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Whale Migration Shockingly Straight

Posted by grant on Friday, 06 May 2011 in Animals

Humpback whales hold the record for the longest migrations in the mammalian world. Now, researchers have found that the paths they follow on those migrations are astonishingly precise - an observation that raises more questions than answers about how they navigate on their lengthy treks. ...

Bamboo grass may hold key to fighting global warming

Posted by EarthDude on Thursday, 05 May 2011 in Agriculture

Bulacan, Philippines — The Bulacan Environment and Natural Resources Office (BENRO) emphasized yesterday the value of bamboo in Philippine culture as well as its ability to fight the adverse effects of global warming, earning the support of the Capitol leadership. Recent studies show that s...

Italy's Rare Bear in Losing Battle Against Extinction

Posted by Wolf on Tuesday, 03 May 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

In the forests of Italy's Abruzzo National Park live one of the rarest creatures on Earth: the Marsican brown bear. For the last several decades the species has been on the brink of extinction -- with current estimates putting their population at less than 50 individuals, down from over 100 in the e...

U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Projected to Grow Slowly

Posted by Wolf on Tuesday, 03 May 2011 in Sustainable Development

Even if the United States takes no explicit action to regulate greenhouse gases, emissions of carbon dioxide and other climate-altering substances will grow slowly over the next two decades, not returning to 2005 levels until 2027, according to a new projection from the Energy Information Administra...

A Series of Whales Deaths has Greenland Worrying

Posted by grant on Tuesday, 03 May 2011 in Animals

A large number of dead whales have been found around Greenland and authorities are scratching their heads as to why. Now it has come to light that such a spate of sudden deaths may not be unprecedented. KNR reported at the end of March that hunters from Attu had found eight dead great whale...

Wind Power Potential in Kazakhstan

Posted by Wolf on Tuesday, 03 May 2011 in Wind

Kazakhstan has huge potential for renewable energy, in particular in wind. Since the renewable sector is almost untapped and the government of Kazakhstan is actively working on promoting renewable energy sources and starting new programs to reach the renewable energy target of 5 percent by 2024, thi...

Ozone Loss Made Tropics Rainier

Posted by amir on Saturday, 30 April 2011 in Climate Change

From high above the South Pole, Earth’s ozone hole can affect rainfall as far away as the tropics, scientists have found. Thinning ozone causes weather patterns to shift southward across the Southern Hemisphere, bringing more rain to a band that includes eastern Australia and the southwestern Ind...

Global Social Change Film Festival & Institute Bali Indonesia 2011

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 28 April 2011 in Arts and Entertainment

Earth Protect is proud to have been a Program Level Sponsor and presenter at this first annual conference. The Global Social Change Film Festival & Institute’s mission is to support filmmakers and activists to build audiences for their work and to engage people and organizations in social action...

Cooling on Global Warming

Posted by EarthDude on Wednesday, 27 April 2011 in Climate Change

"What the heck went wrong?" That, apparently, is the question roiling the environmental community as it realizes that the fight against climate change has fizzled. As Brad Plumer writes in the New Republic, everything was looking great in 2008 for a sweeping effort to make good on candidate Barac...

Is peak coal coming?

Posted by Aaron on Wednesday, 27 April 2011 in Fossil Fuels

The price of oil isn’t the only hydrocarbon going through the roof. Check out thermal coal prices to see how dependent economic growth has become on burning increasing amounts of fossil fuels. Prices of Newcastle coal, the Asian coal price benchmark, are poised to rise by as much as 30 per cent this...

Wide-Ranging Oil Spill Scenarios

Posted by EarthDude on Tuesday, 26 April 2011 in Oil Spill

After millions of gallons of oil spilled and billions of dollars spent, Mark Cohen figures the United States is ready to handle a spill like the deepwater blowout that fouled the Gulf of Mexico a year ago. But it's probably not prepared for the one that happened in 1979. Ixtoc was a nine-month spi...

When The Water Ends: Africa’s Climate Conflicts

Posted by amir on Tuesday, 26 April 2011 in Water Conservation

For thousands of years, nomadic herdsmen have roamed the harsh, semi-arid lowlands that stretch across 80 percent of Kenya and 60 percent of Ethiopia. Descendants of the oldest tribal societies in the world, they survive thanks to the animals they raise and the crops they grow, their travels determi...

Pesticides tied to lower IQ in children

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 26 April 2011 in Human Health

Children exposed in the womb to substantial levels of neurotoxic pesticides have somewhat lower IQs by the time they enter school than do kids with virtually no exposure. A trio of studies screened women for compounds in blood or urine that mark exposure to organophosphate pesticides su...

Earth Day, One Person Can Make a Big Difference

Posted by grant on Monday, 25 April 2011 in Environmental Heroes

Friday was an important day for everyone, and I’m not speaking of religious circles. Friday was Earth Day 2011. And whether you think about it or not, or you care about it or not, I believe we are lucky to have people out there who do care enough to do what’s best for our planet. We need it to survi...

2011 Environmental Budget Cuts

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 24 April 2011 in General Environment

The 2011 budget cuts and the environment. The good, the bad, and the ugly. News is coming out all over the place about what the 2011 budget deal means for different topics. Even within the environmental realm, different organizations, journalists, and bloggers with different agendas are focusing on...

Where Earth Day Hits Home

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 24 April 2011 in General Environment

Earth Day isn't good for my health. I've got to stop observing it. Actually, I don't. Normally. Observe it. Or rather I prefer to think of every day as Earth Day. It probably has something to do with when I came of age—the late '60s, early '70s. It hit me over the head (my recollection is that the m...

A Billion Acts of Green: Earth Day 2011 Activities

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 21 April 2011 in Environmental Heroes

Earth Day is a reminder about the importance of environmental protection and sustainability. Most importantly, it reminds us that we can a make a difference when it comes to our planet. The first Earth Day celebration was held in 1970 and it launched the modern environmental movemen...

Oil Spills, Radiation and Earth Day 2011

Posted by henryfool on Thursday, 21 April 2011 in Sustainable Development

As omens go, dead birds raining from the sky can be seen as pretty predictive of grim times environmentally. Catastrophic, even. And the seers would have been right. A volcano darkened the skies of Europe. Crude oil spread its foul sheen over the Gulf. Ice caps and glaciers continued to retreat. A ...

Albert Beger Earth Day giveaway

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 21 April 2011 in Arts and Entertainment

Hello,Earth Day 2011 is an important day. It's a reminder to ourselves to keep a close watch on nature, ecology and ourselves as visitors on this planet earth. In honor of this day, I'm giving away my 2008 album Big Mother for a free download (click here), and I hope this album will touch you and m...

Bureau of Land Management Hosts A Fracturing Forum

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 21 April 2011 in Fossil Fuels

The Bureau of Land Management says there are 1,800 oil wells on public and tribal land in North Dakota and asked for public opinion Wednesday on the industry’s method of hydraulic fracturing those wells. Hydraulic fracturing is coming under increased public and government scrutiny and about 250 peo...