When it comes to intimacy and pleasure, it is often said that the brain – rather than sensitive areas of our bodies – is our one most pronounced erogenous zone. In the same vein, when comes to conservation, the most valuable asset we have may not be a home’s insulation or a thermostat or a…
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MyRain is making drip irrigation accessible to all the farmers of India by automating the process of designing systems for their small-plot farms, with a mobile app and on-time delivery. Sponsor: USAID Global Development Lab http://www.usaid.gov/GlobalDevLab In The Making takes you behind the scenes of spectacular projects, people, and ideas while they are being created.…
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Changing Climate, Moving People is a 35-minute film made by The Energy Resource Institute (TERI), for UNESCO, which looks at disaster or climate stress related migration from three different regions in the country – Uttarakhand, Bundelkhand and Odisha. These three states are already amongst the leading sources for internal migration and have been hit by…
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Dan Fredinburg, a Google executive and co-founder of SaveTheIce.org, died April 25, in an avalanche, triggered by the Nepal earthquake. His tragic death comes after warnings that climate change makes risks of climbing Mount Everest even greater. It is unknown how much climate change contributed to the avalanche or the earthquake, but the frequency of deadly…
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An Apology Letter to Future Generations. To DIRECTLY Fight the Destruction and Stand For Trees go to:https://standfortrees.org/en/ WATCH NEXT Climate Change Rap
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The Vancouver Sun interviewed Gavin Schmidt (April 17 2015, by Gerry Bellett) Q: So if we could make one smart decision what should it be? A: We have to have a price on carbon because right now it’s still free to put carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. So if you put a price on carbon…
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The President travels to the Florida Everglades for Earth Day and speaks about the impacts of climate change, April 22, 2015. Release (14 mins) President Obama Visits the Everglades https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DF3yrq-EeQ Protecting the one planet we got. Is, what we have to do for the next generation. – Barack Obama Earth Day 2015
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Climate change is real, so why the controversy and debate? Learn to make sense of the science and to respond to climate change denial in Denial101x, a MOOC from UQx and edX. Denial101x isn’t just a climate MOOC; it’s a MOOC about how people think about climate change.
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A reservoir of abiotic methane has been discovered in the Arctic Ocean. This means that there is more of the greenhouse gas trapped under the seabed than previously thought. News: A reservoir of abiotic methane has been discovered in the Arctic Ocean https://cage.uit.no/news/new-source-methane-discovered-arctic-ocean/ Study: Abiotic methane from ultraslow-spreading ridges can charge Arctic gas hydrates http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/content/early/2015/03/27/G36440.1.full.pdf+html?ijkey=tNRcKxKHNcG5s&keytype=ref&siteid=gsgeology…
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Recent studies link radioactive compounds to fracking. This was first made public back in 2010, with the conclusion ‘Fracking’ Mobilizes Uranium in Marcellus Shale. Now a new study aimed to better understand cumulative effects of natural occurrences and new anthropogenic pathways, through fracking-drilling. Indoor radon levels in Pennsylvania have been slowly rising since 2004, around the…
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Be a part of the biggest grass-roots event in history by planting a tree on EARTH DAY, APRIL 22ND, 2015 as a “give back” to Earth. This event is being hosted by The Master Shift, Forest Nation, The White Feather Foundation and the Earth Day Network as well as thousands of contributing organizations from around…
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