Blue Carbon Initiative: Buried Treasure For Climate and Coastal Communities
A mangrove plantation in Bali. Photo source: ©© Lawrence Hislop /Unep
Excerpts; from UNEP, The World’s Bank and Conservation International
There is overwhelming consensus amongst climate scientists that the Earth’s warming in recent decades has been caused primarily by human …
Japan PM pledges Revolutionary Energy Shift
Eijo Toyonaga, Japan, Year of the Child Exhibition. Photo source: ©© Canada Science and Technology Museum; ©© Musée des sciences et de la technologie du Canada
Excerpts; AFP
Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Friday pledged a revolutionary shift away …
Unexpected Source of Sea Level Rise Found
The sea ice atop the Arctic Ocean can—as shown in this photograph from July 12, 2011—look more like swiss cheese or a bright coastal wetland. As ice melts, the liquid water collects in depressions on the surface and deepens them, …
Geographic Analysis Offers New Insight Into Coral Disease Spread
Curacao’s beaches have a unique blend of Caribbean, tropical and desert landscapes. Photo source: ©© Cpt Kimo
Excerpts; University Of Florida
In the last 30 years, more than 90 percent of the reef-building coral responsible for maintaining major marine habitats …
Sea Turtle Egg Poaching Legalized in Costa Rica: The Debate
Sea Turtle Egg Poaching Legalized in Costa Rica: The Debate
By Claire Le Guern
Two decades on, an unusual project to stabilize the population of Olive Ridley sea turtles in the coastal town of Ostional on Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula …
The Plastic Bag Wars
Photo source: ©© Marj K
Excerpts; by Kitt Doucette, Rolling Stone
Named by Guinness World Records as “the most ubiquitous consumer item in the world,” the ultrathin plastic bags have become a leading source of pollution worldwide.
They litter the …
Dozens of boars found dead on French beach
Photo source: ©© Olivier Bonnenfant
Excerpts; AFP
Dozens of wild boars have turned up dead this month around a beach in western France, floating in the water or washed up in the area, officials say, as they suspect poisonous blue-green …
Cambodia: A Stop Order To Excessive Sand Dredging
Tatai River Cambodia. Photo source: ©© Hoo Rob
Excerpts; from Dredging Today
The “King of Koh Kong”, ruling party senator Ly Yong Phat, has been ordered to stop his company’s (LYP Group) massive sand dredging operation on the Tatai river …
UN climate change conference and the world security
“Storm Chief.” Photograph by: ©© Jennifer Daylight
Excerpts; by Ambassador Marlene Moses, Nauru’s Permanent Representative to the UN
“On Wednesday, the United Nations Security Council concluded its open debate with a Presidential Statement that formally recognized the link between climate …