Dozens of new links are being added to the Green Links section at BlueGreenPlanet, partcularly under the Sustainability section. Reducing carbon emissions, and education about carbon neutrality is becoming a more urgent issue under the threat of climate change, that this topic may get its own category very soon. In any case, I did want to highlight that these new links are being in such huge batches currently than they aren’t highlighted for very long on the main page.

Many thanks to light_of_summer on LiveJournal for providing these new links.

The Independent published a story on July 23, 2006 revealing that the Amazon rainforest is in its second year of drought. The most alarming piece of news is that research ­ carried out by the Massachusetts-based Woods Hole Research Centre on the Amazon river has concluded that the forest cannot withstand more than two consecutive years of drought without breaking down.

The original story can be found here, while the story has been archived here in full.

The study results reveal that the dying of the Amazon rainforest will spell a massive acceleration in global warming. (Trees help fix carbon dioxide from the air. When they die, they release it.) The Amazon rainforest faces the very real possibility of dying next year.The forest contains 90 billion tons of carbon, enough to increase the rate of global warming by 50 per cent.