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
Science Magazine published an interesting article on how deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest provides only a temporary increase of living conditions to local populations. To the article: (…) on the basis of an assessment of 286 municipalities in different stages of deforestation, we found a boom-and-bust pattern in levels of human development across the […]
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Urban sprawl poses many problems in terms of infrastructures to maintain, increased energy consumption and last but not least important health and environmental issues. With the economic downturn and high energy prices, people are sometimes returning to the urban cores. This leaves empty houses and even districts. In some cases these suburbs are litterally bulldozed
The end of urban sprawl ? Read More »
We have seen it previously, the Amazon Rainforest could become a desert because of deforestation and climate change. As I noted in May a three degrees Celsius increase would destroy it by up to 75 percent. But could global warming help the Sahara region becoming green again ? To National Geographic it could be the
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Further to an interesting article from the New Scientist on how we fail to act on climate change mitigation, I get to read that still many people are denying climate change. Indeed: Despite all this information (on climate change), opinion polls over the years have shown that 40 per cent of people in the UK
Why we can skip climate change mitigation to act Read More »
Images are worth thousands of words. So when I found on VeoVerde a series of photographs from the NASA depicting the deforestation of the Amazonian rain forest I thought I should share them with you. The picture on the left (0.4 Mo ; 465*3000 px) is a collage of nine photographs and shows the horrifying
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In two days I found in my RSS feeds two articles on Russia. The first one is about a study from the World Bank stating that this large country is seriously at risk because of climate change. Indeed global warming will increase the importance of already large climate phenomena such as storms or heat waves.
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A new report presented by the U.S. Global Change Research Program present the numerous impacts climate change will have in the country. The least one can say after reading is that the situation is worrying. Already experiencing extreme phenomenons such as wildfires, droughts and floods the USA could see an increase in their magnitude. An
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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
Fighting desertification matters Read More »
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
Could we unpave our streets ? Read More »
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
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