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“When multiplied by a global chorus, our individual voices and actions become exponential in their impact.”United Nations, World Environment Day Committee

World Environment Day 2014 United Nations

Today is all about working together for the good of the planet. It is World Environment Day (WED)!

Every year on June 5, the United Nations celebrates the biggest day of the year for positive environmental action. This year’s host nation for World Environment Day is the small Caribbean island of Barbados, which is rising as a world leader in

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A new research from the United Kingdom's National Weather Service, the Met Office investigates why there has been no increase in global average rainfall over land during the last century despite a 0.8°C rise in average temperatures on the planet.

As they explain, the hydrological cycle is a key component of the Earth's climate system. Changes in this cycle have a direct impact on droughts, floods, water resources and ecosystems. Increasing levels of greenhouse gases, contributing to the warming o

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Tropical forests cover 15% of the globe's surface and capture 25% of the carbon present in the atmosphere. These healthy forests play a critical role in curbing climate change. They "breathe" CO2 from the atmosphere and store it in trees and soil; in fact, roughly half of the world's terrestrial carbon is stored in forests, according to the international organization Conservation International.

Costa Rica is the only tropical country to substantially reverse deforestationCosta Rica is the first, and so far the only, tropical country in the world that has reversed a decades

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By Shannon Farley

Take a deep breath. Now imagine your lung capacity reduced by one-fifth. Find it a bit harder to breathe? What if that lessens?

Now take your focus out to a global view, and you hav9008742460?profile=originale a clear picture of what is happening in the Amazon Rainforest. The Amazon is the largest contiguous tropical forest in the world, and releases 20% of the world’s life-giving oxygen. Today in 2012, due to mostly slash-and-burn deforestation, nearly one-fifth of the Amazon’s forest has been cleared (Am

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Two years ago, news in regards to climate change and its effects in island groups threaten by the possible rising of the sea level, where all over the media. Nothing has changed, countries and their leaders don't quiet seem to become aware of the damage caused by environmental pollution, climate change, etc in areas that are at risk due to these factors. This is a reminder of another news where it was said that "Youngsters of today will be the first generation that will live worst than their par

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