A village in northern Italy got the dubious distinction this year of becoming the first place in modern Europe to suffer an outbreak of a tropical disease.
Archive for December, 2007
Europe suffers its first tropical virus
Published December 31st, 2007 in Science, Climate & Weather, Animals, Global Warming and Human World. 4 CommentsMystery of the missing carbon dioxide
Published December 31st, 2007 in Science, Earth, Climate & Weather and Global Warming. 5 CommentsScientists have learned a lot about climate change in the last 20 years, but some questions remain unanswered. One of the most puzzling is that nobody knows where all of carbon dioxide emissions from around the globe end up every year.
Architects turn to green design
Published December 28th, 2007 in Science, Innovation, Sustainability, Global Warming and Human World. 3 CommentsClimate change has led architects to focus their craft on sustainable design, to create buildings that use less energy (thus saving money on energy costs) and reduce climate impacts.
Two approaches to saving coral reefs
Published December 8th, 2007 in Oceans, Science, Innovation, Earth, Animals and Global Warming. 2 CommentsIn Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, people are taking different approaches to preserving – and in one case re-growing – coral reefs. Global warming and rising sea temperatures have been “bleaching” and killing reefs worldwide, making reef conservation an important issue.