Follow our blogger/editor, Antonio, on a six-day trip to Brazil for a firsthand look at the world´s greatest biodiversity, found in the Amazon rainforest, and to become familiar with local policies to reach national targets on deforestation and...
Tag - environment
Brazil today signed the REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) Partnership at the Oslo Forest and Climate Conference in Norway. The event was attended by representatives of 52 countries. The objective of the agreement is to...
“terribly upset about the oil spill today i wish i was a scientist. wondering if can all push something alternative through, soon please.†Comedienne Sandra Bernhardt on her Twitter (April 30, 2010) And who isn’t terribly upset...
A small island in Scotland, home to a community of about 100 people, was awarded £300,000 (US$487,000) from the Big Green Challenge by the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts. Solar power was part of the islanders’...
Image via Wikipedia A new survey conducted by Globescan found that “public concern about climate change is at its highest level†since the company began international tracking in 1998. The poll, carried out in conjunction with the BBC...
