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Greenpeace is encouraging the public to vote for its eco-friendly video that stands a solid chance of winning a famous TEDAds Award.
The competition aims to reward the most intelligent, ingenious innovation in advertising and the comic video launched by Greenpeace appears to be a strong candidate for this title.
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27 December 2011
05:51 GMT |
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There is nothing more beneficial for the environment than a recycling strategy tackling a dangerous man-made threat: deforestation. When this initiative is wrapped in creativity, the result is spectacular.
Osian Batkya William is an earth-friendly designer who has launched a series of chairs made entirely of recycl... |
23 December 2011
09:03 GMT |
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As floods and landslides have buried more than 1,000 people and disrupted the balance of almost 338,000 others in 13 provinces, authorities are now trying to identify the cause.
Most experts agree on the fact that climate change and deforestation have played an important part in this equation, amplifying the traged... |
22 December 2011
02:36 GMT |
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Experts are one step closer to the enigmatic, endangered wild pygmy hippopotamus, due to a film shot in Sapo National Park.
Biologists have put all their hopes in this first footage of the nocturnal “secretive” pygmy hippo, hoping it will help them understand better the behavior, distribution and evolu... |
20 December 2011
08:52 GMT |
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The Brazilian Senate gives green light to a new controversial legal framework, meant to change the Forest Code, stipulating how many acres of forest can be wiped off private lands every year. Eco-groups talk about an emerging “disaster,” but their protest is useless at this point in time, since the... |
7 December 2011
03:04 GMT |
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Imazon, a green organization, has recently declared that the Brazilian forests are showing signs of improvement. Its representatives have monitored deforestation and forest degradation in the region and are excited to say that these threat factors were “down moderately” from the end of the summer until Oc... |
5 December 2011
08:27 GMT |
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Wildlife populations can revolutionize the pharmaceutical industry, providing appropriate remedies to several zoonotic diseases, intensively studied by scientists at this point in time. Animal self-medication could inspire new kinds of treatments, also contributing a great deal to environmental preservation. Experts... |
28 November 2011
07:36 GMT |
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Deforestation could become a distant memory of our irresponsible past if the governments succeed in scaling up their efforts to preserve forests all across the globe, according to the recent Living Forests Report from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). In order to contribute to the recovery of large surfaces cov... |
28 November 2011
06:33 GMT |
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An independent study launched by 20 forestry and wildlife organizations from the UK reveals that Britain's woodlands feel the impact of a wide series of threats at an "unprecedented scale." According to the researchers involved in this project, the issues and opportunities UK forests face at this point in time... |
28 November 2011
05:14 GMT |
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Scientists launch a highly controversial theory, stating that deforestation is not entirely bad for the environment. Despite the fact that, for decades, experts affirmed that clearing up woodlands leads to desertification, turning thousands of acres into sterile useless land, it appears that they revised their initia... |
18 November 2011
06:45 GMT |
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The Indonesian Ministry of Forestry is excited to announce that it is counting on two billion tree seedlings for planting all across the country, available thanks to a special budget allocation and financial support coming from a few eco-conscious companies. This strategy supports President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyon... |
17 November 2011
03:42 GMT |
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At this point in time, 30% of our planet's entire surface is covered by woodland. Despite its influence upon the environment, deforestation implied by agriculture, mining, the fuel and construction industry has a significant effect upon the way our future will look like.
What may actually take us by surprise is... |
11 November 2011
08:08 GMT |
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It is likely that Mongolia is living its last days as we know it, on the path to becoming “Minegolia.” Experts' belief that the nation's inhabitants are sleeping on a black gold mine will certainly redefine this country's surface as the globe's newest center of natural resources.
At ... |
7 November 2011
07:54 GMT |
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One famous couple that we would have never picture breaking up was Barbie and Ken, so when that eventually happened, a few months back, we knew it had to be serious. We were later given to know the reason behind the shocking break-up: Barbie had destroyed rainforest in her toy packaging.Ken found out that Barbie manu... |
6 October 2011
04:59 GMT |
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Throughout large parts of West Africa, rainforests are being cut down for a variety of reasons, primarily to make way for crops or grazing animals. However, this phenomenon is causing surviving rainforests to receive only about half of the usual amount of rain.
Details of the study appear in a paper entitled &ldq... |
19 September 2011
18:01 GMT |
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This Monday, October 11, the European Parliament overwhelmingly approved a critically-important set of laws called the EU Regulation on Illegal Logging, which essentially declares war to illegal logging.Previously, the Council of Ministers had approved the same document in its draft form, and the laws managed to pass... |
15 October 2010
11:00 GMT |
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Authorities in the South American nation announced last week that they plan to enact a new set of measures, taken with the explicit purpose of protecting the massive savanna known as Cerrado. This is a huge swath of land that features a magnificent diversity of animal and plant species. Its value for the world is ine... |
22 September 2010
09:13 GMT |
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New figures released by the Brazilian government show that the deforestation in the Amazon decreased by 47.5% over the last 12 months.This decline is showed by images taken by a low-resolution satellite, and the figure is the highest since anti-deforestation measures began in 1988.If this data is confirmed by a secon... |
3 September 2010
09:22 GMT |
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A new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has determined that deforestation rates at a global scale have been diminishing for the past ten years. This event is not due to more people becoming aware of the importance of forests, but to the fact that China has been planting enormous amounts of new ... |
25 March 2010
11:00 GMT |
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According to a new statement released by the United Nations, it would appear that the world's governments are lagging behind in fulfilling their obligations of safeguarding the big cats. The new data seems to indicate that the animals are experiencing a dramatic fall in numbers across the world. Poaching is one ... |
15 March 2010
10:47 GMT |
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Central America was home to the Maya Civilization for more than 1,200 years. A vibrant culture, the Mayans lived in cities so densely packed, that they resembled modern-day metropolises such as Los Angeles. The civilization peaked around 900 AD, when everything seemed to be going well. All of a sudden, their culture ... |
8 October 2009
05:54 GMT |
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Greenpeace announced that over 200 people and 100 logging and charcoal companies faced prosecution in Brazil for their involvement in a large-scale fraud case. The companies allegedly contracted hacking groups that broke into the government's network and altered the records in order to allow for excessive defore... |
13 December 2008
06:56 GMT |
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Because drought years see less rain, land managers use these times to burn deeper and deeper inside forests, as the trees are very dry and burn more easily, and the danger of the fire being put out by the rain is negligible. But the lack of rain also means that tremendous amounts of carbon dioxide, previously stored ... |
9 December 2008
07:52 GMT |
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We all know that the environmental collapse topic is overrated, old news and largely discussed, to the point where it has become devoid of its true meaning. However, with all the people talking about it and urging towards taking a stance, one would expect that all is going better and that the problems are finally st... |
4 November 2008
04:29 GMT |
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Asian longhorned beetles have been a nuisance since they first arrived in the United States, some 11 years ago, onboard a ship carrying a contaminated crate delivered from China. The invasion that sprung up in Central Park caused the authorities to spend millions of dollars and cut thousands of trees just to eradicat... |
23 October 2008
10:42 GMT |
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The Bangka-Belitung Islands, a part of Indonesia off the coasts of Sumatra, looks like it was just hit by a severe carpet bombing. Helicopter views show large holes in the ground, surrounded by miles and miles of slurry soil dotted by turquoise-colored lakes that are highly-acidic in nature, as a direct by-product of... |
22 October 2008
05:02 GMT |
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According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, climate change is now severely affecting the population of birds around the world. The IUCN meeting taking place this week in Bonn, Germany, has updated the catalogue of 1226 species of threatened birds in the Red List of endangered bird species rel... |
20 May 2008
09:01 GMT |
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