Environment on Earth

   
Plant more and more trees. This is my little message to all those who read this post. Why we need to plant more trees? Because today one of the most serious issue we are facing is global warming. It becomes the biggest challenge for the scientists. Earth temperature is getting extreme glaciers are melting. According […]

Xerox Corp., marketer of hulking copy machines and reams of paper that get thrown out, thinks it has come up with a neat money-making mantra in an era of mounting environmental concerns: Less is more.
Xerox isn’t exactly a newcomer to sustainable ideas—it started double-sided printing in the late 1960s—but it is among the latest firms […]

In central California, the first of the field skipper sachem, a drab little butterfly, was fluttering about on March 12. Just 25 years ago, that creature predictably emerged there anywhere from mid-April to mid-May.
And sneezes are coming earlier in Philadelphia. On March 9, when allergist Dr. Donald Dvorin set up his monitor, maple pollen was […]

What do you do when the president behaves as if he is above science and the law? When it comes to environmental regulation, George W. Bush has repeatedly ignored both, and this country’s system of checks and balances has been powerless to stop him.
The latest outrage came last week when the Environmental Protection Agency released […]

Flooded roads and subways, deformed railroad tracks and weakened bridges may be the wave of the future with continuing global warming, a new study says.

Climate change will affect every type of transportation through rising sea levels, increased rainfall and surges from more intense storms, the National Research Council said in a report released.
Complicating matters, people […]

Previous estimates, including those used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, say the region that includes China will see a 2.5 to 5 percent annual increase in CO2 emissions, the largest contributor to atmospheric greenhouse gases, between 2004 and 2010. The new UC analysis puts that annual growth rate for China to at least […]

The private sector must be encouraged to help developing countries combat climate change now, before it becomes too severe to handle, the head of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) said.

Kemal Dervis said that while public transfers in form of official development assistance should be used to assist in “adaptation,” or protection against potential catastrophes, […]

Although some kinds of water pollution can occur through natural processes, it is mostly a result of human activities. We use water daily in our homes and industries, about 150 gallons per day per person in the United States. The water we use is taken from lakes and rivers, and from underground (groundwater); and after […]

Children should have a right to develop in an environment that allows them to reach their full potential. As adults, we have an ethical responsibility to provide a healthy and safe environment for our children. Yet somehow, we haven’t been able to provide that safe environment.
Children do not get to choose that a toy is […]

Recently, scientists surveyed about 850 square miles (about 220,000 hectares) of rain forest on Hawaii’s Big Island using remote-sensing devices aboard aircraft.
The instruments infiltrated the forest canopy to produce what looks like a three-dimensional “CAT scan” of the area.
“Our approach identifies species by their often-unique chemical and structural properties, both of which we can map […]