Global Warming
Every Step Counts
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Greenpeace has been investigating the cattle industry in Brazil. Not only is the cattle industry the chief source of CO2 emissions in Brazil and also responsible for 80% of deforestation in the Amazon, it is also the largest single driver of deforestation anywhere in the world.
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Obama on Mt Rushmore? Greenpeace Banner Calls for Global Warming Leadership
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Members of Greenpeace hang a banner on Mt. Rushmore challenging him to take more action against global warming.
National Geographic: Global Warming 101
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Global warming could do more than just melt polar ice. It could change our maps, and displace people from cities and tropical islands.
Save The Planet
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Music montage of the effects of global warming on the environment.
Greenland glacier to lose five billions tons of ice!
The Petermann glacier in Greenland is the largest Arctic glacier, but it’s about to get quite a bit smaller.
Scientists say that an ice chunk around the size of Manhattan is about to fall off of the glacier, which they say has been disintegrating for years now.
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Greenpeace has done it again
Greenpeace is infamous for its insatiable appetite for inappropriate and illegal publicity stunts. They took a unique (and potentially dangerous) approach on Thursday, sending several climbers up Mt. Rushmore in the middle of the night to hang a giant banner that weighed in at 75lbs and was 65ft. high and 35 ft. wide! The massive poster featured a portrait of Obama and read, “America honors leaders not politicians: Stop Global Warming.”
Poor hit hardest as the Earth heats up
Earlier this week, Oxfam released a new report tying poverty and climate change together. Basically, the report shows how the effects climate changes, like global warming, impact people in third-world communities a lot more and harder than people in the developed world.
The report reads: “Climate change is happening today and the world’s poorest people, who already face a daily struggle to survive, are being hit hardest.”
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