A Message from Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson
As the founder of Earth Day, I believe it is a day for learning about America’s national lands and their wildlife-and how we can protect them by doing a better job of saving energy.
Protecting wilderness and saving energy – at first glance you might not see a [...]
Air Pollution and its impact
The air pollution is increasing day by day.Air pollution is both out door and indoor.Out door pollution is mainly due to automobile exhaust (Co,No2,SO4, respirable particles and O3) industrial omission,construction activity, tobacco smoke,dust from traffic ,from poorly maintained roads pollution, fungi.
Indoor pollution can be classified in to two varieties:
1.Aerobiologicals: Jugar smoke [...]
The two organizations, International Union of Geosciences (IUGS) and UNESCO, have taken the initiative and the year 2008 has been declared International Year of Planet Earth under the UN system. However the various activities planned at different levels for the year in this regard will run for a period of [...]
Cut Green House Gases Or Face the Music
Some 200 climatologists and scientific experts gathered for 11-day conference, in Dec 2007 under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),and issued a ‘Bali Declaration’ that urges negotiators from 180 nations to agree to reduce emissions to 50 percent of 1990 levels by the year 2050. [...]
UN Warns Of Widespread Water Shortages
The world faces a bleak future over its dwindling water supplies, with pollution, climate change and rapidly growing populations raising the possibility of widespread shortages, a new report compiled by 24 agencies of the United Nations says. The warning from the UN is based on one of the most comprehensive [...]
Severe Global Warming Will Render Half Of World’s Inhabited Areas Unliveable
By David Adam
13 March, 2009
Guardian.co.uk
Severe global warming could make half the world’s inhabited areas literally too hot to live in, a US scientist warned today.
Parts of China, India and the eastern US could all become too warm in summer for people to lose heat by [...]