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WWF published its biennial Living Planet Report 2012 this week in the WWF site. It is simple, engaging, and reader friendly without compromising the hard facts of the challenges facing our planet today. The Living Planet Report 2012 doesn’t beat around the bush despite its short summaries and reader friendly graphics: our planet is being [...]

BBC News Science and Environment reports on a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that shows there might be a link between biodiversity loss and cultural and linguistic decline. The study titled Co-occurrence of linguistic and biological diversity in biodiversity hotspots and high biodiversity wilderness areas, explores the long-suspected [...]

Elephants don’t wear shoes, of course. But if they did it would be the shoes of the biggest gardeners on earth. Elephants and other megaherbivores are the “gardeners” of humid tropical forests, particularly of South East Asia. This is according to Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz, researcher at the School of Geography of the University of Nottingham, Malaysia [...]

Batteries are the staple energy source of almost all portable gadgets that we regularly use today. Without the chemically stored potential energy of these small and compact energy sources, we would have been totally dependent on wires and cables for energy transfer. The effectiveness of batteries in portable applications remains unquestionable. However, it becomes a [...]

The Industrial Revolution was a phenomenal event in mankind’s history that marked a significant advancement in many industries and in technology. Today, in the 21st century, we are supposed to be in a new era where another type of “Industrial Revolution” is again supposed to take place. Called the Green Industrial Revolution, it is often [...]

According to their State of the Air report released in April 2012, the American Lung Association found that 18 of the country’s 25 most polluted cities are actually showing lower smog levels than in 2000 when the first report was released. The report determined which cities had the lowest quality air by measuring the ozone [...]

For once an environmental compromise has occurred in Monterrey California where a battle over surrounding woodlands near Pebble Beach Resort is to be expanded upon with mansions and lodging. It only took 50 meetings and nearly two decades for the plan to commence but it’s finally reached an arrangement this Wednesday. The Pebble Beach Co. [...]

The official bird of the Aloha State is the NeNe goose (pronounced Nay Nay.) At one time, they were highly endangered with a population of just 30 in the entire world. These days Hawaii is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to relocate the geese away from the airport runways in the Garden Island of [...]

Nuclear energy was first discovered very early in the 1900′s, but it was only during 1930′s when scientists proposed harnessing its power, and it still took at least two decades more to build the very first nuclear power plant in 1954. During the entire history of mankind’s application of nuclear energy, scientists have honed their [...]