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DEATH VALLEY / VALLEE DE LA MORT (Dante's View).
California. USA.
2009
CANON EOS 450D / Rebel XSi
SIGMA 70-300mm F4-5.6 APO DG Macro
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Dans 2 jours : Vendredi 5 juin 2009 :
Journée mondiale de l'Environnement 2009
La Journée mondiale de l'Environnement est célébrée chaque année, le 5 juin, dans plus de 100 pays. Le thème pour 2009 est le changement climatique, et les conséquences plus globales des changements environnementaux, et ainsi que les réponses que les sociétés peuvent y apporter.
La lutte contre le changement climatique et pour la préservation des écosystèmes, qui sont à la base même de nos systèmes économiques, est un problème pour chacun de nous. Tous les efforts individuels, si petits soient-ils, peuvent contribuer au développement durable de nos systèmes économiques et des communautés à travers le monde. (Unesco)
Egalement le 5 juin, sortie mondiale du film HOME (Yann Arthus-Bertrand) sur différents médias (ciné, TV, internet, DVD)... donc accessible à tous !!!
Synopsis : En 200 000 ans d'existence, l'homme a rompu l'équilibre sur lequel la Terre vivait depuis 4 milliards d'années. Réchauffement climatique, épuisement des ressources, extinction des espèces : l'homme a mis en péril sa propre demeure. Mais il est trop tard pour être pessimiste : il reste à peine dix ans à l'humanité pour inverser la tendance, prendre conscience de son exploitation démesurée des richesses de la Terre, et changer son mode de consommation.
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In 2 days : Friday, June 5, 2009 :
World Environment Day 2009
World Environment Day is celebrated every year on 5 June in more than 100 countries. The theme for 2009 is climate change and the broader consequences of environmental change, and what societies can do in response.
Combating climate change and preserving ecosystems services that underpin our economies is an issue for everyone. Every individual's efforts, no matter how small, can contribute to the sustainable development of our economies and communities around the world. (Unesco)
Also on the June 5, the film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, HOME (Yann Arthus-Bertrand) will be released in over 50 countries in the world, and will be available in various medias (cinema, TV, internet, DVD)...
Synopsis : In 200.000 years on Earth humanity has upset the balance of the planet, established by nearly four billion yeas of evolution. The price of pay is high, but it's too late to be a pessimist : humanity has barely ten years to reverse the trend, become aware of the full extent of its spoliation of the Earth's riches and change its patterns of consumption.
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They are doing there part to help us, what are we doing to help them and let them sustain for our future generations.
Remember we are not the boss of the environment, but they are ours, we are dependent on them.
This world is too beautiful to be destroyed for our daily needs !!
On this World Environment day, I pledge to :
- Check and fix all leaking taps and pipes in my home.
- Avoid all electricity wastage by:
o Switch off electrical appliances when not in active use
o Put mobile/battery chargers off the plug point and not to leave appliances in standby mode to save the electricity from "vampire power".
o Switch off computer mointors at home/office when not in use.
- Avoid using vehicles when I can walk.
- Reduce usage of papers.
- Create awareness about conserving environment in people around me.
Conserve or Perish ... we are left with only two options now !!
Share your ideas/plans/actions for saving our Earth on this Environment day.
Forest monitors in Western Tanzania receive training on how to collect field data using Android smartphones and Open Data Kit (ODK).
Credit: the Jane Goodall Institute/Lilian Pintea
USAID has helped South Sudan preserve its wildlife and biodiversity through conservation work in the Boma-Jonglei Landscape.
Photo Credit: WCS
On World Environment Day, 5th June 2011, tens of thouands of people rallied around Australia to say Yes to a safe climate and in support of a carbon price. An Estimated 10,000 people crowded onto the lawns of the State Library in Melbourne to listen to speakers and music in a family friendly rally with lots of placards, banners and beanies on heads.
On World Environment Day, 5th June 2011, tens of thouands of people rallied around Australia to say Yes to a safe climate and in support of a carbon price. An Estimated 10,000 people crowded onto the lawns of the State Library in Melbourne to listen to speakers and music in a family friendly rally with lots of placards, banners and beanies on heads.
Photo by Julian Meehan
Copyright: Creative Commons CC-by-SA
On World Environment Day locals gather on a wintery Monday morning to tell Josh Frydenberg that they want Australia to move rapidly to solar, wind and storage and actually reduce our emissions, not just see the Paris Agreement as some kind of diplomacy bargaining chip.
The CEFC Board is up for renewal, and Finkel seems likely to only deliver a gas promoting LET not a real transition. With continued posturing on the "gas crisis" (when there is a global gas glut) and "clean coal", constituents are not happy with public funding being diverted from clean energy back to coal and gas. As Australia's emissions continue to climb its a big FAIL on #WorldEnvironmentDay
Josh Frydenberg needs to step up and stop the Adani Carmichael coal mine from being developed as it is inconsistent with Australia's ratification and commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement to keep temperatures well below 2C temperature target. 95 per cent of Australia's coal must remain unexploited to be consistent with limiting temperatures to 2C according to a 2015 peer reviewed study by Ekins and McGlade
If all of the Galilee Basin coal was burned, it is estimated that 705 million tonnes of carbon dioxide would be released each year – more than 1.3 times Australia’s current annual emissions. If all Galilee coal mines go ahead = 705 MT CO2/year or 1.96% of current annual global emissions of 36Gt CO2. Reminder on the science re Galilee Basin coal from climate scientist Will Steffen from September 2015 (PDF). Or read the more recent Climate Council report (May 2017) Risky Business: Health, Climate and Economic Risks of the Carmichael Coalmine
On World Environment Day, 5th June 2011, tens of thouands of people rallied around Australia to say Yes to a safe climate and in support of a carbon price. An Estimated 10,000 people crowded onto the lawns of the State Library in Melbourne to listen to speakers and music in a family friendly rally with lots of placards, banners and beanies on heads.
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon today inaugurated a new Solar Energy System during a celebration marking World Environment Day. Naqoura HQ, June 5th 2012.
USAID is supporting a three-year project titled A Water Secure Future for Southern Africa: Applying the Ecosystem Approach in the Orange-Senqu Basin. Working with local NGOs based in the four basin countries of Lesotho, South Africa, Botswana and Namibia, USAID will support scientific analysis and pilot programs that balance ecosystem requirements with human development needs to ensure efficient and lasting water provisioning services in priority areas in the basin.
Forest elephants seek minerals in a forest clearing protected by USAID's Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment. Dzanga Dzanga National Park, Central African Republic. Photo Credit: USAID
Also on The Science Show 5 June 2010 Threats to Western Port Bay
John Clarke describes Western Port Bay, which lies east of Melbourne and Port Phillip Bay. Within a short space of time swamps have been drained, mangroves and seagrass have been removed, and silt has washed into the bay from nearby agricultural lands and eroding cliffs. This environment was once used as a breeding ground for fish. Now, the area is seriously degraded
Podcast Description
The Science Show and Ockham's Razor have always brought us commentary on the environment and climate change. Special features can also be found on Background Briefing and our other current affairs regulars, The National Interest, Breakfast and Saturday Extra.
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Second generation biofuels (Queensland R&D) - relates to Gulf Oil Spill
The disastrous oil spill gushing out into the Gulf of Mexico highlights the cost of our dependence on oil. Since late April, up to nineteen thousand barrels or 3 million litres a day have escaped from the ruptured underwater well, the largest oil spill in US history. There's an increased risk at the tail end of this resource and we are starting to pay a very heavy price. So the weights are really going to come on to biofuels, despite the food verses fuel debate. While there are significant improvements in first generation biofuels, an Australian company is at the forefront of revolutionary efforts in second generation biofuels. These could effectively double the productivity of farm land and produce significantly high quality and high quantity feed for animals
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Toilets as status symbols - (and cheaper than a cellphone! & waterless & recycles)
An estimated 2.5 billion people in the world do not have proper sanitation, resulting in the death of millions of children every year. But cheap, water-less options are already on the market. We just need to make the toilet a status symbol and sanitation sexy. That's the message from Jack Sim. Sim is a merchant and manufacturer from Singapore who retired almost 10 years ago to set up the WTO, the World Toilet Organisation. The WTO has now got 203 member organisations in 56 countries.
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Reduced biodiversity directly affects human health
Aaron Bernstein argues that biodiversity directly affects human health. He says we rely on a diverse range of organisms for the production of drugs. High-density living in cities and industrial-scale farming have created ideal conditions for the spread of infectious diseases such as SARS and H1N1. Loss of habitat and climate change are the major factors contributing to the loss of biodiversity. Species extinction is currently occurring at a rate 1,000 times the background rate; that's almost as fast as when the Earth was hit by an asteroid 65 million years ago.
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The light in darkness: Finnish impressions of endless days and nights
'The most important thing about darkness is to be in peace.' The people of Finland live through long, dark winters where the sun does not appear for months. They have developed ways of coping, like using artificial sun lamps inside or swimming under the ice. Yet in fighting the darkness have they lost touch with nature and increased their chances of depression, alcoholism and suicide?
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Australia v Japan over whaling
Recently Australia lodged an application to the International Court of Justice accusing Japan of breaching numerous treaties with its continued whaling program.
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Solar technologies compared in the desert
Twenty-two solar technology systems are being compared in the searing heat of central Australia, where despite the heat and desert conditions there are cloudy days. The data collected is put on a website for use by researchers all over the world. Matthew Crawford reports.
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Making sense of noise: Part 1 of 2 - Back to school
The soundtrack to our lives seems to have got louder. Surviving the cacophony of city existence is hard enough, but what does all that racket do to the developing brain as it learns? Enter the Virtual Classroom to discover some unexpected lessons for contemporary schools. And next week, we're in pursuit of silence. Transcripts available on Wednesdays, audio directly after broadcast on Saturdays.
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Villagers from Mtanga village, Tanzania map their community using high-resolution satellite imagery.
Credit: the Jane Goodall Institute/Lilian Pintea
Photo Voltaic Panels equipped with a built-in tracking technology, enabling the panels to follow the path of the sun, thereby increasing their efficiency. UNIFIL HQ Naqoura, July 7th 2011. Pasqual Gorriz/ UNFIIL Photo
Una semana de eventos culturales, deportivos, demostraciones artísticas y compromisos políticos de primer nivel fueron los protagonistas de la celebración del Día Mundial del Medio Ambiente de 2014, cuyo anfitrión fue la isla caribeña de Barbados.
El lema de esta celebración anual fue "Elevemos nuestra voz, no el nivel del mar" y se enfocó en el liderazgo de los pequeños estados insulares en desarrollo, como Barbados y, a su vez, buscó apuntar el foco en los retos que enfrentan este tipo de islas a diario.
El PNUMA también oficializó la designación del actor y ambientalista Ian Somerhalder como el nuevo embajador de buena voluntad.
FOTO: Alejandro Laguna
O Dia Mundial do Ambiente é celebrado anualmente no dia de hoje, a 5 de junho, que tem como objectivo advertir a população para a necessidade de salvar o ambiente e assinalar a prática de boas acções para a conservação da terra.
E hoje tivemos o avistamento de Botos (Phocoena phocoena). Uma espécie considerada vulnerável. E para celebrar este dia partilhamos uma fotografia de hoje para alertar a necessidade da protecção acrescida desta espécie.
Os Botos são a espécie mais pequena de cetáceo que podemos ver em Sagres e normalmente são avistados perto da costa.
Bom domingo solarengo em defesa do Ambiente.
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The World Environment Day is celebrated annually on today´s day, June 5th, which aims to warn the population of the need to save the environment and point out the good practices for the earth conservation .
And today we had the sighting of Harbour Porpoises (Phocoena phocoena). A species considered vulnerable. And to celebrate this day we share a photography taken today to alert the need for increased protection of this species.
The Harbour Porpoises are the smallest cetacean species that we see in Sagres and are often sighted near the coast.
Good sunny Sunday in defense of the environment.
Sagres, Algarve, Portugal.
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(for sustainable landscape theme): Soil and water conservation activities performed by Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction (CMDRR) Committee members in Wayber Kebele, Meta Woreda have the purpose to conserve their mountainous topographic environment. These conservation activities will be accompanied by tree planting or direct tree-seed sawing and increase community resilience towards climate related shocks. Protected and productive natural resources will make communities more resilient to climate related shocks. The photo was taken by CRS REAAP staff during field monitoring visit in April 2016 in Oromia Regional State of Western Hararghe. REAAP Implementer and partners are: Catholic Relief Services (CRS), Ethiopian Catholic Church Social Development Coordination Office of Harar (ECC-SDCOH), Handicap International (HI) and Catholic Organization for Relief and Development Aid (Cordaid).
Photos: Martin Lipman
We were excited to turn our #WorldEnvironmentDay event - a shoreline clean-up at Westboro Beach - into a global affair! Several Nordic countries (and Germany!) and their ambassadors joined us to help #fightplasticpollution and keep
our river clean.
Nous sommes ravis d'avoir fait de notre événement pour la #Journéemondialedelenvironnement - notre nettoyage des berges à Westboro Beach - un événement réunissant plusieurs pays! Les pays scandinaves (et l'Allemagne) ainsi que leurs ambassadeurs se sont joint à nous pour nous aider à #CombattrelaPollutionPlastique et à garder notre rivière propre.
2 June 2013. Abu Shouk: (Left to right) United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) officer, Ahmed Maniese, and technicians Saleem Abdulaziz, Alamin Adam and Ibrahim Youssif Adam, all staff members of the Groundwater and Wadis Directorate in the Sudanese Ministry of Irrigation and working for the Integrate Water Resources Management, monitor the level of water in a water pump in Abu Shouk camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP), North Darfur.
Abu Shouk is one of the main priorities in North Darfur to implement projects on water due to the difficult terrain to find and keep the water and due to the big number of IDPs (more than 50,000) who use the water for domestic purposes and economical activities (like bricks fabrication).
The average of water consumption in the IDP camps in North Darfur is around ten liters per person a day.
Disputes over scarce water resources have been cited regularly as one of the root causes of the conflict in Darfur.
5 May is the World Environment Day.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
UNDP in Georgia is one of Georgia’s leading partners in environment protection. For World Environment Day 2014, they decided to crowdsource for new ideas to let people tell them what they wanted to do show their commitment to a green future. Here are some of the fabulous results.
Read more about this great story
Photos: Vladimer Valishvili/UNDP
5 June 2014. El Fasher: Staff members of the Ministry of Environment distribute trees to the attendants of the celebration of the World Environment Day at El Fasher University, North Darfur.
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the North Darfur Ministry of Environment organized, with the support of UNAMID, an event with a photo exhibition, technical lectures and awareness information for students.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
5 June 2014. El Fasher: People attend the opening session of the celebration of the World Environment Day at El Fasher University, North Darfur.
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the North Darfur Ministry of Environment organized, with the support of UNAMID, an event with a photo exhibition, technical lectures and awareness information for students.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
5 June 2014. El Fasher: A student participate at the final "call for action" during the celebration of the World Environment Day at El Fasher University, North Darfur.
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the North Darfur Ministry of Environment organized, with the support of UNAMID, an event with a photo exhibition, technical lectures and awareness information for students.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
Community leadership and engagement is critical to long-term land use planning. Photo Credit: USAID Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment.
Indian actor, Rahul Bose, planting a tree at the Tata Consultancy Services Forest - Bangalore, 4 June 2011
5 June 2014. El Fasher: A local drama group performs a show at the celebration of the World Environment Day at El Fasher University, North Darfur.
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the North Darfur Ministry of Environment organized, with the support of UNAMID, an event with a photo exhibition, technical lectures and awareness information for students.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
5 June 2014. El Fasher: Photo exhibition organized by UNAMID CPIS at El Fasher University, North Darfur, as part of the commemoration program for the World Environment Day.
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the North Darfur Ministry of Environment organized, with the support of UNAMID, an event with technical lectures and awareness information for students.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
El Día Mundial del Medio Ambiente (WED por sus siglas in ingles), que se ha venido conmemorado cada 5 Junio desde 1972, es uno de los principales vehículos a través del cual el sistema de las Naciones Unidas fomenta la concientización y sensibilización sobre los problemas ambientales, motiva una atención a nivel político y del público en general por una acción positiva hacia el medio ambiente.
El WED es un día para que los pueblos, las comunidades, el sector empresarial, la industria, la sociedad civil, los gobiernos y las organizaciones, reflexionen, tomen conciencia y asuman su responsabilidad en el futuro del planeta.
FOTO: Montserrat Valeiras
5 June 2014. El Fasher: A student expresses0 his opinion at the celebration of the World Environment Day at El Fasher University, North Darfur.
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the North Darfur Ministry of Environment organized, with the support of UNAMID, an event with a photo exhibition, technical lectures and awareness information for students.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
El Día Mundial del Medio Ambiente (WED por sus siglas in ingles), que se ha venido conmemorado cada 5 Junio desde 1972, es uno de los principales vehículos a través del cual el sistema de las Naciones Unidas fomenta la concientización y sensibilización sobre los problemas ambientales, motiva una atención a nivel político y del público en general por una acción positiva hacia el medio ambiente.
El WED es un día para que los pueblos, las comunidades, el sector empresarial, la industria, la sociedad civil, los gobiernos y las organizaciones, reflexionen, tomen conciencia y asuman su responsabilidad en el futuro del planeta.
FOTO: Montserrat Valeiras
5 June 2014. El Fasher: Photo exhibition organized by UNAMID CPIS at El Fasher University, North Darfur, as part of the commemoration program for the World Environment Day.
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the North Darfur Ministry of Environment organized, with the support of UNAMID, an event with technical lectures and awareness information for students.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
2 June 2013. Abu Shouk: Members of the United Nations Unvironment Program (UNEP) and the Groundwater and Wadis Directorate in the Sudanese Ministry of Irrigation, all working for the Integrate Water Resources Management, monitor the water consumption in a water tank in Al Salam camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP), North Darfur.
Al Salam is one of the main priorities in North Darfur to implement projects on water due to the difficult terrain to find and keep the water and due to the big number of IDPs (more than 50,000) who use the water for domestic purposes and economical activities (like bricks fabrication).
The average of water consumption in the IDP camps in North Darfur is around ten liters per person a day.
Disputes over scarce water resources have been cited regularly as one of the root causes of the conflict in Darfur.
5 May is the World Environment Day.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
UNDP in Georgia is one of Georgia’s leading partners in environment protection. For World Environment Day 2014, they decided to crowdsource for new ideas to let people tell them what they wanted to do show their commitment to a green future. Here are some of the fabulous results.
Read more about this great story
Photos: Vladimer Valishvili/UNDP
One of many ways of starting a participatory GIS mapping session. Village-based land use planning starts with mobilizing a diverse set of stakeholders and engaging them to share their vision of what local land use options are preferred and, where possible to achieve consensus on what they should be. Photo Credit: USAID Central African Regional Program for the Environment.
2 June 2013. Abu Shouk: Senior Hydro-geologist Saleem Abdulaziz, from the Groundwater and Wadis Directorate in the Sudanese Ministry of Irrigation and focal point of the Integrate Water Resources Management, monitors the water consumption in a water tank in Al Salam camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP), North Darfur.
Al Salam is one of the main priorities in North Darfur to implement projects on water due to the difficult terrain to find and keep the water and due to the big number of IDPs (more than 50,000) who use the water for domestic purposes and economical activities (like bricks fabrication).
The average of water consumption in the IDP camps in North Darfur is around ten liters per person a day.
Disputes over scarce water resources have been cited regularly as one of the root causes of the conflict in Darfur.
5 May is the World Environment Day.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
Photo by Julian Meehan
Copyright: Creative Commons CC-by-SA
On World Environment Day Melbourne citizens gathered at Camberwell Junction outside the office of Josh Frydenberg, the Liberal MP for Kooyong and the Environment and Climate Change Minister in the Turnbull Government. He needs to step up and stop the Adani Carmichael coal mine from being developed as it is inconsistent with Australia's ratification and commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement to keep temperatures well below 2C temperature target.
95 per cent of Australia's coal must remain unexploited to be consistent with limiting temperatures to 2C according to a 2015 peer reviewed study by Ekins and McGlade
If all of the Galilee Basin coal was burned, it is estimated that 705 million tonnes of carbon dioxide would be released each year – more than 1.3 times Australia’s current annual emissions. If all Galilee coal mines go ahead = 705 MT CO2/year or 1.96% of current annual global emissions of 36Gt CO2. Reminder on the science re Galilee Basin coal from climate scientist Will Steffen from September 2015 (PDF). Or read the more recent Climate Council report (May 2017) Risky Business: Health, Climate and Economic Risks of the Carmichael Coalmine
A week of activities organized around World Environment Day is helping to draw attention to the environment in carbon heavy Uzbekistan.
Find out more about ”green growth" in Uzbekistan
Photo courtesy of UNDP in Uzbekistan