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Our Biggest Challenge- Climate change Music video

October 7, 2012

Our Biggest Challenge- Climate change

The beautiful video ‘Our Biggest Challenge – Climate change‘, is a musical investigation into the causes and effects of global climate change and our opportunities to use science to offset it.

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Global Warming Posters

August 6, 2012

Help Stop Global Warming

Some awesome posters for Global Warming, the so important issue nowadays!  Help Stop Global Warming by Ferdi Rizkiyanto

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Europeans are more worried about the Environment than the Economic crisis

October 13, 2011

Environment- climate change

A new poll indicates that two out of three Europeans see climate change as a more serious problem than the global economic crisis. Sixty-eight percent of those polled saw climate change as a very serious problem (up from 64 percent in 2009), while 80 percent saw it as either ‘very serious’ or ‘fairly serious’.

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First complete map of Antarctic Ice Flow (video)

August 22, 2011

Antarctic Ice Flow

NASA-funded researchers have created the first complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica. The map, which shows glaciers flowing thousands of miles from the continent’s deep interior to its coast, will be critical for tracking future sea-level increases from climate change. The team created the map using integrated radar observations from a consortium of international satellites.

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Wild Weather- blame La Nada

June 30, 2011

La Nada

Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder,
Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never
Remember to have heard; man’s nature cannot carry
The affliction nor the fear … from Shakespeare’s Tragedy of King Lear

Record snowfall, killer tornadoes, devastating floods: There’s no doubt about it. Since Dec. 2010, the weather in the USA has been positively wild. But why?

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Earth hour- International blackout before and after

March 28, 2011

The Acropolis and the Herodion in Athens also switched off to show support for Earth Hour

More than 134 countries across the world, are switching off their lights for an hour today to support action to create a sustainable future for the planet.
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Asperatus new class of clouds in New Zealand

February 5, 2011

Asperatus

An “asperatus” cloud rolls over New Zealand’s South Island in an undated picture.
This apparently new class of clouds is still a mystery.  Photograph courtesy Merrick Davies
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Floating Ark Concept

January 7, 2011

Floating Ark
Floating Ark4Addressing growing concern over climate change and the rising level of the world’s oceans, Russian architectural firm Remistudio has designed a massive hotel concept that can endure extreme floods.
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