NASA Released Shocking Photos Of Planet Earth Revealing The Heartless Damage We've Caused! I was looking at these photos and I was reminded of a scene from “The Matrix” where agent Smith tells Neo that humanity is a virus to this planet. I don’t want to believe that. I think we all have a choice. You have bacteria in your gut that helps you digest food and live. We can choose to be like the beneficial bacteria instead of a virus. However, implementing this ‘choice’ is the real problem for us.
Tropical Rainforests Almost the Size of India Will Be Lost by 2050. But Here's How YOU Can Stop It Using satellite imagery and data from 100 countries, the Washington-based Center for Global Development has predicted that 289 million hectares (715 million acres) of tropical forests would be axed by 2050 – that’s an area the size of India, or four times the size of the US state of Texas. Scientists Jonah Busch and Jens Engelmann, project that this tropical deforestation will release 169 GtCO2 into the atmosphere from 2016-2050 — one-sixth of the remaining carbon that can be emitted if the rise in the Earth’s temperature is to be held below 2 °C (the equivalent of running 44,000 coal-fired power plants for a year). However, they also say much of the losses can be avoided if world leaders put a price on carbon emissions through taxes, payments for emissions reductions, or find a way to limit deforestation. “Conserving tropical forests is a bargain. Reducing emissions from tropical deforestation costs about a fifth as much as reducing emissions in the European Union.
20 Beautiful Highly Detailed Papercraft Models Most of us, at least once in our lives, have built a paper model with delight and passion. Some of those models were printed in the back of box of cereals or as a magazine insert. Colorful papercraft models are now widely available on the web, free to download and ready to be printed and assembled. For those who want something more challenging than a simple basic model, this list gathers twenty beautifully designed, highly detailed complex paper sculptures.
The Nature of Geographic Information Systems The Nature of Geographic Information Systems By Charles Convis, ESRI, Sept 28, 1996 Table of Contents Section 2 What is GIS? Unbelievable Photos Show Factory Farms Destroying The American Countryside By Harrison Jacobs / businessinsider.com/ Nov 11, 2014 Food production has become a race for maximum efficiency. When it comes to producing meat, whether chicken, beef, or pork, that race has fallen at the feet of the so-called factory farm and its hallmark feature — the feedlot. Feedlots, officially called Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO), house thousands of animals in tiny, confined spaces before they're slaughtered. Critics call the practice inhumane and say it breeds environmental problems and disease.
Fukushima: The Extinction-Level Event That No One Is Talking About [Video] - ORGANIC AND HEALTHY One repercussion of this has been the pollution of radioactive waste into the sea. It is thought that hundreds of tons of radioactive waste has been pumped inot the sea every day ever since. The nuclear waste has penetrated the Japanese food chain and has been detected in food over 200 miles away. 16 Awesome Star Wars Papercraft Models Some time ago I gathered a list of 100 Exceptional Free Paper Models and Toys that was quite well received by the readers of this blog. The amount and quality of paper craft models available for download is amazing. Chances are that anything that’s popular and geeky, has already been converted into a paper craft model. Since Star Wars is both extremely popular and absolutely geeky, then it is not a surprise that loads of paper craft models are available on the web.
Description: The Companion to Development Studies contains over a hundred chapters written by leading international experts within the field to provide a concise and authoritative overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary development studies. Covering a wide range of disciplines the book is divided into ten sections, each prefaced by a section introduction written by the editors. nypost THE Great Barrier Reef has been declared dead by scientists at 25 million years old – which would bring an end to the colourful life of the world’s largest single structure of living organisms. The incredible Coral Sea wilderness, which stretches for roughly 1,400 miles over an area of roughly 133,00sq/m, is said to have finally succumbed to bleaching. Getty Images Some scientists have rubbished claims the reef is dead as greatly exaggerated, but have explained that it is under severe stress. A mass bleaching event fuelled by warmer oceans because of climate change has harmed corals around the world, but has been most visibility damaging to the Great Barrier Reef.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand Terra, An Ode to Humanity TERRA tells the story of life. Yann Arthus Bertrand and Michael Pitiot reveal the incredible saga of our living planet. From the first lichen to the gigantic forests, monkeys of the jungle to the mythic animals of the savannah. Over barely 10,000 years, life on Earth has been profoundly affected by the incredible development of humanity. 40 Papercraft Templates When considering papercraft, your first thought will most likely be of all that boring stuff you made in school, like paper flowers, printable seasonal cards or even scrap-booking. It doesn’t exactly sound like a hobby that stimulates much excitement, for the most of us anyway. How wrong you are. In actual fact, papercraft can be really cool and loads of fun, especially when you build one of the geeky printable templates we have for you in this post.
A Bird’s Eye View of the Industrial Scars We Have Left on Our Planet Industrial Scars is the work of environmentalist and photographer, J Henry Fair, who brings our attention to the tragic effects created by the human impact on our planet. At first, his photographs are mesmerisingly beautiful: taken at bird’s eye perspective from a small plane, their shapes, colours and details give them an aesthetic quality that entrance and capture the imagination, yet concern and horror creep in on the realisation of the true reality of the subject. Our ever-increasing demand for energy, regularly-changing eating habits and rampant consumerism are rapidly leading to the degradation of our planet.