Monthly archive January, 2012
Country in the Pacific, Tuvalu remains without drinking water
Tuvalu, a small island country located in the Pacific Ocean, declared a state of emergency following a drinking water crisis. Officials said that in some areas of the country, drinking water stocks have ran out . New Zealand’s Foreign Minister said that his country has worked with the Red Cross to send aid in Tuvalu....
Birds Migration Influenced by Climate Change
Climate change affects the behavior of traveling birds: geese, ducks and swans spend their winters in wetlands of northern Europe changes its habits of migration as temperatures rise. British experts say, because many of the birds no longer migrate north to the south of the continent, the number of specimens of species once common as...
Arctic Ice Melting, Unprecedented Event in The Last 1450 Years
The most detailed study of water in the North announced that the melting of Arctic ice in the last 50 years is an unprecedented event in the last 1450 years. Moreover, statistics show that so far has never been a wave of melting never to lie so long a period.
Earth Becoming an Increasingly Hot Planet
By 2100, the world’s energy consumption will lead to warming of the Earth with 6 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial, said Fatih Briol, chief economist of the International Energy Agency, the UN conference on climate change that takes place these days in Durban, South Africa.
Extreme Solution Against Global Warming: Painting Mountains White!
The Andes Mountains, a team of ecologists fight climate change with a novel way to conserve water glaciers and on which a community of shepherds in Peru. Community includes 900 people and lives of the increase in alpaca blades (photo) on mountain pastures. Grass pasture development depends on the amount of available water and the...
Himalayan glaciers are melting!
Lives of millions of people is threatened by melting Himalayan glaciers, announced researchers who conducted the most comprehensive analysis of the effects of climate change in this region. The report was presented at the UN climate conference taking place these days in Durban. This is the first scientific research documenting the melting glaciers in the...
