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Are floods getting worse? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2006 at 03:00:15
| Pottstown Mercury: For victims, the big flood is really only as big as the mud in the basement. But after the waters recede, and the dumpster is filled, neighbors inevitably gather to compare damages and war stories. Eventually, the inevitable question arises -- Are these floods getting worse? More frequent? It's a pertinent question. The floods that swept along the Schuylkill last week, and throughout the northeast as well, caused damage officials now say could easily top $100 ... |
Russia: Danger in the Frozen Soil (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2006 at 03:00:15
| LA Times: Ancient woolly mammoth bones and grasslands locked in a 400,000 sq mile stretch of Siberian permafrost are starting to thaw, and have the potential to unleash billions of tons of carbon and accelerate global warming, Russian and American scientists have concluded. ''It's like taking out food out of your freezer. Leave it on your counter for a few days, and it rots,'' said University of Florida botany professor Ted Schuur, describing the process by which decaying animal and plant ... |
Fight warming by emitting less carbon dioxide (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2006 at 03:00:16
| Mercury News: The danger signals of global warming are all around us -- from the melting snows of Mount Kilimanjaro to the projected increase in ferocity of hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico. But the biggest red flags are at the North and South poles and in the tropics. On the tropical mountainsides of Costa Rica, for instance, the golden toad has become extinct, and the harlequin frog has all but disappeared. This is because warmer temperatures have caused the misty clouds that once enshrouded ... |
Long-haul birds 'returning early' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2006 at 03:00:16
| BBC: Birds that migrate long distances have adapted to the world's changing climate in unexpected ways, a study shows. As the planet warms, and spring arrives earlier in Europe, birds are being forced to change their migration patterns. It had been thought that birds travelling long distances from Africa to Europe would be unable to adapt. But a study in Science suggests they have evolved in response to climate change and are returning earlier. The need for ... |
Biodiesel puts on a suit (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2006 at 03:00:16
| San Francisco Chronicle: Two years ago, Phil Foster decided to try using biodiesel on his San Benito County farm. He liked the idea of it, at least. The fuel comes from domestically produced, renewable sources such as vegetable oil, animal fat or used restaurant grease. It pollutes less than regular diesel and gives off fewer greenhouse gases. It can be used on its own or blended with regular diesel as a relatively cheap way to cut emissions. And it works in ordinary diesel engines like those in his 14 ... |
Cyclists pedal bravely in nation ruled by cars (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2006 at 03:00:16
| Daily Review: Steve Murtaugh was a commuter once. He remembers sleeping in his car at the gas station some 30 years ago, waking up at dawn so he could get the cheapest rate. Today, he wakes up and worries about the survival of civilization. War, peak oil prices and global warming are on his mind. He wants to get rid of his Ford Focus right now and not replace it. "I think there's a good chance I will do it," Murtaugh said, pondering if and when he might be ready. ... |
United States: Drought only tip of dry iceberg (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2006 at 03:00:16
| Associated Press: Although parts of South Dakota remain gripped by drought, state Game, Fish and Parks Department Secretary John Cooper says even drier times could loom - due to global warming. ''I'm scared to death on some of these climate change issues,'' Cooper told the Rapid City Journal. ''I know some people question it. But I've tried to talk to the scientists, the people knowledgeable in this area. And I'm personally convinced that we have a climate change issue that we're going to have to deal ... |
Australia: Greens helping with greenhouse strategy: Stanhope (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2006 at 03:00:16
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The ACT Government has rejected Greens claims that it is not doing enough to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Greens MLA Deb Foskey says by not setting greenhouse reduction targets or supporting renewable energy, the Government is backing away from doing anything substantial on climate change. But Chief Minister Jon Stanhope says a Territory-wide strategy is being developed in response to climate change. "The ACT Government is engaged in a major process of ... |
Is ethanol really energy solution? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2006 at 03:00:16
| Baltimore Sun: More and more leaders outside of environmental circles are looking to the nation's cornfields these days to solve the United States' energy problems. The growing interest in ethanol, a clean, corn-based renewable resource, has paralleled the escalating price of gas and the urgent need to break the country's dependence on crude oil. Recently, the Big Three automobile manufacturers appealed to Congress for incentives to increase the number of gas stations that offer blends of ... |
Prayer of a chance for Earth (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2006 at 03:00:16
| San Francisco Chronicle: A Greener Faith Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet's Future By Roger S. Gottlieb OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; 298 PAGES; $29.95 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Even when despair may seem a commonsense (if not very productive) reaction to our looming ecological crisis -- global warming -- Roger Gottlieb, a philosophy professor, is profoundly encouraged by the growth of religious environmentalism: "its ... |
Earth's temperature will continue to rise (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2006 at 03:00:16
| Miami Herald: Below are excerpts from ''Climate Change Science,'' a report by a National Academy of Sciences panel of experts. Requested by the Bush administration, the report was released two weeks ago. Greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface-air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise. Temperatures are, in fact, rising. The changes observed over the last several decades are likely mostly due to human activities, but ... |
Nasa's climate science 'in moth-balls' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2006 at 03:00:16
| BBC: As the space shuttle Discovery prepares for launch, another Nasa spacecraft sits in storage, awaiting its own ride into space. The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), designed to measure the Earth's solar energy balance and which has already been built, is grounded at Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, after the agency cancelled it, citing competing priorities. The $100m (£50m) science platform is paid for, apart from the funds needed for the launch and ... |
Floridians who go solar can get help with the costs (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2006 at 03:00:16
| Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Folks who have always longed to go solar but have always feared the costs have a huge -- though possibly short-lived -- opportunity to get the state government to shoulder as much as half the cost. Under a new state law that goes into effect today, the state will pay a rebate of up to $4 per watt for solar electric systems. A solar hot water heating system would net a rebate ranging from $300 to $500 per customer. Bigger systems, ones that actually help power a house, ... |
United States: Shell plans $200M Maui wind farm (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2006 at 03:00:16
| Charlotte Business Journal: Shell WindEnergy, a subsidiary of the oil conglomerate, plans to spend $200 million building a huge wind farm on a remote corner of Maui. John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil Co., announced the Auwahi wind project at a news conference Friday in Honolulu with Gov. Linda Lingle and executives of Hawaiian Electric Co. and Ulupalakua Ranch Inc., which owns the 20,000-acre ranch at Upcountry Maui where the wind farm will be built. The project will generate 40 megawatts of power ... |
Canada: Global warming expected to top 2020 concerns (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2006 at 03:00:16
| Canadian Press: By the year 2020, a majority of Canadians believe scientists will have found a cure for breast cancer, global warming will be the greatest crisis facing mankind and Quebec may no longer fly the maple leaf, a new poll suggests. The survey, released yesterday by the Dominion Institute, a charitable organization dedicated to educating Canadians about their country, asked poll respondents to imagine the state of their country 14 years from now. Of the survey's 1,007 participants, ... |
United Kingdom: Government promises carbon cuts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2006 at 03:00:16
| BBC: The UK government has thrown down a challenge to its EU allies by promising to cut, by 2012, carbon emissions from big business by 12.5% on last year's levels. That will mean the UK will achieve almost double its targets under the Kyoto Protocol, and bring it closer to its self-imposed target of a 20% cut in CO2 by 2010. The surprise announcement comes the day after the French and German governments announced comparatively lax targets. Based on last year's figures, the ... |
Green fears grow as Britons binge on power-hungry devices (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2006 at 09:00:16
| Reuters: Fear of the catastrophic consequences of global warming is finally prompting Britons to start changing their lifestyles, a survey said. It is not before time, said the Energy Saving Trust's report "The Rise of the Machines" which predicts that energy used by consumer electronics will double in the next four years. What people really want to know is the environmental properties of the array of gadgets they are buying so they can make the most appropriate decisions, ... |
How to slow the population clock (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2006 at 09:00:16
| Christian Science Monitor: For decades now, demographers and economists have warned that the number of people on earth is growing too fast to be "sustainable." But for many, this story is somewhat old, perhaps alarmist. "We have sort of a cornucopia fantasy," says Russell Hopfenberg, a consulting faculty member at Duke University in Durham, N.C. "People say, 'Not to worry. Technology will solve the problem.' " Mr. Hopfenberg isn't so sure. "Don't get lulled into ... |
Climate change puts parks at risk (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2006 at 09:00:16
| Philadelphia Inquirer: Global warming is erasing the glaciers from Glacier National Park and the Joshua trees from Joshua Tree National Park, and may turn the Everglades into the Neverglades. Many national parks, created as preserves of the best or the most or the last, are especially vulnerable to climate change. Already-fragile park environments are often at special risk because of their location at high elevations and latitudes or along coasts. Faced with this threat, unimagined when it was ... |
No Quick Fix for the Ozone Hole (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2006 at 09:00:16
| LiveScience: The hole in Earth's protective ozone layer won't repair itself until about two decades later than had been expected, scientists announced yesterday. The ozone layer blocks more than 90 percent of the sun's ultraviolet radiation, helping to make life as we know it on Earth possible. For many decades, ozone was depleted by chlorine and bromine gas in the air, produced by man-made chlorofluorocarbons. A hole in the ozone layer formed over the Southern Hemisphere. Efforts to curb ... |
Indian tidal power plant to threaten tigers - critics (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-02-2006 at 09:00:17
| Reuters: Tigers in the world's largest reserve for the big cats are threatened by Indian plans for a tidal power project that will only provide electricity for a few thousand families, scientists and critics said on Friday. The proposed $9-million plant will generate just four megawatts of power -- enough to light up 15,000 homes -- as water from tidal rivers is allowed to rise in one of many creeks dissecting the Sunderbans and is then released through a turbine. But conservationists ... |
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