Entries Categorized as 'Climate Change'

The Greenlifestyle Contest-A Step Towards Combating Climate Change

Date June 2, 2009

Lead The Action is initiating the green lifestyle campaign, A step towards combating climate change on the World Environment Day 5th June 2009. Individuals can deter the impact of the climate change by altering their ever growing and energy intensive consuming habits towards a much greener lifestyle which is more in tandem with nature. The [...]

Climate change threatens millions in Southeast Asia

Date June 1, 2009

MANADO, Indonesia – About 100 million people risk losing their homes and livelihoods unless drastic steps are taken to protect Southeast Asia’s coral reefs, which could be wiped out in coming decades because of climate change, a report says. The Coral Triangle – which spans Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands [...]

Trawling the seas for catastrophe

Date May 31, 2009

Marine world faces collapse due to unbridled and destructive fishing BANGKOK: – In the humid tropical dawn, the boats begin to arrive, unloading their plastic baskets of fish, shrimp, squid and crabs. Wiry tattooed men sort them, working among slabs of gleaming ice. Many of the fish are still flipping about; the crabs are tightly [...]

Killing the Ocean

Date May 27, 2009

World Ocean Conference and Coral Triangle Initiative participants should urgently consider nutrient pollution is killing coral as photographic evidence indicates, not CO2 induced climate change. Wrong diagnosis can be fatal. World Wildlife Fund and recent Indonesia CTI conference effort must focus on sanitation and proper sewage treatment to overcome nutrient pollution that is feeding algae [...]