Earth Storm wallpaper, Loss of seagrasses cause for concern, No climate report was “suppressed”

Earth Storm wallpaper
Loss of seagrasses ‘accelerating’
“The losses have been quite substantial,” says Kendrick. “Every year we’re losing about 110 square kilometres of seagrasses globally.”
He and colleagues found that since 1980, 29% of seagrass has disappeared and the overall rate of loss has accelerated from 0.9% a year, before 1940, to 7% a year, since 1990.
In [...]

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Beach Front Trees wallpaper, Africa might get world’s largest solar project, Global Climate Change Impacts in the U.S.

Beach Front Trees wallpaper
Europe Looks to Africa for Solar Power
The European project known as Desertec is nothing if not ambitious.
It aims to harvest the sun’s energy — using a method known as concentrating solar power, or C.S.P. — from the vast North African desert and deliver it as electricity, via high-voltage transmission lines, to markets [...]

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Frosted Mountains with River wallpaper, Cooking oil spill in Cuyahoga River, 1,400 jobs created by new green park

Frosted Mountains and River wallpaper
ODNR: Cooking oil spill in Cuyahoga River kills hundreds of birds
CLEVELAND — The U.S. Coast Guard continues to search for the source of a food-based oil spill in the Cuyahoga River after approximately 200 birds were found dead Friday morning and another 100 to 200 had to be euthanized.
Dan Kramer, of [...]

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Reflections Green Drops wallpaper, Solar costs water, Waste as green fuel

Reflections Green Drops wallpaper
New Solar Power Plants May Threaten Scarce Desert Water Resources
In contrast, most large solar power projects use a system called concentrating solar power, or CSP, that heats a fluid that boils water to turn a turbine. CSP, just like any thermal power plant, produces waste heat as a byproduct. In most cases, [...]

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Turtle Island wallpaper, Legless frog mystery solved, The realities of solar and wind

Turtle Island wallpaper
Legless frogs mystery solved. A mystery older then that of bee colony collapse. Some thought that frogs with missing hind limbs were suffering from the toxic effects of pollution. While I had not heard of it until I read the article, apparently a few folks thought it might be due to a diminished [...]

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