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Green Priorities

Andreas Späth

Reading, thinking and writing about the environment is terrifying business. Not a day goes by without another horror story – an oil spill, a disappearing species, shrinking rainforests and melting glaciers. It’s enough to make you want to throw in the towel and let someone else worry about the mess.

But that’s not an [...]

What is climate change?

The climate of the world varies from one decade to another, and a changing climate is natural and expected. However, there is a concern that the human industrial and development activities of the past two centuries have caused changes over and above natural variation…

What is climate change?Climate change is the natural cycle through which the [...]

The fall migration is on

It will take years, maybe even decades, before we know the full impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, but we will begin to get a sense of just how far-reaching its effects are as the first round of wintering migratory birds makes their way through the Gulf Coast this fall. Coming from as far [...]

Europe Cuts Coal Consumption 16.3%

Europeans now get 46.4% of their electricity from non-carbon courses, if you include nuclear, which supplies most of the electricity at 28%. In 2009, they cut coal consumption drastically from 2008.

Europeans’ hard coal production dropped 9.2% in 2009 from 2008, and Europe similarly reduced their production of natural gas which in 2009 supplied just [...]

New microbe eating Gulf oil spill

Washington – A newly discovered type of oil-eating microbe suddenly is flourishing in the Gulf of Mexico.

Scientists discovered the new microbe while studying the underwater dispersion of millions of litres of oil spilled into the Gulf since the explosion of BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.

Also, the microbe works without significantly depleting oxygen in the water, [...]

Solar and wind energy the way to go

Continuous research and development of alternative energy could soon lead to a new era in human history in which two renewable sources, solar and wind, will become Earth’s dominant contributor of energy, a Nobel laureate said at a special symposium at the American Chemical Society’s 240th National Meeting.

Walter Kohn, Ph.D., who shared the 1998 Nobel [...]

What is in your water?

Cooking and drinking water must be of good quality in order to ensure our health.

Ideally, drinking water must taste good, be clear and odorless, and contain the right amount of mineral salts. It should also be free of harmful substances, such as heavy metals, nitrates, or bacterial or viral agents which may pose an infection [...]

10 Things you should know about water

1 – One drop of oil can make up to 25 liters (6.6 gallons) of water undrinkable.

2 – Seventy percent of the world’s water is used for agriculture, 22 percent for industry and 8 percent for domestic use. Low and middle income countries use 82 percent of their water for agriculture, 10 percent for industry [...]