A mystery disease is killing off yellow-eyed penguin chicks in New Zealand in a fresh blow to efforts to conserve the world’s rarest member of the penguin family, a conservation group said on Thursday. The disease killed up to 80 percent of this spring’s chick’s in the worst affected areas on New Zealand’s South Island.
Via:Pensées perdues You can’t but be captured by the beauty of this tree which looks just like a ballet dancer hypnotized by the magic of melodies…Subhana Allah!
“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river”. ~Ross Perot
Wangari Maathai, Kenya’s deputy environment minister won Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, to be the first African woman to win the Peace Prize.Details…
At least 80 whales and dolphins have died after beaching themselves on a remote island between the Australian mainland and the country’s island state of Tasmania.It’s still unknown why the animals beached themselves. The deaths come a year after 100 pilot whales died on a remote beach on the southwest coast of Tasmania. Via: 4eco.comSource: [...]
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We are consuming about 20% more natural resources than the planet can produce, WWF International has warned. “We are spending nature’s capital faster than it can regenerate,” WWF’s director general Claude Martin said following the launch of its “Living Planet” report. “We are running up an ecological debt which we won’t be able to pay [...]
California should try to add solar energy systems to 1 million homes by 2017 to save electricity and cut pollution from power plants, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Friday. To implement the energy plan would require home builders to offer solar panels as an option for new homes in the state by 2008. Home buyers [...]
An exhibit on ecologically friendly architecture in Germany “Made in Germany: Architecture & Ecology” opened in Barcelona on July 6, and will travel to 14 other cities before it closes, in April 2006. The exhibit highlights the country’s position at the forefront of a growing movement in ‘green’ building techniques.The German architect and engineer Werner [...]
