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Earth Day was founded in the very end of the 1960's The idea started developing in September 1969... (1) ...and in April 1970, the first Earth Day gathered millions of American protesters ! Click on the satellite image of our planet to find out about...
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On March 20, the Eyjafjallajokull (pheeew ;o) volcano bursts for the first time in 190 years 2 days later, lava continues to spew out and spill into nearby canyons April 14 : the Icelandic Civil Protection Department orders evacuations of towns and farms...
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The exact composition of the Icelandic volcano plume is not known precisely ; "the pollutants of greatest concern to human health in plumes from volcanoes are normally mineral particulates, sulphur dioxide (SO2), fluoridic acids and hydrochloric acid"....
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Switch lights off... tonight ! What do you know about 'Earth Hour' ? Before taking the quiz, watch the Canadian video below once -don't cheat ;-) : And now... YOUR TURN ! 'Earth Hour' 2010 1) Global warming develops... now and then much faster than predicted...
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... or shall we discover new words for the snow storm that hit some Eastern American states ? Suppliers of the satellite picture above : NOOA, NASA & the OSEI [Public Domain] In the beginning of his speech on February 6 at the Democratic National Committee...
Lire la suite7 weeks after the end of the Copenhagen Summit, watch this video clip in which Leonardo Di Caprio is prompting us to act : He suggests every American should spread the news about the 'Clean Energy' Bill, and make his Senators vote for it. ____________________________________________________...
Lire la suiteCopenhagen Summit delegates and experts interviews and videos 24/7 I know it sometimes goes pretty fast, but every now and then, listen to them so as to train your ears... You'll discover the more you listen, the more you understand :o)
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Speech at T.E.D.'s -Technology, Entertainment, Design (1) The former vice-president of the U.S.A. (also film-'star' of "An inconvenient truth") suggests 15 possible ways of reducing climate change... now ! The man who called himself the "former future...
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A 2-minute version of the Google Earth Climate introductory tour View the potential impacts of climate change on our planet Earth : find out about possible solutions for adaptation and mitigation, ahead of the UN's climate conference ^ in Copenhagen (COP15),...
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