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Mexico: Nature’s own Mexican wave
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 25th, 2010
Guardian: Known in the United States simply as "the Wave", and in Latin America by the Spanish translation "la Ola", the stadium wave caught the attention of the world's media at the 1986 football World Cup, held in Mexico. Coca-Cola was quick to associate itself with these spontaneous crowd celebrations, running TV ads that showed the waves, and ended with the line "Coca-Cola, la Ola del Mundial" (the World Cup Wave). Since the company was one of the World Cup sponsors, these ads – and so the ...
Oil spill off Singapore after vessels collide
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 25th, 2010
AFP: Emergency teams scrambled to contain thousands of tonnes of crude oil that spilled into waters near one of the world's busiest ports Tuesday after two ships collided in the Singapore Strait. Singapore's Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) said in its latest update that 5,000 tonnes of crude had leaked from the Malaysian-registered tanker MT Bunga Kelana 3, double its estimate just a few hours earlier. A crude oil slick about four kilometres (2.5 miles) long and one kilometre wide ...
Lake Tanganyika under threat, scientists record highest ever temperatures
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 25th, 2010
East African News: East Africa's second biggest inland water, Lake Tanganyika has heated up sharply over the past 90 years and is now warmer than at any time for at least 1,500 years, according to a new scientific study published in Nature Geoscience. The lake, which straddles the border between Tanzania, Burundi, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is a vital source of both protein for the thousands of people living on its shores and employment for the hundreds of fishermen who take their ...
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Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 25th, 2010
SciDev.Net: Virtually every protected area in Africa suffers from invasive species threatening biodiversity and peoples' livelihoods, a meeting called to address the problem has heard. Africa's protected biodiversity areas are under increasing threat from the species introduced -- usually through human activities -- to areas outside their natural range where they damage biodiversity, agriculture and human health. The poor -- who depend almost exclusively on ecosystems for their survival -- ...
Heatwave Lancashire hotter than Africa
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 24th, 2010
Lancashire Evening Post: Lancashire sweltered in baking temperatures at the weekend, with scorching summer rays making the county hotter than Ibiza, Los Angeles and parts of Africa. The county was blessed with some of the weekend's best weather, with the mercury peaking at a high of 26C on Saturday, with similar temperatures on Sunday. As the county enjoyed the heatwave, ice cream parlours, garden centres, parks and pubs were enjoying a surge in visitors, while the coastguard reported a busy weekend at ...
Can industry help the poor more than conservation? | Eric Randolph
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 24th, 2010
Guardian: Is industrialisation the answer to reducing poverty in the developing world? Or should the priority be conservation of tribal communities and the environment? The debate around these questions is increasingly bitter and, for those on the frontline, increasingly violent. In a rural corner of eastern India, in the state of Orissa, armed police have been moving in on demonstrators who refuse to make way for two controversial steel projects. Tribal villagers in Kalinga Nagar, protesting ...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Can industry help the poor more than conservation? | Eric RandolphNew Zealand stands by carbon trading plans
Posted by Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed on May 24th, 2010
Business Green: New Zealand will go ahead with its proposed carbon trading scheme despite Australia abandoning its plan to price carbon last month, prime minister John Key said this morning. There had been reports in the press that the Key administration might follow Australia's lead and abandon its emissions trading legislation in the face of public opposition. But speaking in an interview on Television New Zealand earlier today, Key said there was "no chance" that the scheme would be ...
Meltdown: Why ice ages don’t last forever
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 24th, 2010
New Scientist: Read full article Continue reading page |1 |2 |3 BACK in 1993, a boy playing football near Nanjing, China, suddenly fell through the ground. He had inadvertently found a new cave, later named Hulu, which has turned out to be a scientific treasure chest. Besides two Homo erectus skeletons, it contains stalagmites that have helped solve one of the greatest mysteries in climate science: why the ice ages came and went when they did. For more than 2 million years, ...
UK on course to miss 2020 renewables and carbon targets
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 24th, 2010
Business Green: The new government must act urgently and decisively to ensure the UK meets its 2020 goal of reducing carbon emissions by 34 per cent, according to a new report from Cambridge Econometrics that today warned the country is currently on track to miss its ambitious emissions and renewable energy targets. The latest edition of UK Energy and the Environment report from the Cambridge-based consultancy calls on the new coalition to act swiftly to deliver new policies that will allow the UK to ...
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Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 24th, 2010
Guardian: The White House directed BP to cut its use of chemical dispersants to break up the Louisiana oil slick by as much as 50% yesterday, reflecting concerns that the clean-up of the spill could be worsening the economic disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Lisa Jackson, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, said the Obama administration wanted the oil company to scale back its use of chemicals on the water surface. The order came amid increasing tension between the administration and ...
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