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United Nations Climate Change Conference – COP15

Latest developments here and here

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Climate Action Factories

Incubators of Youth Energy for our Climate This December, representatives from 192 countries will meet in Copenhagen, to determine the new global agreement for climate change. But currently, progress is stalling towards a new global deal that will drive our

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Wij Zijn Koel

If you read Dutch you’ll enjoy this article about my good friend and climate entrepreneur Aart Van Veller, if you don’t you can still enjoy the nice photo of me and Aart in the Artic last summer . http://www.volkskrant.nl/economie/article1180985.ece/Jong_en_groen_zakendoen

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Travel Less – Communicate More

Status report of Climate Change College project: Travel Less – Communicate More The team is currently working on a strategy for the final part of the project. This includes a campaign site featuring a road-map and information that highlights the

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Melting Glaciers

The last part of our expedition offered some of the most breathtaking scenery as we kayaked our way up to massive glacier walls, past floating icebergs and curious otters. Glaciers all over the world have been retreating ever since the

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Up in the sky

The expedition continues and the next step on our journey is to visit and examine the glaciers in the Prince William Sounds area, the place of the 1989 Exxon Valdez catastrophe where a massive oil spill led to the death

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60 years of permafrost

After having studied how microbes that are eating up organic matter at the bottom of lakes are producing the greenhouse gas Methane, and how this process accelerates when the permafrost melt, we moved up land, and met scientists that were

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Methane bubbles and thawing permafrost

Out on the ice of 8-mile Lake (a few kilometers away from the bus in the movie “Into the Wild”) we met with Katey Walter and Laura Brosius, two researchers from University of Alaska Fairbanks that are studying thawing permafrost

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Good weather?

In the United States a total of 400 weather stations are releasing a combined number of no less than 800 weather balloons every day into the sky, 365 days a year. All the weather stations are connected to the World

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Everything is connected

The pack ice over the North Pole is retreating with an alarming speed. Last year the record for ice retreat from 2005 was beaten by some 1,19 million square kilometers – the new record is thus smaller by an area

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