Browsing BusinessWorld by Subject "greenhouse effect"

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    • Arctic oil infrastructure faces climate karma 

      Lee, Julian (BusinessWorld, July 8, 2020, on page S1/9)
      Beaches, clear blue seas, scorching temperatures and long days. Forget the Caribbean, your next summer beach holiday could be on the shores of Russia’s Arctic Ocean. Temperatures at Nizhnyaya Pesha, some 840 miles (1,352 ...

    • Carbon from Indonesia fires exceeds US emissions: green groups 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (BusinessWorld, October 23, 2015, on page S3/4)
      Fires raging across huge areas of Indonesia are spewing more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere every day than the US economy, according to estimates from global environment watchdogs. For nearly two months, thousands ...

    • How stewardship can address pressing environmental issues 

      Castillo, Lysander N. (BusinessWorld, July 27, 2018, on page S8/6)
      This is where the “face” of environmental stewardship should come out, that is, taking care of the environment because of the concern for all the living, especially our fellow human beings. This is not to say that climate ...

    • Investors need climate change behavioral shift 

      Reuters (BusinessWorld, June 8, 2015, on page A7)
      Most investors need to make a significant behavioral shift and start factoring climate change into their portfolio risk management, a study on its impact on financial market returns found on Thursday. A study by consultants ...

    • Sea level rising at fasted pace in 2,800 years: study 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (BusinessWorld, February 26, 2016, on page S3/4)
      The world’s oceans are rising at a faster rate than any time in the past 2,800 years, and might even have fallen without the influence of human-driven climate change, researchers say. Sea levels rose globally by about 5.5 ...

    • Ultra-thin sun shield could protect Great Barrier Reef 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (BusinessWorld, March 28, 2018, on page S2/10)
      An ultra-fine biodegradable film some 50,000 times thinner than a human hair could be enlisted to protect the Great Barrier Reef from environmental degradation, researchers said Tuesday. The World Heritage-listed site, ...

    • UN chief: save the oceans to avert 'global catastrophe' 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (BusinessWorld, June 16, 2017, on page S3/6)
      UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday urged countries to put aside national gain to save the oceans and avert a "global catastrophe" as he opened the first UN ocean conference. The five-day meeting is the first ...

    • West Africa sets out to protect dying mangroves 

      Thompson, Felicity (BusinessWorld, March 12, 2010, on page S3/8)
      Salt is precious in poverty-stricken coastal West Africa, but conservation experts say efforts to extract it are laying waste to mangrove swamps, causing erosion and ravaging fish stocks. In Sierra Leone, one of Africa's ...