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Tibetan glaciers are melting fast

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

If reports are to be believed, the Tibetan glaciers are melting faster than anyone thought, putting nearly a billion people living in South Asia in peril of losing their water supply.
Throughout India, China, and […]

Over 200 narwhal trapped in Canadian ice

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

At least 200 narwhal whales in Canada’s Arctic, trapped by winter ice that is setting in around them and facing starvation or suffocation, must be culled, officials have said.
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Warning system uses seabed sensors to stop another tsunami tragedy

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Indonesia has launched an early warning system that uses seabed sensors, land-based seismometers and satellite positioning equipment, to broadcast tsunami warnings within minutes of an undersea earthquake.
According to a report in the Times, the system is known […]

Carbon emissions turning oceans noisier

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

The big blue ocean is getting noisier, thanks to carbon emissions that have made the oceans more acidic.
Researchers have known for some time that acidity can influence the distance traveled by sound in seawater. In the 1970s, acoustic measurements showed that the reach of low-frequency sounds varies between oceans.
A whale’s call, for example, travels further […]

Arctic sea ice melts to 2nd lowest level

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Crucial Arctic sea ice this summer shrank to its second lowest level on record, continuing an alarming trend, scientists said Tuesday.
The ice covered 1.74 million square miles on Friday, marking a low point for this summer, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. Last summer, the sea ice […]

‘Web search for porn giving way to networking sites’

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Social networking sites are the hottest attraction on the Internet, dethroning pornography and highlighting a major change in how people communicate, according to a web guru.Bill Tancer, a self-described “data geek”, has analyzed information for over 10 million web users to conclude that we are, in fact, what we click, with Internet searches giving […]

Our planet `not at risk` from collider

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Our planet is not at risk from the world’s most powerful particle physics experiment, a report has concluded.
The document addresses fears that the Large Hadron Collider is so energetic, it could have unforeseen consequences.
Critics are worried that mini-black holes made at the soon-to-open facility on the French-Swiss border might threaten the Earth’s very existence.
But the […]

North Pole becomes an `island`

Monday, September 1st, 2008

It’s now a fact. The North Pole has become an “island” for the first time in history, courtesy global warming.
NASA’s satellite images have revealed that the melting ice has facilitated the opening up of both the north-west and north-east passages, making it possible for marine vessels to circumnavigate the Arctic ice cap.
In fact, the images […]

Flat-screen TV gases may be added to climate fight

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

New greenhouse gases emitted in making flat-screen televisions or some refrigerants might be capped under a planned U.N. treaty to combat global warming, delegates at U.N. talks in Ghana said on Friday.Emissions of the recently developed industrial gases, including nitrogen trifluoride and fluorinated ethers, are estimated at just 0.3 percent of emissions of conventional greenhouse […]

What are the steps to minimize the desktop power consumption?

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Where ever I’m reading about environment and climate change
I mostly found the big-big reports,charts and studies.
But can somebody help me to simplify this by creating some basic guidelines to follow in our day to day life and help to conserve our mother nature from the ground level?
 
Do you mean desktop - as in […]