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 The movement of the giant Byrd Glacier in East Antarctica increased in speed as two lakes under the ice overflowed.
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At a recent Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco Al Gore introduced a five point plan that “…would simultaneously move us toward solutions to the climate crisis and the economic crisis–and create millions of new jobs that cannot be outsourced,”. He suggests that the two major crisis’s we are currently facing can be alleviated through the same steps:
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|  Legislation banning plastic shopping bags in South Australia will come into effect on the 4th May next year. The campaign to ban plastic bags began six years ago and organisers of the National Plastic Bag Company Campaign in South Australia say this is the biggest breakthrough since they began the campaign.
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 The US Supreme Court has ruled that the US Navy may continue to implement long-range sonar in their exercises off the coast of California. They contend that the Navy’s need to conduct realistic training exercises to search for hostile submarines outweighs any harmful effects to whales or marine life.
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|  Large-scale cultivation of the Jatropha curcos bush, the seeds of which produce a high grade biodiesel, is causing policy problems in Kenya and Tanzania.
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 The UN forecasts that seas are likely to rise as much as 59cm by the end of this century due to global warming. Most parts of the Maldives are barely 1.5cm above sea level and with even a small rise in levels would mean that large parts of the archipelago could be inundated.
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 The mail and Guardian reported on the 3rd Nov that, "South Africans should brace themselves for a severely water-stressed future". This was based on a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report on the world’s ecological footprint.
“South Africa will be one of the countries hardest hit by water scarcity in 2025,” said Deon Nel, WWF Sanlam Living Waters Partnership manager. “A shortage of water will not only affect economic growth — there won’t be enough water for some people to live on.”
The report finds that each person in the world consumes about 1,24-million litres of water a year — about half the volume of an Olympic swimming pool — or nearly 3 400 litres daily.
Each American consumes 6 800 litres a day, compared to 2 500 litres in South Africa.
For the full article, click below:
World’s water dries up
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| The mail and Guardian reported on the 3rd Nov that, "South Africans should brace themselves for a severely water-stressed future". This was based on a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report on the world’s ecological footprint.
“South Africa will be one of the countries hardest hit by water scarcity in 2025,” said Deon Nel, WWF Sanlam Living Waters Partnership manager. “A shortage of water will not only affect economic growth — there won’t be enough water for some people to live on.”
The report finds that each person in the world consumes about 1,24-million litres of water a year — about half the volume of an Olympic swimming pool — or nearly 3 400 litres daily.
Each American consumes 6 800 litres a day, compared to 2 500 litres in South Africa.
For the full article, click below:
World’s water dries up
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|  While the impact of carbon dioxide is well documented, scientists are monitoring the airborne levels of two other gases. These are methane and nitrogen trifluoride which have seen a recent increase in the atmosphere and both contribute to global warming.
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|  The average projection for the disappearance of the Arctic sea ice about 5 years ago was considered to be around the year 2080. More recent models are suggesting that between 2030- 2040 is quite possible.
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|  For the past decade a report on the world's ecological footprint has been released every 2 years by the World Wildlife Fund. A new aspect on the water footprint finds that 50 countries face severe or moderate water stress with shortages on the increase due to climate change.
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 A proposed soda ash plant to be built on the shores of Lake Natron in East Africa has been opposed by the Pan African Orthinological Congress which met outside Cape Town. The congress was attended by 250 Scientists.
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