Upside down Nature World

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Forests, lakes, mountains, oceans, sky - just photos, BUT - amazing photos, pictures of nature - Up side down viewing image. In my point of view it's very interesting... .

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Amazing Up Side Down Nature

Congo's forest protector receives Right Livelihood Award
As Barack Obama prepares to pick up a Peace Prize he's yet to earn, a truly deserving activist collected the Alternative Nobel Prize for his work to save the forests of the Congo. - 17 hours ago
Barack to the future? Obama confuses key climate dates
China leading, the US lagging – that’s not quite the impression spin doctors from the White House were hoping to give when they finally released their numbers on emission reduction. Who is saying "Yes we can" now? - 2 days ago
The World Bank and the Congo Forests
On 3d December 2009, just few days before the Copenhagen Climate Conference, Greenpeace, Global Witness and the Rainforest Fundation delivered an open letter to the World Bank criticising its role in the forest sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) - home to the second largest rainforest in the world. - 2 days ago
Carbon in exile: the melting of Siberia
If you live in a developed country, you’re pretty well insulated from climate change. Shifts in weather patterns, heavier rainfall, gradually rising sea levels and temperature increases – at the moment western society absorbs these changes without us really noticing much difference. But for the indigenous peoples of the Arctic, living on the front line of climate change, shifts in the planet’s behaviour are much more obvious. - 8 days ago
Climate destroyer shut down by activists in Indonesian rainforest ahead of Copenhagen Climate Summit
With just 12 days before the critical UN Copenhagen Climate Summit, we are taking direct action again today - blocking one of the world's largest pulp mills, in the heart of Indonesia's rainforests. The export facilities have been shutdown by our activists for 9 hours already. Most of the them have been taken away by police but Frank (Germany), Jetske (Netherlands), Alien (Indonesia) and Joel (Philippines) are still holding on. - 10 days ago
Success at Climate Defenders Camp
Our activists at the Climate Defenders Camp in Indonesia have had an tough time lately. Many of them have been arrested, interrogated and deported - along with independent journalists. At one point police even tried to shut down the entire camp. Yet thanks to local support, our camp continues, in the heart of the rainforest, with the spirit and resolve of those remaining now stronger than ever as we celebrate a first positive step resulting from our work. - 2 weeks ago
Activists set up home on the Happy Ranger
A few days ago the cargo ship The Happy Ranger left France carrying steam generators intended for the nuclear European Pressurised Reactor under construction in Olkiluoto, Finland. As the ship made its way from France to Finland, activists from the Arctic Sunrise boarded the cargo ship and are currently occupying the cranes on the deck of the cargo ship. - 3 weeks ago

Ski Mountains Turn Green For 2008

If ever there was an industry that needed global warming not to be true, it has to be the ski industry. No snow, no skiing, and the skiing industry would belong to a sporting museum.

So perhaps it comes as no surprise that one European country which relies on the ski industry trade more than most others has decided to ditch traditional print brochures for the internet only.

Andorra is a small country with borders that meet both France and Spain, set in the Pyrenees mountains. Andorra is best known for two things - her status as a tax haven, and for attracting ten million tourists a year, mostly for skiing in her mountains.

The Vallnord ski area which includes the well known resorts of Arinsal and Ordino decided to stop producing traditional holiday brochures as a sign of its commitment to the environment, with the hope that visitors would find sufficient information on the internet, and book their ski holidays on-line.

The decision to move from print media to new technology to benefit the environment comes at a risky time for Andorra's ski reports. The 2006/7 season was not a good one with a drop in tourists for the first time in recent years. This despite the fact that Andorra opened a new family friendly ski park in Arinsal, moving away from her old image of a cheap and cheerful ski holiday for 18-30 year olds to one that caters well for all. The snow park includes a conveyor belt and a game zone, designed to give children confidence before they ski and use the chair lifts.

While the snow would often start in early November before this ski season, disastrously no sustained snow periods arrived until March this year. No official figures have been released yet as to how many tourists visited this year, but some officials are reported to be guessing at a year on year fall of ten per cent, and some are blaming it on environmental changes and global warming. Private businesses suggest the figure could be closer to forty per cent. Given that private businesses see financial figures on a daily basis most people in the Andorra tourist industry are veering towards the higher forty per cent figure rather than what could be an optimistic official estimate.

Despite good snow in mid March and full occupancy at Easter, it was decided not to prolong the agony of Andorra's worst tourist season for a generation, and the slopes were closed at the end of the Easter holidays, some three weeks earlier than some previous ski seasons.

The good news for Andorra is that the scare of global warming might have been just that, as snow fell in Soldeu in late September, bringing hope that the 2008 season will be good for natural snow - and the ski resorts can claim to have done their bit to help the environment!

by Rogger Muns from http://www.yourandorra.com/

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