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A follow up article on the Arctic Vault that we posted about sometime back. ====== reuters : : The project is at the heart of an effort by Fowler’s foundation, the Global Crop Diversity Trust, to safeguard strains of 21 essential crops, such as wheat, barley and rice. Rice alone exists in about 120,000 different [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

 Greanpeace A series of claymation (Clay + Animation) by the folks from Greanpeace urging more people including political and business leaders to take up the challenges to help prevent climate change. Einstein got a new bright idea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_JmXkKS_14 Newton got a new bright idea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8swc00Md-U Archimedes got a new bright idea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkT44r-1VxM

Reuters Asian nations must prepare to tackle disasters unleashed by global warming with the same urgency they now focus on fighting disease epidemics, the World Health Organization said on Monday. And with Asia’s share of global greenhouse gas emissions from burning fuels expected to grow, urgent action was needed to mitigate the situation, said Shigeru [...]

Google Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), today announced the RechargeIT initiative (http://www.rechargeit.org) that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and oil dependence by accelerating the adoption of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (“plug-ins”. As part of this initiative, Google.org awarded $1 million in grants and announced plans for a $10 million request [...]

Discovery Channel Icebergs that break off Antarctica and drift away turn out to be hotspots of life in the cold Southern Ocean, researchers report. : Turns out, the melting ice also dumps particles scraped off Antarctica into the ocean, providing a pool of nutrients that feed plankton and tiny shrimplike creatures known as krill. : [...]

news @ nature.com A glacial lake in the Andes has disappeared mysteriously, prompting local geologists to head to Bernardo O’Higgins National Park in Patagonia, Chile, to find out what happened. The lake, some 20,000 square metres in area, was last seen in March. By May, all that was left was a 30-metre-deep crater and a [...]

Follow up report on “Greenland ice sheet loss speeding up“. reuters New research shows that man-made climate change could cause the Greenland ice sheet to break up in hundreds, rather than thousands, of years, the chair of a United Nations panel of scientists said on Monday. Its entire collapse would raise sea-levels globally by around [...]