Celebrating 15 years The International Charter Space and Major Disasters celebrates 15 years of free access to the best-available satellite images
Executive Mandate to Incorporate Ecosystem Services into Federal Decision Making
Read the memorandum from the OMB, Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Science and Technology Policy and the White House release summarizing this important step toward protecting natural infrastructure and ecosystem services.
Continuing Demise of GMOs
Continuing Demise of GMOs More than two-thirds of EU nations opted for bans on growing GM crops; Monsanto stocks fell 25 %, losses deepen, and 12 % of workforce slashed Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji and Dr Mae-Wan Ho GM crop bans swept across the EU The majority of EU member states …
Melting of Antarctic ice shelves set to intensify
New research published today projects a doubling of surface melting of Antarctic ice shelves by 2050 and that by 2100 melting may surpass intensities associated with ice shelf collapse, if greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel consumption continue at the present rate. Ice shelves are the floating extensions of the …
Eye on Eye on Earth Summit 2015 – Convene, Converge, Collaborate
Eye on Eye on Earth Summit 2015 – Convene, Converge, Collaborate The 2015 Eye on Earth Summit began today in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), with an opening ceremony featuring keynote speeches from: Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak, Secretary-General of the Environment Agency, Abu Dhabi (EAD); Anwar Gargash, Minister of …
Shell-funded Energy Transitions Commission “lacks credibility”
Key research project proposal appears to put world on course for 4?C of warming “Ethical Markets agrees with Carbon Tracker’s assessment of this new industry-funded Energy Transformation Commission. Sad to see they have also co-opted many critics who know that energy efficiency and renewables can be scaled and accelerated decades …
It’s getting hotter
At climate talks in Paris later this year, negotiators should ponder the damage already done SAVING the planet is now a matter of a few clicks—at least on a small scale. On September 22nd the UN’s Climate Change Secretariat launched Climate Neutral Now, a website that estimates an individual’s carbon …
Go Climate Neutral Now
Go Climate Neutral Now UN Initiative to Drive More Voluntary Climate Action New York, 22 September – The United Nations (UN) is today calling on businesses and individuals to reduce their climate footprints with the launch of a new initiative, Climate Neutral Now. The world is currently on track to …
Can NASA’s far-out travel plans bring sustainability to Spaceship Earth?
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