Environment Sustainability Development

Part of any plan to manage the massive resource of several different forest types must be a procedure for mitigating the effects of climate change. A poor plan can easily be seen in South-eastern Alaska’s once mighty Sitka Spruce populations that formed a temperate rain forest. Forest ownership laws allowed people from out-of-state [...]

One of the most frustrating and potentially dangerous aspects of climate change is the way in which one failing component of the Earth’s ecosystems can lead to an acceleration of the warming process. This is already being observed in Arctic ice melt data, showing that change is accelerating even faster than the most recent [...]

It is though that the nations of Micronesia emit about 0.6% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. By way of contrast, they will almost certainly be among the first ecological refugees who are fleeing the dire consequences of climate change. If this doesn’t seem very fair to you, many who live in low [...]

There are still some nay-sayers who would claim that the warnings over climate change are just hot air. Though an overwhelming majority of North Americans are in favour of making changes to avert a climate change disaster, a vocal minority postulates that the observed changes since the industrial revolution are part of a natural [...]

Perhaps part of the reason that the debate about whether or not human actions have contributed to what could very well be a disastrous climate change are the predicted events that have already come to pass. People all over the world are now experiencing the kind of extreme weather that was once experienced as [...]

Since people are going to need energy, eliminating carbon dioxide emissions will require adopting renewable energy. However, the cost has been prohibitively high for most of the commonly used and available methods. Home generation has many possibilities, including getting a check from the power company for excess power that you’ve sold back.
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With all the press that supposedly efficient and sustainable bio-fuels are receiving in the popular media, it’s a wonder that it took so long for anyone to actually investigate whether less carbon was being emitted with these fuels. One might suspect that before the government of the US threw its weight behind mandatory ethanol [...]