Month: July 2007

100th post !

After a little bit more than six months of blogging, here is the hundredth article. This will be the occasion for me to show the evolution of this blog. At first, I was using a totally different theme for this blog. But as it wasn’t really satisfying me, I switched to Praca Redux I still …

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Live Earth, the concerts for a climate in crisis

I must be the last person interested by ecology and climate change to write about THE event of this week-end. The Live Earth concerts, which will be held tomorrow around the world (in New York, London, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg, Shanghai, Hamburg, Tokyo and Sidney) are due to “ trigger a global movement to solve …

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Résumé du mois de juin 2007

Le mois de Juin fut assez riche en évènements au niveau écologique. Vous trouverez ici un résumé des articles que j’ai publié ce mois-ci sur ce site. On notera notamment que le gouvernement fédéral américain commence à changer de position vis à vis du changement climatique et que les émissions de CO2 ont légèrement diminué …

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Zooming in to the Pelican Nebula

As an astronomy enthusiast, I have a daily look since May at the APOD, the astronomy picture of the day from the NASA. On July 2nd, this page proposed a 30-second amazing and stunning video based on various photos of the Pelican Nebula, also referred to as IC 5070 by the specialists. If you are …

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A cultural break – June 2007

After a week of late, I propose you the cultural break of June. This month I will handle a very good film based on a Japanese anime, Cowboy Bebop. As the eponymous animated series, Cowboy Bebop the movie tells the tale of bounty hunters in 2071. This time, the four heroes are looking for a …

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Climate change reaching dangerous point

Another study on global warming was released recently. It concludes by saying that we got less than ten years to start decreasing the global greenhouse gases emissions. This one was done by NASA and the Earth Institute of the University of Columbia. According to the web page related to the article : “(…) research finds …

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Air pollution kills thousands every year in China

I came across a very disturbing fact via an article in the Financial Times. According to the World Bank, air and water pollution in Chinese large cities kill nearly 750.000 people every year. The government of the People’s Republic of China asked that a third of the report was erased in order to avoid “public …

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