Geologists prefer to call the past two centuries as ‘the anthropocene period, a time when humans have reshaped about half of the Earth’s surface. We have dictated what plants grow and where. We’ve pocked and deformed the Earth’s crust with mines and wells, and we’ve commandeered a huge fraction of its freshwater supply for our [...]

According to Phil Edwards, a researcher from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, “We need to do a lot more to reverse the global trend towards fatness. It is a key factor in the battle to reduce carbon emissions and slow climate change.”
Edwards’ research found that ‘the average overweight person is responsible for [...]

Perhaps to make Earth Day 2009 more significant, carbon dioxide (CO2) was officially categorized as a pollutant by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This overhauls the grand scheme of things through the climate change bill which has already survived the US House of Representatives, and is awaiting an equal approval by the US Senate. The [...]

U2 and Bono have been vocal about their support for Mother Earth in their commitment to ‘save the planet.’ “My prayer is that we become better in looking after our planet,” so says Bono. But people have come to criticize them for their double standard. Bono and his band have a massive carbon footprint as [...]

The alarming pollution levels in China have now become a global concern. Fueled by the spoils of its fast emerging economy, the people of China have become voracious consumers, an effect of what some call as the country’s ‘money-induced euphoria.’
This consumerism has brought about a need for raw materials. Upwards of 75 percent of all [...]

For the first time in U.S. history, a nationwide fixed cap on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions will be in place. ‘The American Clean Energy and Security Act calls for the U.S. to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020.’ Thus, all energy producers in the United States by 2020 should [...]

Flying does not really leave you with a clean green concience if the claims by George Monbiot are anything to go by. London artist research reveals that Richard DeDomenici even says that a return transatlantic flight generates CO2 equivalent to driving a car 30 miles a day for a year. This has led the man [...]

A study by McAfee entitled ‘Carbon Footprint of Spam’ reveals that the annual global energy used up by spam has reached a total of 33 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) or 33 terawatt hours (TWh). All this power has been needed to transmit, process, and filter spam that has, in turn, reached a generation of 62 trillion [...]

Climate change could cause the collapse of the ice shelf in western Antarctica, a large expanse of ice attached to the white continent on the Ross Sea. This would occur, as has happened several times in the last five million years, if rising sea temperature comes up to around 5 º C. This warning was [...]

As you may have known by now, your orange juice traveled a long way before it got into your tall glass. The long attendant process translates to stages of carbon emission. For starters, the orange fruit was grown with the use of greenhouse gases-emitting nitrogen fertilizers. Does not sound too appetizing, does it? The processing [...]