A major challenge in production of solar and other renewable energies [search] with the optimal environmental benefit is manufacture of equipment without using fossil fuels. Indeed, there is some question whether there exists enough materials and energy to construct a global renewable energy infrast (more…)

Recently climate skeptics [search] and sympathetic press have claimed there has been no global warming for a decade. New Scientist does a marvelous job of debunking [ark] this selective misreading of climate data by lay skeptics. Using a powerful yet simple analogy, they illustrate that surface temp (more…)

Findings that oxygen-starved ocean “dead zones” have doubled every decade [ark | more\ark] since the 1960s, killing massive amounts of marine life at the base of the food chain, demonstrate just how sick the Earth has become. The new study in the journal Science found there are now some 400 ocean ar (more…)

Findings that oxygen-starved ocean “dead zones” have doubled every decade [ark] since the 1960s, killing massive amounts of marine life at the base of the food chain, demonstrates just how sick the Earth has become. The new study in the journal Science found there are now some 400 ocean areas that a (more…)

A major challenge in production of solar and other renewable energies [search] with the optimal environmental benefit is manufacture of equipment without using fossil fuels. Indeed, there is some question whether there exists enough materials and energy to construct a global renewable energy infrast (more…)

PRESS RELEASEBy Ecological Internet, http://www.ecologicalinternet.org/(The Earth) — Ecological Internet, the world’s leading provider of environmental portals including http://www.ClimateArk.org/ and http://Forests.org/, will soon launch a new Internet e-zine entitled “New Earth Rising”. The publi (more…)

Bob Watson [search], former IPCC chief and leading climate scientist, has advised the UK government to start preparing [ark] for massive 4°C in warming. While not backing away from urgent policies to limit warming to 2°C warming, the sheer momentum of warming trends makes flood protection, agricul (more…)

An important new Australian study finds that “untouched natural forests store three times more carbon dioxide [ark] than previously estimated and 60 percent more than plantation forests” and that first-time “logging resulted in more than a 40 percent reduction in long-term carbon compared with unlog (more…)

Societies not recognizing their ecological foundation cannot long stand. After decades Brazil begrudgingly accepts [ark] with outstretched cupped hand the mighty Amazon’s key role in climate protection [seach], yet continues with damming and other industrial development. Greenpeace heralds as news (more…)

For the eighth time the U.S. Republican Party — the party of big oil and climate change — has held future green energy hostage [ark] in the Senate to an insistence upon drilling every last bit of oil in every last wildernesses’ intact ecosystems first. Given an American addiction to cheap fossil f (more…)