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Animals

Posted byby Estel Masangkay
December 27, 2013

WWF Donates 1,000 Microchips for Kenya’s Rhinos

Kenya’s rapidly thinning rhino population gets another weapon in its arsenal in the fight against illegal wildlife trafficking. WWF Kenya has announced that it will give over 1,000 microchips and…

Energy

Posted byby Estel Masangkay
December 19, 2013

Wind Turbine Arrangement Increases Efficiency

Wind Turbines in neat row arrangement. Photo Credit: Some rights reserved by Charles Cook via Flickr. A team of researchers has found a way to increase wind turbines’ efficiency by…

Climate Change

Posted byby Estel Masangkay
December 14, 2013

One Year Later, Sandy’s Good and Bad Impacts

Restored portion of NJ’s Meadowlands, where wildlife once again finds sanctuary. Photo Credit: Some rights reserved by samenstelling via Flickr. This October marked the first anniversary of superstorm Sandy, the…

Green Travel

Posted byby Estel Masangkay
December 11, 2013

Eco-Voluntourism – Taking Vacations A Step Further

The community-based Pawikan Conservation Center in Bataan, Philippines. Some rights reserved by Roberto Verzo via Flickr. Have you ever tried caring for captive endangered cheetahs in Namibia? Studying climate change’s…

Climate Change

Posted byby Estel Masangkay
November 9, 2013

Lester Brown Shares Insights on World Food Day

Just one poor harvest away. That is how far the world could be from an abrupt interruption in the global food supply if continuing trends in food security issues are…

Climate Change

Posted byby Estel Masangkay
October 16, 2013

Listening to the Sound of Global Warming through Cello Music

There’s no doubt we can literally feel global warming and worldwide climate change: record breaking rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and torrential floods hitting many parts of the world among…

Pollution

Posted byby Estel Masangkay
October 15, 2013

International Coastal Cleanup Top Tens

Last September 21, volunteers around the world took part in the International Coastal Cleanup Day. Here are three top ten lists for International Coastal Cleanup Day that highlight the need…

Eco Editorial

Posted byby Estel Masangkay
October 12, 2013

Meet PhoneBlok, the Repairable (Concept) Smartphone

What if you could take “blocks” of battery, memory storage, camera, GPS, and other features and put them together into one customizable and repairable mobile phone? The idea sounds like…

Energy

Posted byby Estel Masangkay
October 10, 2013

Norway Announces Intent to Shift World’s Largest Wealth Fund to Renewable Investments

WWF commended the Norwegian government’s announcement regarding its consideration to invest the country’s sovereign wealth fund in renewable energy. Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund is currently the largest in the world…

Green Technology

Posted byby John Tarantino
October 9, 2013

Solar-Powered Charging for Smartphones

The smartphone revolution has changed the way we connect and communicate today. Sadly, ‘unplugged’ and “24/7 mobile connectivity” are still yet to co-exist in the reality of mobile users’ daily…