The young delegates have produced a declaration on the following key issues of the G7: Protecting our planet This area focused on protecting the marine environment, specifically water pollution, overfishing and protecting marine biodiversity.
Because of Japan's demographics — one of the oldest populations on the planet — these areas had large numbers of retirees.
To determine whether there is water on Mars today, Odyssey will scan the planet for areas with high hydrogen concentrations and look for thermal spots, which might indicate the presence of hot springs.
OO Heat Waves Bring Warnings About Synthetic Turf Risk - synthetic turf is much hotter to run on than natural grass: when air temperature reaches 90 F, turf temperatures have been measured at 165 F! YEOW!! Time to hot foot it out of there - and returning the space to grass... 2015 Was Not Cool - practically anywhere on the planet; most areas were hotter than average.
Currently, urban areas cover around 2% of the planet's land area, but by 2030, they could stretch to almost 10% of the world's land surface.
Forests have a major impact on local weather systems and can also affect the amount of sunlight absorbed by the planet: a new area of trees in a snowy region may create more warming than cooling overall by darkening the land surface and reducing the amount of sunlight reflected back to space.
The pair would have been able to enjoy what is dubbed the longest sunset on the planet, as the area is situated so far to the north of the country that it hardly gets dark at all during the summer months.
In addition to topographical maps showing the elevations and depths of the surface, the radar scans are to produce black and white images of most of the planet's surface area that are unobscured by clouds, fog or darkness.
These cities occupy less than 1% of our planet's land area, but their source watersheds the rivers, forests and other ecosystems from which they get their water cover over 12%.
A study in 1985 suggested that 3.5% of the planet's land area was protected at the time; another in 2009, by Clinton Jenkins of the University of Maryland and Lucas Joppa of Duke University, found that the figure had gone up to 13%.
