Saving Earth

In a surprising new research, scientists have said that although the hole in the ozone layer is now steadily closing, but its repair could actually increase global warming in the southern hemisphere.
The Antarctic ozone hole was once regarded as one of the biggest environmental threats, but the discovery of a previously undiscovered feedback shows that [...]

China will reduce the intensity of its carbon dioxide emissions per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2020 by 40 to 45 percent of the 2005 level, a ”voluntary action” which its State Council described as Beijing’s “major contribution to the global effort in tackling climate change.”
The State Council’s decision was relayed to the [...]

A rise of at least two meters in the world’s sea levels is now almost unstoppable, experts told a climate conference at Oxford University on Tuesday.
“The crux of the sea level issue is that it starts very slowly but once it gets going it is practically unstoppable,” said Stefan Rahmstorf, a scientist at Germany’s [...]

No doubt human population growth is a major contributor to global warming, given that humans use fossil fuels to power their increasingly mechanized lifestyles. More people means more demand for oil, gas, coal and other fuels mined or drilled from below the Earth’s surface that, when burned, spew enough carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere [...]

One of a growing number of isolated remnants of ice spires in the crater of Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa. The snows of Africa’s tallest peak are shrinking rapidly and could vanish altogether in 20 years, due to global warming.

 
 
 
 
 
 
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, or the Doomsday Vault as the media have nicknamed it, will be the ultimate safety net for the world’s most important natural resource.The seed vault is an answer to a call from the international community to provide the best possible assurance of safety for the world’s crop diversity.

There are a few people who still argue about the reasons for global warming, but practically no one questions its existence. A few argue that because of the natural variability of the Earth’s climate, or because of the effects of volcanic and solar activity,  it  is not possible  to say  that  the change  in  the [...]