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...people in blue thronging lower Manhattan to form a “sea of people” to show where the new tideline would someday fall; we even had a crane winching a yacht twenty feet into the air above Jacksonville Florida to show the new sea level if Greenland slides into the ocean...
...while it is important to protect our tropical forests, turning Greenland into one big woodland is a decidedly bad idea. “Large-scale afforestation”—that is, tree growth—“implemented in temperate latitudes may be largely ineffectual in mitigating global warming,” the authors write...
...BALTIMORE TO KANGERLUSSUAQ A key cold war U.S. military base--now a commercial airport--will be the landing zone for what Greenland hopes will be armies of ecotourists traveling on Air Greenland starting...
...awareness to CarbonFund.org and inspire our clients to take part," says White. Similarly, Paul Mitchell has joined with American Forests to plant enough trees to offset all carbon emissions from the manufacturing and distribution of its Tea Tree products. Kiehl's and the NRDC are partners in Click for Greenland, an online program that raises awareness about the effects of global warming on that country. Kiehl's will make a donation to the NRDC for each of the first 500,000 visitors to clickforgreenland.com...
...secret that polar bears are in very deep trouble, and have been for a while. There are only between 20,000 and 25,000 of them left in the world, divided among 19 populations in Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Russia and elsewhere. Perhaps the best studied of the groups is the Western Hudson Bay population, which scientists have been monitoring since the 1960s. For decades, membership of the group remained relatively stable, at about 1,200 adults and cubs. Between 1987 and 1994, however - precisely the years in which the rise in global temperatures have become the most evident - the number...