International Events

Google Earth Exposes Darfur

- Adam Clare

Google Earth is now showing people unpleasant information about Darfur. The things that are happening in Darfur are in no way good – in fact, they are the opposite of good (bad). What is good about Google doing this is that it is bringing a lot of attention to people who need our help in the troubled region.

Find out more at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

From the first link:

The Internet search company Google is venturing into political territory. Together with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the popular online mapping service Google Earth inaugurated Tuesday a project to call attention to atrocities in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Cluster Bomb Ban

- Adam Clare

Hopefully most people have seen this in the mainstream press, but if not that’s OK because here it is!
Quite a few nations are saying no to cluster bombs!

Forty-six countries agreed Friday to push for a global treaty banning cluster bombs, a move activists hope will force the superpowers that oppose the effort — the U.S., China and Russia — to abandon the weapons.

Organizers said the declaration was needed despite the absence of key nations at a conference in the Norwegian capital to avoid a potential humanitarian disaster posed by unexploded cluster munitions.

Good News TV

- sohorobin 3 Comments

OK this story is almost a half decade old – but it’s still great.  A TV show showing only good news…

“In June 2020 the BBC will be celebrating the 10th year of their Good News program. Over the years the popularity of Good News TV has grown and grown. The program has concentrated on good and positive news stories that have happened around the world…”

Who’d’uh thunk?

Better Tsunami Detection

- Adam Clare

Detecting tsunamis early can save millions of lives, and the earlier the detection the better. Researchers are wanting to put a new kind of detector that is placed on the ocean floor that will help provide better coverage in the Indian and Pacific oceans.

“They would offer greater coverage of the oceans by filling in large gaps between buoys, allowing scientists to promptly alert officials of undersea earthquakes that could trigger tsunamis and endanger coastal areas, she said.”

2006 A.D. Latornell Conservation Symposium

- Cam Proctor 2 Comments

“Why did the chicken cross the road? Because global warming shifted the climate and the only suitable habitat for chickens is up North.”

“We spent all this money developing tools to identify conservation areas, learning how to manage these areas and trying to acquire enough of them to have some sembelance of an ecosystem, and it was all for naught because of climate change.”

“How do you conserve a species, lets take a bird that eats caterpillars as an example, when climate change causes caterpillars to lay their eggs early and by the time the young birds hatch all the caterpillars are now butterflies?

These are just some of the questions I heard at the 2006 A.D. Latornell Conservation Symposium. This year’s theme was – Creating a Climate for Change – refering to the actions that conservationists are taking in order to meet the challenges of climate change. A lot of really good discussion happened at this conference . Tough questions were asked and the people on the floor stood up to answer them. Canada might not have a government that is working against climate change, but it has at least one dedicated group doing it.

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