At the UN 2015 Paris Climate Conference governments of more than 190 nations will meet for a new global agreement on climate change. Here’s why it could be the real deal this time around
Source: A 60-second guide to why the Paris climate summit will succeed – video
Indigenous groups survive in isolation in Peru, including the Mascho Piro, who in recent months have begun reaching out. But some worry about the consequences: ‘If they live with us, they risk losing everything they ever knew’
Source: Why has this Amazonian tribe suddenly started to make contact with outsiders?
Experts highlight threat to lesser-known apes and mokeys from large-scale habitat destruction and illegal wildlife trade
Source: More than half of the world’s primates on endangered species list
Climate Central has created an interactive, zip-searchable map of the U.S. to show the local consequences of high vs. low carbon emissions.
It was the era of sex, drugs and pop revolution, but also of anti-war protest and inner-city riots. Jon Savage describes a year that’s still freaking out the establishment
Source: 1966: the year youth culture exploded
There is no legal protection for climate change refugees. That’s inexcusable.
Source: There’s No Such Thing as a Climate Change Refugee
Could climate change trigger another genocide?
Source: Black Earth
finest handcrafted Longboards,wakgsboards, Esslingen am Neckar
Source: wakgsboards – Coolangatta 6.5
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The World’s First Utility-Scale Underwater Compressed Air Energy Storage System. Located off Toronto Island, Canada, Hydrostor converts electricity into air and stores it underwater. When electricity is needed, the process is reversed, sending electricity back to the grid.
Source: Hydrostor
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Crab invasions, tropical visitors, and massive marine die-offs. What’s going on in the Pacific?
Source: Starved by the Sea?
Tracing Raymond Chandler’s early days in L.A.
Source: Looking for Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles : Longreads Blog
The chemical sprayed on the 2010 BP oil spill may not have helped crucial petroleum-munching microbes get rid of the slick, a new study suggests.
Source: Study: Dispersants did not help oil degrade in BP spill
The global environment collapses as in the pursuit of short-term growth, humanity overruns natural ecosystems including the atmosphere that make Earth
Source: Biosphere Collapse: The Biggest Economic Bubble Ever | EcoInternet – Earth Blog
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The Global Wave Conference – The Global Enviro-Surf Community Converges on Cornwall & London
WASHINGTON (AP) — You can’t say we haven’t been warned. The upcoming climate summit in Paris is just the latest chapter in the surprisingly long history of grappling with global warming, a history that began with the discovery…
Source: Upcoming climate talks just latest chapter in a long history
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Throughout the 1980s, Exxon earned a public reputation as a pioneer in climate change research. But by 1990, the company had begun an about-face.
Source: How Exxon went from leader to skeptic on climate change research – Los Angeles Times
Source: Giant sculptures made entirely of beach waste to make you rethink plastic use
Thousands of the fires raging through the forests of Indonesia were deliberately started to clear land for industrial use. The results have been deadly
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It’s our time to act. Boldly and bravely. It starts with 24 Hours of Reality: The World Is Watching. 24hoursofreality.org #WhyImWatching
Source: 24 Hours of Reality and Live Earth: The World Is Watching | Climate Reality
The findings follow a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study two weeks ago that said the world is in the midst of a third global coral bleaching event.
Source: How we are all contributing to the destruction of coral reefs: Sunscreen – The Washington Post
A great tract of Earth is on fire and threatened species are being driven out of their habitats. This is a crime against humanity and nature
Law of Mother Earth expected to prompt radical new conservation and social measures in South American nation
Source: Bolivia enshrines natural world’s rights with equal status for Mother Earth
‘Unless the world acts decisively in coming weeks, the Pacific as we know it is doomed,’ says Fijian prime minister Frank Bainimarama
Come for the shipwrecks, stay for the ecological treasures
Source: Come for the shipwrecks, stay for the ecological treasures
Source: Which Presidential candidates are climate change deniers? / Boing Boing
The Food / Beverage community provides an interactive environment to share breaking news and product information for professionals in pre-clinical drug development.
Source: Food / Beverage – The Online Scientific Community – News
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A new study by the Risky Business Project paints a grim picture of Florida’s economy if industries fail to take seriously the risks from climate change.
Source: Florida leads nation in property at risk from climate change | Miami Herald
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A novel analysis of temperature records shows that economies perform worse in high heat.
Source: Climate Change Slams Global Economy in a New Study From Stanford and Berkeley – Bloomberg Business
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Cyanide poisoning has killed 22 elephants in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, the Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority said on Monday. This brings to 62 the number of elephants…
Source: Zimbabwe: 22 more elephants killed in Hwange Park by cyanide
Link retires to his chicken coop, sings, invents Americana
Source: Link Wray – 3-Track Shack – Uncut
Rescue workers in smoke-choked Indonesia are considering a mass evacuation of orangutans
Source: Rescue workers in smoke-choked Indonesia are considering a mass evacuation of orangutans