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Emissions link to ocean acid levels

Posted by Wolf on Thursday, 09 February 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Man-made carbon emissions since the industrial revolution have acidified the oceans far beyond natural levels, research suggests. Ocean acidity makes it harder for organisms such as molluscs and coral to construct the shells they need to survive. In some regions, acidity rose faster in t...

Meet Our New Partners

Posted by joeycello on Wednesday, 08 February 2012 in Newsletter Archive

Send Us Your Documentaries, Your Short Films, Your Points of ViewWhat’s your favorite video about environmental or social responsibility and sustainability? Earth Protect wants to know – and to share those videos with our worldwide community. Get your point of view out into the world. Login to post ...

Rising ocean acidity worst for Caribbean and Pacific

Posted by bensor on Wednesday, 08 February 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

The current trend of increasing ocean acidification, which threatens fisheries around the world, is driven mainly by man-made changes and is higher even than that seen at the end of the last ice age, some 11,000 year ago, a study has said. Much of the carbon released by human activity ends up in the...

Environmental Education Tackled

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 06 February 2012 in Sustainable Development

This week more than 500 educators will convene in Ocean City for the largest state environmental education conference in the nation. They will stay in local hotels, eat and drink at local establishments, enjoy local nature and discuss the challenges, complexities and successes of environme...

Students Raise Awareness About Plastic Bags

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 06 February 2012 in Sustainable Development

The amount of litter around the community raised concerns for Stacey Jambura's Lowell Elementary School students. But its potential impacts on the environment --- including the world's oceans --- is what spurred them to action. Jambura's 13 third- through fifth-grade expanded learning prog...

Earth Protect Hosting CO Environmental Film Fesival, Filmmaker Forum, February 24

Posted by GreenDog on Sunday, 05 February 2012 in Arts and Entertainment

Join filmmakers from this year's Festival along with many local Colorado directors as they enjoy a lovely brunch and lively discussion about what it takes to produce films. Questions about funding opportunities, distribution sources and other topics will be discussed. This is a great opportuni...

The Green Bowl

Posted by bensor on Friday, 03 February 2012 in Sustainable Development

For the past 18 years, the NFL has been working to decrease the environmental footprint of the largest annual sporting event in the U.S. — the Super Bowl. Two years ago, we wrote about several initiatives aimed at reducing the events’ impacts. Last year, we covered how Super Bowl XLV was s...

Earth Protect celebrates World Wetlands Day

Posted by joeycello on Thursday, 02 February 2012 in Newsletter Archive

"Does your wetland need you?" FROM THE EARTHPROTECT BLOG ROLLSWorld and Nat’l Wetlands DayThe country joins in the global celebration of World Wetlands Day (WWD) today in commemoration of the day in 1971 when the Ramsar Convention, an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of...

Fears over Wetland Development

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 02 February 2012 in Lakes/Rivers/Wetlands

Wildlife researchers are worried an internationally significant wetland near Hobart is being threatened by development. World Wetlands Day today marks the anniversary of the Ramsar Convention recognising sites of international importance for waterfowl. In Tasmania there are 10 Ramsar sit...

World and Nat’l Wetlands Day

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 02 February 2012 in Lakes/Rivers/Wetlands

MANILA, Philippines — The country joins in the global celebration of World Wetlands Day (WWD) today in commemoration of the day in 1971 when the Ramsar Convention, an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands, was adopted in Ramsar City, Iran. Organized by t...

World Wetlands Day Ramsar

Posted by voice on Thursday, 02 February 2012 in Lakes/Rivers/Wetlands

February 2 is being observed as the World Wetlands Day as has been done every year to mark the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands also known as the Ramsar Convention. The Ramsar Convention is a unique treaty in the sense that it is the only global environmental treaty which deals with a particul...

World Wetlands Day in Ghana

Posted by voice on Thursday, 02 February 2012 in Lakes/Rivers/Wetlands

The Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission on Wednesday appealed to the public to support conserve the country's wetlands. It said: "Well preserved wetlands provide great opportunity for leisure and tourism that can contribute to Ghana’s natural wealth, poverty reduction, economic grow...

Happy World Wetlands Day

Posted by Wolf on Thursday, 02 February 2012 in Lakes/Rivers/Wetlands

Feb. 2 is World Wetlands Day, a holiday that has promoted global appreciation and protection of wetlands for 41 years. It commemorates an international treaty signed in 1971, the Ramsar Convention, that aims to conserve swamps, marshes and bogs around the world, from Albania to Mexico to Zambia. &n...

China’s Blood-Stained Coal

Posted by bchristo on Thursday, 02 February 2012 in Fossil Fuels

If you want to understand China’s reform-era growing pains you can do a lot worse than dig into the coal industry. Coal powers China’s industry, pollutes its environment, and is the site of conflict for the state and private entrepreneurs – each eager to monopolize control of a precious re...

Sustainability Predictions for 2012

Posted by Greg Lavery on Tuesday, 31 January 2012 in Sustainable Development

Our 2011 predictions were about 80% right. So we have made 4 predictions for 2012: Sustainability as a profit driver; Focus on the ‘how’ of sustainability; Innovation, and; LED lighting. To see whether our predictions for 2012 are worth reading, let’s see how 2011’s predictions fared (for the origi...

Invader nears gate to Lake Erie

Posted by Angel on Tuesday, 31 January 2012 in Lakes/Rivers/Wetlands

In the grassy belly of a wetland known as Eagle Marsh, Mother Nature decides what water she will send down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico and which will end up in Lake Erie via the Maumee River. When one of those adjacent watersheds harbors a finned toxin such as the dreaded ...

Wolves no longer on protected list

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 30 January 2012 in Agriculture

It became official on Friday — gray wolves are no longer protected under the Endangered Species Act and returned to management of the Great Lakes states. Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, announced Friday morning that gray wolf populations in the Great Lakes region have recovered an...

The Era of Cheap Water is Over

Posted by amir on Friday, 27 January 2012 in Water Conservation

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) today launched the Water Tight 2012 report, which explores the future of the global water sector in the year ahead. The report examines how major global trends such as population growth, increasing economic development, and urbanization, coupled with the...

Man Made Trends in Oceans Acidity

Posted by EarthDude on Friday, 27 January 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Nearly one-third of CO2 emissions due to human activities enters the world’s oceans. By reacting with seawater, CO2 increases the water’s acidity, which may significantly reduce the calcification rate of such marine organisms as corals and mollusks, resulting in the potential loss of ecosystems. The...

The crisis of global warming

Posted by amir on Wednesday, 25 January 2012 in Climate Change

Last Thursday, the Express ran the first in a series of columns submitted by Fishermen and Friends of the Sea (FFOS). This is the second column in the series. These articles seek to highlight not just local environmental issues, but those which affect the population on a global scale. ...