Enough with coal, oil and natural gas. From now on Hawaii will only build plants that generate electricity using renewable sources and will cut all funding for fossil fuels. The aim: to be powered by 100% renewables by 2045. The announcement was made by state governor David Ige, electrical engineer, at the Asia Pacific Resilience
The government pledged to reduce emissions and for this reason Brazil is the first major developing country to adopt such measures to tackle global warming.
According to the environmental NGO Greenpeace it is possible phasing out fossil fuels by 2050, without economic barriers.
Vivienne Westwood’s protest against the politicians that don’t care about environmental issues and climate change is not over.
In 40 years, the Arctic will run out of ice during summer months, as proven by the lowest icecap winter extension ever registered by satellites last March. It is a phenomenon involving half of the Arctic ice. These are some of the effects caused by the on-going climate change, documented by WWF in
Syrian drought, exacerbated by human-related activities, seems to have contributed to trigger the conflict that is putting the country on its knees and is causing millions of refugees.
A picture taken in Svalbard clearly shows the phenomenon of arctic ice melting that is threatening polar bears survival.
Since 2009 Karen Aplin is a researcher in the Physics division at Oxford University. Before getting to manage the teaching laboratories of this renowned English university, Karen obtained a doctorate degree in atmospheric physics at the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, but also a diploma in music performance from Trinity College, London. Metheorology
Two preparatory meetings have been held in Bonn and Paris in view of the COP21: governments found common ground, but problems remain unsolved.
The Planet’s trees drew particular attention on the occasion of the climate change conference held in Paris (COP21), which was aimed to reach a new binding deal against global warming. Trees, in fact, are our best allies in reducing CO2 emissions in the atmosphere. Particularly surprising news comes from a study led by Thomas Crowther at
