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Fukushima radiation fears are linked to increase in obesity among children (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 01-01-2013 at 12:02:50
| Guardian: Lingering fears of radiation have turned children from Fukushima into the most obese in Japan, according to a government study, as parents and schools continue to restrict the amount of time they spend outdoors.
In a preliminary report released this week, the education ministry found that children from Fukushima prefecture aged five to nine, as well as those aged 14 and 17, toppped the nationwide obesity rankings. The report defined as obese children who were at least 20% heavier than the standard... |
The Dirty Secret of Climate Change (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 01-01-2013 at 12:02:50
| Huffington Post: Amid all the complex data and opinion about climate change, the dirty secret is quite obvious, so simple and awkward that it's rarely discussed. The dirty secret is that, under present conditions, at least in the short-term, alternative energy costs more than fossil fuels. Perhaps some unforeseen technological development will give us safe energy that is cheaper (in terms of lifetime costs) than coal, oil or natural gas; but meanwhile we continue emitting greenhouse gases, and have no clear prospect... |
Changing the Campus Climate on Climate Change (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 01-01-2013 at 12:02:50
| Huffington Post: Going green is nothing new at Bethany College, we like to say. Our school colors are green and white, and the splendor of our mountaintop campus, especially in the greening season of spring, is unmistakable.
But there's a more urgent reason that we have chosen a green path. Along with some 700 colleges and universities throughout the nation, Bethany has joined the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC). About 400 of the signatories to the Climate Commitment have... |
Amazon Regional Alliance to Confront the Climate Emergency (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 01-01-2013 at 12:02:49
| Inter Press Service: "When someone in Peru sneezes, someone in Brazil catches a cold. When a barrel of oil is produced in Ecuador, a neighbouring country ends up buying it," says prominent environmentalist Yolanda Kakabadse.
Everything that happens in Latin American countries is closely connected, as if they were vital organs shared by the same body, maintains Kakabadse, former environment minister of Ecuador and current regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Climate and Development Knowledge... |
Indigenous Chileans Still Fighting Pinochet-Era Highway Project (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 01-01-2013 at 12:02:49
| Inter Press Service: For more than two decades, Mapuche indigenous people in the Chilean region of AraucanÃa have been fighting the construction of the Ruta Costera (Coastal Highway), a megaproject initially conceived during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990) which has already caused significant archeological and cultural losses and damages.
The Coastal Highway is meant to connect one end of Chile's long, narrow territory to the other, running north to south as close to the Pacific Ocean as possible. The... |
An Abundance Of Extreme Weather Has Many On Edge (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 01-01-2013 at 12:02:48
| National Public Radio: "I've never seen anything like that," she says. "I sat there on the couch thinking, 'Oh my God, we're all gonna die!' "
Andrews says the derecho, combined with the year's unrelenting series of disasters, has instilled in her a new and visceral fear of the weather. And she's not alone.
"People begin to see that pattern and are starting to say, 'Whoa. Could all these be connected? Is this something to do with climate change?' " says Anthony Leiserowitz, who directs the Yale Project on Climate... |
EPA Chief Announces Resignation (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 01-01-2013 at 12:02:48
| National Public Radio: After a rough and tumble four years, Lisa Jackson announced Thursday that she is stepping down as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. |
EPA Administrator Jackson Stepping Down (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 01-01-2013 at 12:02:47
| National Public Radio: Lisa Jackson, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, is stepping down.
The Associated Press reports that:
"Jackson, 50, a chemical engineer by training, did not point to any particular reason for her departure. Historically, Cabinet members looking to move on will leave at the beginning of a president's second term. 'I will leave the EPA confident the ship is sailing in the right direction, and ready in my own life for new challenges, time with my family and new opportunities... |
EPA head Jackson says to step down (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 01-01-2013 at 12:02:47
| Reuters: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson, who spearheaded the Obama administration's crackdown on carbon emissions, said on Thursday she will step down after almost four years of battles with Republicans and industry over proposed regulations.
Under her leadership, the agency declared for the first time that carbon dioxide was a danger to human health and could be regulated under the Clean Air Act, leading the EPA to develop a new regulatory regime to limit carbon emissions.
Industry... |
Climate data 'has helped African farmers boost production' (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 01-01-2013 at 12:02:46
| SciDevNet: Farming communities in Africa are benefitting from an exchange programme to improve access to, and understanding of, climate science, according to a report presented at a seminar.
The seminar, held in in Dakar, Senegal, last month (20--21 November), discussed the results of the programme -- which encompassed two demonstration studies in Kenya and Senegal -- and identified the opportunities and challenges faced in making better use of short-range forecasts and early-warning systems for flooding.... |
Zimbabwe ill-prepared for rainfall extremes, farmers say (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 01-01-2013 at 12:02:46
| AlertNet: Thumeliso Matshobana knows what the devastation of too much water looks like.
A smallholder farmer in Zimbabwe's Midlands, he watched helplessly last year as floods destroyed crops, livestock, homes and schools. The heavy rains, he says, came as "a total surprise.'
The floods left a trail of destruction in traditionally dry and impoverished rural areas of the Midlands and Matebeleland, and rebuilding has been a slow and painful process.
"We want rain but not the kind that kills us and destroys... |
Antarctic drilling project cut short (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 01-01-2013 at 12:02:46
| BBC: An ambitious mission to drill through Antarctic ice to a lake that has been sealed off for thousands of years has been cut short. The British expedition was attempting to reach Lake Ellsworth, which lies over 3km (1.8 miles) below the ice, to see if it contained evidence of ancient life on Earth. A technical problem meant that the two bore holes failed to connect and the project was suspended. The BBC's science editor David Shukman explains what went wrong. |
Great Arctic Cyclone in Summer ?Unprecedented?: Study (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 01-01-2013 at 12:02:45
| Climate Central: It's known as the Great Arctic Cyclone, and when it roared out of Siberia last August, storm watchers knew it was unusual. Hurricane-like storms are very common in the Arctic, but the most powerful of them (which are still far less powerful than tropical hurricanes) tend to come in winter. It wasn't clear at the time, however, whether the August storm was truly unprecedented.
Now it is. A study published in Geophysical Research Letters looks at no fewer than 19,625 Arctic storms and concludes... |
Ireland: Early 2013 deadline for climate change Bill (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 01-01-2013 at 12:02:45
| Irish Times: The long-anticipated draft climate change Bill will not meet its publication target of the end of 2012 but will now be published in early 2013, Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan will confirm today.
As part of a series of announcements and updates, Mr Hogan will say the legislation remains broadly on schedule despite the slippage.
He sets out reasons for this including the complexity of the Bill, as well as the importance of getting it right with legislation that will have profound societal... |
Sanford: Another record-breaking year for climate change (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 01-01-2013 at 12:02:44
| Newsday: It's virtually certain that 2012 will be the warmest year on record for the continental United States. When scientists affirm these results, they'll no doubt make headlines. But we should put that record in perspective.
North America covers just 2 percent of the Earth's surface. Globally, we're set to have another very hot year, likely in the top 10, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Looking further back, the last 35 years have all exceeded the 20th century average global temperature.... |
U.S. on new track to catch Saudis in oil production (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 01-01-2013 at 12:02:44
| CBS News: Despite rising gas prices, oil production is surging in this country. That has some predicting the U.S. could eventually overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's largest petroleum producer by 2020.
In the middle of a Colorado cornfield, sandwiched between cattle and farm houses, is the front line of an American oil boom.
"We plan to invest over $8 billion over the next five years here, so we're really excited," said Mike Dickinson, who works for Noble Energy, which is doubling it's production in... |
Seven months later, no progress (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 01-01-2013 at 12:02:44
| Chicago Tribune: It was a classic power play. In May, Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, surprised representatives of the oil and gas industries with an amendment to a piece of drilling legislation that essentially killed the entire bill.
He wanted to get their attention. He did.
Seven months later, Illinois is no closer to realizing the potential for hydraulic fracturing that was addressed in the legislation. Also known as fracking, the controversial extraction technique involves injecting... |
Japan's new government sticks to three-year nuclear safety goal (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 01-01-2013 at 12:02:43
| Reuters: Japan's new government said on Friday it hoped to stick to a three year deadline to decide whether to restart all nuclear reactors after safety checks, despite the country's newly formed nuclear regulator saying the deadline was impossible to meet.
Economy Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, who is also responsible for energy policy, said reactors would be restarted as units received the all-clear from the atomic regulator.
"We will rely on the NRA (Nuclear Regulation Authority) to judge safety from... |
New Report Finds That West Antarctica Is Warming at an Alarming Rate (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 01-01-2013 at 12:02:43
| Atlantic: For more than half a century, scientists at a remote outpost in western Antarctica have been tracking the region's weather, and a new analysis published in Nature Geoscience comes to alarming conclusions: Temperatures have lept up by 4.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1958 -- twice as much as previously thought, making the area one of the fastest-warming in the world.
Should temperatures continue on this path, scientists fear warmer and longer periods of melting for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which... |
United States: Seattle Mayor Calls for City?s Pension Funds to Dump Oil Stocks (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 01-01-2013 at 12:02:43
| Grist: Student groups at 192 colleges and universities are calling on their schools` endowments to sell off stocks in fossil-fuel companies, inspired by a 350.org campaign that we`ve reported on before. Now that campaign is spreading from campus to city hall, as Climate Progress reports:
Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn is now calling on his city to strip fossil fuels from its two main pension funds. According to the city?s finance director, Seattle has $17.6 million invested in Chevron and ExxonMobil, as well... |
Will Sandy?s Legacy Loom As Large As it Should Past 2012? (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 01-01-2013 at 12:02:42
| Atlantic: Coastal cities have built up infrastructure over the years that cumulatively has been an engineering marvel: ports and waterways, water and sewer and electrical systems, roads and bridges and tunnels and subways. But it's all going to look modest compared to the projects necessary to deal with the impacts of climate change.
Massive flood barriers straight out of a science fiction movie may rise between the north fork of Long Island and near New London, Connecticut. The Golden Gate strait may similarly... |
Antarctic Ice Sheet Experiencing Nearly Twice as Much Warming as Previously Thought (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 01-01-2013 at 12:02:42
| EcoWatch: In a finding that raises further concerns about the future contribution of Antarctica to sea level rise, a new study finds that the western part of the continent?s ice sheet is experiencing nearly twice as much warming as previously thought.
Researchers have determined that the central region of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is experiencing twice as much warming as previously thought. Their analysis focuses on the temperature record from Byrd Station (indicated by a star), which provides... |
2012: The year cities stood up to climate change ? and took a beating (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 01-01-2013 at 12:02:42
| Grist: A year ago, as the curtain was closing on 2011, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg stood in front of an audience at the United Nations and declared that it would be cities, not national governments, that would lead the fight against climate change. ?As mayors - the great pragmatists of the world?s stage and directly responsible for the well-being of the majority of the world?s people - we don?t have the luxury of simply talking about change but not delivering it,? he said.
2012 would prove... |
Climate Science Makes an 11th-Hour Comeback in 2012 (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 01-01-2013 at 12:02:41
| Inside Climate News: This was the year climate change vanished from the political agenda?and then suddenly reappeared, after Hurricane Sandy shook the country. It was just a few years ago that Pres. Obama flew to Copenhagen to rescue faltering climate treaty talks amid bipartisan calls for global warming action. But in 2012, there wasn't a single Congressional proposal or hearing on climate legislation. Neither was there mention of climate change on the presidential campaign trail, or in the debates for the first time... |
Carbon Taxes Make Ireland Even Greener (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 01-01-2013 at 12:02:41
| New York Times: Over the last three years, with its economy in tatters, Ireland embraced a novel strategy to help reduce its staggering deficit: charging households and businesses for the environmental damage they cause. The government imposed taxes on most of the fossil fuels used by homes, offices, vehicles and farms, based on each fuel?s carbon dioxide emissions, a move that immediately drove up prices for oil, natural gas and kerosene. Household trash is weighed at the curb, and residents are billed for anything... |
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