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“What I’ve Done” is the lead single from Linkin Park‘s third album Minutes to Midnight. It features footage of the band performing in the desert, intersperced with stock footage reflecting on a variety of social and environmental issues including pollution, global warming, racism, Nazism, famine, terrorism, wars, deforestation, drug addiction, abortion, obesity, destruction, rising gasoline [...]

WWF “If I compare this land to what it used to be in the 1960s, it is difficult for me to recognize it,” recalls Qi Mei Duo Jie, a 71-year-old nomadic herder from Yanshiping in China’s central-western Qinghai Province.” : Qi Mei Duo Jie’s family has been raising yaks for at least three generations. “This [...]

scienceblogs.com In May of this year, a team of experts from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) went on a one-month preliminary research expedition to the Cyclops mountain range in Papua on the island of New Guinea. They were searching for Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, Zaglossus attenboroughi, which was thought have to be extinct for the [...]

reuters It was the destruction of coral reef and over-fishing that moved artist Nguyen Lieu to paint brightly coloured canvasses warning Vietnamese that their coastal environment is in peril. : His home town on the south-central coast has smooth sandy beaches, islands and mountains, but it also carries the burden of the ugly side of [...]

reuters Australia’s Great Barrier Reef might be able to survive warming sea temperatures, as a result of global warming, better than first thought because some coral algae are more heat tolerant, Australian scientists said. Coral geneticists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science have found that many corals store several types of algae, which can [...]

underwatertimes Coral reefs are at risk of going soft, quite literally turning to mush as rising carbon dioxide levels prevent coral from forming tough skeletons, according to UQ research. UQ marine scientists have shown that too much carbon dioxide absorption turns seawater acidic which may prevent corals building their skeletons which make up reefs. : [...]

WWF A new nature reserve has been approved for Vaigach Island in the western Russian Arctic by the Nenets Autonomous District administration. The new 243,000-hectare nature reserve will help protect threatened arctic species such as polar bears, Atlantic walrus, white-beak loon, and one of the region’s largest mass nestings of waterfowls. The island is surrounded [...]

MSNBC Off Australia’s east coast, you will find the Blue Outback, a kaleidoscope of life that is the Great Barrier Reef, the world’s biggest structure built by living organisms. But it is under siege from climate change and warming waters that have twice bleached its spectacularly colored corals white. : The mass bleaching in the [...]

AP Scientists on Tuesday blamed global warming for the disappearance of a glacial lake in remote southern Chile that faded away in just two months, leaving just a crater behind. The disappearance of the lake in Bernardo O’Higgins National Park was discovered in late May by park rangers, who were stunned to find a 130-foot [...]

Conservation International A team of scientists from WWF and Conservation International (CI) has discovered the world’s largest known population of grey-shanked doucs (Pygathrix cinerea), increasing chances that the Endangered monkey can be saved from extinction. The grey-shanked douc is one of the world’s 25 most endangered primates and has only been recorded in the five [...]