Here are all the posts about the water and air quality, the recycling and other miscellaneous topics that are not in Sustainable development or Energy
Today is the World Day to Combat Desertification, an initiative raising awareness about this important phenomenon which decreases the amount of water, food and place available to both Nature and Mankind. As the UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner noted: “Land degradation threatens nearly a billion people in some 100 countries and it is estimated that …
In a recent article Franke James was wondering ” Why do we cover up the earth with impermeable materials that stop the rain from going into the ground and require expensive sewers? According to the Chicago Green Alleys Handbook quoted by Franke, unpaving our streets would bring many advantages such as reducing localized flooding, recharging groundwater …
Thanks to CleanTechnica I discovered a fantastic study from Yale University explaining that even the most polluted ecosystems can recover within our lifetimes. This should be a major call for action to our governments. Even if this is very good news for the environment as a whole, this doesn’t include climate change as greenhouse gases have a …
On June 5th, for World Environment Day, the French photographer Yann Arthus Bertrand released globally a brilliant environmental film, Home. It is available for free on Youtube in many languages. To the message carried by this film, we have ten years to change the way we live and avoid the worse with “the depletion of natural …
The billion tree campaign from the United Nations Environment Program announced it yesterday: four billion trees have been planted so far. This happens only a few months after reaching the three billion hallmark… After reaching the one billion mark in 2007, the UNEP decided to plant seven billion around the world before the Copenhagen meeting …
As the United Nations are gathering in Manado, Indonesia for the World Oceans Conference many websites published articles on corals, an important part of the oceans which are today at risk as oceans are warming inexorably. Indeed, warmer waters are due to destroy coral reefs and their rich ecosystems. To the WWF up to 100 …
The Amazon rain forest may lose 40 percent of its area even with the two degrees, lowest estimates of rising temperatures. These are the dramatic conclusions of a recent study carried out by UK Met Office. Three degrees Celsius would destroy up to 75 percent. This is a huge problem as the Amazon rain forest, …
Last month the French magazine Science et Vie [Fr] dedicated a series of articles to the earthquake risks induced by dams, mines, oil drilling and geothermal power. You might think that these activities are without seismic risk. But to their findings, around 200 earthquakes have been triggered by human activities so far. This can be …
These are the conclusions of a recent study carried out by two specialists from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and published in the International Journal of Epidemiology. This was the topic of an interesting article my dad sent me on how obesity is bad for climate change. That’s right, on top of …
By reading the RSS feed of the WWF I came across an information that I found staggering at a times where overfishing threatens globally our seas and oceans. (example: Bluefin tuna could disappear in 3 years) To the organization : “Nearly half of the world’s recorded fish catch is unused, wasted or not accounted for”. …
