World’s most powerful Three Gorges dam in China
World’s most powerful dam in China gushes water that generates the same power as FIFTEEN nuclear reactors - and is also an environmental controversy, annual flood levels are extremely high.
World’s most powerful dam in China gushes water that generates the same power as FIFTEEN nuclear reactors - and is also an environmental controversy, annual flood levels are extremely high.
Relentless rains submerged half of the sprawling Philippine capital Manila, sending emergency crews scrambling to rescue tens of thousands of stranded residents.
Follow @Greenpeace to learn more about climate change and flooding.
In August this year, more than half of the sprawling metropolis of Manila was submerged in floodwaters. Hundreds of thousands of people globally have been left stranded via extreme flooding - but extreme is becoming a normal part of our future predictions…
There is strong scientific consensus that the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events, such as the drought that is also afflicting the American mid-west, are likely to increase under climate change
Greenpeace strongly calls on industrialised countries, which account for most of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions – the greatest contributor to climate change – to take responsibility and curb their emissions. For more background please read on and see the video.
@Greenpeace Thanks to @Camz99 for the tweet.
A live flood warning system has gone online as the UK experienced unseasonable amounts of heavy rain…
How many other online weather / water / ocean warning systems should we have?
Welcome to Season One of mermology launching the real ocean story on World Oceans Day! We tease it - You tell it.
Visit www.mermology.comto click through to our Season One, Youtube playlist of 12 teasers, plus Pinterest, TumblR and Twitter for the complete world of mermology. Hello Instagram users! You can tweet us using #MYmermology @merblogogy
Send us your personal or campaign, sea, ocean, fish, surf, photos, mobile and camera footage or create teasers as we compile Season Two, launching July 13th, 2012 and help us tell the real ocean story.
Let’s show ALL things OCEAN - good and bad - getinvolved@mermology.com
