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EARTH WISE OFFERS A LOOK AT OUR CHANGING ENVIRONMENT. ECO-FRIENDLY BUSINESS PRACTICES, THE LATEST ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS, AND HOW NATURE. News about the world’s coral reefs has been relentlessly bad for a number of years.  Warming, acidifying oceans have wreaked havoc with coral reefs leading to enormous losses.  Nowhere have things been more dire than in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.  Coral bleaching With a new year upon us, there are several energy trends to watch out for. The most important one is that the fundamental shift toward slow-carbon technologies is continuing. This shift is taking place despite diminishing government policy support and even active There are approximately 7,000 languages spoken in the world today but only about half of them are expected to survive this century.  There are many factors contributing to the decline in languages.  Perhaps the most significant is globalization, which pushes countries and A new bio-composite material made from date palm fiber biomas* could be used to produce sustainable, lightweight and low-cost parts for the automobile and marine industries. A team of researchers from the UK has developed a date palm fiber polycaprolactone composite that is The commercial hunting of whales nearly drove the giant mammals to extinction.  By the 1960s, as hunting technologies improved and ships began to resemble floating factories, it became clear that whaling could not continue unchecked.  But despite all this, commercial As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels continue to set new records and the effects of climate change grow stronger, humanity has continued to procrastinate on reducing emissions.  As a result, it is increasingly clear that any strategy to avoid runaway climate change will have to It is estimated that air conditioners use about 6% of all the electricity produced in the United States for an annual cost of $29 billion.  With rising temperatures, this expense is only going to get larger. A significant part of the heat load in buildings arises from