http://effectsofglobalwarming.cyber-footprint.com Global Climate Change, Prevent Global Warming Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:32:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Though harmless at first glance, the Venezuelan cane toad has wreaked havoc with Australia’s ecosystem over the 75 years since it was introduced. Killing even big predators like crocodiles through its poison and laying up to 30,000 eggs in one go, the cane toad is a force to reckon with. ... http://effectsofglobalwarming.cyber-footprint.com/uncategorized/meat-ants-devour-venezuelan-cane-toad/ Whether viewed from above or below the surface of the water, whether they are alive or dead, they stand like apparitions, almost supernatural in appearance by dint of the fact that they should not be there. Trees, common sense tells us, were designed to climb into the air rooted in ... http://effectsofglobalwarming.cyber-footprint.com/uncategorized/7-most-incredible-sunken-forests-on-earth/ At long last, Google Maps has routes specifically for bikes. ... http://effectsofglobalwarming.cyber-footprint.com/uncategorized/attention-bikers-google-maps-is-for-you/ Tokyo, Japan: Japan is at risk of undermining its own recent commitments on carbon emissions reductions during a confused – and confusing – debate on forthcoming climate legislation, WWF said today. WWF is calling on a high-level Cabinet Member Committee meeting regarding climate change on Thursday to stick with the ... http://effectsofglobalwarming.cyber-footprint.com/climate-change/carbon-cap-and-trade-at-risk-as-japan-considers-climate-bill/ Two billion people worldwide do their cooking on open fires, producing sooty pollution that shortens millions of lives and exacerbates global warming. If widely adopted, a new generation of inexpensive, durable cook stoves could go a long way toward alleviating this problem. ... http://effectsofglobalwarming.cyber-footprint.com/uncategorized/improved-wood-stoves-could-improve-air-quality-and-health/ China and India joined almost all other major greenhouse gas emitters Tuesday in signing up to the climate accord struck in Copenhagen, boosting a deal strongly favored by the United States. ... http://effectsofglobalwarming.cyber-footprint.com/uncategorized/china-and-india-endorse-copenhagen-climate-accord/ Last week, the Gowanus Canal, a 1.8-mile, 100-foot wide waterway in northwest Brooklyn which empties into Upper New York Bay, was added to the National Priorities List (NPL) otherwise known Superfund by the Environmental Protection Agency. The new designation means that the EPA will now move ahead to clean ... http://effectsofglobalwarming.cyber-footprint.com/uncategorized/gowanus-canal-goes-superfund/ The sensitivity of Amazon rain forests to dry season droughts is still poorly understood, with reports of enhanced tree mortality and forest fires on one hand, and excessive forest greening on the other. In a current story there is a report that previous conclusions of large scale greening of the ... http://effectsofglobalwarming.cyber-footprint.com/uncategorized/amazon-droughts-and-greening/ About a year ago, nobody had even heard of Kseniya Simonova from the Ukrainian seaside town of Evpatoria. But then in April 2009, eight minutes would change the life of this pretty 24-year-old forever. Simonova entered “Ukraine’s Got Talent,” the franchise TV show also popular in the US, UK and... This ... http://effectsofglobalwarming.cyber-footprint.com/uncategorized/sand-art-like-you%e2%80%99ve-never-seen-it-before/ A snail doesn’t really conjure up images of danger and death unless that snail happens to be the cone snail. This is a snail that is like a tank. In place of a gun turret, it has a giant (for its size) hypodermic needle that fires like a harpoon and ... http://effectsofglobalwarming.cyber-footprint.com/uncategorized/the-most-terrifying-snail-on-earth/