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Giles Tremlett writes in The Guardian about vanishing sand beaches caused by rising sea levels in Spain. In a report for the Ministry of Environment Professor Raúl Medina prospects some areas will loose up to 5o meters until 2050. Around spain the sea lev ...>>

The United Nations will host "NorthSouthEastWest" until 12 October 2006. The exhibition originally opened in March 2005 in London as part of the British Council's global ZeroCarbonCity initiative, a two-year campaign to raise awareness and stimulate debate ar ...>>

Currently the Tunza International Children's Conference is hold in Malaysia at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre (PICC). The Conference is for children between the ages of 10 to 14. Participants are nominated by their schools and community organi ...>>

A new research, led by Dr Annette Menzel from the Technical University Munich in Germany and Dr Tim Sparks of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire focused on phenology - the timing of natural events. The analysis of 125,000 rec ...>>

What looks like fog over Amazon rainforest at first sight are hundreds of fires turning trees and oxygen into carbondioxyd. Switch between Landsat and Daily Terra layers to see what happened in some years, only. Satellite picture taken by Daily Terra, 2006 ...>>

The Climate Group, an independent, international operating nonprofit organization hightlights companies, countries, cities and regions in a report (summary) with a success story about reducing carbon emissions and gaining more profit or reducing costs. Hop ...>>

Greenland is the largest non-continental island in the world. The Greenland Ice Sheet holds about 2.85 million cubic kilometres of ice - 10% of the world's ice mass. About 81% of the surface is covered by ice and helps to preserve the global energy balance. Th ...>>

Above a certain point the CO2 concentration and temperature reduce the yields of seed grain crops. Hartwell Allen , ARS plant physiologist Joseph C. Vu, colleagues associated with the University of Florida-Gainesville and the International Rice Research Instit ...>>

Excessive power consumption, high traffic with unfiltered diesel fuel and coal-fired power plants affect the air quality in the 6,8 million city located in south-east China. Caused by smog Hong Kong has poor visibility 45 per cent of the time, sometimes ev ...>>

Today latimes.com starts a five parts interactive Flash presentation about the fundamental changes of the oceans. During his 5 years exploration Kenneth R. Weiss documented the impact of human civilisation like overfishing and nutrients influx. First part ...>>

NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, US) report about changes in the chemistry of the oceans when they absorb more and more CO2. Corals and other marine organisms that produce calcium carbonate skeletal structures will suffer when the oceans b ...>>

Environmental Defense a national nonprofit organization released a report with a focus on emmisions of CO2 caused by traffic in the U.S. In 2004 the amount from personal vehicles totaled 314 million metric tons. The transportation sector is responsible for abo ...>>

Yun Qian, Ruby Leung and colleagues of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA analyzed observation data from 500+ meteorological stations in all regions of China. The amount of the clear days in the period 1954 to 2001 have increa ...>>

Beijing's pollution index hits its highest measurement level Friday and authorities warned people to stay indoors as a murky grey haze settled over the Chinese capital. The Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau said pollution had hit the heaviest level on ...>>