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www.earthhour.org earthhoursingapore.blogspot.com Date: 29th March 2008 Time: 2000H – 2100H Action: Turn off the Lights It started with a question: How can we inspire people to take action on climate change? The answer: Ask the people of Sydney to turn off their lights for one hour. On 31 March 2007, 2.2 million people and 2100 [...]

Center of Biological Diversity Conservation groups challenged the federal government’s decision to exclude all national forest land from a recent endangered species ruling in federal court today. The suit filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Center for Biological Diversity, Northwoods Wilderness Recovery, Michigan Nature Association, Door County Environmental Council, and the Habitat Education [...]

BBC A healthy fish population could be the key to ensuring coral reefs survive the impacts of climate change, pollution, overfishing and other threats. Australian scientists found that some fish act as “lawnmowers”, keeping coral free of kelp and unwanted algae. : The assembled experts told parliamentarians that fish able to graze on invading plants [...]

Drinkpee drinkpeedrinkpeedrinkpee is a project about the role our bodies play in larger ecosystems. The project includes an installation and a diy kit for turning your pee into fertilizer. : The project was created by britta riley and rebecca bray, two artists and collaborators who also own a company called submersible design. What happens when [...]

New York Times : In 2002, Ireland passed a tax on plastic bags; customers who want them must now pay 33 cents per bag at the register. There was an advertising awareness campaign. And then something happened that was bigger than the sum of these parts. Within weeks, plastic bag use dropped 94 percent. Within [...]

Independent Britain is to build the world’s biggest butterfly house as a giant visitor attraction with a giant conservation message: stop butterflies disappearing. Butterfly World, which will have 10,000 butterflies at a time fluttering under its 300ft-wide, walk-through dome, is being built just off the M25, near St Albans, Hertfordshire. The £25m project was launched [...]

OSU A rare wolverine has been documented in the Tahoe National Forest by a researcher from Oregon State University working with colleagues at the U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Southwest Research Station – the first confirmed sighting of the animal in nearly three-quarters of a century. : William J. Zielinski, a research ecologist with the Pacific [...]

NOAA The least biologically productive areas of the oceans are expanding much faster than predicted, according to a new study by researchers at NOAA and the University of Hawaii. This change in ocean biology, linked to the warming of sea surface waters, may negatively affect the populations of many fish species trying to survive in [...]

BBC Scientists in the US have presented one of the most dramatic forecasts yet for the disappearance of Arctic sea ice. Their latest modelling studies indicate northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years. : Summer melting this year reduced the ice cover to 4.13 million sq km, the smallest ever [...]