Polluted air causes 5.5 million deaths a year new research says
Source: BBC More than 5.5 million people worldwide are dying prematurely every year as a result of air pollution, according to new research. Most of these deaths are occurring in […]
Religious leaders call for safeguarding environment
By Rula Samain – Jan 30,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Religious leaders and environmentalists on Saturday stressed the importance of safeguarding nature and protecting the environment. At a one day event organised by the Catholic Centre for Studies and Media in cooperation with Konard Adenauer Stiftung, Christian and […]
El Nino weather: Worries grow over humanitarian impact
Source: BBC The strongest El Nino weather cycle on record is likely to increase the threat of hunger and disease for millions of people in 2016, aid agencies say. The […]
The last word in green transport
Source: BBC We are hopeful, here, about green transportation breakthroughs, setting our cynicism aside for any planet-pleasing press release. But — perhaps because we are suffering from a particularly nasty […]
Society ‘to be hit by climate change’
Source: BBC Human societies will soon start to experience adverse effects from manmade climate change, a prominent economist has warned. Prof Richard Tol predicts the downsides of warming will outweigh […]
First the Netherlands, now Pakistan’s high court comes to defence of climate
theguardian: by Julien Bouissou — A minor revolution in climate justice has just taken place in one of the countries most affected by global warming, reports Le Monde Villagers clear flood water from their houses in Jhado near Hyderabad, Pakistan. The high court of justice in Lahore has ordered the […]
Simply Breathing the Air Kills 3.3 Million People Every Year
MotherJones: by James West — And that number could double by 2050. Air pollution kills 3.3 million people per year. And that number could double by 2050 if nothing is done to clean up the dangerous levels tiny particles, toxins, and ozone that blanket many countries, especially in Asia. These […]
New threat to Taj Mahal
Hindu: Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad, the city of glass and bangles, will now be surveyed for air pollution caused by its glass units operating within the Taj Trapezium Zone (TTZ) covering the Taj Mahal and 40 other protected monuments. The world famous glass industries which have been in news since 1990s […]
Having a Smaller Carbon Footprint in Ramadan
Source: The Huffington Post By Zaher Sahloul; President of The Syrian American Medical Society We are blessed to welcome Ramadan again this year. It is a time for fasting, spiritual fulfillment, emotional rebalancing, mental reflection and physical purification. Ramadan is the ideal time for balancing the spirit, the mind and the […]
Focus on Islam, Christianity and Environment
Epigraph: The sun and the moon run their courses according to a fixed reckoning. And the stemless plants and the trees humbly submit to His will. And the heaven He […]
An Islamic Response to Pope Francis' Encyclical on Environment
Epigraph: The sun and the moon run their courses according to a fixed reckoning. And the stemless plants and the trees humbly submit to His will. And the heaven He […]
An Islamic Response to Pope Francis’ Encyclical on Environment
Epigraph: The sun and the moon run their courses according to a fixed reckoning. And the stemless plants and the trees humbly submit to His will. And the heaven He […]
Church of England to introduce monthly fast for planet Earth as vicars trained in ‘eco-theology’
Epigraph: The sun and the moon run their courses according to a fixed reckoning. And the stemless plants and the trees humbly submit to His will. And the heaven He […]
Berlin duo launch a supermarket with no packaging
theguardian: by Leah Borromeo — Original Unverpackt founders Sara Wolf and Milena Glimbovski. It works like this. You bring your own containers and have those weighed. Berlin-based supermarket Original Unverpackt labels your containers. You shop. When you get to the till, the weight of your containers is subtracted and you […]
These teens are taking their climate lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court
grist.org: by Sam Bliss — Those feisty, litigious climate-hawk kids just won’t go away. Back in 2011, we wrote about a group of witty whippersnappers that filed a lawsuit against the federal government. The premise: The government must take action to protect the atmosphere for future generations. On Oct. 3, those […]
Science chief warns on acid oceans
The UK’s chief scientist says the oceans face a serious and growing risk from man-made carbon emissions. The oceans absorb about a third of the CO2 that’s being produced by industrial society, and this is changing the chemistry of seawater. Sir Mark Walport warns that the acidity of the oceans […]
Africa: Worsening Climate Change Could Affect the Economy
allAfrica.com: The devastating effects of climate change are already being felt across the planet, including in Africa. The 2011 drought-induced famine in the Horn of Africa affected more than 10 million people, claimed 257,000 lives and cost over $1 billion in damages. The recent Africa Adaptation Gap report by the […]
Ancient African fish dust nourishes Amazon
The Amazon is being fertilised by the remains of ancient fish from Africa. The nutrient-rich material is being carried in millions of tonnes of dust blown across the Atlantic from the Sahara every year. Scientists have long recognised the importance of this airborne train to the rainforest’s health. But now […]
Leading climate scientists call on religious leaders to help save the environment
Two of the world’s leading scientists have made an unprecedented call on religious leaders to spark a “massive mobilisation of public opinion”, insisting that only through God can we save the environment. Writing in the journal Science, Cambridge University’s Partha Dasgupta and Veerabhadran Ramanathan, of the University of California, have […]
Life Discovered In Antarctic Lake That Hasn’t Seen Sunlight For Millions Of Years
Epigraph: Do not the disbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were a closed-up mass, then We opened them out? And We made from water every living thing. Will they not then […]