We Are Using 20% More Resources Than The Earth Can Produce
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The human race is plundering the planet at a pace that outstrips its capacity to support life, according to a report by WWF. The Living Planet Report 2004 shows that humans currently consume 20 per cent more
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We consume more every year, and the building industry is no exception. But more complex buildings are creating bigger problems when it comes to dealing with waste.
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Even with a boost from higher oil prices and growing concern about global warming, the payoff on most alternative energy technologies seems a ways off.
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Larger supplies, more energy alternatives, and a slowing economy could be factors.
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It's the business end of climate change: ensuring that the $20 trillion the world will spend on energy over the next two decades is as environmentally friendly as possible.
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Feeding the world is a growth business. The global population is expanding by more than 70 million mouths a year, and the system that supplies the food is racing to keep pace. You see the strain in the mere 1.3 percent growth in grain production each year during the past 20 years. To keep up with...
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Not all of the Arctic thaw is caused by man. Nature plays a role, too, but that doesn't let us off the hook for the damage we've done.
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Global warming could cost the world up to $20 trillion over two decades for cleaner energy sources and do the most harm to people who can least afford to adapt, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns in a new report.
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Humanity's reliance on fossil fuels, the spread of cities, the destruction of natural habitats for farmland and over-exploitation of the oceans are destroying Earth's ability to sustain life, the environmental group WWF warned in a new report Thursday.
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p2pnet.net OT News:- Humans currently consume 20% more natural resources than the earth can produce, says a new report that examines the ecological effect of modern consumption patterns on natural resources.
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An artist's rendering of a bowhead whale diving. (Richard Ellis) Our endless quest for that wondrous liquid fossil fuel, oil, is expanding toward the ends of the Earth as higher prices justify more extreme extraction efforts. Jad Mouawad, my friend and colleague covering the global oil industry, ventured to frigid Barrow, Alaska, recently to write about [...].
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People are plundering the world's resources at a pace that outstrips the planet's capacity to sustain life, the environmental group WWF said Thursday.
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REYKJAVIK, Jun 20 (IPS) - Icelanders more than anyone else find most of the  energy they need beneath their feet.
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An environmental group says earth&#39;s people are using up the planet faster than it can restore itself and the west is the chief culprit.
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THE DIRTY big secret about US energy production is that coal is about to play an even larger role. Already more than 50 percent of US electricity comes from plants burning coal, the fossil fuel that emits
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The devastation wrought by nature can be terrible. However, it can be made much worse by humans-by both our activity and inactivity.
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If disaster &mdash; climate change, nuclear war &mdash; ever wipes out the world's crops,  we'll need spare seeds. Inside the ultimate agricultural backup system.