Portal:Environment/Did you know
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- ...that in United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change fourth assessment report, average Arctic temperatures increased at almost twice the global average rate in the past 100 years?
- ...that there was a Three Mile Island accident in United States where a partial meltdown of a nuclear powerplant took place in 1979?
- ... that methane has 25 times the impact of carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas?
- ...that the United Nations Environment Programme (or UNEP), which coordinates United Nations environmental activities, was founded in 1972?
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- ...that many countries that signed the Kyoto Protocol actually increased the greenhouse gas emissions, contrary to the treaty? And for that, the 15 January 2011, a representative of the country had to stick their head in a hole of sand in Cancun, Mexico?
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- ...that in United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change fourth assessment report, average Arctic temperatures increased at almost twice the global average rate in the past 100 years?
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- ...that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) can cause ozone depletion, and the ozone hole needs to take more than a decade to recover?
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- ...that the word smog is a portmanteau of smoke and fog?
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- ...that tidal power is a form of hydropower that exploits the rise and fall in sea levels due to tides in order to generate electricity?
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- ...that the incandescent light bulb has an energy efficiency of only 5%, and the rest of the energy is used to generate heat rather than light?
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- ...that there was a Three Mile Island accident in United States where a partial meltdown of a nuclear powerplant took place in 1979?
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- ... that the recycling symbol is based on the Möbius strip?
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- ... that the first National Park was the Yellowstone National Park in the United States?
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- ... that the idea of atmospheric gases trapping the Suns heat to produce the greenhouse effect was put forward by Joseph Fourier in the 1820’s?
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- ... that Minamata disease was caused by mercury poisoning due to pollution drained into Minamata Bay in Japan?
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- ... that methane has 25 times the impact of carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas?
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- ... that the global ecological footprint is 1.8 global hectares (gha) per capita?
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- ... that the concept of reduce, re-use, and recycle as three equal options, but they are instead meant to be a hierarchy, in order of importance?
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- ... that since 1500 CE 784 extinctions have been documented by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources?
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- ...that in 2004, the worldwide energy consumption of the human race was 15 TW (= 1.5 x 1013 W) with 86.5% from burning fossil fuel?
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- ...that the United Nations Environment Programme (or UNEP), which coordinates United Nations environmental activities, was founded in 1972?
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- ... that the average United States citizen consumes 119pg (10−12 g) of dioxin per day?
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- ... that each year in 22,500 cemeteries across the United States approximately 30 million board feet (70,000 m³) of hardwoods are buried as caskets?
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- ... that rivers have been classified by many criteria, including their topography, their biotic status and their relevance to white water rafting and canoeing activities?
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