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Pakistan: Snouts in place, Kashmir glaciers lose thickness
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 17th, 2010
The News: The footprints of climate change are becoming increasingly visible in Jammu and Kashmir – a phenomenon borne out by a scientific investigation which concludes that glaciers are melting due to average temperature increase in this Himalayan region. The situation is particularly of deep concern for Pakistan, the lower riparian on Indus, Jhelum and Chenab rivers fed by glaciers in Kashmir. Interestingly, the glaciers are showing a differential response to increase in temperature even in ...
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Comments Off on Pakistan: Snouts in place, Kashmir glaciers lose thicknessUnited Kingdom: Region faces drought order as water supply falls
Posted by Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed on June 17th, 2010
Independent (UK): The threat of a summer drought is hanging over seven million people in the North West of England, it emerged yesterday. United Utilities, the company which supplies water from Cheshire to the Scottish border, is facing low supplies in its reservoirs and said that if there was no significant rainfall over the weekend, it would apply to the Environment Agency for a drought order. That would allow it to take emergency steps in abstracting water from rivers and lakes, to conserve ...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on United Kingdom: Region faces drought order as water supply fallsGoldcrest numbers plummet after harsh winter conditions
Posted by Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed on June 17th, 2010
Independent (UK): Britain's smallest bird, the tiny goldcrest, may have suffered a population crash after being hit extremely hard by the harsh conditions of last winter, the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) said yesterday. Confirming fears that the species, which had been increasing in number because of the warmer winters of the past two decades, would suffer a serious reverse in the freeze, the BTO said the number of gardens in which goldcrests were spotted had fallen by almost half. Across ...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Goldcrest numbers plummet after harsh winter conditionsIPCC error correction moves at glacial speed
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 16th, 2010
Climatewire: The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said yesterday that he welcomes "vigorous debate" on climate science. "We who are on the side of the consensus must remind ourselves that the evolution of knowledge thrives on debate," Rajendra Pachauri said in an essay published on the website of the BBC. But Pachauri, whose panel has come under fire in recent months after revelations of multiple errors in its last major report, said he also believes that "many people ...
Joint Environmental Monitoring, a Way Forward?
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 16th, 2010
Inter Press Service: A mutual inspection system, like the one Argentina and Brazil have developed for the nuclear industry, could contribute to solving the conflict between Argentina and Uruguay over pulp mills on border rivers. "A group of professional inspectors for mutual monitoring would create trust, and the idea could be extended to Mercosur," Federico Merke, a professor of international relations at the private Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, told IPS, referring to the Southern Common ...
Alps to Become More Dangerous in Warming World
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 16th, 2010
LiveScience.com: Heat waves, floods, avalanches and other deadly natural disasters could become more common in mountainous regions thanks to climate change, a new study suggests, making the famous peaks more dangerous for mountaineers and skiers. Extreme weather events are predicted to become more frequent on a warmer Earth. In the Eastern European Alps, two such events - the 2003 heat wave and the 2005 flood - gave researchers a preview of how similar events could pose a threat to alpine regions and ...
DEVELOPMENT: Violence Escalates Around India’s Largest Inland Lake
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 16th, 2010
Inter Press Service: Basudev Dalai, 43, never thought that the fishing village where he has lived all his life and which has been home to generations of fishermen like him would be embroiled in violent clashes over the very source of their livelihood. "The stakes are so high people are even prepared to kill those they have lived with for generations," says Dalai, a native of Alupatna village near Chilka Lagoon along the Bay of Bengal in eastern India. A pitched gun battle and crude bomb attack ...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on DEVELOPMENT: Violence Escalates Around India’s Largest Inland LakeWater CO2 calculator goes online
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 16th, 2010
BBC: Science and environment reporter, BBC News The calculator produces a personalised report for households A website that helps people to work out how much CO2 is being emitted to heat water in their homes has gone online. Produced by the Energy Saving Trust (EST), it also suggests ways that users can save water and energy, as well as cutting their carbon footprint. The Trust says CO2 from energy used to heat water in UK homes accounts for 5% of the nation's total carbon ...
Western leaders draw water charter to protect resource
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 16th, 2010
Vancouver Sun: Immediate action must be taken to conserve Canada's fresh water supplies, a group of western premiers and territorial leaders agreed Tuesday. Premier Gordon Campbell joined his counterparts from Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut for the two-day Western Premiers' Conference at Vancouver's Pan Pacific Hotel. The leaders agreed to a Water Charter Tuesday that makes protecting the resource a priority. In the charter, leaders agreed that water is "an ...
Obama to meet Gulf restoration pick
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 16th, 2010
Associated Press: President Barack Obama is to meet Thursday with Navy secretary and former Mississippi Gov. Ray Mabus (MAY'-buhs), the man he's tapped to develop a long-term Gulf Coast Restoration Plan. The meeting will be held in the Oval Office, the White House said. Obama announced Mabus' selection in a prime-time speech Tuesday and said Mabus would be responsible for developing a restoration plan designed by local communities and Gulf residents and paid for by BP PLC. The White House said ...