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Oil spill has not spurred change
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 12th, 2010
Day: For environmentalists, the BP oil spill may be disproving the maxim that great tragedies produce great change. Traditionally, American environmentalism wins its biggest victories after some important piece of American environment is poisoned, exterminated or set on fire. An oil spill and a burning river in 1969 led to new anti-pollution laws in the 1970s. The Exxon Valdez disaster helped create an Earth Day revival in 1990 and sparked a landmark clean-air law. But this year, ...
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Can Culture Make the California Condor Wild Again?
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 12th, 2010
Time: The cage door is open but the young California condor, as immense as he is with his nine-foot wingspan, remains timid. He's not about to leave the captivity he's known his entire life to head into the unknown. But there are teachers out there waiting to instruct him in the wild life. A handful of older, already free-flying condors have gathered outside his pen, gnawing on the calf corpse that biologists put there the night before, specifically to attract the experienced birds. Soon enough, ...
United Kingdom: UK farmers’ leaders are calling for a national water grid
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 12th, 2010
Western Mail: FARMING leaders last night called for a "national water grid" to channel future supplies from wet to dry UK regions in an age of unpredictable weather. As the UK endures the driest spring and early summer for more than 80 years, and with rainfall becoming less predictable with global warming, farming union NFU said water management was becoming increasingly important. A national grid would essentially see Britain`s water resources moved around according to need via a linked-up ...
Global warming presents itself as Kenyan city’s fiercest foe
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 12th, 2010
Irish Times: MOMBASA IS used to being on the defensive. Fought over by the Arabs and Portuguese, and eventually the British, the island city`s sun-bleached Fort Jesus has witnessed a battle or two since it was built on the orders of King Philip of Spain in 1593. But Kenya`s second-largest city, like the rest of East Africa, is now facing an adversary it might have little chance of beating: global warming. According to a report released last year, rising sea levels brought about by ...
Greenland: Glacier loses ice chunk equal to one-eighth of Manhattan
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 12th, 2010
CBS: A glacier in Greenland lost 2.7 square mile piece of ice - roughly one-eighth the size of Manhattan Island - in a single day last week. Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier broke up on July 6 and 7, pushing the point where the ice sheet meets the ocean further inland than at any time previously observed, NASA-funded researchers said. As much as 10 percent of all ice lost from Greenland comes through Jakobshavn, which scientists also believe to be the single biggest contributor to sea ...
BP to attach new cap on leaking Gulf well on Monday
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 12th, 2010
Reuters: BP Plc said it expects to attach a new containment cap later Monday that should more than triple the amount of oil being collected from the energy giant's leaking Gulf of Mexico wellhead. "We have the cap very close and later today we'll be attaching it," Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer, told a media briefing. "It could take well through the day to complete." Once the new and larger cap is installed, Suttles said BP will shut down two vessels siphoning oil from the ...