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Disappearing Forests of the World.. This KML shows deforestation data from a number of sources for different countries, including a live ticker for each country. The world has lost close to half of its forests already today, and the continued high pace of deforestation contributes greatly to climate change and the loss of biodiversity

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The Organization shall collect, analyse, interpret and disseminate information relating to nutrition, food and agriculture. In this Constitution, the term "agriculture" and its derivatives include fisheries, marine products, forestry and primary forestry products. Forestry Department maintains an array of databases where information covering various aspects of forestry is stored for analysis and further dissemination.

FAO Forestry statistics FAO Forestry work with statistics in the following areas: Global compilations of comparable statistics  annual report on production, trade and consumption of forest products and  import / export of forest products (ForesStat-FAOSTAT) and; every fifth year report on forest resource statistics (Forest Resources Assessment); Country support for collection of forest resource statistics aimed at improving the country capacity for planning and policy development (National Forest Monitoring and Assessments).

Experts say it will be years, maybe a decade, before this simplest of all plants can be efficiently processed for fuel. But when that day comes, it could go a long way toward easing the world's energy needs and responding to global warming.

Farming algae doesn't require much space or good cropland, so it avoids the fuel-for-food dilemma that has plagued first and second generation biofuels like corn, rapeseed and palm oil.

And it is rich in oil. The most common types farmed today have an oil content of 30 percent, and it can go up to 70 percent or more.

a process known as geoengineering: the large-scale, deliberate modification of the planet to counteract the consequences of ever-increasing concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gas.

Fertilize the oceans with iron in order to sequester carbon dioxide; launch fleets of ships to whip up sea spray and enhance the solar reflectivity of marine stratocumulus clouds; use trillions of tiny spacecraft to form a sunshade a million miles from Earth in perfect solar orbit.

Inject sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere to reflect a portion of the sun's rays back into space, thus cooling the planet.

We first released our 'Guide to Greener Electronics' in August 2006. The guide ranks the 18 top manufacturers of personal computers, mobile phones, TV's and games consoles according to their policies on toxic chemicals, recycling and climate change.     7 Nokia – Clear leader after improving take-back in India. More 5.7 Samsung – Good scores on chemicals and e-waste criteria. More 5.5 Fujitsu Siemens- New dealine for removal of BFRs and PVC but still poor on recycling. More 5.3 Sony Ericsson - Good on toxic chemicals and energy but very poor on recycling. More 5.3 Sony - Good on toxic chemicals, room for improvement on energy. More 4.9 LG - Improved score on recycling and energy. More 4.7 Toshiba - Improved climate policy, but poor on recycling. More 4.7 Dell - Dropping down with poor scores on climate policy. More 4.7 HP - Slightly improved score but no products free of most toxic chemicals. More 4.5 Acer - Good on chemicals policy but poor on energy policy. More 4.5 Panasonic - Needs to improve recycling and amount of renewable energy. More 4.3 Philips - worst company on recycling with additional penalty for negative lobbying in Europe. More 4.1 Apple - progress on eliminating toxics from new products but needs to improve on recycling and energy. More 4.1 Lenovo - New US tack back scheme, but still no products free of worst toxic chemicals. More 3.7 Motorola - Only phone company not to set a timeline for eliminating worst toxic chemicals. More 3.1 Sharp - Most points on toxic chemicals, poor on recycling and energy. More 2.2 Microsoft - Very poor on recycling and energy. More 0.8 Nintendo - Zero on most criteria except chemicals management and energy. More

The US Energy Information Administration has just presented this graphic as part of "International Energy Outlook 2008 with Projections to 2030," available for download here as a pdf file.

12,954 Nuclear Power Plants That's how many nuclear plants the world would need to build to replace its current fossil-fuel-based energy. Even if it was physically possible to build this many plants within the seven-year timeline set by scientists to avoid dangerous climate change (it takes 8 to 12 years to get a nuclear plant on-line), the cost would be astronomical. At $6 billion per plant (a conservative figure), 12,954 plants would cost $77.72 trillion - more than the total Gross World Product (GWP) of $65.95 trillion!

"Nuage Vert" ("Green Cloud") is a city-scale light installation representing the actual energy consumption (& its accompanying environmental pollution?) of a coal burning power plant.