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World Environment Day: June 5th, 2014 (and the 4th for tweets)
Posted Wed, 04 Jun 2014 19:11:01 GMT by JW DoweyWe so rarely consider the earth in all its guises. The environment is our atmosphere, our soil and our water, and all the other bits that make us the fabulous blue planet from the outside. Today is the day to consider just one or many things to do - for the whole environment.
World Environment Day: June 5th, 2014 (and the 4th for tweets)
Poachers steal one elephant too many!
Posted Fri, 16 May 2014 11:01:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongThe rhinos and elephants of Kruger are among the best-protected in Africa. Still, the greed of ivory poachers and pseudo-medicinal horn suppliers shows its ugly face, much more prominently in other, less militarised zones of conservationist Africa.
Poachers steal one elephant too many!
Orangs threatened again in Sumatra
Posted Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:45:01 GMT by Dave ArmstrongThe Sumatran problem where people and industry are always given priority over natural ecosystems is reaching a climax, as the last vestiges of tropical forest go under thee axe. apart from the smoke pollution hanging over the burning, the animal species involved are among the rarest large animals anywhere. It's incredible that local interests can still prevent national government and international organisations from trying to conserve these precious areas still left.
Orangs threatened again in Sumatra
International Day of Forests and the Tree
Posted Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:19:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongBan Ki Moons message today is, 'As we deliberate on the post-2015 development agenda, let us acknowledge the vital role of forests and pledge to work together to protect and sustainably manage these vital ecosystems.'
International Day of Forests and the Tree
International Women's Day 2014
Posted Sat, 08 Mar 2014 09:23:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongIt's hard to compare the lives of those people we call women in different parts of the world. Liberation has been achieved and yet, in some nations, it certainly hasn't. What to do? Well, let's make our opinions felt and heard and lets do it today!
International Women's Day 2014
World Ocean Summit Report 2014
Posted Tue, 04 Mar 2014 07:50:00 GMT by JW DoweyHow can we protect our coastal, oceanic and even little seas. As we don't often travel on water nowadays, we need to figure just how 'successful' our various pollutions, fish consumptions and farming and of course the limited conservation efforts have been.
World Ocean Summit Report 2014
Dump fracking or integrate it?
Posted Thu, 13 Feb 2014 15:06:20 GMT by Colin RickettsOne of the few frackers in Western Europe, will the UK, go ahead with its risky programme of hydraulic fracturing? Many other nations have banned it completely because of its geological and high-carbon reputation.
Dump fracking or integrate it?
EU moves on renewable energy
Posted Thu, 06 Feb 2014 10:27:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongWind and solar energy are beginning to take over in parts of Europe that are not importing low-cost fossil fuels. The green light is especially bright after a vote yesterday in the EU. This could light the way for vast technological improvement, and a healthy future.
EU moves on renewable energy
Loggers and land-grabbers should leave SE Asia?
Posted Mon, 27 Jan 2014 08:49:01 GMT by JW DoweyWere the ancient Taiwanese or the forest tribes of Borneo responsible for early agricultural practice. Now we can see a clearer picture, it seems likely that both introduced many technologies that improved the lives of Asians, and many other unknown peoples also produced just as many ideas and improvements on the Early Holocene life-style.
Loggers and land-grabbers should leave SE Asia?
Cool the planet, or suffer!
Posted Fri, 17 Jan 2014 07:42:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongWho can stop the terrible accumulation of greenhouse gases? Well it seems some politicians are still intent on increasing them! And the reason? Simply making lots of profit.
Cool the planet, or suffer!
International Day for Disaster Reduction
Posted Sun, 13 Oct 2013 10:00:00 GMT by Paul RobinsonThe supply of days may soon run out when we can have simply one day for each cause. Disaster mitigation however is a real problem. If we are to combat the results of earthquakes, hurricanes, droughts and floods, we must prepare to help every member of any community, and not just the ones who can help themselves. There exist many emergency teams who are trained to help with anyone disabled, but it is the community who must also have this training, as it could be anyone who ends up disabled in the disaster!
International Day for Disaster Reduction
International Day of the Girl (Child)
Posted Fri, 11 Oct 2013 13:38:51 GMT by Paul RobinsonThe agenda is children, the outcome should be equality. How do we even up the playing board so that all can contribute to a better world?
International Day of the Girl (Child)
World Teachers' Day 2013
Posted Sat, 05 Oct 2013 04:01:00 GMT by Paul RobinsonToday is World Teachers' Day 2013. While many gain notoriety or fame by making profits, the average teacher manages much more by simply developing expertise. She or he simply encourages achievement in others.
World Teachers' Day 2013
World Animal Day 2013
Posted Fri, 04 Oct 2013 07:52:15 GMT by JW DoweyWhy not rediscover your enthusiasm for every animal on earth? While we concentrate on wildlife, the love of life easily stretches to farm animals, our pets and, of course, the mistreatment that some creatures, both domestic and wild and free, suffer from human interference.
World Animal Day 2013
Arctic Exploitation - Murmansk Pirates
Posted Wed, 02 Oct 2013 08:52:24 GMT by JW DoweyUnresolved, but still liable to blow up into another international row, the Arctic's exploitation is being shown up by the Greenpeace action. Military involvement seems to be part of the Russian reaction to any denial of their supposed rights to territory that belongs to no one.
Arctic Exploitation - Murmansk Pirates
Major Majuro Declaration
Posted Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:00:00 GMT by JW.DoweyThis momentous Majuro Declaration should spur us all into action, fortified by the strong actions of smaller nations that must bring all large nations into line.
Major Majuro Declaration
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When an animal population is hard to sample because they are low in numbers or hard to catch, genetics can now come to the rescue. If we dont discover a species secrets, we will never be able to conserve them. The seahorse, like any fish, is able to survive cold by relying on the more constant temperature of the ocean.
The length of time that we live is linked to sociality and, now, to a tendency to live underground. The interest in this new research is more in the unique habits of some of our relatives than in the never-ending search for substances that will help us to live better and longer.
To observe the cuttlefish or the squid is to see wonderful colour change ability. Maybe now, we can find out how exactly they use this ability in mating of deterrence of predators. Video has been used now to follow animals clandestinely, although one cam was noticed and ripped off by other squid!
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