New Study Shows Importance of IUCN's Red List of Ecosystems
Source: Scoop
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-05-08 20:43:02 -0700 | green-news
Red List of Ecosystems will identify if an ecosystem is vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered. For the first time, we have a risk assessment method that is applicable worldwide across terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems, says co-author Emily Nicholson of...
IMAGES: This is how water is converted to electricity
Source: Rediff
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-05-06 03:04:47 -0700 | green-news
This is how water is converted to electricity Next H ydroelectricity is the term referring to electricity generated by hydropower; the production of electrical power through the use of the gravitational force of falling or flowing water,...
WMO says warming trends will continue
Source: United Press International
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2013-05-03 12:19:36 -0700 | green-news
There are signs that sustained warming trends will continue because of high atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, a weather group said from Geneva. The World Meteorological Organization said 2012 was the ninth warmest year on record despite a cooling La...
Displacement without rehabilitation
Source: The Hindu
Ins :: Switzerland | updated 2013-04-30 15:17:34 -0700 | green-news
Livelihood issues are at stake in Uttara Kannada district With more than four-fifth of the land covered by forests and an evergreen range of mountains, Uttara Kannada is the greenest district of Karnataka. One would, therefore, expect issues of environmentalism...
OMNIVORE: In the light of climate change
Source: Bookforum
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-04-30 14:12:09 -0700 | green-news
The Republican Tragedy of the Commons : The Inefficiency of Democracy in the Light of Climate Change...New technology and a little-known energy source suggest that fossil fuels may not be finite ; this would be a miracle and a nightmare;...
Swiss inventors face funding hurdles
Source: SwissInfo
Bern :: Switzerland | updated 2013-04-25 02:57:56 -0700 | green-news
The Fumetto International Comix Festival in Lucerne has once again proved that the scene is alive and kicking despite the art form's juvenile reputation, especially in German-speaking regions. [...] Picture power Swiss Film Awards Start-up success In a nondescript...
Turning down the volume in Switzerland
Source: SwissInfo
Dübendorf :: Switzerland | updated 2013-04-21 02:19:18 -0700 | green-news
Swiss institute that conducts research to fight against the increasing noise levels produced by trains, planes and automobiles...But it also works with industrial partners to develop noise-resistant materials. swissinfo visited the sound laboratories in Dubendorf to find out more. (Julie...
If we fail our environment, we fail our human rights
Source: Scoop
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2013-04-19 20:48:47 -0700 | green-news
We continue to fail to protect and conserve our environment in many respects, often with dire consequences for the enjoyment of human rights, despite great progress in some areas, today warned a group of United Nations independent experts on the...
Catastrophe looms in Myanmar as...
Source: Qatar English Daily
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2013-04-19 12:59:00 -0700 | green-news
Tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled communal violence in Myanmar are in danger as the monsoon season looms, the UN's refugee agency said yesterday, warning that operations were desperately underfunded. Agency spokesman Adrian Edwards told reporters that a...
Greenpeace blames pesticides for decline in honey bees
Source: NewKerala
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2013-04-19 00:24:19 -0700 | green-news
The environmental activists unfurled a banner during Wednesday's protest that read "Syngenta Pesticides Kill Bees!" and called for a ban on the toxic products. "To fight the loss of these insects that are essential to pollination, it is vital to...
Climate Alters Global Vegetation
Source: Truthdig
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-04-18 09:41:30 -0700 | green-news
They attribute more than half the changes they detected to the effects of the warming climate, with people responsible for only around a third. Surprisingly, perhaps, they are at a loss to attribute about 10% of the changes unequivocally to...
Gorbachev sees global failure to address eco-risks
Source: Boston.com
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2013-04-18 04:52:05 -0700 | green-news
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev painted a dim picture of the world's environmental progress on Thursday, two decades after he and a former Swiss lawmaker founded Green Cross International. Shortly before the Soviet Union's demise in 1991, then-leader Gorbachev proposed...
Court overturns NSW mine approval
Source: The Courier-Mail
Court :: Switzerland | updated 2013-04-15 08:07:02 -0700 | green-news
The NSW Land and Environment Court on Monday overturned approval for the Coal and Allied expansion at the Warkworth mine near Bulga, granted by the O'Farrell government in February 2012. The decision, which highlights the impact of the project on...
Nord Stream puts impact review on display
Source: United Press International
Zug :: Switzerland | updated 2013-04-11 06:02:10 -0700 | green-news
Five public hearings are scheduled throughout the country starting Tuesday in Helsinki. The project consortium -- Gazprom, Wintershall, E.ON Ruhrgas, Nederlandse Gasunie and GDF Suez -- said the EIA procedure will be followed by a permitting phase...The EIA examines water...
Last chance for the Sumatran rhino
Source: Scoop
Gland :: Switzerland | updated 2013-04-04 15:45:07 -0700 | green-news
involving a wide range of international and national organisations. This is the first time the two countries join their efforts to address the dire state of the species, of which the last wild populations are believed to survive in Sumatra,...
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