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Bangladesh: Dealing with climate change demands a more gendered approach
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 7th, 2010
Financial Express Bangladesh: Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities: Progress for all -- with this very theme, the women of the world will be observing International Women's Day 2010. The major concern of the present world is climate change and environmental degradation. In fact, involving women in protecting the environment would help societies develop the sense of responsibility needed to maintain a good balance between humans and the earth's resources. Environmental degradation, however, is a result of the ...
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Comments Off on Bangladesh: Dealing with climate change demands a more gendered approachBahamas: Drinking water ‘under threat’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 6th, 2010
Tribune: THE availability of fresh drinking water in the Bahamas could be jeopardised by climate change and hurricanes, warned State Environment Minister Phenton Neymour, who said this country urgently needs proper water networks and management policies. Anticipated sea level rise from climate change, hurricane motivated storm surges -- and even heavy rain -- can all contaminate precious water well-fields with brackish, salty water, cautioned Mr Neymour, leading to severe water shortages and ...
British rivers could power 850,000 homes
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 6th, 2010
Telegraph: The Environment Agency will reveal that the water wheels have the potential to generate enough electricity to power 850,000 homes -- more than three per cent of the UK's residential electricity demand. A study commissioned by the Government body has concluded that there is vast untapped potential across the England and Wales for generating energy from rivers. Waterways in Wales, the upper reaches of the Thames, the Humber, the Aire, Severn and the Mersey have been identified as ...
In Aftermath Of Ash Spill, A New Round Of Challenges
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 6th, 2010
Associated Press: More than a year after a Tennessee coal ash spill created one of the worst environmental disasters of its kind in United States history, the problem is seeping into several other states. Enlarge This Image <h6 class="credit">Wade Payne/Associated Press Sediment can be seen in the Emory River in Tennessee as machines pump it into holding ponds. Enlarge This Image <h6 class="credit">Wade Payne/Associated Press Coal ash sediment being loaded into plastic-lined rail ...
Mayor Daley: Chicago shouldn’t bear full cost of Asian carp
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 6th, 2010
Christian Science Monitor: Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley agrees that the Asian carp present an ecological and economic threat to the Great Lakes. But he disagrees with neighboring states that Illinois should lock down a historic canal that allows the fish to get to Lake Michigan. In a letter published in the Washington Post this week, Mayor Daley argued that the invasive species – which experts say will destroy the lake ecosystem – is a "national problem that requires national solutions" and therefore Illinois ...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Mayor Daley: Chicago shouldn’t bear full cost of Asian carpCanada shift on reviewing energy projects critiqued
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 5th, 2010
Reuters: Ottawa's plan to shift responsibility of environmental assessments to Canada's main energy regulator fails to address fundamental problems surrounding major oil and gas projects, a green think tank said on Friday. But the oil industry, which had complained that the regulatory process for such developments as oil sands projects and pipelines was overly cumbersome and expensive, welcomed the streamlining initiative. Canada's federal budget, delivered on Thursday, contained a ...
Regional rainfall in a warming world
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 5th, 2010
Discovery News: Slowly but surely, a picture of climate change at the regional scale -- where it really matters -- is beginning to take shape. Apart from the obvious warming at the high polar latitudes, which already is affecting Arctic sea ice, the rate of Greenland ice cap melting, and Antarctic ice shelves, new details are beginning to emerge about the impact of global warming in the Tropics -- the boiler-room of Earth's climate and weather. This is the home of El Niño, and the generator of ...
Warming data said stronger than IPCC claim
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 5th, 2010
United Press International: Evidence of manmade global warming is stronger than the besieged U.N. climate panel claimed, with rainfall changes altering the Earth, British scientists said. "The fingerprint of human influence has been detected in many different aspects of observed climate changes," Peter Stott, head of climate monitoring at the Hadley Center for Climate Research run by Britain's meteorological office, said in remarks quoted by the Financial Times. "Natural variability, from the sun, volcanic ...
World’s Largest Dead Zone Suffocating Sea
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 5th, 2010
National Geographic: "Eagle!" The shout goes up as a great shadow sweeps over our boat. The white-tailed eagle makes its descent to one of the 24,000 islands that make up Sweden's pine-covered, rocky Stockholm Archipelago. The tourists on board for this nature tour in August 2009 mostly miss the photo opp. But local wildlife expert Peter Westman, of the conservation group WWF Sweden, assures the group that there will be others. Numbers of this once-threatened predator have soared from 1,000 to more ...
Drought extinguishes Venezuela’s lightning phenomenon
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 5th, 2010
Guardian: Darkness rarely lasted long in the skies over Lake Maracaibo. An hour after dusk the show would begin: a lightning bolt, then another, and another, until the whole horizon flashed white. Electrical storms, product of a unique meteorological phenomenon, have lit up nights in this corner of Venezuela for thousands of years. Francis Drake abandoned a sneak attack on the city of Maracaibo in 1595 when lightning betrayed his ships to the Spanish garrison. But now the lightning has ...