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the energy [r]evolution
The climate change imperative demands nothing short of an Energy [R]evolution. The expert consensus is that this fundamental shift must begin immediately and be well underway within the next ten years in order to avert the worst impacts. What is needed is a complete transformation of the way we ... | <urn:uuid:b6cc700a-55c3-47a6-baaf-dbe7c04a4b04> | http://www.energyblueprint.info/1332.0.html?L=0 | 1 | fineweb |
What is Rainwater Harvesting?
Rainwater harvesting is an ancient practice of catching and holding rain for later use. In a rainwater harvesting system, rain is gathered from a building rooftop or other source and is held in large containers for future use, such as watering gardens or washing cars. This practice reduces... | <urn:uuid:14a860e9-8430-426b-8c1a-80c7f022fb96> | http://www.waterresourcesgroup.org/ | 0.8696 | fineweb |
Japan has been hit by the worst crisis since 1945, as an earthquake and tsunami have killed 10,000, destroyed tens of thousands of buildings, displaced hundreds of thousands, and left millions without power or water. As the nation braces for more aftershocks, people have resorted to using sea water in an attempt to pre... | <urn:uuid:f8f50eee-35e0-4fe2-8425-891ee98718b0> | http://yourheartsontheleft.blogspot.com/2011/03/nuclear-meltdown-is-not-alternative-to.html | 0.6281 | fineweb |
Barbara Heath Land Race – 2012
By the time Barbara Heath visited Horsham, the town and the surrounding Wimmera District of Western Victoria were in the process of recovering from a decade-long drought. To inform her work, which was initially to address issues of drought, Heath held a number of planned and fortuitous co... | <urn:uuid:c1e616f0-c628-4e79-8c4f-63212b07cee3> | http://viewersite.wordpress.com/2012/02/ | 0.986 | fineweb |
Participatory Video created by members of various indigenous communities in Itogon, Philippines, tracking the impacts of large-scale mining and now climate change on their environment and culture.
This film was created by members of various indigenous communities in the Cordillera region of the Philippines, during a Pa... | <urn:uuid:8e21dd22-c3b3-4956-ade9-66549e3c9812> | http://www.insightshare.org/watch/video/voices-experience | 1 | fineweb |
As the years tick by with most of the planet doing little in the way of reducing carbon emissions, researchers are getting increasingly serious about the possibility of carbon sequestration. If it looks like we're going to be burning coal for decades, carbon sequestration offers us the best chance of limiting its impac... | <urn:uuid:0f4b5328-483d-437b-b4b6-8cf4bfa3968b> | http://arstechnica.com/science/2010/01/pangea-era-rift-makes-east-coast-perfect-for-carbon-storage/ | 0.9988 | fineweb |
Bundelkhand’s ravine wastelands. Photo: Keya Acharya/IPS
BUNDELKHAND, India – Narrow, cobblestoned lanes separate the rows of mud houses with cool interiors and mud-smoothened patios, some with goats tethered to the wooden posts. This is Tajpura village, deep in this water-stressed, drought-prone region of northern Ind... | <urn:uuid:34eabe1a-7864-4b64-9b8b-dce88b0f492c> | http://climate-connections.org/2012/08/22/india-beating-the-weather-with-sustainable-crops/ | 0.8262 | fineweb |
Scientists have long projected that areas north and south of the tropics will grow drier in a warming world –- from the Middle East through the European Riviera to the American Southwest, from sub-Saharan Africa to parts of Australia.
These regions are too far from the equator to benefit from the moist columns of heate... | <urn:uuid:71855304-2f8a-4425-8945-02a9b90be1ae> | http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/deserts/ | 1 | fineweb |
The Seine, the scenic river running through Paris, has inspired artists, attracted tourists and served as the soul of the city, and now it will also be a source of renewable energy. Paris officials have announced a plan to place river turbines beneath four bridges on the Seine.
The Pont du Garigliano, Pont de la Tourne... | <urn:uuid:e338e7ab-37e4-40ee-98f0-254c81baa630> | http://ecogeek.org/component/content/article/3207-paris-putting-turbines-in-the-seine | 0.9792 | fineweb |
of lakes dot the marshy Arctic tundra regions. Now, in the latest addition to
the growing body of evidence that global warming is significantly affecting
the Arctic, two recent studies suggest that thawing permafrost is the cause
of two seemingly contradictory observations both rapidly growing and
rapidly shrinking lak... | <urn:uuid:5fdf99e1-ac10-4897-aae4-baeb9600a36e> | http://www.geotimes.org/sept05/NN_arcticlakes.html | 0.9633 | fineweb |
A new world record wind gust: 253 mph in Australia's Tropical Cyclone Olivia
The 6,288-foot peak of New Hampshire's Mount Washington is a forbidding landscape of wind-swept barren rock, home to some of planet Earth's fiercest winds. As a 5-year old boy, I remember being blown over by a terrific gust of wind on the summ... | <urn:uuid:3cf8391c-7628-4b73-b23d-af8d16292401> | http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1420&page=7 | 0.9948 | fineweb |
July 18, 2012
Since the Industrial Revolution, ocean acidity has risen by 30 percent as a direct result of fossil-fuel burning and deforestation. And within the last 50 years, human industry has caused the world’s oceans to experience a sharp increase in acidity that rivals levels seen when ancient carbon cycles trigge... | <urn:uuid:d5fc8f97-1ffe-4404-b9ee-d359c5162435> | http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/07/ocean-acidity-rivals-climate-change-as-environmental-threat/ | 0.9999 | fineweb |
Hot Weather Gets Scientists' Attention
Originally published on Wed July 11, 2012 5:30 am
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:
Across America people are sweltering through extreme heat this year, continuing a long-term trend of rising temperatures. Inevitably, many are wondering if the scorching heat is due to global warming. Scientis... | <urn:uuid:e8e46237-1e26-4326-b62c-a25477bd0d59> | http://kacu.org/post/hot-weather-gets-scientists-attention | 1 | fineweb |
Climate change has already pushed the nation's wildlife into crisis, according to a report released Wednesday from the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), and further catastrophe, including widespread extinction, can only be curbed with swift action to curb the carbon pollution that has the planet sweltering.
Entitled ... | <urn:uuid:8f73ff6f-28d6-4d1c-b460-f3a592885a8d> | http://www.scoop.it/t/why-has-putin-closed-the-archives-relating-to-the-holocaust-and-why-has-russian-joined-the-wto/p/3371169705/israel-shells-syria-and-gaza-sabbah-report | 1 | fineweb |
Pricing Carbon Emissions
A bill before Congress may prove a costly way to reduce greenhouse gases.
- Friday, June 5, 2009
- By Kevin Bullis
Experts are applauding a sweeping energy bill currently before the United States Congress, saying that it could lead to significant cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions and improve the... | <urn:uuid:ecbdee27-d586-4d08-a03d-036829352851> | http://www.technologyreview.in/energy/22755/page1/ | 1 | fineweb |
Green building facts
- Buildings consume 32% of the world’s resources including 12% of fresh water and 40% of the world’s energy (7).
- In Australia commercial buildings produce almost 9% of our national Greenhouse gas emissions (8).
- To make way for the new Law School the Edgeworth David building and the Stephen Robe... | <urn:uuid:354e6914-456e-4541-8c57-6410f91b48cd> | http://sydney.edu.au/facilities/sustainable_campus/buildings/index.shtml | 0.947 | fineweb |
The drought in Texas, during March, was the worst since 1895.
That is about the time my parents were born 120 years ago.
I never thought it could be worse than the drought of the 1950s, but it is. Drive out into grazing country where mesquite aren't too thick and all you can see is dry, cracked soil with an occasional ... | <urn:uuid:2ea6b2e4-22cb-4c80-8462-ec4f7a51e6d6> | http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2011/may/01/drought-worst-since-1895/ | 0.9997 | fineweb |
Forest Ecosystems: Current Research
Regional Fire/Climate Relationships in the Pacific Northwest and Beyond
Fire exerts a strong influence on the structure and function of many terrestrial ecosystems. In forested ecosystems, the factors controlling the frequency, intensity, and size of fires are complex and operate at ... | <urn:uuid:e4092633-013e-4995-97f5-6212c2dac106> | http://cses.washington.edu/cig/res/fe/fireclimate.shtml | 1 | fineweb |
“A remote Indian village is responding to global warming-induced water shortages by creating large masses of ice, or “artificial glaciers,” to get through the dry spring months. (See a map of the region.)
Located on the western edge of the Tibetan plateau, the village of Skara in the Ladakh region of India is not a com... | <urn:uuid:5050ac83-4770-4e9c-9b44-38ba46d2466e> | http://peakwater.org/2012/02/artificial-glaciers-water-crops-in-indian-highlands/ | 0.9923 | fineweb |
Will the US Face Blackouts as Electricity Generation Suffers in Drought?
Well, its official – the U.S. government has acknowledged that the U.S. is in the worst drought in over 50 years, since December 1956, when about 58 percent of the contiguous U.S. was in moderate to extreme drought.
According to the National Ocean... | <urn:uuid:86e28879-f223-4422-a14b-5d61114c348e> | http://www.solarthermalmagazine.com/2012/10/05/will-the-us-face-blackouts-as-electricity-generation-suffers-in-drought/ | 0.999 | fineweb |
Sea ice is frozen seawater that floats on the ocean surface. Blanketing millions of square kilometers, sea ice forms and melts with the polar seasons, affecting both human activity and biological habitat. In the Arctic, some sea ice persists year after year, whereas almost all Southern Ocean or Antarctic sea ice is "se... | <urn:uuid:b5246854-fe77-4d8a-96ae-2c3df064ab3d> | http://www.eoearth.org/article/Climate_change_and_sea_ice | 0.9999 | fineweb |
Unfortunately, the modern buildings we live and work in rival cars and factories as sources of harm to the environment, contributing to deforestation, global warming, overuse of water and energy and carbon dioxide emissions.
Sustainable building refers to those buildings that are built to have the least impact on the n... | <urn:uuid:180acaf8-94ec-4f00-abe3-803c9ec9f24d> | http://www.zurn.com/Pages/SustainabilityProcess.aspx | 0.9744 | fineweb |
There are nearly two million known species on the planet. But many of those won't be around much longer; one out of every eight known bird species, one in four mammal species, and one in three amphibian species are at risk for extinction, according to the World Conservation Union (IUCN), which maintains the Red List, a... | <urn:uuid:246be445-3dd9-4c3d-a6e4-a6d193647b45> | http://discovermagazine.com/galleries/zen-photo/e/endangered-species | 0.9908 | fineweb |
Since 1993, RAN’s Protect-an-Acre program (PAA) has distributed more than one million dollars in grants to more than 150 frontline communities, Indigenous-led organizations, and allies, helping their efforts to secure protection for millions of acres of traditional territory in forests around the world.
Rainforest Acti... | <urn:uuid:995ec683-d967-4f36-82d9-547c9ea3d646> | http://ran.org/protect-an-acre | 0.9993 | fineweb |
Walking and cycling have long been considered the most environmentally sound methods of getting around. They still are but some environmentalists have argued that food production has become so fossil-fuel intensive that driving could be considered greener than walking (though the analysis has been debunked as flawed).
... | <urn:uuid:66d0a330-4520-4e4a-8b95-75da2b16d190> | http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/datablog/2009/sep/02/carbon-emissions-per-transport-type | 0.9984 | fineweb |
But Keller and her colleagues say their research proves otherwise.
Keller has studied the Chicxulub site and other impact-crater sites around the world for the past decade. She believes that the asteroid impact behind Chicxulub coincided with a "time of massive volcanism, which led to greenhouse warming."
Keller says t... | <urn:uuid:4d9d2441-762a-4bf0-bbc6-64a734349fda> | http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/03/0309_040309_chicxulubdinos_2.html | 0.5263 | fineweb |
1. Reduce our personal carbon footprint by 20 percent in the next year.
2. Stop subsidizing fossil fuels.
3. Mitigate politics and polarization.+
4. Shift towards more vegetarian diets.
5. Scientists better communicate the scientific facts underlying climate change.+
6. Scientists and engineers develop cheap alternativ... | <urn:uuid:ecdaa893-6065-4c28-8ac3-88c4ac418547> | http://www.topix.net/forum/news/drought/TUGBRVERP7JUKITNE | 1 | fineweb |
This page lists climate science and climate impact claims that have either not been proven, or have had the claim modified, moved, or expanded to protect the claimant from having to admit the original claim was wrong.
This will always be a work in progress. New items will be added as they are examined and will include:... | <urn:uuid:7a0bb173-9e03-4fcc-9bcf-ccc3aaa3e68a> | http://wattsupwiththat.com/climate-fail-files/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=8ef4095fcf | 1 | fineweb |
The Coca-Cola System Announces New Global Targets for Water Conservation and Climate Protection in Partnership With WWF
The Coca-Cola Company, in partnership with World Wildlife Fund (WWF), today announced ambitious new targets to improve water efficiency and reduce carbon emissions within its system-wide operations, w... | <urn:uuid:0a04b507-9ee2-4a9e-8102-aa69f8f44e4e> | http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1595040/the_cocacola_system_announces_new_global_targets_for_water_conservation/ | 1 | fineweb |
The factors behind the calving process were not well understood
US researchers have come up with a way to predict the rate at which ice shelves break apart into icebergs.
These sometimes spectacular occurrences, called calving events, are a key step in the process by which climate change drives sea level rise.
Computer... | <urn:uuid:345a4045-6f1f-4b6d-b5c0-385afebb5719> | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7753228.stm | 0.9977 | fineweb |
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Facing an uncertain future
How forest and people can adapt to climate changeCenter for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)Bogor, Indonesia
The most prominent international responses to climate change focus on mitigation (reducing the accumulation... | <urn:uuid:57106d23-5399-4426-a853-4136284a3a19> | http://www.cifor.org/online-library/browse/view-publication/publication/2600.html | 1 | fineweb |
Karuk Tribe: Learning from the First Californians for the Next California
Editor's Note: This is part of series, Facing the Climate Gap, which looks at grassroots efforts in California low-income communities of color to address climate change and promote climate justice.
This article was published in collaboration with... | <urn:uuid:003baaf4-69c7-4ee7-b37f-468bf9b55842> | http://www.resilience.org/stories/2012-10-19/karuk-tribe-learning-from-the-first-californians-for-the-next-california | 1 | fineweb |
The Geological Perspective On Global Warming: A Debate
Dr Colin P. Summerhayes, Vice-President of the Geological Society of London
Dear Dr Peiser,
In the interest of contributing to the evidence-based debate on climate change I thought it would be constructive to draw to your attention the geological evidence regarding... | <urn:uuid:f0965eb8-455d-443b-9cf9-720d790d4628> | http://www.thegwpf.org/geological-perspective-global-warming-debate/ | 1 | fineweb |
The name of the island is Lohachara not that many of us are going to remember it for long. We'll probably recall it as that little island off India, the first once inhabited island to disappear from the surface of the earth due to rising sea levels attributed to global warming.
Lohachara was a small island that support... | <urn:uuid:803bd8f9-4427-468e-ab37-eada95ff6dd4> | http://the-mound-of-sound.blogspot.com/2006/12/global-warming-milestone.html | 0.9997 | fineweb |
PAO: Policy Activities » Briefing (November 2, 2011)
Using Science to Improve Flood Management
On November 2, 2011, ESA sponsored a congressional briefing: “Using Science to Improve Flood Management.” Emily Stanley (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Jeff Opperman (The Nature Conservancy, Ohio Field Office) addresse... | <urn:uuid:33f7423f-3d75-4ed6-a025-a3e344c8d8f3> | http://www.esa.org/pao/policyActivities/briefing11072011.php | 0.9955 | fineweb |
Almost all of the 33 developed and developing countries surveyed in a new study had introduced or progressed with significant climate-related legislation within their own borders in the past year.
In 2012, 18 countries made significant progress, according to the report by the Grantham Research Institute at LSE and Glob... | <urn:uuid:0a8af8f1-6eb4-4528-91d2-0dbf9e717b05> | http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/environment/global-climate-change-progress.19909473 | 1 | fineweb |
Plants flower faster than climate change models predict
Scientific models are failing to accurately predict the impact of global warming on plants, says a new report.
Researchers found in long-term studies that some are flowering up to eight times faster than models anticipate.
The authors say that poor study design an... | <urn:uuid:2b0a717c-2162-468d-9a68-767e517dc557> | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17924653 | 0.9733 | fineweb |
"Many environmentalists believe that wind and solar power can be scaled to meet the rising demand [of billions emerging from poverty], especially if coupled with aggressive efforts to cut waste," reports Justin Gillis. "But a lot of energy analysts have crunched the numbers and concluded that today’s renewables, import... | <urn:uuid:11349972-17b0-4f34-b408-cfc39341347b> | http://www.planetizen.com/node/61170 | 0.9002 | fineweb |
What Is Air Pollution?
in its great magnitude has existed in the 20th century from the
coal burning industries of the early century to the fossil burning technology in
the new century. The problems of
air pollution are a major problem for highly developed nations whose large
industrial bases and highly developed infras... | <urn:uuid:ea6c54fe-1f6e-4a4c-bcb5-4f4c9e0fb6de> | http://everything2.com/user/KS/writeups/air+pollution | 0.705 | fineweb |
Forest governance and climate policies
Fred Stolle of the World Resources Institute looks at the need for REDD to address forest governance issues as well as creating market incentives.
Policy-makers are recognizing the essential role that the world’s remaining forests play in maintaining the global climate system. The... | <urn:uuid:1f534088-d817-4fe5-b528-87d4f831722f> | http://www.iucn.org/news_homepage/news_by_date/2009_news/october_2009/?3960/Forest-governance-and-climate-policies | 1 | fineweb |
Stopping Carbon Pollution
Whether you live in a city, on a farm, or anywhere in between, climate change is affecting your weather and damaging the natural world around you. In order to work towards a clean energy future, America needs carbon pollution controls on the largest industrial sources. The U.S. Environmental P... | <urn:uuid:5ca34e3e-8ae3-4073-898a-e4abb2d9d0ba> | http://www.nwf.org/What-We-Do/Energy-and-Climate/Reducing-Emissions/~/link.aspx?_id=9963E404A6C54F749ABA02164F76CF07&_z=z | 1 | fineweb |
What determines how much coverage a climate study gets?
It probably goes without saying that it isn’t strongly related to the quality of the actual science, nor to the clarity of the writing. Appearing in one of the top journals does help (Nature, Science, PNAS and occasionally GRL), though that in itself is no guarant... | <urn:uuid:0fe1fa4f-99f0-436d-ba48-6f2e07ec325e> | http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/01/warm-reception-to-antarctic-warming-story/langswitch_lang/de?wpmp_switcher=desktop | 0.5784 | fineweb |
DENVER – Put on your poodle skirts and tune in Elvis on the transistor radio, because it’s starting to look a lot like the 1950s.
Unfortunately, this won’t be the nostalgic ’50s of big cars and pop music.
The 1950s that could be on the way to Colorado is the decade of drought.
So says Brian Bledsoe, a Colorado Springs ... | <urn:uuid:6b5ff0a8-5351-4289-bb86-d7195a7837dc> | http://durangoherald.com/article/20130201/NEWS01/130209956/0/20120510/Drought-is-making-itself-at-home | 0.8756 | fineweb |
In an era when almost every energy technology is unpopular with somebody, the people who don’t want wind turbines, generating stations or new transmission lines installed in their neighborhoods often raise the idea of improving energy efficiency as an alternative.
That argument is particularly common in New York State ... | <urn:uuid:4cda4899-535c-49d1-ba21-2625b4bde643> | http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/can-efficiency-counter-a-loss-of-nuclear-power/?ref=sustainableliving | 0.856 | fineweb |
Greenland ice a benchmark for warming
Core data Greenland was about eight degrees warmer 130,000 years ago than it is today, an analysis of an almost three-kilometre-long ice core in Greenland has revealed.
The finding by an international team of 38 institutions from 14 nations provides an important benchmark for clima... | <urn:uuid:96cf8d51-9a89-4975-ae4f-fecfebf943e1> | http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/01/24/3675740.htm | 1 | fineweb |
Carbon With That Latte?
Sonia Narang 07.03.07, 6:00 AM ET
How Starbucks hopes to trim its emissions footprint.
In its shop in downtown San Mateo, Calif., for instance, baristas serve up about 40,000 cups of coffee drinks every month. Just based on utility bills alone, that means Starbucks is serving up about 4,900 poun... | <urn:uuid:f118693f-8e25-48c9-a4fa-ea787f1d53e7> | http://www.forbes.com/2007/07/02/starbucks-emissions-environment-biz-cz_sn_0703green_carbon.html | 1 | fineweb |
The “presidi” translates as “garrisons” (from the French word, “to equip”), as protectors of traditional food production practices
Monday, March 23, 2009
The “presidi” translates as “garrisons” (from the French word, “to equip”), as protectors of traditional food production practices
This past year, I have had rewardin... | <urn:uuid:e139d24e-7144-4cf8-866c-6066d64a435f> | http://igcr.blogspot.com/ | 0.922 | fineweb |
Grassland in Mabi County destroyed by glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF). This area used to be farmland, now it's covered with black glacial deposits after the glacial lake burst. Global warming causes Himalayan glaciers to melt at an unprecedented rate, making GLOF more frequent. Latest research (2009) indicates that ... | <urn:uuid:925035c8-4b10-42e8-90d0-bcef592b3b78> | http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/multimedia/slideshows/climate-energy/scenes-climate-change-china/Destroyed-Grassland-in-China/?tab=5 | 1 | fineweb |
Electric vehicles have been touted as the dream technology to solve our suburban transport challenges and rescue us from oil dependence and environmental threats. Yet technology use occurs in a social context. Almost no discussion of electric vehicles has addressed the uneven suburban social patterns among which electr... | <urn:uuid:c179e592-b391-443b-bb73-2aaaadd8a4bb> | http://www.standard.net.au/story/1327263/electric-vehicles-wont-solve-the-suburbs-transport-woes/?cs=12 | 0.8916 | fineweb |
WFP's office in Kathmandu is leading the way towards carbon neutrality with an ambitious solar project that will cut down its greenhouse emissions by over a third. Copyright: WFP/Meghbar Chemjong
Frequent power outages and melting glaciers are a constant reminder in Nepal of the shortcomings of fossil fuels. In an effo... | <urn:uuid:0609f075-e02c-439d-8394-3fa264dbd3f6> | http://www.wfp.org/aid-professionals/blog/wfp-nepal-goes-solar | 1 | fineweb |
Huffington Post released an article today that looks at the impact of sewage overflow from Superstorm Sandy in New York and New Jersey. The article points out how storm surge will result in overflow events and how rising sea levels will only exacerbate these events resulting in more severe discharges.
The 11 billion ga... | <urn:uuid:2cb3abbd-7305-4de9-8d53-6b9b8e8641a0> | http://bbwk.org/ | 0.9672 | fineweb |
A Stanford scientist has spelled out for the first time the direct links between increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and increases in human mortality, using a state-of-the-art computer model of the atmosphere that incorporates scores of physical and chemical environmental processes. The new findings, t... | <urn:uuid:31f3330c-885a-433b-9829-352ea7e6f20a> | http://phys.org/news118591612.html | 1 | fineweb |
As the planet becomes increasingly covered with concrete, Tarun Naik says at least some of it could be used to help the environment rather than hurt it.
Some of the negative consequences are worrisome. The production of one ton of cement, the paste used to make concrete, creates almost an equal amount of greenhouse gas... | <urn:uuid:920d7e76-d2ea-46ba-bab6-7619548c2267> | http://www.jsonline.com/business/29251104.html | 0.9497 | fineweb |
Latitude And Rain Dictated Where Species Lived
More than 200 million years ago, mammals and reptiles lived in their own separate worlds on the supercontinent Pangaea, despite little geographical incentive to do so. Mammals lived in areas of twice-yearly seasonal rainfall; reptiles stayed in areas where rains came just ... | <urn:uuid:f3c83f07-5d87-43fc-8d42-a95031cc8ee9> | http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/2047586/latitude_and_rain_dictated_where_species_lived/ | 0.9965 | fineweb |
Virginia continues to be a top coal producer, but new rules and renewables challenge the industry’s futureApril 27, 2012 6:00 AM
by Garry Kranz
Coal mining took off in Virginia when the railroads arrived in the 1880s. More than 130 years later, coal still fuels Virginia’s economy. Northern Virginia’s tech sector depend... | <urn:uuid:6b05531a-b7e9-4820-a50c-4fa2feed56e1> | http://www.virginiabusiness.com/index.php/news/article/old-king-coal | 0.8999 | fineweb |
(MENAFN Press) Plastic is a natural product derived from hydrocarbons and is as natural as petrol or diesel, argues the All India Plastic Manufacturers Association (AIPMA), the co-organiser of Plastivision Arabia scheduled to be held at Expo Centre Sharjah from May 14 “ 17, 2012.
"It is the misuse and specifically the ... | <urn:uuid:51fae2d7-d695-44d8-ae45-a936d57ceaff> | http://www.menafn.com/menafn/1093506237/Plastic-bags-which-escapes-collection-results-environmental-hazards | 0.8314 | fineweb |
Some of Palawan’s reefs are sad reflections of warming ocean temperatures. White skeletons are all that remain of previously colorful and varied coral reefs around the island. The phenomena is known as ‘coral bleaching’, caused by too warm of ocean temperatures.
Scientists cited in the article below hold out hope for t... | <urn:uuid:5e163826-772f-4baf-9ef3-7b93d366dd8b> | http://donnaonpalawan.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/corals-hot-heat-stress-help-coral-reefs-survive-climate-change/ | 1 | fineweb |
Threats to Frogs
One of the most pressing threats to frogs today is the chytrid fungus, a deadly skin fungus that has moved across the globe causing amphibian declines in Australia, South America, North America, Central America, New Zealand, Europe, and Africa killing frogs by the millions. The chytrid fungus is respon... | <urn:uuid:41cc0e52-1089-47c4-b367-00aac24e3935> | http://www.defenders.org/frogs/threats | 0.9947 | fineweb |
A way of life is feeling the heat
International development policies are undermining the long term survival of some of the globe's poorest communities, argues Masego Madzwamuse, IUCN's regional programme development officer and focal person for southern African drylands. She says the skills and knowledge needed to surv... | <urn:uuid:40b6044b-ba49-4e52-ab4b-ab31784fb381> | http://cms.iucn.org/es/noticias/noticias_por_tema/gestion_de_ecosistemas_news/?1170/A-way-of-life-is-feeling-the-heat | 0.9835 | fineweb |
Issues: Environment & Climate
California’s rich and diverse soils, vast farm and ranch lands, climate, air, water, and native species must be protected and in many cases restored so that future generations can enjoy the same quality of life that we have. ROC believes that among several other key dynamics, the food syst... | <urn:uuid:9eb1ade2-5ef5-44bd-b6ac-e3005245bf85> | http://www.rootsofchange.org/content/issues-0/56 | 0.9987 | fineweb |
LEDs & the environment
Climate change is commonly accepted to be the greatest threat to our environment. It will result in us all experiencing more extreme weather – with wetter winters and drier summers. This has been caused by the levels of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide (CO2), which have been released in... | <urn:uuid:1ab42086-e47e-4c0c-918a-b3aef0f2e591> | http://ukled-ltd.co.uk/our-products/leds-the-environment/ | 1 | fineweb |
No coal fired power stations. No SUV’s.
And they are warning the planet's atmosphere could have similar levels of the greenhouse gas within hundreds of years.
An international team led by German scientists and involving University of Queensland Environmental Geologist Dr Kevin Welsh has found tropical palms grew on the... | <urn:uuid:30bc0048-2d31-4c07-afe0-15786ed57ea5> | http://www.andysrant.com/2012/08/what-do-you-knowantarctica-had-rainforests-50-million-years-ago.html | 1 | fineweb |
Conception/Leipzig. Even the snow on Aconcagua Mountain in the Andes is polluted with PCBs. An international team of researchers detected low concentrations of these toxic, carcinogenic chlorine compounds in samples taken from America's highest mountain. The snow samples taken at an altitude of 6200 metres are among th... | <urn:uuid:c3e80b2d-2be0-4118-b330-c15d3c60178f> | http://www.sciencecodex.com/white_but_not_pure | 0.6332 | fineweb |
Buried inside Robert Bryce’s relatively new book entitled Power Hungry is a call to “aggressively pursue taxes or caps on the emissions of neurotoxins, particularly those that come from burning coal” to generate electricity such as mercury and lead. This is notable not because Bryce agrees with many environmental and h... | <urn:uuid:ed7842f6-485f-401b-96c7-6ca3e6045411> | http://www.theenergyfix.com/2011/05/07/tax-toxins-not-carbon-dioxide-from-coal-fired-power-plants/ | 0.973 | fineweb |
Deaths in Moscow have doubled to an average of 700 people a day as the Russian capital is engulfed by poisonous smog from wildfires and a sweltering heat wave, a top health official said today, according to the Associated Press.
The Russian newspaper Pravda reported: “Moscow is suffocating. Thick toxic smog has been co... | <urn:uuid:10b103c1-284b-41c5-8dc9-bc9d1b7577ea> | http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2010/08/09/russia_chokes_as_fires_rage_worst_summer_ever/ | 0.922 | fineweb |
CORRECTED-Warming temperatures could multiply Katrina-like hurricanes -study
(Corrects that IPCC assesses but does not run computer simulations, and expands range of warming, paragraph 5)
* Extreme storms most sensitive to rising temperatures
* Number of strong hurricanes could increase seven-fold
By Environment Corres... | <urn:uuid:da86b2d3-85d0-4b75-8994-21e41bccc284> | http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/19/usa-climate-hurricanes-idUSL1N0CA8MS20130319?feedType=RSS | 1 | fineweb |
An oil executive once observed that burning oil for energy is like burning Picassos for heat. Oil is extraordinarily valuable as the basis for so many products we use every day that the thought of simply burning it ought to be unthinkable. So versatile are oil molecules that they can be transformed into substances that... | <urn:uuid:1df04d55-82a4-4684-b3ab-370306a531a3> | http://resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2012/11/burning-picassos-for-heat-why-we-need.html?showComment=1352055129140 | 0.8868 | fineweb |
Saturday 30 October, 6.15pm until 7.30pm, Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Contemporary fears about climate change have brought historical concerns about global population numbers back onto the agenda. There has been much discussion about the need for lifestyle change, particularly in the Western world, to reduce the amount we... | <urn:uuid:42d856df-9b98-4a61-af51-232618abaa69> | http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/2010/session_detail/4130/ | 0.7608 | fineweb |
Climate Change Information Project - February 2013 Digest Vol. 8
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters gathered on the Washington's National Mall on Sunday calling on President Barack Obama to reject the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline proposal and honor his inaugural pledge to act on climate change.
Or... | <urn:uuid:50c5f80e-7064-4178-8b19-5a048e9a26fb> | http://www.sunyit.edu/apps/weblog/?blog=bremerm&mode=viewpost&id=21778 | 1 | fineweb |
Nuclear is clean energy
Illustration: Andrew Dyson
At a conference in Melbourne last October, global energy expert Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, the director of energy research at Oxford University, urged Australia to embrace civilian nuclear power. He said it was the logical pathway to clean, secure and cost-effective en... | <urn:uuid:f8044344-6612-452f-903e-c0d060f9d128> | http://www.canberratimes.com.au/opinion/nuclear-is-clean-energy-20130110-2cinm.html | 1 | fineweb |
What is Green Energy?
What is Green Energy?
Green Tags are created when wind power or other renewable energy is substituted for traditional power. The result is a shift away from our dependence on burning fossil fuel to produce electricity. Using clean renewable energy is friendly to the environment and reduces emissio... | <urn:uuid:d42389a5-574e-4576-956f-fd4a8b67feea> | http://www.hostpapa.com/all-about-green/what-is-green-energy/ | 1 | fineweb |
Kids at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., love their new 'green' campus.
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An ecofriendly middle school.
At Sidwell Friends Middle School in Washington, D.C., one of the newest teachers on campus this ... | <urn:uuid:47bb1a35-670c-437e-ade1-659e793bfd3d> | http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/The-Home-Forum/2008/0311/p18s03-hfks.html | 0.5122 | fineweb |
The Obama Administration has just ramped up the nation’s transition to clean energy resources such as wind power with a new Great Lakes wind power initiative that joins federal agencies with Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, and Pennsylvania in a regional development plan for installing offshore wind turbines in... | <urn:uuid:8d380d12-7a8e-4d81-a95c-481792189876> | http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/30/obama-enlists-wind-power-to-breathe-new-life-into-great-lakes-economy/ | 0.9789 | fineweb |
Time to think big
Did the designation of 2010 as the first-ever International Year of Biodiversity mean anything at all? Is it just a publicity stunt, with no engagement on the real, practical issues of conservation, asks Simon Stuart, Chair of IUCN’s Species Survival Commission.
Eight years ago 183 of the world’s gove... | <urn:uuid:2d3e80a0-ca7b-4358-80a9-0f5129e87a3e> | http://cms.iucn.org/es/recursos/focus/enfoques_anteriores/cbd_2010/noticias/opinion/?6131/time-to-think-big | 0.9928 | fineweb |
— Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Chair, Inuit Circumpolar Conference (February 12, 2005)
For millennia, the Inuit have lived in the Arctic coastal areas of Alaska, Canada, Russia and Greenland. Like many indigenous peoples, the Inuit are the product of the physical environment in which they live. The culture, economy and identit... | <urn:uuid:d73b868f-77c2-466b-95c2-999a9d72aedc> | http://earthjustice.org/print/features/inuit-human-rights-and-climate-change | 1 | fineweb |
The current cycle of global warming is changing the rhythms of climate that all living things have come to rely upon. What will we do to slow this warming? How will we cope with the changes we've already set into motion? While we struggle to figure it all out, the face of the Earth as we know it—coasts, forests, farms,... | <urn:uuid:58a5802e-df03-455e-a035-890db1abafc1> | http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/ | 1 | fineweb |
Powering up for Wildlife
“Smart-from-the-start” solar-energy plan ensures fewer risks to wildlife
Building solar-energy fields on already developed land can help protect desert tortoise habitat. (Photo: © Mark A Wilson)
The desert landscape is looking even brighter now that the Interior Department has released its firs... | <urn:uuid:f7a4226e-1055-406f-a2eb-2c10aeaba121> | http://www.defenders.org/magazine/winter-2013/powering-wildlife | 0.9935 | fineweb |
The U.S. had the world's top two costliest natural disasters in 2012, according to a report released Thursday by global reinsurance firm Aon Benfield, based in London.
The largest global disasters of 2012 were Hurricane Sandy (with a cost of $65 billion) and the year-long Midwest/Plains drought ($35 billion), according... | <urn:uuid:49be57ab-0a7c-4016-869f-8cde070e7530> | http://www.postcrescent.com/usatoday/article/1862201 | 1 | fineweb |
|© UNICEF Nepal/Shrestha|
|Children crossing the road near Garbari tole in the flood-affected town of Nepalgunj, Banke District, Nepal.|
KATHMANDU, Nepal, 29 August 2006 – UNICEF has started distributing supplies to families affected by devastating floods in the Mid-Western and Far-Western Regions of Nepal.
The Nepal R... | <urn:uuid:b167b41b-2eb9-42c4-bf39-40f5266cb410> | http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/nepal_35484.html | 0.9989 | fineweb |
RIO CLARO, BRAZIL (AP) - The cash cows on Carlos Marques' farm used to be nothing but that: herds of dairy cattle that grazed the grassy, rolling hills of his property, where most of the dense tropical forest was long ago cut down for pastures and cropland.
But now the trees are starting to put money in his pocket as w... | <urn:uuid:20d09de8-3b4c-489a-a76e-6d2ce9846a32> | http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/21/cash-cows-disputes-explain-un-development-summit/print/ | 0.9456 | fineweb |
NOAA: November Warmer than Average in U.S., January-November Temperature Near Average for U.S.
December 11, 2008
The November 2008 temperature for the contiguous United States was warmer than the long-term average, according to NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. The January-November 2008 temperatur... | <urn:uuid:b2be6da7-ff96-4bf6-9cc3-ef1ddb2bf1b1> | http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20081211_novstats.html | 0.6515 | fineweb |
Hockerton Housing Project
The Hockerton Housing Project (HHP) is the UK’s first earth sheltered, self-sufficient ecological housing development. The residents of the five houses generate their own clean energy, harvest their own water and recycle waste materials causing minimal pollution or carbon dioxide emissions. Th... | <urn:uuid:dd1943ca-082a-4fc0-935f-100aa40dbe28> | http://www.diggersanddreamers.org.uk/index.php?fld=super_region&val=The%20Midlands&one=dat&two=det&sel=hockertn | 0.9945 | fineweb |
A massive weather formation has developed that is nearly nine thousand miles long, stretching from the equatorial Pacific into the northern part of the northern hemisphere, driving moist tropical air from the Pacific deep into the United States.
The formation is causing flooding in previously drought-afflicted Texas, a... | <urn:uuid:ea4e5e22-e73c-42fc-a56a-a4c6931061d8> | http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/unusual-weather-formation-appears | 0.9942 | fineweb |
China has worked actively and seriously to tackle global climate change and build capacity to respond to it. We believe that every country has a stake in dealing with climate change and every country has a responsibility for the safety of our planet. China is at a critical stage of building a moderately prosperous soci... | <urn:uuid:648ee2b5-f8cd-4273-8ab0-29206d637638> | http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-04/11/c_13245754_2.htm | 0.9997 | fineweb |
An atlas report from Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) outlines the monstrous wave energy potential of the country's southern coastline.
The report, Ocean Power for Australia -- Waves, Tides, and Ocean Currents [pdf], outlines that if Australia could harness just 10% of th... | <urn:uuid:0226bac8-44d4-4525-a17f-3e31f4a70a94> | http://www.energyboom.com/emerging/australias-wave-energy-hotspots-mapped-out-new-atlas | 0.9584 | fineweb |
Analysis: Evidence for climate extremes, costs, gets more local
OSLO (Reuters) - Scientists are finding evidence that man-made climate change has raised the risks of individual weather events, such as floods or heatwaves, marking a big step towards pinpointing local costs and ways to adapt to freak conditions.
"We're s... | <urn:uuid:1df49711-7531-4aeb-87df-52870202f86e> | http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/27/us-climate-extremes-idUSBRE86Q0PI20120727?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews | 1 | fineweb |
18 abril 2012 | EN | FR
Regreening is being monitored by village committees in Niger
World leaders must promote effective land use methods to mitigate drought, says Luc Gnacadja of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.
Severe droughts in Africa are a stark reminder of global unfairness. About 13 million people s... | <urn:uuid:cd735d47-b987-4922-bcfd-e0a0af4da6b4> | http://www.scidev.net/es/science-communication/farming-practices/opinions/uso-sostenible-del-suelo-debe-ser-prioridad-para-r-o-20.html | 0.9946 | fineweb |
(Phys.org)—Research indicates the out-of-Africa spread of humans was dictated by the appearance of favourable climatic windows.
By integrating genetics with high resolution historical climate reconstructions, scientists have been able to predict the timing and routes taken by modern humans during their expansion out of... | <urn:uuid:6dc227d8-ed59-487d-9fcd-4a32d73b787a> | http://phys.org/news/2012-09-scientists-genetics-climate-reconstructions-track.html | 0.9999 | fineweb |
Jellyfish threaten to 'dominate' oceans
Giant jelly fish are taking over parts of the world's oceans due to overfishing and other human activities, say researchers.
"We need to take management action to avert the marine systems of the world flipping over to being jellyfish dominated," says Richardson, who is also a mar... | <urn:uuid:fd4bdb2b-1936-463f-9953-ce05b9e81c26> | http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/06/08/2592139.htm | 0.7229 | fineweb |
Climate change to take heavy toll on Bangladesh: U.N.
By Ruma Paul
DHAKA (Reuters) - Disaster-prone Bangladesh is among the countries most vulnerable to climate change, which could worsen water scarcity and force mass displacement, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
The U.N. Development Programme in its latest report ... | <urn:uuid:00111258-c187-48f0-b046-53020198a03b> | http://www.enn.com/climate/article/26032 | 1 | fineweb |
Upland Bird Regional Forecast
When considering upland game population levels during the fall hunting season, two important factors impact population change. First is the number of adult birds that survived the previous fall and winter and are considered viable breeders in the spring. The second is the reproductive succ... | <urn:uuid:a611d07f-9067-4341-92f3-f62b82e34e98> | http://www.kdwpt.state.ks.us/index.php/news/Hunting/Upland-Birds/Upland-Bird-Regional-Forecast | 0.9848 | fineweb |
Posted: Feb 18, 2013 10:06 AM by Suzanne Philippus - MTN News
Updated: Feb 18, 2013 10:07 AM
BOZEMAN - Several Montana State University scientists recently returned from the summer research season in Antarctica.
MTN reporter Suzanne Philippus has a rare glimpse of what takes place on the ice at the bottom of the world.... | <urn:uuid:4684aa0a-b877-4529-8dc7-14e9760b6bff> | http://www.kpax.com/news/msu-scientists-take-part-in-antarctica-research/ | 0.9985 | fineweb |
Data reported by the weather station: 39160
Latitude: 55.18 | Longitude: -6.16 | Altitude: 156
|Main||Year 1988 climate||Select a month|
To calculate annual averages, we analyzed data of 357 days (97.54% of year).
If in the average or annual total of some data is missing information of 10 or more days, this is not disp... | <urn:uuid:c9607554-dd59-4b6c-aa2c-f7cae4b18b4b> | http://www.tutiempo.net/en/Climate/BALLYPATRICK_FOREST/1988/39160.htm | 0.9764 | fineweb |
How Global Warming Will Make Hurricanes Like Irene Worse
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Climate science suggests that global warming will make hurricanes like Irene more destructive in three ways (all things being equal):
On the third point, warming also extends the range of warm SSTs, which can h... | <urn:uuid:4d67788f-56d6-4533-a558-5579a580e5f9> | http://www.alternet.org/story/152200/how_global_warming_will_make_hurricanes_like_irene_worse | 1 | fineweb |
On September 19, the Cary Institute hosted a one-day conference on the impacts of tropical storms Irene and Lee on the Hudson River. Organized by the Hudson River Environmental Society, with leadership from Cary's Stuart Findlay, the forum examined how the river and estuary responded to the storms, which dropped an est... | <urn:uuid:40f6fcd0-48f9-4b94-a078-36492fab999c> | http://www.caryinstitute.org/newsroom/conferences?page=0%2525252C3%25252C2%252C2 | 1 | fineweb |
The Amazon a Key Ecosystem.
Amazonia – an example of a key ecosystem for climate regulation (based on the presentation provided by Antonio Nobre 2007)
The climate of Amazonia is strongly dependent on the presence of the forest. Amazonia has been described as a “Green Ocean” with satellite imagery revealing very high cl... | <urn:uuid:50841248-9e53-49ff-861b-edff80894e1b> | http://www.center4climatechange.com/amazoneco.php | 1 | fineweb |
Reducing emissions of data centre activity
Microsoft Ireland Research has been working on electricity grid research that allows the exact energy consumption and emissions to be measured for any piece of computation performed in a data centre. This allows past or predicted emissions to be calculated for any computation ... | <urn:uuid:448e98d6-039d-4a07-8b6b-899474285915> | http://www.microsoft.eu/innovation-in-society/posts/reducing-emissions-of-data-centre-activity-cm1l.aspx | 1 | fineweb |
Most natural disasters today are linked to climate change, says John Holmes, UN emergency relief coordinator and head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA. OCHA today launched a campaign to raise awareness of the humanitarian implications of climate change, calling for improved disaster p... | <urn:uuid:25e6038c-38bc-4a58-af2a-94d5e6216329> | http://carbon-based-ghg.blogspot.com/2008/12/climate-change-now-main-driver-of.html | 1 | fineweb |
By Brian Palmer
Special to the Washington Post
— It's that time of year when even environmentalists committed to saving trees proudly display a massive tree carcass in the living room, bejeweled and topped with a star. American cities are rarely greener than during Christmastime, when every other street corner can seem... | <urn:uuid:e84f3a4b-1010-4082-a9b3-38288bed9a67> | http://dailyiowegian.com/cnhi/x1951920713/Do-you-deserve-a-lump-of-carbon-under-your-Christmas-tree/print | 0.999 | fineweb |
Without innovation, it will be very difficult and very costly to achieve the transformation to a greener economy. There is vast amount of scientific and empirical evidence that suggests that reducing global greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions will require innovation and large-scale adoption of green technologies throughou... | <urn:uuid:345e04e1-c987-48db-8c86-e2ecf3473d1d> | http://www.oecd.org/sti/inno/oecdworkshopongreentechnologyandinnovationpolicies.htm | 0.9999 | fineweb |
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