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United Kingdom: New laws to help endangered eels swim against the tide
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 7th, 2010
Guardian: New laws could help save critically endangered eels in English and Welsh rivers, the Environment Agency said today. The legislation will require eel passes and screens to be installed in rivers as barriers may prevent from going up or downstream. European eels, a traditional east London dish, need to move both ways in the water so they can give birth and grow, but weirs and sluice gates can stop them from migrating. In the river Thames alone the eel population has fallen by ...
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Conservationist: Colorado sees climate change effects
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 7th, 2010
Associated Press: The head of one of the country's largest conservation groups is warning that Colorado is in the "bull's eye of climate change" and says the state's hunters and anglers are seeing firsthand the effects of warmer temperatures. Larry Schweiger, National Wildlife Federation president and chief executive, is visiting Colorado and other states to rally support for federal legislation addressing climate change by mandating cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. The U.S. House has passed a ...
United Kingdom: Eel ‘bypasses’ to be installed across Britain
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 7th, 2010
Telegraph: The legislation will mean owners of weirs and waterways face being ordered to install "eel passes" - a type of chute - or screens that will allow eels to slip past blockages so they can travel upstream to mature, or downstream to spawn. Eels are thought to take up to three years migrating as larvae from the Sargasso Sea to European rivers, where they spend up to 20 years before making the 4,000 mile return journey across the Atlantic to spawn and die. Conservation experts say a ...
Water at core of climate change impacts-UN experts
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 7th, 2010
Reuters: The main impact of climate change will be on water supplies and the world needs to learn from past co-operation such as over the Indus or Mekong Rivers to help avert future conflicts, experts said on Sunday. Desertification, flash floods, melting glaciers, heatwaves, cyclones or water-borne diseases such as cholera are among the impacts of global warming inextricably tied to water. And competition for supplies might cause conflicts. "The main manifestations of rising ...
India: Warming to hit wheat production in Punjab
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 7th, 2010
Tribune News Service: For each degree rise in the temperature in the region, Punjab will lose 750 kg per hectare of wheat. This startling revelation emerged at the 13th Punjab Science Congress organised by Panjab University in collaboration with the Punjab Academy of Sciences to thrash out issues related to climate change. Governor of Jammu and Kashmir NN Vohra inaugurated the congress on 'Climate change: Concerns and solutions' at the university auditorium here today. Talking to The Tribune, Prof ...
Drought in SW Australia linked to snowfall in Antarctica
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 7th, 2010
Agence France-Presse: A drought that has gripped the southwestern corner of Australia since the 1970s is linked with higher snowfall in East Antarctica, a phenomenon that may be rooted in global warming, scientists reported on Sunday. Researchers Tas van Ommen and Vin Morgan of the Australian Antarctic Division said that the drought -- which has seen winter rainfall decline by 15-20 percent -- is extremely unusual when compared with the last 750 years. Hand in hand with the drought is a similarly ...