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UN
head says world will run out of water
Underground water supply dropping at
much larger rate
China running out of water
Fish have been migrating towards
the poles for 30 years
- Climate change will displace hundreds
of millions
-
- Large environmental organizations
scared of dealing with population
The meaning of Manhattan's leaking
gas
Reducing work hours would do the
climate a big favor
Disposable chopsticks harming
China's forests
Does lead cause crime?
Costa
Rica takes recycling seriously
Canada considers environmental activists
terrorists
Making the recycled radioactive
2012...
EPA issues new rules for fine
particle pollution
Things About the Earth We're in
Denial About
1,300
Acres of Wetlands Proposed for Destruction in Northeast Minnesota
Tree
intercropping could save Africa's soils
6000
is the number of acres of
wildlands that disappear in our country every single day.
World Bank warns of economic effect
of climate change
Problems
we hadn't started worrying about yet
Man wins $7 million in popcorn
case
Cargo
sailing ships coming back
Silent spring, summer, fall and
winter
Nestle official says GMOs aren't
necessary
Rio +20 notes
Corporations poisoning the earth...
and our water
Protecting land and seas won't
be enough; biodiversity still collapsing
Report: Enough is Enough: Ideas for a Sustainable
Economy in a World of Finite Resources
UPPER LAYER OF ATMOSPHERE SHRANK FOR REASONS
UNKNOWN
LESSONS FROM ICELAND'S VOLCANO
A YOUNG GIRL'S THOUGHTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT
A FEW UNCOMFORTABLE ECO FACTS
WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF DIRT. . . AND WE NEED
IT
HOW NOT TO DEAL WITH THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS:
MAKE IT WORSE
DIVORCE IS BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
Animals,
birds & fish
One third of honeybee colonies
died or disappeared last winter
- World's most widely used insecticide
having dangerous effect
Sea lion pups washing up on Californkia
shore in alarming numbers
Massive loss of British butterflies
Millions of bees found dead in
Florida
Mutant toads cropping up in Australia
None
flew over the cuckoo's nest: A world without birds
80% OF MALE BASS FISH IN POTOMAC RIVER EXHIBIT
FEMALE CHARACTERISTICS
ALL FISH TESTED FROM U.S. STREAMS HAVE MERCURY
IN THEM
ARCTIC TERNS ARE WORLD'S MOST TRAVELED CREATURES
PANDAS COULD BE GONE IN A FEW GENERATIONS
ACID SEAS ATTACKING SHELLFISH, CORALS
85% OF WORLD'S OYSTER REEFS HAVE DISAPPEARED
TUNA COULD DISAPPEAR IN A FEW YEARS
WINTER BIRDS MOVING NORTH AS CLIMATE WARMS
Air
Air pollution out of control in Beijing
2012
Federal court rules in favor of clean
air action
European Union court rules U.S,
planes have to pay for emissions
Gas drilling gives Wyoming worse
smog than Los Angeles
Obama gives in to GOP and business
on smog rules
CITIES WITH THE CLEANEST AIR
Animals
Dealing with the overabundance
of deer
Arctic
& Antarctic
See climate change
Bird
and fish deaths
Books
World on the Edge:
How to Prevent
Environmental and Economic Collapse. By Lester Brown. Available
online
Revisiting Silent Spring
Why your editor remembers Silent
Spring
Buildings
THE IGNORED GREENNESS OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION
TEN MYTHS ABOUT BUILDING GREEN
Chemicals
BABIES EXPOSED TO 100 OR MORE CHEMICALS
BEFORE BIRTH
Climate
change
Climate change page
Coal
THE COAL SPILL THAT'S WORSE THAN EXXON VALDEZ
Corporations
Corporations staging major attack
on science
Drought
See
climate change
Education
TEN BEST COLLEGE ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS
Environmentalists
Passings: Barry Commoner
Fifty years of Silent Spring
Envronmental
groups
An environmentalist has had it
with the Sierra Club
ANTI-ENVIRONMENTALISTS ONLY ABOUT TEN PERCENT
OF POPULATION
MAJOR ECO ORGS CORRUPTED BY CORPORATE MONEY
EPA
EPA Fails to Protect Communities
from Cancer-Causing Air Pollution
CREW
Calls for Investigation of Secret EPA Email Accounts
What America looked like before
the EPA
A portrait
of the George Washington Bridge
in 1973 shot by Chester Higgins Jr.
Evolution
Only 28% of high school biology
teachers dare to stick with evolution
Extinction
& species loss
One third of honeybee colonies
died or disappeared last winter
Penguins disappearing
Extinction soaring in South American
forests
Study: Oceans' acidity caused
mass extinction
914 more species added to endangered
list
Two of best known penguin species
in trouble
American bumble bees in sharp
decline
SPECIES DISAPPEARING AT EXTRAORDINARY RATE
ONE IN FIVE PLANT SPECIES THREATENED WITH
EXTINCTION
BRITISH BIRDS ON FARMS DROP BY MORE THAN
HALF IN FOUR DECADES
BIG BEASTS DISAPPEARING FROM AFRICAN PARKS
SNAKES DISAPPEARING IN FIVE COUNTRIES
IT'S NOT JUST ANIMALS THAT ARE GOING EXTINCT
CELLPHONES CITED AS POSSIBLE FACTOR IN LOSS
OF BEES
17% OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS IN DECLINE
BEE COLONIES DECLINE BY ONE THIRD; PESTICIDES
MAIN SUSPECT
ONE IN FIVE MAMMALS THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION
FOR FIRST TIME, EXTINCTION OUTPACING EVOLUTION
SEVENTY PERCENT OF PLANTS, 20% OF MAMMALS,
IN DANGER OF EXTINCTION
OUT OF NO LITTLE ACORNS, BIG QUESTIONS GROW
CLIMATE CHANGE MAY KILL OFF KANGAROOS
FIREFLIES REPORTED DISAPPEARING
QUARTER OF WORLD'S MAMMALS THREATENED WITH
EXTINCTION
EARTH MAY BE IN THE MIDST OF GREATEST EXTINCTION
EVER
ENVIRONMENTALISTS BELIEVE EPA IS HIDING
KEY INFO ON BEE PROBLEM
BUSH
REGIME FINDS WAY TO GUT ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF GORILLAS DISCOVERED
TWO THIRDS OF WORLD'S POLAR BEARS WILL DISAPPEAR
BY 2050
BUTTERFLIES ARE IN DECLINE. . . AND WHY
THAT MATTERS A LOT
BIODIVERSITY OF VERTEBRATES DROPPED BY NEARLY
A THIRD IN LAST 35 YEARS
EUROPEAN BIRD MIGRATION DROPS
BEEKEEPERS SUFFER 35% LOSS OVER WINTER
GIRAFFE POPULATION DOWN 30% IN DECADE
NEARLY HALF OF EUROPE'S COMMON BIRDS DISAPPEARING
GLOBAL WARMING COULD WIPE OUT HALF OF ALL
SPECIES
HUMANS LIVING BEYOND THEIR ECOLOGICAL MEANS
SPECIES EXTINCTION OCCURRING 1,000 TO 10,000
TIMES FASTER THAN EXPECTED
BUMBLEBEES MISSING IN ACTION: COULD HAVE
BIG EFFECT ON OTHER THINGS
Forests
Climate change has affected forests
globally
Climate Central - After looking at 226 tree species at 81
locations around the world, two dozen experts from around the
world have determined that fully 70 percent of trees are likely
to suffer if conditions get drier -” and it doesn't matter
whether those trees live in wet or dry habitats. Wh..
Amazon deforestration rate lowest
on record
Tree loss in Brazilian rainforest
has increased almost six fold
WiFi killing
trees, study finds
Photo Alberto
Cesar, Greenpeace
BRAZIL CUTS DEFORESTATION ALMOST 50%
ECUADOR COMES UP WITH UNIQUE PLAN TO SAVE
RAINFORESTS
BRAZIL DEFORESTATION RISES SHARPLY
NEW SATELLITE PHOTOS SHOW AMAZON DEFORESTATION
EXPLODING
AFRICA LOSING ONE PERCENT OF ITS FORESTS
EACH YEAR
Fracking
Fracking industry may be paying
off scientists
Vermont becomes first state to
ban fracking...
New Pennsyvania law requires doctors
to conceal facts about gas drilling
Recent earthquakes "almost
certainly manmade"
Ohio regulators find fracking
caused earthquakes
Former regulator warns of fracking
danger
EPA says fracking may cause water
pollution
Was Oklahama's earthquake due
to fracking?
Frackers admit they may have caused
earthquakes
Fukishima
Record radiation found in fish
off Fukushima
Fukishima workers told to hide
radiation level
More than a third of Fukushima
area children found to have growths
Fukushima
drift brings non native species to west coast
TSUNAMI
DEBRIS ARRIVES IN ALASKA
Genetic
modification
Genetic engineering has produced
super weeds, not super crops
SCIENTISTS CALL FOR GM REVIEW AFTER PEST
SURGE IN CHINA
WEEDS
ADAPT TO MONSANTO PESTICIDE CAUSING MAJOR PROBLEMS
TESTS SUGGEST HEALTH DANGERS IN GM CROPS
PRINCE CHARLES BLASTS GM FOOD
GM CROPS LESS PRODUCTIVE THAN NORMAL ONES
GM DANGERS NOT ISSUE IN U.S. LIKE IN EUROPE
SECRET FILES REVEAL BRITISH GOVERNMENT COLLUSION
WITH CORPORADOS OVER GM CROPS
NUTRIENT
VALUE OF MANY FOODS HAS DECLINED
Geo
engineeering
The scientific and moral hazards
of geoengineering
Health
ARE BOYS BEING ELIMINATED BY POLLUTION?
POLLUTION CONTRIBUTES TO 40% OF GLOBAL DEATHS
GETTING LEAD OUT OF YOUNG MAY HAVE CAUSED
DROP IN CRIME
Local
TREES BLOCKING NEIGHBOR'S SOLAR PANELS MUST
BE CUT
Mercury
EPA puts new controls on mercury |
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Natural
areas
A LAWYER'S VIEW OF NATURE
BUSH REGIME PLANS TO RUN POWER AND PIPE
LINES THROUGH PARKS & OTHER NATURAL AREAS
Non
profits
Big environmental groups in tight
with big anti-environmental corporations
Nuclear
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Japan talks about ending nuclear
power
US cutting nuke plant drills,
test evacuations
Vermont challenges nuke plant
license renewal
Japan has no nuclear power for
first time in 42 years
How close are we to an American
Fukushima?
NRC approves two nuclear plants
despite growing Fukushima concerns
Radiation at Fukushima worse than
thought
Japanese considered evacuating
Tokyo after nuclear disaster
Temperature rises myteriously
at Fukushima
Bird population collapsing near
Fukushima
Japanese government concealing
facts about Fukushima
Federal judge says states can't
protect themselves against nuclear plants
Study: Fukushima meltdown caused
American deaths
Feds looking for replacement site
for Yucca Mountain. . . maybe in your state
American nuke plants not ready
for Fukishima type event
British government conspired with
nuke industry to play down Fukushima
Britain prepared for Fukushima
to be worse than Chernobyl
What the media doesn't tell you
about American nuclear power
Germany to close all nuclear plants
by 2022
Into Eternity:
Documentary
on the making of a nuclear waste facility
Huge increase in ocean radiation
near Japan
Map of earthquakes and locations
of nuke plants
Organs of
dead British nuclear workers removed to hide evidence
AMERICAN NUCLEAR 'RENAISSANCE' COLLAPSING
PLANNED NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS WOULD BE BUILT
WITH FOREIGN LABOR
OBAMA PLANS NUKE PLANT NEAR EXISTING ONE,
FURTHER ENDANGERING POOR BLACK COMMUNITY
VERMONT VOTES TO SHUT DOWN NUCLEAR PLANT
THE DANGERS AND POLITICS OF OBAMA GOING
NUCLEAR
OBAMA
THROWS CAUTION TO THE WINDS,LAUNCHING FIRST NEW NUKE PLANTS IN
30 YEARS  MEANWHILE
AT THE OLD NUCLEAR PLANTS
OBAMA CANCELS NUKE PROMISE; BACKS HUGE SUBSIDIES
FOR DANGEROUS ENERGY
OBAMA, BIG BUSINESS WANTS TO NUKE US
BRIT NUKE SAFETY BODY SAYS PLANNED PLANTS
AREN'T SAFE
THE HIDDEN STORY OF THREE MILE ISLAND
RECOVERED HISTORY: THREE MILE ISLAND
STUDY PROJECTS HYPER COSTS FOR NEW NUCLEAR
POWER
OBAMA'S NUKE BUDDIES JOIN WITH FRENCH FIRM
TO COOPERATE "ON NUCLEAR POWER MATTERS."
OBAMA AND NUCLEAR POWER
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Architecture
2030 -
Architecture 2030 - 12,954 Nuclear
Power Plants - That's how many nuclear plants the world would
need to build to replace its current fossil-fuel-based energy.
Even if it was physically possible to build this many plants
within the seven-year timeline set by scientists to avoid dangerous
climate change (it takes 8 to 12 years to get a nuclear plant
on-line), the cost would be astronomical. At $6 billion per plant
(a conservative figure), 12,954 plants would cost $77.72 trillion
- more than the total Gross World Product of $65.95 trillion. |
NUKE EQUIPMENT FIRM SAYS YUCCA MOUUNTAIN
IS 'FOOL'S ERRAND'
THE CASE AGAINST NUCLEAR POWER
YUCCA MOUNTAIN PROJECT SCALED BACK
EDWARDS ONLY TOP DEM WHO OPPOSES NUCLEAR
POWER
PUSH ON FOR NUCLEAR PLANTS
STUDY
FINDS EARTHQUAKE FAULT LINE UNDER YUCCA MOUNTAIN
Oceans
NOAA predicts sea level rise of
up to
six feet by 2100
66 Corals Declared Endangered
Due to Global Warming, Ocean Acidification
Great Barrier Reef has lost over
half its coral since 1985
Study; sea rise may be worse than
expected
Scientists find drastic slowdown
in reproduction rate of micro plants in Maine waters
Maine lobsters
prematurely shedding
their shells
The danger of ocean acidification
Chesapeake Bay has huge dead zone
Ten dirtiest beaches in America.
. .
ATLANTIC OCEAN FOUND TO HAVE HUGE GARBAGE
PATCH
OIL SPILL CREATING HUGE UNDERSEA DEAD ZONES
NW PACIFIC OCEAN DEAD ZONE MAY BE PERMANENT
OCEAN DESERTS BECOME MORE BARREN
PLACES THREATENED BY SEA LEVEL RISE TAKES
ON GLOBAL WARMING
DEAD ZONES BECOME MAJOR OCEAN PROBLEM
DECLINE IN OCEAN OXYGEN FOUND
SUNSCREENS MAY BE BLEACHING CORAL REEFS
ONLY ABOUT 4% OF OCEANS UNDAMAGED BY HUMANS
THE PACIFIC'S GARBAGE PATCH
LA TIMES SERIES ON THE ALTERED OCEAN
OCEANS FOUND TO BE ABSORBING FAR LESS CARBON
DIOXIDE
Oil
& gas
"Natural gas" means
"fracking"
Pennsylvania bars doctors from
telling patients about dangers of fracking
More drilling doesn't cut oil
prices
Oil & gas lobbyist threatens
Obama with political retribution over pipeline
Koch Brothers huge winners if
tar sands pipeline goes through
OFFICIAL ESTIMATES OF OIL UPPED TO PLEASE
AMERICANS SAYS WHISTLEBLOWER
EXPERT: OIL SUPPLY RUNNING OUT FAST
OILFIELD OUTPUT DECLINING FASTER THAN THOUGHT
DRILLING FOR OIL: WHAT BENEFIT?
OUR
OIL PAGE
Pesticides
Controversy deepens over bee deaths
and pesticides
PESTICIDES LINKED TO HYPERACTIVITY
LINK BETWEEN PESTICIDES AND PARKINSON'S
DISEASE FOUND
HARMFUL PESTICIDES FOUND IN EVERYDAY FOOD
PRODUCTS
Politics
BRITISH CAP & TRADE TURNS INTO A SCAM
EPA DISSES CONGRESS' ORDER TO RESTORE ITS
LIBRARIES
SURVEY:
NEARLY
HALF OF EPA SCIENTISTS REPORT POLITICAL INTERFERENCE
18 STATES SIGN PLEDGE TO PRESSURE FEDS ON
CLIMATE CHANGE
PRIVATE EYE FIRM SPIED ON ENVIRONMENTAL
GROUPS
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In 2007, the top Sunday TV hosts asked
presidential candidates 2275 questions. Only three mentioned
global warming. – League of Women Voters |
REPORT DETAILS BUSH'S MANIPULATION OF CLIMATE
CHANGE INFORMATION
Preservation
THE IGNORED GREENNESS OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Recycling
STORES THAT RECYCLE
RECYCLING EVERYTHING FROM A TO Z
TEENAGER'S SCIENCE FAIR PROJECT MAY DELIVER
US FROM PLASTIC
FDA SHRUGS OFF MAJOR CONCERN OVER PLASTIC
BOTTLES
CHINA BANS PLASTIC BAGS
SEATTLE A LEADER IN RECYCLING
Renewable
energy
CHU WANTS WORLD'S ROOFS PAINTED WHITE TO
EASE CLIMATE CHANGE
EXPERTS BEGINNING TO QUESTION WHTHER RENEWABLE
ENERGY IS ENOUGH CHANGE
USING HOT ASPHALT TO PROVIDE ENERGY
TWENTY SOMETHING FINDS CHEAP WAY OF MAKING
SOLAR CELLS IN PIZZA OVEN
ENERGY FROM PAVEMENT HEAT
BIOFUELS PRODUCE MORE GREENHOUSE GASES
THAN FOSSIL FUELS
WHY RENEWABLE ENERGY IS NOT ENOUGH
Stats
@Harpers
-
Percentage of the 84,000 chemicals used commercially in the U.S.
that are kept secret under federal law: 20
Sustain
yourself
SUSTAIN
YOURSELF PAGE
Transportation
PORTUGAL PLANS 1300 ELECTRIC CAR CHARGING
STATIONS
VOLKSWAGEN WORKING ON 235 MPG CAR
1,445.7 MILES ON ONE TANK OF GAS
US LAGS IN WORLDWIDE BICYCLING BOOM
STUDY LINKS INCREASING FUEL COSTS TO STEEP
DROP IN TRAFFIC FATALITIES
COMPRESSED AIR WOULD POWER 100 MPG CAR UNDER
DESIGN
YOU KNOW THINGS ARE CHANGING WHEN TEXANS
START DRIVING ELECTRIC CARS
17 NEW ELECTRIC CARS
LIVING IN DENSE NEIGHBORHOOD CAN SAVE UP
TO $2000 A YEAR IN GAS
OLD AIR TECHNOLOGIES GET A NEW LIFE
WORLDWIDE, BIKING IS UP
STUDY SHOWS BIG IMPACT OF ROAD TRANSPORTATION
ON ENVIRONMENT
FOUR MORE EUROPEAN CITIES GO FOR CONGESTION
PRICING
THE ECO SOLUTION THAT DARES NOT SAY ITS
NAME. . . IN AMERICA, AT LEAST
Trees
FALL COLORS MAY BE DICTATED BY KIND OF SOIL
Water
IRS targeted tea party groups
earlier than 2012 & senior officials knew it
More than half of nation's rivers
and streams are polluted
Winter fails to bring new water to
west
America's massive water crisis
Town bans bottled water
2012
The future of water
Water battles grow
Carribean coral reefs losing most
of their coral
A close look at the Texas
drought
Oceans turning acidic faster than
in past 300 million years
Report: Water bills to soar
EPA slashes funds for water testing
Waste water can be turned drinkable
Water demand will outstrip supply
in 20 years
Study finds poisonous chemical
in drinking water of 35 cities
World Bank helping corporations
seize public water
AMOUNT OF FRESH WATER IN OCEANS
INCREASING
SOME STATES THINK THEY OWN RAIN
WATER
ONE THIRD OF U.S. COUNTIES FACE
WATER SHORTAGE
PROBLEMS AND POSSIBLITIES WITH
OUR WATER SUPPLY
TOWN BANS SALE OF BOTTLED WATER
STUDY FINDS LACK OF FISH MEANS
FISHING MUCH HARDER THAN IN 19TH CENTURY
3.5 MILLION DIE EACH YEAR BECAUSE
OF POLLUTED WATER
WATER SHORTAGES MAY HIT NORTHERN
ROCKIES
YEMEN COULD BE FIRST COUNTRY TO
RUN OUT OF WATER
BOLIVIAN CAPITAL MAY FACE WATER
SHORTAGE
WHY
IS WATER FEMINIZING FISH AND ARE WE NEXT?
CHICAGO CONSIDERS PRIVATIZING
WATER
MERCURY FOUND IN EVERY FISH TESTED
IN 291 STREAMS
WATER WARS IN MONTANA
OVER A BILLION PEOPLE LIVE IN
WATER SCARCE AREAS
TEXAS FACING WORST DROUGHT IN
A HALF CENTURY
BHOPAL: 30 MINUTES OF WATER EVERY
OTHER DAY
CRITICAL WORLD RIVERS LOSING WATER
ALMOST HALF THE WORLD FACES WATER
SHORTAGE BY 2030LIFORNIA
DECLARES WATER EMERGENCY
MAINE TOWN PUTS ITS WATER IN COMMON
TRUST
LAKE MEAD: THE GLOBAL WATER CRISIS
COMES HOME
WATER RATIONING IN CALIFORNIA
NOW, PEAK WATER
IS NATURAL GAS DRILLING ENDANGERING
U.S. WATER SUPPLIES?
HOW MUCH WATER ARE YOU REALLY
USING?
IN FACE OF WATER SHORTAGES, TOILET
TO TAP RECYCLING PLANS GROW
U.S. NEARING LIMITS OF WATER SUPPLY
A FUTURE OF WATER WARS?
WHY DRINKING BOTTLED WATER ISN'T
THE ANSWER TO DRUG POLLUTION IN STREAMS
AMERICA'S WATER POLLUTED BY VAST
ARRAY OF DRUGS
BOTTLED WATER 'MORALLY UNACCEPTABLE
ASIAN COUNTRIES COULD FACE MASSIVE
WATER CRISIS
STUDY SUGGESTS INDIA HAS VASTLY
OVERESTIMATED AVAILABLE WATER
Weather
ATLANTIC HAVING MOST HURRICANES
IN A THOUSAND YEARS
TORNADOES WAY OVER NORMAL
Wind
power
Denmark aims to get 50% of electricity
from wind power
WIND POWER CAUSING PROBLEMS FOR
NEARBY RESIDENTS
REPORT: OFFSHORE WIND POWER COULD
QUADRUPLE U.S. ELECTRIC GENERATION
WIND POWER SOARS BUT SO DO COMPLAINTS
WIND POWER BLOWING IN NEW JOBS
WIND TURBINES TOO CLOSE TO HOMES
CAN CAUSE MEDICAL PROBLEMS
FLOATING WIND TURBINES COULD GIVE
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY A BOOST
SHIPS TO BE POWERED BY KITES
AN EARLIER EXAMPLE
FILMS: Windfall, a critical look at the
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Percent decrease in the incidence of
the terms “global warming” and “climate change”
in major newspapers in 2011: 33 - #HarpersIndex
AVERAGE SUMMER TEMPERATURE
RECORDS
2009
WHAT THE PENTAGON'S DUMPING IN
YOUR OCEANS
The USDA 2007 Census of Farms reports a net increase of 75,810 US farms in 2007.
USDA says, "Compared to all farms nationwide, these new
farms tend to have more diversified production, fewer acres,
lower sales and younger operators who also work off-farm."
The Census observes an acceleration of the trend towards larger
numbers of small farms, and more very large farms. The average
income of farmers is around $34,000 with less than half that
coming from the farm itself.
THE WORLD'S TEMPERATURE
NASA - Calendar year 2008 was the coolest year
since 2000, according to a NASA analysis of worldwide temperature
measurements, but it was still in the top ten warmest years since
the start of record-keeping in 1880. The 10 warmest years have
all occurred within the 12-year period from 1997-2008. The map
above shows global temperature anomalies in 2008 compared to
the 1950-1980 baseline period. Most of the world was either near
normal or warmer than normal. Eastern Europe, Russia, the Arctic,
and the Antarctic Peninsula were exceptionally warm (1.5 to 3.5
degrees Celsius above average). The NASA scientists attribute
the relative coolness of 2008 to the persistent La Nina.
2008
US ENERGY USE RISES FASTER THAN POPULATION
2007
EARTH'S TOP 10 WARMEST YEARS
1 - 2005
2 - 1998
3 - 2002
4 - 2003
5 - 2007
6 - 2006
7 - 2004
8 - 2001
9 - 1997
10 -1999
[NASA, USA Today]490
us
greenhouse gas emissions compared to other countries
WORLD RESOUCES INSTITUTE
2006
TOP SUSTAINABLE CITIES
FUEL CONSMPTION
PROGRESS REPORT = America spends
$200,000 a minute on foreign oil. Sixty-five percent of oil consumed
in the United States comes from foreign sources, up from 58 percent
in 2000. Each year, more than $25 billion for oil imports goes
to Persian Gulf states. Over the last 30 years, oil market disruptions
have cost the economy seven trillion dollars. Last year, 58 percent
of Americans said that high gas prices in 2005 caused them "serious"
or "moderate" hardship.
2002
FROM VITAL
SIGNS 2002, PUBLISHED BY THE WORLD WATCH INSTITUTE
HUMANS
TAKE UP 83% OF EARTH'S SURFACE TO DO THEIR THING
NY TIMES -
The United States is losing two acres of mostly prime farmland
every minute to development, the fastest such decline in the
country's history, a new study has found. That loss has been
on the edge of the outer suburbs, where some of the country's
best fruit farms are being replaced by houses on large lots,
linked by new roads, highways and malls, the study, by the American
Farmland Trust, said. . . Using census data as well as Agriculture
Department information about crops and soil, the study found
that more than half of the lost farmland is being carved into
10-acre lots. Arkansas, New York, Illinois, Alabama and Mississippi
top the list of states that have lost the greatest percentage
of their best farmland in the last five years.
POCKET PARADIGMS
SAM SMITH |
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The odds of something
happening at any
moment are not the same as the odds of something ever happening.
In ecological calculations - especially ones in which the downside
could ruin your whole millennium - it is the latter odds that
are important.
When confronted with
conflicting odds,
remember that you don't have to play the game. There are other
things to do with your time - or with the economy or with the
environment - that may produce better results. Thus, instead
of playing poker you could be making love. Or instead of getting
jobs from some air or water degrading activity, the same jobs
could come from more benign industry such as retrofitting a whole
city for solar energy.
Don't let anyone - in industry, government, or the
media - define an "acceptable level of risk" for your
own death or disease. They may not have the same vested interest
in the right answer as you do.
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ECOLOGY
FACTS
CLIMATE MAP
ECOLOGICAL
FOOTPRINT
EDF SCORECARD
GLOBAL
WARMINING LINKS
GLOBAL
WARMING MAP
ENDANGERED SPECIES
ENDANGERED
SPECIES II
POPULATION GROWTH
SCORECARD
SMOG
IN LARGEST CITIES
NEW
SCIENTIST ARTICLES ON CLIMATE CHANGE
TOP RATED ECO SENATORS
ECOLOGY
MEDIA
BLAZING
TATTLES
CLIMATE
PROGRESS
CONSCIOUS
CHOICE
DAILY
GREEN
ECOLOGIST
ECOSHOCK
ENVIRONMENTAL
NEWS NETWORK
NEW SCIENTIST
RESURGENCE
TREE HUGGER
VANISHING
BEE BLOG
ECOLOGY
GROUPS
ANTI-ENVIRONMENTAL MYTHS
CTR
FOR HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT & JUSTICE
CLEAR THE AIR
DEVELOPMENT
CTR FOR APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY
EARTH
ISLAND
EARTH POLICY INSTITUTE
ECOPLEDGE
ENVIROMENTAL DEFENSE FUND
ENVIRONMENTAL
WORKING GROUP
FRIENDS
OF THE EARTH
GLOBAL
WARMING EXHIBIT
GREEN
BUILDING SITES
GREEN
BUSINESS
GREEN
INFORMATION
GREENPEACE
GREEN SCISSORS
GREENWAY
INSTITUTE
FOR RESPONSIBLE TECHNOLOGY
LEAGUE
OF CONSERVATION VOTERS
PUB EMPLOYEES FOR ENV RESPONSIBILITY
SIERRA
CLUB
NATURAL
RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL
UN
ENVIRONMENTAL SITE
WILD AID
WILDERNESS
SOCIETY
WILD FIRE CENTRAL
WOMENS ENVIORNMENT DEVELOPMENT
ORGANIZATION
WORLDWATCH
Climate
Crisis
CLIMATE
ARK
GLOBAL WARMING
HEAT IS ON
Depleted
Uranium
MILITARY
TOXICS PROJECT
NATIONAL
GULF WAR RESOURCES CENTER
Extinction
& species loss
VANISHING
BEE BLOG
Food
AGRI
SURF
CORPORATE
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