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July 2012 - The Hottest Month of Record for the US

Posted by amir on Friday, 10 August 2012 in Climate Change

Drought expands to cover nearly 63% of the Lower 48; wildfires consume 2 million acres The average temperature for the contiguous U.S. during July was 77.6°F, 3.3°F above the 20th century average, marking the hottest July and the hottest month on record for the nation. The previous warmest July for...

Significant U.S. Climate Events for July 2012

2012 London Olympics Go for the Green

Posted by amir on Thursday, 26 July 2012 in Green Design

with Its Energy Efficient, Sustainable, and Recyclable Design Tomorrow the 2012 London Olympics will be officially underway, and the 500-acre Olympic Park constructed for the world competition is home to nine brand new sports facilities. With the enormous task of keeping tens of thousands of specta...

Forest 'Disruption' Greater Threat Than Climate Change

Posted by amir on Wednesday, 25 July 2012 in Forestry

by Justin Doom Deforestation of protected areas and illegal hunting of endangered species that live there has a greater impact on biodiversity than climate change, over-fishing and the degradation of coral reefs, according to a researcher. The “rapid disruption” of protected tropical for...

Teens Surf Whale Carcass

Posted by amir on Tuesday, 24 July 2012 in Earth Violators

PEOPLE are being warned to keep away from the dead whale washed up near Warrnambool's Thunder Point after callous photographs appeared on a social networking site. One posted on Facebook yesterday shows a group of people touching the male humpback as one man stands on top of it in a surfing pose. ...

Catastrophic Climate Change can Happen in an Instant

Posted by amir on Sunday, 15 July 2012 in Climate Change

by Dale Allen Pfeiffer Large bodies of water — particularly the oceans and seas — have a moderating effect upon the weather. As anyone living on an island or near the seashore is well aware, the summers in such an area tend to be cooler than farther inland, and the winters tend to be warmer. As a r...

Eat Less Meat to Fight Deforestation

Posted by amir on Saturday, 30 June 2012 in Food

According to the study from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), Grade A Choice? Solutions for Deforestation-Free Meat, the increasing global demand for meat has led to more and more deforestation for grazing pastures as well as land to grow livestock feed like soybeans. Meat consumption has bee...

10 Steps to An Effective Office Recycling Challenge

Posted by amir on Thursday, 28 June 2012 in Recycling

by Amy Marpman There’s nothing like a little friendly competition to get people motivated. Corporations can take a lesson from college campuses, where a growing number of challenges like Recyclemania are successfully getting students to compete to conserve and reduce waste. As my colleague Sandra ...

Solar Manufacturing

Posted by amir on Thursday, 28 June 2012 in Solar

Last year, the global market for clean, renewable energies reached a record $260 billion – and is expected to grow into the trillions over the next 20 years. Solar manufacturing in particular is growing dramatically in the United States and around the world. In fact, according to the Solar Energy In...

Montana Calls Calls Out Big Oil

Posted by amir on Sunday, 17 June 2012 in Fossil Fuels

Cross posted from the Coal Export Action Friday evening, delegates at the Montana Republicans State Convention received an unexpected visit and serenade from the Blue Skies Campaign and Occupy Missoula. During the dinnertime reception f...

4 Reasons to Support a World-Wide Shark Finning Ban

Posted by amir on Thursday, 07 June 2012 in Animals

by Susmita Baral It’s been almost a year since Honduran President Porfirio Lobo Sosa banned shark fishing in the Honduran Caribbean and recently, to demonstrate his commitment to his ban, Lobo Sosa set 144 pounds of illegally harvested shark fins on fire that were confiscated in Western Honduras. H...

Global Warming and Changes We Can Already See In The World

Posted by amir on Monday, 28 May 2012 in Climate Change

Photograph by Paul Nicklen Over the last 100 years, global temperatures have warmed by about 1.33 degrees Fahrenheit (0.74 degrees Celsius) on average. The change may seem minor, but it's happening very quickly — more than half of it since 1979, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate C...

China Energy: a greener shade of grey

Posted by amir on Thursday, 24 May 2012 in Solar

New report says renewables’ share of China’s energy use will rise, but predicts coal consumption up 35% and carbon emissions up 43% this decade. A new report, China energy: a greener shade of grey, from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) highlights China’s expansion of renewable energy, but says...

EPA: Protect Yourself from the Sun this Summer!

Posted by amir on Saturday, 19 May 2012 in Human Health

The warming temperatures will bring many people out into the sun to get a little color on their skins. The sun, while being the source of all life on Earth, is also quite lethal if exposed for too long. As summer approaches, it is good to remember a few things about protecting your skin from...

Yangtze porpoises in China as population nears extinction

Posted by amir on Wednesday, 02 May 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

Six years after the Yangtze river dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer), or baiji, was declared "functionally extinct" by scientists, another marine mammal appears on the edge of extinction in China's hugely degraded Yangtze River. In less than two months, 32 Yangtze finless porpoises (Neophocaena asiaeorien...

Raising Money for Wildlife with Craigslist Founder

Posted by amir on Thursday, 26 April 2012 in Environmental Heroes

Love wildlife? Got Twitter? Then drop Craigslist founder Craig Newmark a message using the hashtag #Squirrels4Good. For every tweet, Newmark will donate $1 to the National Wildlife Federation, up to $5,000. Newmark will also donate a dollar if you use the #Squirrels4Good hashtag on either h...

Marking Earth Day in the Big Apple

Posted by amir on Sunday, 22 April 2012 in Sustainable Development

When it was first celebrated in 1970, Earth Day was an innovative way to draw awareness to the world’s natural environment. Twenty million Americans held environmental rallies across the country, spawning the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and some of the first laws to cl...

Climate Change is causing Greenland's ice to slide into the ocean

Posted by amir on Tuesday, 17 April 2012 in Climate Change

In Greenland Ice is melting fast. New Studies find temperatures rising. Like snow sliding off a roof on a sunny day, the Greenland Ice Sheet may be sliding faster into the ocean due to massive releases of meltwater from surface lakes, according to a new study by the University of Colorado Boulder-b...

Ocean Drilling Destroy New Species

Posted by amir on Wednesday, 11 April 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

The lure of deep sea mining in the Pacific and Indian oceans could mean the destruction of species only just discovered on the ocean floor Before the late nineteenth century, most people believed the deep sea was a barren wasteland, unable to support life even in its simplest form. After se...

Earth Hour savings dimmer this year

Posted by amir on Wednesday, 04 April 2012 in General Environment

People in Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge failed to turn their lights out Saturday during the annual Earth Hour challenge to reduce electricity consumption. Although both municipalities scored above the provincial average of 1.67 per cent drop, neither matched last year...

EPA's encroachment of power

Posted by amir on Wednesday, 04 April 2012 in Air Quality

The Environmental Protection Agency issued a pronouncement in December 2009 to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. It claimed it was using the authority provided it from the Clean Air Act and the May 2007 U.S. Supreme Court ruling inMassachusetts v. EPA that "greenhouse gases in the atmosph...