Posts tagged "Global Warming"
IUCN Calls for Protection of Caribbean Reefs
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) urged to take “urgent measures” to protect coral reefs in the Caribbean, which is threatened by pollution and aggressive fishing practices in the area. In a report presented at the V World Conservation Congress that began yesterday in the South Korean island of Jeju, IUCN warned...
Twenty Years of Struggle Against Global Warming
PARIS – Twenty years of fight against global warming and too few concrete results against CO2 emissions: formally adopted in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio, the UN process against climate change today arouses little optimism. “Climate change is like being in a car and try to stop before reaching the edge of...
Global Warming Paradox: Himalayan Artificial Glaciers
People living on the slopes of the Himalayas called him “the man of the glaciers.” With his inventions, Cheawang Norphel, engineer of 77 years, is fighting at the local effects of global warming that threatens dozens of villages. The glaciers are retreating and is missing the water that is used to irrigate the fields...
Japan Will Launch a Satellite to Study Global Warming
Japan announced that they will launch a satellite in 2013, together with the European Space Agency, to study the clouds and try to predict accurately the progress of global warming. It is expected that the EarthCARE satellite increased its accuracy of predictions of global warming, such as increases in temperature, which would help create measures against...
With 1.6 Degrees Celsius, Greenland Could Disappear
Greenland could melt completely and irreversibly if global warming reached the 1.6 degrees Celsius, according to a study by the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and the Potsdam Institute in Germany. The research, conducted by the Department of Physics of the Earth II of the UCM and scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research,...
Global warming has caused the current wave of cold in Europe?
It sounds paradoxical, however scientists are capable to explain the harsh winter that now overwhelms Europe by melting of large masses of ice in the Arctic, melting which is a result of global warming. Complex characteristics of the wind were disturbed by the ice melting Arctic, scientists believe, it considers that it is cold explanation...
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...
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...
