According to the U.S. Climate Change Science Program’s latest report, we are in for some more extreme weather in the future. Floods will be larger, droughts will be dryer and storms will be stormier. All over the world there has been an increase in the amount of natural disasters and the magnitude of these disasters are increasing more and more every year.

Some people might think that the end of the world is finally coming upon us and others might argue that there hasn’t been any drastic difference in our weather patterns. The is no denying that all the earthquakes, tornadoes, tsunamis, floods and droughts are getting more frequent and more powerful. All you have to do is look at the news headlines from the past year and you’ll see that what the U.S Climate Change Science Programs report is talking about.
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The European Union (EU), through its executive arm, the European Commission, has clamped down on bluefin tuna fishing in the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic. The ban came in the wake of overfishing activities that threaten “stock collapse” of the prized bluefin tuna.

Craved for by sushi lovers all over the world, the bluefin tuna has fallen prey to heavy exploitation by countries belonging to the EU. These countries’ fleets recklessly do their fish hunting to the extent of marking excesses in the EU’s international catch quota. If left unrestricted, bluefin tuna may soon go extinct.
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In line with the return to the theaters on June 12 of the movie The Incredible Hulk, The World Land Trust partners with Universal Pictures in developing a timely undertaking to ensure that the Hulk’s greenness impacts its hordes of fans in an eco-friendly way. They called it the “Incredible Hulk Carbon Calculator.”

The environmentally-oriented project aims to encourage the Hulk’s scores of avid followers to go online and balance their carbon emissions. The fans are led to the site, http://www.carbonbalanced.org/incredible-hulk/calculator, where they can choose to balance and offset flights, transport or household emissions.
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Scientists and researchers from Louisiana State University and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium have predicted a “dead zone” off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana to grow to more than 10,000 square miles soon. The so-called dead zone is composed mainly of oxygen-depleted waters that pose to suffocate fish, shrimp and crabs, and seriously threaten the region’s commercial fishing industry.

The bothersome forecast, which should be the largest on record, came after careful observational studies revealed increased nitrate loads on the Mississippi River in May.
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Already retailed for more than $100 dollars per barrel, the incessant hike of oil prices in the world market brings a myriad of effects on oil-dependent countries, with most of it tilting on the negative. As a raw material, the high rise of oil has resulted in the upsurge of prices of basic consumer commodities including energy use.

In printing the blueprints of an underpinning that would alleviate the aftermath of oil price hikes, India turns its eyes on a viable source of alternative fuel—a plant that grows on wastelands.
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