Tag Archives : Global Warming

Today marks a day of celebration and jubilation for the one striving to become the vanguard to a revolution of epic proportions in the form of the fusion of renewable energy in our day to day lives. The immensely famous solar powered airplane from Solar Impulse had today successfully completed its maiden international flight by touching down at Brussels [...]

Al Gore, former vice president, Oscar and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Tim Berners-Lee: scientist credited for inventing the Internet as we know it. The two most enviable resumes, though kind of different, to appear in Campus Party 2011, refined the speech today to defend, for an hour and a half, freedom and democracy of the internet. Al Gore, who began [...]

With the rising concerns towards the deterioration of our planet’s environment and the increasingly growing phenomenon of global warming, millions of consumers as well as numerous companies across the globe are now turning to eco friendly products and living concepts in an effort to reduce the impact on the environment. From environment friendly vehicles [...]

Hayes Valley Farm played host on October 10th to hundreds of people who had come for an environmental work party. This party was actually part of a worldwide day dedicated to prevent climate change. Almost 6,000 work parties were organised across 180 nations. They celebrated this event having activities at almost 350 gardens, learning about how to transform [...]

 With the rising levels of carbon emissions and a growing threat of global warming, the domain of transportation is now witnessing an enormous change, as more and more companies as well as customers are getting more concerned about the environment. This new trend has sparked off a new race to build more feasible and practical eco-friendly vehicles, [...]

Global warming has made the plants grow bigger, as estimated, but less. According to a study published in the journal Science, the productivity of vegetables has fallen around the world. Until then, it was thought that higher temperatures would be constantly stimulating plant growth, but the new research, done with data from NASA satellites, the U.S. [...]

One of the foremost elements that has greatly contributed in the rise of the global warming phenomenon, carbon dioxide, it seems has now finally met its match. At the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), scientists have revealed that, a little known substance called, Dry Water, that resembles powered sugar could be the answer [...]

It must have been difficult challenge to come up with creating design plans to save the day when sea levels will rise and drown vulnerable nations because of global warming. International Urban Sea Level Rise Ideas competition for Sydney Harbour had many interesting entries and winners but the co-winner idea – The Embassy of Drowned Nations Concept [...]

The researchers from the US University have reported that a giant ice of about 100 square miles has broken from the Petermann Glacier in Greenland. This glacier is located in the north western part of Greenland and is almost 620 miles south of the North Pole. If this giant sheet of broken glacier moves further south towards the Canadian waters, it could [...]

For the last decade or so, the entire world seems to have joined hands to fight against the rising threat of global warming, that is not only playing havoc with the weather and the climate of earth, but it has also been attributed to the erosion of icebergs and polar ice caps at an alarming pace. Apart from the governments of various nations, private [...]