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March 22, 2016
New Greenpeace International research released today, on World Water Day, finds that coal power plants around the world consume enough freshwater to sustain one billion people. The World Economic Forum has listed water security as one of the most tangible and fastest-growing social, political and economic challenges faced today. The high water intensity of global energy generation is creating a need for an analysis of water-coal conflict caused by coal power production.
March 18, 2016
As the world stands at a climate crossroads, Earth Hour is inviting people around the world to be a part of the climate action our planet urgently needs. Teams in more than 150 countries are leading the charge to take the movement to new heights, be it by promoting renewable energy through partnerships and petitions, driving awareness on sustainable food and lifestyles or bringing together entire regions to tackle the most pressing climate issues of our generation.
March 10, 2016
In a “Joint Statement on Climate, Energy, and Arctic Leadership” issued today, President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined together to call for historic actions to prevent the worst impacts of climate change and specifically protect the Arctic from fossil fuel exploitation.
February 11, 2016
Attention super-villains: with huge quantities of carbon dioxide, you can evaporate all of Earth’s water off to space. Although it probably won’t happen here, the same process might make Earth-like planets around other stars uninhabitable.
February 10, 2016
Monitoring Earth’s surface every day, ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite has had a ringside seat as the second largest lake in Bolivia gradually dried up.
January 25, 2016
Fragments of spent rockets and other debris orbiting the Earth pose ‘special political danger’ of damage to satellites being misconstrued as attack. The steady rise in space junk that is floating around the planet could provoke a political row and even armed conflict, according to scientists, who warn that even tiny pieces of debris have enough energy to damage or destroy military satellites.
December 22, 2015
Video: Watch 60 years of space junk accumulate in 1 minute. Humans are messy, and not just here on Earth. Now, you can see all the junk we’ve launched into space for yourself with a data-driven animation created for the United Kingdom's Royal Institution by Stuart Grey, an astronomer at University College London. It all begins in 1957 when the Soviet Union launches Sputnik, a 58.5-centimeter-wide ball emitting radio pulses. A piece of the rocket that took it into orbit was the very first piece of space junk.
December 17, 2015
International Association for Geoethics (IAGETH) supports the content and spirit of cooperation envisioned in the Paris Agreement on Climate Change
Scientists play (and will play) a vital role for Society, which is not only based on the generation of scientific knowledge, but also in taking into account and facing societal and ethical issues.
December 10, 2015
Workshop on Geoethics in the 8th International Conference on the Geology of Africa (ICGA 2015). The Geology Department of Assiut University invited scientists to gather in the capital of Upper Egypt for the Eighth International Conference on the Geology of Africa (ICGA 2015), 24-26 November 2015. This conference is the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied geological sciences.
December 7, 2015
A major earthquake shook Tajikistan on Monday. The 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck at 12:50 p.m. local time on Monday in the most sparsely populated area of Tajikistan in the Hindu Kush Mountains, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported.