Forum: Environmental Issues

Wow...I don't know why I'm surprised. What do you guys think? http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091118/us_nm/us_usa_laundry

There's a thread somewhere on VB called "What's the last thing you bought?". I thought it more interesting to hear what people didn't buy. Why is this in the environmental issues sub-forum? Well, because each time you don't buy something, you're reducing your consumption and therefore your...

Hey all... So, I work as my mother's assistant, part time. The mother-figure is participating in Authors for Earth Day this year. (Mom is a children's book author - her most popular works are for 2nd-4th graders, ish...) Authors for Earth Day is brand-new, only started in 2008. Mom LOVES...

Find states with the biggest cow, pig, chicken populations. You can toggle between number of "farms" or number of animals.

The earliest signs of global climate change came from changes observed in plant and animal populations and communities around the world. Here is some new evidence:

Includes article and video of livestock waste.

New data describing how climates are changing is being reported all the time. The most striking are those using satellite imagery to observe changes in ice formation trends in the polar regions.

If the Co2 contribution of worldwide livestock is 18%, what the contribution of the worlds wildlife? That is why is the wildlife contribution not as damaging as livestock?

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as humans we have the proud honour of being the only species in history to cause an extinction event. Referred to as the Holocene extinction, this is the largest mass extinction since the one at the end of the Cretaceous period in which the dinosaurs were wiped out. Human driven extinctions began...

Full story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091022/ap_on_re_us/us_climate_poll

When It Comes to Pollution, Less (Kids) May Be More By David A. Fahrenthold Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, September 15, 2009 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/14/AR2009091403308.html

I know this is from the DM but my roommate sent it to me YAY: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223247/Global-warming-Climate-chief-Lord-Stern-urges-Britons-vegetarian-save-planet.html

Full story: http://www.animalpeoplenews.org/09/7-8/July-August09.htm

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/10/palm-oil-biodiesel-2000-percent-emissions-of-fossil-fuels.php FAIL!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/24/AR2009092402602.html?hpid=topnews New Analysis Brings Dire Forecast Of 6.3-Degree Temperature Increase By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 25, 2009 Further down the article a scientist says,...

I don't know about the country you (the poster) is in, but in the UK at the moment, a fair few environmental campaigners have been making noise about agrofuels (biofuels). Basically, any solid, liquid or gas which comes from biomass and can be used as fuel... For example, wood, sugar cane, corn...