Archive for the 'environmental issue' Category
Cell Phones and Radiation: 10 Best and 10 Worst
Posted on October 23, 2009 - Filed Under Environmental Problem, environment, environmental issue | 2 Comments
How much radiation does your cell phone emit? It’s easy to find out the answer thanks to the Environmental Working Group’s new online guide to cell phone emissions.
The non-profit research and advocacy group ranked over 1,000 different cell phones according to radiation levels. It looked at the publicly available, but difficult to find, specific absorption rate (SAR) [...]
What is Greenhouse Effect?
Posted on October 23, 2009 - Filed Under Environmental Problem, environment, environmental issue | Leave a Comment
The greenhouse effect is the process in which the emission of infrared radiation by the atmosphere warms a planet’s surface.
The name comes from an analogy with the warming of air inside a greenhouse compared to the air outside the greenhouse.
The Earth’s average surface temperature is about 33°C warmer than it would be without the greenhouse [...]
A Tree’s Response To Environmental Changes: What Can We Expect Over The Next 100 Years?
Posted on October 15, 2009 - Filed Under Climate, Environmental Problem, Global Warming, environment, environmental issue | Leave a Comment
The many environmental issues facing our society are prevalent in the media lately. Global warming, rainforest devastation, and endangered species have taken center stage. Our ecosystem is composed of a very delicate network of interactions among all species and the non-living environment. Predicting how each component of this complex system will respond to the many [...]
Air Quality Improvements Over The Past Ten Years May Be A Factor In Fewer Ear Infections
Posted on October 12, 2009 - Filed Under Air Pollution, Environmental Problem, environmental issue | Leave a Comment
Strides in improving the nation’s air quality over the last decade may be a factor in fewer cases of ear infections (otitis media) in children. These results are according to new research presented at the 2009 American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO, in San Diego, CA.
The study, [...]
Noise Pollution Turning Blue Whales Deaf: Report
Posted on October 1, 2009 - Filed Under Environmental Problem, environmental issue | Leave a Comment
The world largest animal, the blue whale is slowly turning deaf due to increasing noise pollution in the ocean waters by humans, according to a new research.
The blue whales are suffering from hearing loss, they are being forced to increase their ’singing’ to cope with noise pollution and where displaying behavioural changes due to man-made [...]
Climate Mitigation Needn’t Stifle Development: Report Says
Posted on September 18, 2009 - Filed Under Climate, enviromental Problem, environmental issue | Leave a Comment
Countries can develop while curtailing climate change if they are ‘climate-smart’, the World Bank has said in a major new report.
The world need not make a decision between growth and prosperity or preservation, it argues in the latest edition of the authoritative World Development Report, so long as it takes action immediately, works together, and [...]
Australia Leads World in New Greenhouse Gas Pollution Index: Study
Posted on September 14, 2009 - Filed Under Air Pollution, environment, environmental issue | Leave a Comment
A new study has shown that Australians have overtaken Americans as the world’s highest per capita carbon dioxide polluters.
The global pollution report has been compiled by a British company, Maplecroft. Using U.S. Energy Department data it calculated that Australia’s per capita output of carbon dioxide at 18.66 metric tons a year, four percent higher [...]
Planet’s Ocean Surface Temperature Breaks Record for July
Posted on August 18, 2009 - Filed Under Climate, Environmental Problem, environment, environmental issue | Leave a Comment
The global ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for July, surpassing the previous high mark established in 1998, according to the latest analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville.
Global warming continues on land as well as at sea. The combined global land and ocean surface temperature for July 2009 was the [...]
Britain to Help China on Carbon Capture
Posted on May 4, 2009 - Filed Under enviromental Problem, environment, environmental issue | Leave a Comment
Britain will share the benefits of its investment in carbon capture and storage technology with China and other developing countries, the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, said.
The move may help Britain to belatedly meet its Kyoto protocol promise to pass on low-carbon technology to help poorer countries reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
However, questions may arise over how [...]
Global Warming Urgent Threat Clinton Warns Polar Nations
Posted on April 7, 2009 - Filed Under Climate, Global Warming, environmental issue | Leave a Comment
“Global warming has already had enormous effects on our planet, and we have no time to lose in tackling this crisis,” U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the first-ever joint session of the Arctic Council and the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, which opened its two-week conference.
In 1959, representatives from 12 countries came together in [...]
