Environment+Research+Resource


 * [|Fish Poisoning May Be Why Polynesians Left Paradise] **

Fish poisoning, or ciguatera could be the reason that New Zealand, Easter Island and, possibly, Hawaii in the 11th to 15th centuries became colonized by masses of migrating ... > [|//__full story__//]

[|Biomass As A Source Of Raw Materials]
Scientists have developed a new catalytic process to convert components of bio-oil directly into alkanes and ... > [|//__full story__//]

[|Advance Toward Producing Biofuels Without Stressing Global Food Supply]
Scientists are reporting use of a first-of-its-kind approach to craft genetically engineered microbes with the much-sought ability to transform switchgrass, corn cobs, and other organic materials ... > [|//__full story__//]

[|Arsenic In Irrigation Water Is Transferred To Crops]
Researchers have shown that potatoes irrigated with arsenic-rich water contain this element at levels up to 35 times higher than crops on which this water was not used. The scientists have also ... > [|//__full story__//]

[|How Mercury Emissions Reach Tuna And Other Seafood, And Why Mercury Contamination Is Likely To Worsen]
A new study documents for the first time the process in which increased mercury emissions from human sources across the globe, and in particular from Asia, make their way into the North Pacific Ocean ... > [|//__full story__//]

[|Climate Change Could Displace Millions In Asia's Coral Triangle]
Coral reefs could disappear entirely from the Coral Triangle region of the Pacific Ocean by the end of the century, threatening the food supply and livelihoods ... > [|//__full story__//]

[|Future Climate Change Likely To Cause More Respiratory Problems In Young Children]
More children will end up hospitalized over the next decade because of respiratory problems as a result of projected climate change, according to a new ... > [|//__full story__//]

[|Climate Adds Fuel To Asian Wildfire Emissions]
In the last decade, Asian farmers have cleared tens of thousands of square miles of forests to accommodate the world's growing demand for palm oil, an increasingly popular food ingredient. Ancient ... > [|//__full story__//]

[|60 Percent Of Americans Live In Areas Where Air Is Dirty Enough To Endanger Lives]
Six out of ten Americans -- 186.1 million people -- live in areas where air pollution levels endanger lives, according to a new report listing cities with high and low pollution levels. Nearly every ... > [|//__full story__//]

[|Greenhouse Gases Continue To Climb Despite Economic Slump]
Two of the most important climate change gases increased last year, according to a preliminary analysis for NOAA's annual greenhouse gas index, which tracks data from 60 sites around the ... > [|//__full story__//]

[|Why Invasive Plants Take Over]
New research shows that two key causes of plant invasion -- escape from natural enemies, and increases in plant resources -- act in concert. This result helps to explain the dramatic invasions by ... > [|//__full story__//]

[|Will Ocean Plants Adapt To Climate Change?]
How will plant cells that live in the oceans and serve as the basic food supply for many of the world's sea creatures react to climate change? Biologists came one step closer to answering that ... > [|//__full story__//]

[|Biofuels Could Hasten Climate Change]
A new study finds that it will take more than 75 years for the carbon emissions saved through the use of biofuels to compensate for the carbon lost when biofuel plantations are established on ... > [|//__full story__//]

[|Rules Proposed To Save The World's Coral Reefs]
Scientists have proposed a set of basic rules to help save the world's imperiled coral reefs from ultimate destruction. "The catastrophic decline in the world's coral reefs demands urgent management ... > [|//__full story__//]

[|Climate Change, Fishing And Commercial Shipping Top List Of Threats To Ocean Off West Coast Of U.S.]
Climate change, fishing and commercial shipping top the list of threats to the ocean off the West Coast of the United ... > [|//__full story__//]

[|Carbon System To Help Mitigate Climate Change]
A new international project will create the first carbon measuring and modelling system to be used to help mitigate climate change, verify the benefits of controversial offsetting initiatives and ... > [|//__full story__//]

[|How Solid Is Concrete's Carbon Footprint?]
Many scientists currently think at least 5 percent of humanity's carbon footprint comes from the concrete industry, both from energy use and the carbon dioxide byproduct from the production of ... > [|//__full story__//]

[|Environmentally-friendly Cooling With Magnetic Refrigerators Coming Soon]
Scientists are a step closer to making environmentally-friendly 'magnetic' refrigerators and air conditioning systems a ... > [|//__full story__//]

[|Home Energy Savings Are Made In The Shade]
Trees positioned to shade the west and south sides of a house may decrease summertime electric bills by 5 percent on average, according to a recent study of California ... > [|//__full story__//]

[|Worst Environmental Problem? Overpopulation, Experts Say]
Overpopulation is the world's top environmental issue, followed closely by climate change and the need to develop renewable energy resources to replace fossil fuels, according to a survey of the ... > [|//__full story__//] **Is it right to buy adventures like such as this new South Pole race?**

//Tom Chesshyre//

Space flights could cost as little as £10,000 in a decade, analysts believe, which makes the latest trip to Antarctica for £42,000 seem a bit steep and, perhaps, a little tame. It brings into question whether it is right to buy an adventure to the remotest corners of Earth (or space), in a way people a generation ago could only dream of.

To read the full story, please [|click here].

__** Being green is simply a matter of principle **__

If you want a job in eco-regeneration, you don’t have to wear a hair shirt — or even an organic hemp one

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__ ** Business takes the green route ** __ If you want a job in eco-regeneration, you don’t have to wear a hair shirt — or even an organic hemp one.

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__** Who will save our planet? **__

Are scientists, politicians or businesses the key drivers for environmental change? []

**__ Climate Change __**

Real Evidence?

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**__ The Alternative Perspective __**

If you have serious doubts about the current Global Warming Theory, check out this video called [|Global Warming!!! Really???]

**__ Breathing Earth!!! __**

A wonderful presentation with pollution statistics!!!

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**__ Environment & Our Planet __**

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**__ Is the world really getting warmer? __**

If you want to add some more salt and pepper to all the debates and points of views we have been talking and you have been eading about, visit these sites:

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Watch a counter-documentary produced to challenge Al Gore’s ‘ [|An Inconvenient Truth]  ’ by clicking on this  [|link]  and watch this documentary called 'The Great Global Warming Swindle'. **__ Can __** **__ America __** **__ Go Green? __**

In this three-part series, Laura Trevelyan, the BBC's United Nations correspondent in New York, finds out how the UScould retreat from its role as the biggest polluter on the planet.

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**__ The Story of Stuff __**

Where do all the things we use/consume come from? Where do they go after we use/consume them? Watch the Story of the Stuff!!!




 * __ Inside the Climate Change Talks __**

In this three part series Mike Williams dips into the delicate negotiations to find a successor to the Kyoto Protocol which expires in 2012. Over a six month period he tracks international activity in the run up to the United Nations (UN) Summitthis December in Bali.

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**__ In Search of a New __** **__ Kyoto __**

In a special BBCWS One Planet debate, four people at the heart of their governments' response to climate change - from the USA, Indonesia, Brazil and the UK come together to discuss the issue.

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**__ Can the rainforest really be saved by forgiving debts? __**

BBC's Will Grant reports from Costa Ricaon such an ambitious scheme and explores how effective these schemes are. []

**__ The Business of Climate Change __**

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**__ Escaping the Water Wolf __**

Over two thousand years ago the Dutch began digging simple ditches to drain water from their boggy ground. With this first small act they embarked on millennia of attempting to escape from what a famous Dutch poet referred to as "the water wolf".

As a consequence of their actions, land which was once several metres above sea level has now sunk to several metres below and is only kept dry by constant pumping. Today, climate change brings new threats of sea level rise and increased rainfall. In response the Dutch parliament is stimulating innovation to control water. People have responded with a variety of proposals, the most ambitious is the creation of an island chain in the North Sea.

But are these grandiose ideas in themselves escapist? Find out in [|Escaping the Water Wolf.] **__ World Without Waste __**

A major four-part series by BBCwhich explores a world without waste. BBCvisits four countries working hard to achieve the much-heralded goal of 'zero waste' in [|World Without Waste.]