Ecology

The Amazon rainforest and the desert of Chihuahua, corals or the Bengal tiger are among the ten regions or species considered wonders of nature and that are threatened by climate change, warned yesterday the World Wide Fund for Nature.
Between 30 percent and 60 percent of the Amazon jungle, home of 40 000 plants and 427 [...]

Although the Earth is mostly covered by water, the proportion prepared for human consumption is very little. The worst thing is that any action against them affects the whole environmental chain.
The picture of the damage to the waters begin by pesticides, which are insecticides, fungicides and herbicides used by the agricultural industry.
Decades ago, talk about [...]

The list of the places, in no particular order is:
1 Riachuelo Basin, Argentina
The Riachuelo Basin is a waterway whose name is synonymous with pollution. More than 3,500 factories operate along the banks of the river, a landscape that also includes 13 slums, numerous illegal sewage pipes running directly into the river, and 42 open [...]

The experts said that they can restrict the hunt, the marine traffic and the petroleum activity out of the coast, but it will not be enough if the basic habitat of these animals, the ice, continues melting. Definitively, this goes beyond my scope “, said Joel Garlich-Miller, an expert in walruses of the Service of [...]

The marine aptitude to absorb carbon dioxide is exhausting in another sample of the excessive emisión of gases greenhouse caused by the activity of the man in the Herat. A recently study of the Nacional Geographic indicated that between 2000 and 2007,as consecuense of the emisión of this gas the oceanic absorption of the carbon [...]

The process across how the plants grow and produce more quantity of vegetable biomass is one of the most important biological processes in the planet.
An international team of scientists has presented a new  study that demonstrates that, as the vegetable  species in the  world become extinct the natural habitats become less productive and contain a [...]

Pollution exposure during pregnancy reduces the IQ of children, according to a study published in the journal Pediatrics.
The study was conducted by the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health and National Institute for Health of United States. At five years 249 children were studied from the City of new york. The results showed that polycyclic [...]

DISCOVER THE KNOWLEDGE OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES WHO HAVE THROUGHOUT THE AGES MAINTAINED HEALTH, WELLNESS AND SUSTAINABILITY
At a time when institutions and ecosystems are collapsing, Blue Deer Center: A Healing Retreat Center and Home for Ancestral Traditions houses native teachings and practices that provide balance and sustainability. These ancient health and wellness methods recognize that [...]

Germán Poveda,  scientist, member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said that expanding the agricultural frontier and the proliferation of illicit crops have been devastated nearly fifty per cent of the forests in several regions of the country, which is more dangerous on the mountains.
“The problem of deforestation is so severe that the tropical [...]

Climate change kills 300,000 people annually and represents an economic cost of 125,000 million dollars (90,000 million euros), according to a report of the Global Humanitarian Forum headed by Kofi Annan presented in London.
The publication of this study, which is backed by several institutes and international agencies, is part of a strategy that seeks to [...]

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