Climate Change

As soon as summer temperatures rise above the norm for a few days the media start getting excited about heat waves. Sometimes it just makes for a catchy headline but there’s no doubt that some are real episodes...

Earth Hour is the single, largest, symbolic mass participation event in the world. Born out of a hope that we could mobilize people to take action on climate change, Earth Hour now inspires a global community o...

Hurricane Sandy is hitting the northwest coast of US and it is threatening to paralyze almost all services for at least two days in the region. But apart from flooding and power outages, hurricanes also produce...

Almost the entire ice surface of Greenland has melted within four days, recent NASA's satellite images have shown. (more…)...

Rio+Social is a global conversation focusing on topics related to #SocialGood and how new media can help foster positive solutions to the world’s biggest problems, comes at a time when the world gathers to disc...

By TreeLiving Have you thought about doing your bit to save the Earth? Did you know that you can go green at everyday life with just a few changes? The carbon footprint is the way scientists measure the impact ...

SYDNEY, March 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- While over 70 percent of Australians believe that human activity is contributing to climate change, few know how to take action to prevent it. That's where a new Ektr...

As reported in the Guardian, the National Museums of Kenya (NMK) and the Kenya Wildlife Service say that warmer temperatures due to climate change have led to cheetahs developing extra coils in their sperm, wit...

By Amanda Bourne Every spring, wildflowers bloom by the thousands in Namaqualand’s coastal grasslands; for most of the rest of the year the region is a dry, dusty, semi-arid desert. It is also one of the ...