Landsat images and the Google Earth Engine have been able to show us how the Earth’s surface has been changing, reports TreeHugger. “Today, we’re making it possible for you to go back in time and get a stunning historical perspective on the changes to the Earth’s surface over time,” says Google. “Working [...]

Artist Narcelio Grud from Brazil has created urban artwork out of discarded fruits and vegetables to raise awareness about food wastage. According to some statistics, people who live in developed countries throw away 30 to 50 percent of their food. Grud’s project, called “Tropical Hungry,” shows an open mouth made [...]

Scientists have found that Chicago’s air is infested with chemicals courtesy of airborne compounds that are traveling as far as the Arctic. The chemicals, called cyclic siloxanes, are toxic to aquatic life. Where do they come from? From chemicals in deodorants, lotions and conditioners. “These chemicals are just everywhere,” said Keri Hornbuckle, [...]

NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) has reported that the U.S. east coast sea surface temperatures had the warmest year in 2012 in the past 150 years. The researchers analyzed temperatures between Cape Hatteras, N.C. and the Gulf of Maine using satellite and ship-board measurements. They found that the average sea [...]

According to Reuters, there was a 0.7 percent dip in 2011 for greenhouse gas emissions from industrialized nations. Reuters shares: For many years it has been a mantra that rich nations, historically the top polluters, should make the biggest cuts in emissions while emerging economies could burn more energy to [...]

Reuters has reported that the increased demand for ivory and rhino horns in Asia (for gifts and hangover cures) is resulting in a poaching boom and officials are calling for stiffer penalties for traffickers to curb that trend. Officials at a United Nations conference in Vienna, wildlife crime and illegal [...]

There is a village in India where the community has a unique tradition of planting 111 trees when a girl is born. This tradition, which is practiced by members of the Piplantri village in Rajasthan, is breaking barriers on two fronts: environmental change and social change. Too many plants is [...]

According to a recent study by Australian and British researchers, as initially reported by Reuters, the rate at which ice is melting in Antarctica during the summer is at the highest level in 1,000 years. The researchers—from the Australian National University and the British Antarctic Survey—found from data taken at [...]

The already endangered manatees are not even more threatened in their environment, courtesy of a toxic read algae bloom off the western coast of Florida, reports The New York Times. “The tide has killed 241 of Florida’s roughly 5,000 manatees, according to the state Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, and [...]

A new study has found that heavy rainstorms will increase significantly by the end of the century. The study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, is the first of its kind to focus on the heaviest rain and snowstorms. It adds to previous studies which have already confirmed that extreme precipitation [...]