Green Options » islands http://greenoptions.com/tag/islands Posts tagged 'islands' Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:14:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Underwater Government Meeting in Maldives! http://ecoworldly.com/2009/10/10/maldives-government-ministers-meeting-under-water/ http://ecoworldly.com/2009/10/10/maldives-government-ministers-meeting-under-water/#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:14:04 +0000 Zachary Shahan http://ecoworldly.com/2009/10/10/maldives-government-ministers-meeting-under-water/

Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed has told his cabinet members to get ready for an underwater cabinet meeting later this month.

Maldives is a collection of islands and atolls in the Indian Ocean that is less than 2 meters above sea level. Therefore, it is the first country expected to go underwater due to climate change.

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]]> http://ecoworldly.com/2009/10/10/maldives-government-ministers-meeting-under-water/feed/ Salmon-Eating Wolves Are One of a Kind http://ecoworldly.com/2009/03/14/salmon-eating-wolves-are-one-of-a-kind/ http://ecoworldly.com/2009/03/14/salmon-eating-wolves-are-one-of-a-kind/#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:22:51 +0000 Jake Richardson http://ecoworldly.com/2009/03/14/salmon-eating-wolves-are-one-of-a-kind/ coastal wolf

Unique coastal wolves range from Southern Alaska to Vancouver Island. Their fur has a red tint and their diet includes salmon, beached whales, and seals.

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]]> http://ecoworldly.com/2009/03/14/salmon-eating-wolves-are-one-of-a-kind/feed/ “New” Rat Discovered in the Phillipines http://ecoworldly.com/2009/02/19/new-rat-discovered-in-the-phillipines/ http://ecoworldly.com/2009/02/19/new-rat-discovered-in-the-phillipines/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:51:12 +0000 Jake Richardson http://ecoworldly.com/2009/02/19/new-rat-discovered-in-the-phillipines/ piano rat

The discovery of a species in nature often results in headlines such as “New Species Discovered”. However, what exactly is a new species?

A ‘new’ species would probably be only one that had evolved into something unique very recently, or zapped instantly into existence by the power of God, or created by genetic engineers in a laboratory. Therefore, it appears to be safe to say that there is no such thing as a ‘new’ rat. (Unless one includes politicians).

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]]> http://ecoworldly.com/2009/02/19/new-rat-discovered-in-the-phillipines/feed/ MTV Cuts Down Rainforest for Reality TV Show http://sustainablog.org/2008/09/14/mtv-cuts-down-rainforest-for-reality-tv-show/ http://sustainablog.org/2008/09/14/mtv-cuts-down-rainforest-for-reality-tv-show/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:51:17 +0000 Alex Felsinger http://sustainablog.org/2008/09/14/mtv-cuts-down-rainforest-for-reality-tv-show/ Look out, Panama!After the Viacom-owned network finished filming their new treasure-hunt themed “Real World/Road Rules Challenge” on a remote, uninhabited island in the Republic of Panama, locals returned to find their beach tattered and abused.

The television show, which premieres on September 17th, took over the neighboring, inhabited island in militant style by hiring the local police to prevent residents from accessing a public beach. As it turned out, according to local witnesses, MTV had cleared a small patch of rainforest to build a tiki-hut structure near the beach, developed an access road through the forest, and installed generators and lighting on the beach.

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]]> http://sustainablog.org/2008/09/14/mtv-cuts-down-rainforest-for-reality-tv-show/feed/ President Bush to Designate Massive Ocean Protection http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/08/26/president-bush-to-designate-massive-ocean-protection/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/08/26/president-bush-to-designate-massive-ocean-protection/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:52:48 +0000 Joshua S Hill http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/08/26/president-bush-to-designate-massive-ocean-protection/ Microsoft PowerPoint - 042408EDF.ppt In a step that has me completely baffled, but may do a measure in redeeming him in the eyes of the environmentally friendly, President George W Bush has sent a memo to cabinet secretaries proposing the designation of two new marine national monuments within US jurisdiction.

The proposed monuments – loosely termed; as far as I can tell there will be no massive brass or bronze statues anywhere – are the Central Pacific Islands and areas around the Northern Mariana Islands.

One of the monuments, the Central Pacific Islands, would equate to a size four and a half times all the US National Parks, and measure in at close to the size of Alaska. The area would include eight islands and coral reef atolls in the Line Islands and American Samoa, and their surrounding waters.

The second area would cover parts of the Northern Mariana Islands, located in the Western Pacific, including the area that is known as the Mariana Trench, the deepest yet recorded part of our planet’s oceans.

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