satisfy national electricity needs. (09-08-2008) |
 Shell Eco Ad Deemed Deceptive A British organization charged with regulating truth in advertising has criticized Shell's advertising about its planned exploitation of tar sands, an unconventional source of petroleum found in great quantity in Alberta, Canada. La pub écologique de Shell jugée «mensongère» Selon l'autorité britannique de régulation de la publicité (ASA), la publicité de Shell utilise le terme «ambigu» de développement durable sans donner «d'éléments qui montrent comment Shell maîtrise concrètement ses émissions de CO2 dans ses projets de sables bitumineux»... (08-14-2008) |
 Children Losing Touch With Natural World Children have lost touch with the natural world and are unable to identify common animals and plants, according to a survey. Sir David Attenborough warned that children who lack any understanding of the natural world would not grow into adults who cared about the environment. (08-03-2008) |
 Acidifying Oceans Endanger Coral Reefs Studies concerning the effects of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide on oceans has concluded that coral reefs are gravely endangered by the resulting acidification of the water. The reefs become soft and vulnerable because they are calcium-based and cannot withstand even subtle increases of acidity. (07-12-2008) |
 Sharks Disappearing Some shark populations in the Mediterranean Sea have completely collapsed, according to a new study, with numbers of five species declining by more than 96 percent over the past two centuries. (06-11-2008) |
 Starving Polar Bear Shot A polar bear believed to have swam approximately 200 miles was shot and killed by police in Iceland, although witnesses suggested that this was utterly unnecessary. (06-07-2008) |
 An Epidemic Of Extinctions Scientists say the current extinction rate is now up to 10,000 times faster than what has historically been recorded as normal. (05-17-2008) |
| Wildlife and environment already hit by climate change Global warming is disrupting wildlife and the environment on every continent, according to an unprecedented study that reveals the extent to which climate change is already affecting the world's ecosystems. Scientists examined published reports dating back to 1970 and found that at least 90% of environmental damage and disruption around the world could be explained by rising temperatures driven by human activity. (05-15-2008) |
 Polar Bears Elevated To Threatened Status While there are about 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears now in the Arctic, scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey predict two thirds of the world's polar bears will disappear in the next 50 years because of declines in Arctic sea ice. (05-14-2008) |
 Biofuels A Dead End Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) resulting from the burning of fossil combustibles are said by a vast body of scientists to provoke global warming and consequently climate change. (04-19-2008) |
| Gorillas Endangered By Mining In The Congo Within the Dem. Rep. of Congo as a whole, the U.N. Environment Program has reported that the number of eastern lowland gorillas in eight Dem. Rep. of Congo national parks has declined by 90% over the past 5 years, and only 3,000 now remain. (04-16-2008) |
 Guyanese Rainforest Saved In Groundbreaking Deal The agreement will secure the future of one million acres of pristine rainforest in Guyana, the first move of its kind, and will open the way for financial markets to play a key role in safeguarding the fate of forests. (03-27-2008) |
 Huge Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapses A chunk of Antarctic ice about seven times the size of Manhattan suddenly collapsed, putting an even greater portion of glacial ice at risk. This is the result of global warming, said a British Antarctic Survey scientist. (03-25-2008) |
 Americans Protest New Nuclear Plans Residents and environmental activists are in a bitter dispute with large U.S. energy corporations and the federal government over the safety of nuclear power, as more than a dozen corporations plan to, or have filed, paperwork to open new nuclear power plants, primarily in the U.S. South. (01-15-2008) |
| Arctic Sea Ice Melting Extraordinarily Fast Revised estimates suggest that summer sea ice in the Arctic may disappear as early as the summer of 2012, twenty-eight years sooner than was projected recently. What happens in the Arctic has implications for the rest of the world. Faster melting there means eventual sea level rise and more immediate changes in winter weather because of less sea ice. (12-11-2007) |
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