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19/5/2013
File this one under unintended consequences. Angelina Jolie, by announcing her preventative double masectomy, will likely have significant influence well beyond women’s health. By modeling how to think with data when data do not tell us what we ...
19/5/2013
The Caribbean does not have the luxury of time for decisive action on
climate change and global warming. In fact, it is on the brink of calamity, according to a prominent scientist.
Conrad Douglas, a Jamaican scientist who has published ...
19/5/2013
Hope is fading for a global deal to regulate the airline industry's greenhouse gas emissions ahead of a fall deadline, even though failure could push the industry back to the brink of a trade war over the European Union's emissions trading ...
19/5/2013
In the rarefied air of Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, which sits 11,141 feet above sea level, scientists have charted the passing of a milestone that, if ignored, heralds a future for civilization both tragic and chaotic.
I'm referring ...
17/5/2013
By day, insects provide the white noise of the South, but the night belongs to the amphibians. In a typical year, the Southern air hangs heavy from the humidity and the sounds of wildlife.
The Southeast, home to more than 140 species of ...
17/5/2013
A study featured in the current
issue of Nature reveals that ocean warming has already affected fisheries around the world over the past four decades as fish populations shift in response to changing sea temperatures. The findings provide an ...
16/5/2013
The Arctic Council added China and five other countries as official observers yesterday, expanding the focus of the organization and underscoring the complicated politics created by newly open waters in the north because of
climate ...
16/5/2013
Everest isn't the same mountain it was when Jim Whittaker became the first U.S. climber to summit the peak in 1963. The world's highest peak has been shedding snow and ice for the past 50 years, possibly due in part to global warming, new ...
16/5/2013
"Hello, world? Hey, John Kerry here. Just wanted to apologize for all those decades of America`s non-leadership on that crazy global warming thing. But now we`ve decided to start making some nice sounds about the
issue. Hope you can hear me ...
16/5/2013
Environmentalists suffered a setback on Tuesday when British Columbia re-elected a premier who left the door open for approval of two oil pipelines that would carry tar sands oil across B.C. to the Pacific Coast, where it could be exported to the ...
14/5/2013
Threats of landslides have delayed the relocation plans of two coastal villages that have been badly affected by coastline loss and frequent sea flooding. The Fiji Government has set aside more than half a million dollars for the relocation of ...
14/5/2013
Deforestation in the Amazon region could significantly reduce the amount of electricity produced from hydropower, says a new study.
Scientists say the rainforest is critical in generating the streams and rivers that ultimately turn ...
13/5/2013
Deforestation may significantly decrease the hydroelectric potential of tropical rainforest regions, warns a new study published in Proceedings of the
National Academy of Science.
The study, led by Claudia M. Stickler at the ...
13/5/2013
"THIS IS THE CHURCH taking direct action and showing that it's not willing to profit from destroying the Earth."
That's what Justin Whelan, Paddington Uniting Church mission development manager, had to say after the church's NSW and ACT ...
13/5/2013
The loss of tropical rain forests is likely to reduce the energy output of hydroelectric projects in countries like Brazil that are investing billions of dollars to create power to support economic growth. That is the conclusion of a ...
13/5/2013
"The main thing is the oneness of humanity," His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, said during an environmental summit Saturday in Portland.
"In 1959 I came from Tibet and escaped to India. Now the whole world has some ...
12/5/2013
Summer is almost here, and with it likely some blistering hot days. A recent study suggests the elderly should beware when the temperature spikes, because they face an increased risk of winding up in the emergency room short of breath on those ...
11/5/2013
One daunting scientific forecast states that almost half of the world`s population will live in areas of water scarcity by 2030. Yet Christopher Husbands, the head of Grenada`s
National Water and Sewerage Authority (NAWASA), is ...
11/5/2013
The icy Arctic is emerging as a global economic hot spot -- and one that is becoming a security concern for the U.S. as world powers jockey to tap its vast energy resources and stake out unclaimed territories.
Diplomats from eight Arctic ...
11/5/2013
The Obama administration is unlikely to make a decision on the Canada-to-Nebraska Keystone XL pipeline until late this year as it painstakingly weighs the project's impact on the environment and on energy security, a U.S. official and analysts ...
10/5/2013
The
National Journal has a long piece out, "The Coming GOP Civil War Over
Climate Change: Science, storms, and demographics are starting to change minds among the rank and file."
Back in October 2010, NJ ran an article explaining, “The ...
10/5/2013
Specific criteria that countries can base emission reduction plans on needs be agreed at the Warsaw
climate summit at the end of 2013, an influential campaign group has warned.
The
Climate Action Network (CAN) wants the UN to host an ...
10/5/2013
Michael Levi is my favorite energy wonk -- and not just because we both had to endure waiting for hours in the cold outside the 2009 United Nations
climate-change conference in Copenhagen. (Though he got in first.)
Levi, the senior ...
10/5/2013
The amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere passed a symbolic milestone this week, scientists announced Friday, reaching levels that haven’t prevailed on the Earth since long before human civilization began.
The ...
9/5/2013
In a U.S. patent application, a little-known Maryland inventor claims a stunning solar energy breakthrough that promises to end the planet's reliance on fossil fuels at a fraction of the current cost – a transformation that also could blunt ...