World Environment Day (WED) occurs on 5 June every year, and is the United Nation‘s principal vehicle for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the protection of our environment. First held in 1974, it has been a flagship campaign for raising awareness on emerging environmental issues from marine pollution, human overpopulation, and global warming, to sustainable consumption and wildlife crime. WED has grown to become a global platform for public outreach, with participation from over 143 countries annually. Each year, WED has a new theme that major corporations, NGOs, communities, governments and celebrities worldwide adopt to advocate environmental causes.
Antarctic rift close to calving, grown 17kms in 6 days
The rift in the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctic has grown by 17km in the last few days and is now only 13km from the ice front, indicating that calving of an iceberg is probably very close, Swansea University researchers revealed after studying the latest satellite data.
Development of Destruction: Climate change is not a fad
Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord has shocked the Americans and rest of the world alike. USA has been the biggest contributor to the carbon footprints statistics in the history of the world and this decision of leaving the Paris Climate Accord has simply highlighted the hypocrisy of world’s ‘Strongest Nation’.
The Great Barrier Reef is in its last stage, claims study
London: Last summer, the record high temperatures around the Great Barrier Reef led much of the coral getting bleached, overcooked, diseased and dying off.
These levels weren’t expected to be seen until the 2050s.
During mass extinction no species safe: study
Dominant species spread across the globe are just as vulnerable during a mass extinction event as more fragile ones confined to a single locale, according to a study published Tuesday.
As Earth enters the sixth such concentrated annihilation of life over the last half-billion years, this could be bad news for humans, the researchers say.
Five Endangered Feline Species that we should care about more
The big cats of the world might seem furious and dangerous in nature, but they are still being hunted to extinction by the most dangerous species of the world i.e. the Homo sapiens. We are putting forward a list of ten endangered big cats that needs your support for their existence.