Posts tagged "climate change"
Climate Change – A Brief Overview
The term climate change has gained more usage in the last few decades when more and more concerned citizens become acutely aware of the changes in climate that are happening in their area. Many believe that the changes in the climate are direct consequences of human activities that have boomed over the last century. Here’s...
Tips To Survive Severe Storms
With climate change has come increasing weather disturbances, not only for those living in the coastal parts of the cities, but inland dwellers too. When there is a warning for a hurricane or a severe storm, there are important tips to abide by that will ensure that the effect of the disaster is at least...
The Problem with Dependence on Rainfall in Parts of Africa
It is no longer news that parts of Africa are ravaged by extreme droughts and devastating food shortages. In most of these places, farming is the main stay of the economy. Over the years, farmers in Africa – both small and large scale have depended on rainfall as the source of water for their large...
How Plants Can Survive Climate Change
With climatic change plants are now in real danger of facing increased and unusual temperatures in the near future. But there seems to be hope, with the discovery that certain plants could adapt to climates by activating and deactivating certain genes that better preserve them in such conditions. Epigenetics The ability to activate and deactivate...
Petition for a Sustainable Use of Land
The land is a limited resource. However, Europe continues to utilize more and more throughout the world. Europe is the continent that more than anything else in the world depends on imported resources and products from other countries, to support its economy by using a portion of land totaling approximately one and half times...
The Great Barrier Reef is Threatened
SYDNEY – UNESCO on Saturday urged Australia to take urgent measures to protect the Great Barrier Reef boom of mining and gas, threatened to add to the list of sites “at risk” of heritage. Australia has launched an unprecedented program of investment in the exploitation of energy resources to meet the growing demand in...
Vibrio in Alaska, the Fault of Global Warming
Climate change is already having an impact on safety of food production and if nothing is done to time, the trend will only get worse. This is asserted by Todd Ewen, a professor at Michigan State University, who presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a series...
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...
