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The acceleration of global warming continues with this August and July tying for the label of hottest month on record. Almost every month for the last two years has been the hottest of its season, but this year the gap is widening. 2016 is about three tenths of a degree Celsius warmer than 2015. Among Continue Reading →
Sixty percent of countries in the Asia Pacific region face water insecurity according to the Asia Water Development Outlook report released last week. The region currently has 1.7 billion people with no access to sanitation and includes 22 cities with populations that will exceed ten million by 2030. These numbers have improved compared to the Continue Reading →
Spraying for the Zika virus in South Carolina USA has resulted in a massive death toll of the bee population in the fertile and productive farming area. Local farmers and environmentalists are up in arms that the local government sprayed an insecticide called Naled from aircraft for two hours on Sunday August 28th. Those concerns Continue Reading →
Two thirds of Africa’s forest elephants have been wiped out by poaching in the last decade. An estimated 100,000 elephants have been killed by poachers in that period. The population of elephants has fallen from around 20 million animals to less than one third of a million. At current rates there will be no elephants Continue Reading →
The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, abbreviated as CETA, has attracted broad criticism this week following an impassioned piece by George Monbiot in the UK Guardian. The treaty is promoted by its Canadian and EU backers as a key to opening cross Atlantic trade and therefor increasing wealth. Its critics point out that allowing global corporations Continue Reading →
The rapid take up of renewable energy has been boosted by Chinese government subsidies for electric cars, rapidly boosting their world ranking to the number one producer. Over half a million electric cars were produced worldwide last year, 200 thousand of them in China. The Chinese government believes the car is the key to a Continue Reading →