Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
The Forestry Administration has teamed up with the Cambodian Wildlife Conservation Society and Forest Carbon Asia to develop a large-scale REDD project in eastern Cambodia. The project will eventually cover three million hectares in Cambodia, forestry administration spokesman Thun Sarah told the Post. “This is the best way for Cambodia to preserve all its protected
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
Foresight’s two year study into Migration and Global Environmental Change has examined how changes in environmental conditions such as flooding, drought and rising sea levels will influence and interact with patterns of global human migration over the next 50 years. These patterns of human movement, 75 per cent of which is inside national borders, will
Monday, November 7th, 2011
Vietnam is a narrow and long country lying along a north/south axis. The Country has multitudinous climatic and geological conditions. Therefore, Vietnam has a relatively higher risk of the incidence of natural disasters in the world. Particularly, typhoons and floods and other hydrological events are serious problems. Losses from these natural disasters are nearly 1.5%
Saturday, November 5th, 2011
A rift has formed in the shelf of floating ice in front of the Pine Island Glacier (PIG). The surface crack in the PIG runs for almost 30km (20 miles), is 60m (200ft) deep and is growing every day. US space agency (Nasa) researchers expect the eventual iceberg to cover about 880 sq km – an area
Friday, November 4th, 2011
NASA’s airborne expedition over Antarctica this October and November has measured the change in glaciers vital to sea level rise projections and mapped others rarely traversed by humans. Operation IceBridge, nearing completion of its third year, is the largest airborne campaign ever flown over the world’s polar regions. Bridging a gap between two ice elevation
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced its final research plan on hydraulic fracturing. At the request of Congress, EPA is working to better understand potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources. Natural gas plays a key role in our nation’s clean energy future and the Obama Administration is committed to ensuring
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Giant “Mountain Chicken” frogs, the 25 million bird island, and a rainforest the size of Portugal are increasingly threatened by the impacts of climate change and in need of greater protection, according to a new report published by IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature).
Monday, October 31st, 2011
As the global population surpasses 7 billion people sometime around the end of October, addressing the challenges associated with a still-growing world population will require a two-pronged response, according to experts with the Worldwatch Institute. The combined measures of empowering women to make their own decisions about childbearing and significantly reducing global consumption of energy
Monday, October 31st, 2011
Industrialized nations emit far less carbon dioxide than the Third World, according to latest evidence from Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Global warming alarmism is turned on its head and the supposed role of carbon dioxide in climate change may be wrong, if the latest evidence from Japan’s scientists is to be believed. Read More
Sunday, October 30th, 2011
Serbian citizens consider that the country has made major development in environmental area, which has also been confirmed by the Serbian European Integration Office SEIO research. As a result of a research that has been conducted in the period of time between June 16, 2011 and June 23, 2011, 14 percent of the citizens have
