Bailout Needed To Save Earth’s Biodiversity

The past two years have seen a multitude of bailouts being issued to help companies and governments survive through an economic crisis. Trillions have been invested in automotive companies, governments and banks, but the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) warns that a bailout is needed in order to protect the world’s biodiversity, which [...]

Dead Zones Contribute to Global Warming

You would think that dead zones would be bad enough given that they kill all life in an area of the ocean, creating an area completely devoid of life. As it turns out, a recent report from the Journal of Science has found that aquatic dead zones not only kill marine life, but they also [...]

Melting Sea Ice To Cost World Economy Trillions

Everyone who disagrees with global warming and the policies to fight it says that it will hurt our economy to do so, but no one seems to look at how global warming will, and already is, hurting the economy. Case in point, a recent report that says the economic costs that will come as a [...]

Global Warming To Push Apes and Monkeys Into Extinction

Global Warming is already beginning to take plenty of species, including several frogs, the Koala, seals, penguins and the Polar Bear, but we can now add gorillas and monkeys to the mix according to a new study. In a study done by Bournemouth University, it was found that if temperatures rise as predicted, two degrees [...]

Australia Bakes In Hottest Decade Ever

The Land Down Under was always hot, but now it is getting as hot as, well, another land way down under, as in Hell. In new data released this week, it was found that Australia just experienced its hottest decade ever recorded and with that decade came more dust storms, wild fires, heat waves and [...]

Pass the Sun Tan Lotion! This Past Decade Is The Warmest Ever!

Time Magazine recently called the first decade of the 21st century the Decade From Hell, well it turns out they are right in more ways than one. While this decade saw two long wars, economic collapse and more, it also got really hot, hot as hell in fact! In a recently released report, global temperatures [...]

Taiwan In For Triple The Rain Thanks To Global Warming

Taiwan is in a bad spot environmentally-speaking. They are one of the first countries hit by coal pollution from China as the cloud moves to the East, eventually reaching Canada. In addition, the country is also susceptible to heavy rains, typhoons and more. Well, according to a new report, global warming is going to make [...]

Rainfall Patterns Changing In China Because of Pollution

Pollution is getting so great (term used loosely) in China, that it is actually changing weather and rain patterns in the country. Studies have found that pollution in China is decreasing the amount of light rain falling in the country. This spells bad news for many crops in China, including rice, which are dependent on [...]

Good on New Zealand! Bad on England!

New Zealand is considered to be one of the most environmentally progressive nations in the world and they live up to that reputation with their recent announcement to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by a further 10 to 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. While most countries are wrestling with reducing their emissions by [...]

Cash For Clunkers Is A Step In The Right Direction

For the past week, I have been assaulted with constant news from various pundents about how cash for clunkers is not going to help the environment, and how it only represents a small portiono f the CO2 being put into the atmosphere each year. They say, why bother and its a waste of money. The [...]