Michelle Obama will  plant a vegetable garden, the first at the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden in World War II. It will be an organic garden : no pesticides will be used in this garden.

While the organic garden will provide food for the first family’s meals and formal dinners, its most important role, Mrs. Obama said, will be to educate children about healthful, locally grown fruit and vegetables at a time when obesity and diabetes have become a national concern.

“My hope,” the first lady said in an interview in her East Wing office, “is that through children, they will begin to educate their families and that will, in turn, begin to educate our communities.

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Sea levels are predicted to rise twice as fast as was forecast by the United Nations only two years ago, threatening hundreds of millions of people with catastrophe. Rapidly melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are likely to push up sea levels by a metre or more by 2100. Low-lying countries with increasing populations, such as Bangladesh could see large parts of their surface areas vanish.

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One of the harshest landscapes in the United States, it turns out, is becoming fertile ground for green power.

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Dear TSTG pupils,

Lindsay, our Canadian assistant mentionned the cycles climate went through : alternatively Ice Ages and warmer periods, watch this video to get more information on Global Warming !

Scientists warn that the planet’s recovery from global warming could take over 1000 years.

Even if we could halt (= stop) our emissions by the year 2050, they say, carbon-dioxide concentrations would then be at double pre-industrial levels. The oceans would absorb some of the CO₂ in the atmosphere, but the overall change would be small.

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Armies are one of the worst polluters. You can read more about this issue in The Guardian, a British quality paper.

The next climate conference will take place in less than a year in Copenhagen. This article from The Independent, a quality Britih daily paper explains why this conference is crucial.

The Arctic region is warming at a faster rate than the rest of the world at least a decade before it was predicted to happen. Read more about it here !

Watch on this interactive map the Carbon emissions per country. New figures published confirm that China has overtaken the US as the largest emitter of CO2. This interactive emissions map shows how the rest of the world compares

This is the trailer of the movie by Al Gore “An Inconvenient Truth”, watch it !