Every day, we use materials from the earth without thinking, for free. But what if we had to pay for their true value: would it make us more careful about what we use and what we waste? Think of Pavan Sukhdev as nature's banker -- assessing the value of the Earth's assets. Eye-opening charts will make you think differently about the cost of air, water, trees ... Read more...
The more humanity acidifies and warms the world's oceans with carbon emissions, the harder we will have to work to save our coral reefs. That’s the blunt message from a major new study by an international scientific team, which finds that ocean acidification and global warming will combine with local impacts like over fishing and nutrient runoff to weaken the world's coral reefs right when they are struggling to survive. It is found that reefs already over fished and affected by land runof Read more...
Today is World Water Day! World Water Day is an international day to celebrate freshwater and a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater. The United Nations General Assembly designated 22 March of each year as the World Day for Water by adopting a resolution. This year theme, Water for cities: responding to the urban challenge, aims to spotlight and encourage governments, organizations, communities, and individuals to actively engage in addressing the challenges of urban water Read more...
Rivers in the world are under severe threat despite decades of attention to pollution control and investments in environmental protection.Rivers of the world least at risk are those where human populations are smallest. Rivers in arctic regions and inaccessible areas of the tropics appear to be in the best health. Nearly 80 percent of the world's human population lives in areas where river waters are highly threatened posing a major threat to human water security and resulting in aquatic environ Read more...
Global Warming
