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The UN calls for emergency humanitarian assistance

© Eric Isselée - Fotolia.com The United Nations announced yesterday July 21st that emergency humanitarian aide was still in need of roughly 4.8 billion dollars. For the moment, about 49% of the sum has been paid. However, given the increasing humanitarian crisis, the emergency assistance is needed now more than ever.

06 / 17 / 2009

Sustainable-development: where do business leaders rank?

Sustainable-development: where do business leaders rank? Grant Thornton, an auditing and consulting group, has published a study conducted by Experian Business Strategies Ltd on 7,200 private companies. The study, which was conducted in 36 countries (that account for 81 percent of the global GDP), gives an idea of where industry leaders rank in terms of sustainable development. The study also permits comparisons from country to country.

06 / 15 / 2009

Historic first: Emerging countries surpass developed nations in energy consumption

Historic first: Emerging countries surpass developed nations in energy consumption Historically, the member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) had always consumed the most energy. However, things have been changing in recent years. Now developing countries are the planets top energy consumers, and the increasing use of coal is of particular concern to the climate.

06 / 08 / 2009

Sustainable Agriculture: A lever in the fight against global warming

Sustainable Agriculture: A lever in the fight against global warming One billion people worldwide suffer from malnutrition, but environmentalist practices could remedy the situation. For instance, a more sustainable form of agriculture could help solve this problem, as well as that of greenhouse gas emissions. To raise awareness on the issue, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) published a letter on the matter addressed to the participating members of the current Bonn climate talks underway in Germany.

05 / 28 / 2009

The idea of “green funds” to fight global warming progresses

The idea of “green funds” to fight global warming progresses On May 25th and 26th, the world’s 16 largest polluters reunited in Paris to prepare for the Copenhagen summit this December, where an international accord post-2012 must be reached to replace the Kyoto Protocol. What are the accomplishments of this Major Economies Forum (MEF)? Not much apart from one key advancement: a shared willingness to create an international “green fund,” to finance the fight against global warming.

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By penetrating vertically into the earth crust, the fault, responsible for the earthquake in Chile has provoked a change in the rotation axis of the Earth, around 8 cm 09 / 03 / 2010

The earthquake in Chile deviates the course of the Planet

This offer will permit to scientists and scientific communities concerned with climate change to use the space station as a place of observation, available continuously, covering most of the globe 18 / 02 / 2010

The ISS used as base for monitoring climate

This result represents a breakthrough because it is the first time that there is evidence that a vaccine against the HIV virus has a preventive effect (Thai ministry of Health) 28 / 09 / 2009

AIDS: Hope of an experimental vaccine 

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Combining the assets of olive and laurel oils, it soothes, calms, and controls skin. 14 / 08 / 2009

Aleppo Soap: Dermatology Throughout the Ages

arnica, flower, global warming, niodiversity 03 / 08 / 2009

Arnica: taking care of body and soul

One man\\\'s trash is another man\\\'s treasure! 31 / 07 / 2009

Local ad sites help reduce waste in time of crisis

environment

I have never used any date due to my belief that it is not for the IPCC to predict any date. We always give a range and is the scientific method [...] Normally we are only give a hint about what can happen \\ 23 / 02 / 2010

Climate: Will the snow of the Himalayas really melt down?

The glaciers of the Himalayas should not disappear in 2035, as the supposed experts of the IPCC in their 2007 report. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC, ask for an apology. 27 / 01 / 2010

Melting glaciers : the IPCC in a turmoil

Over the last sixty years, each decade has been warmer than the previous. This kind of phenomenon does not happen by chance. It reflects what is happening in the world \ 25 / 01 / 2010

Climate : Australia has been through the warmest decade in its history!

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India, China, Brazil and South Africa called on rich countries to pay $ 10 billion solemnly promised in Copenhagen 03 / 03 / 2010

Climate: emerging countries ready to submit their projects to the UN

I am proud of the United Nations’ response. Rarely face to such a disaster the international community has acted with such solidarity and so quickly (Ban Ki-moon) 02 / 03 / 2010

Haiti : Ban Ki-moon calls on UN members for more participation

The World's largest CO2 emitter, charged of having slowed down the ambitions of Copenhagen, attempts to justify 23 / 12 / 2009

Copenhagen: Is China to be blamed for the "failure" of the summit


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