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Warmer Climate Entails Increased Release Of Carbon Dioxide By Inland Lakes
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 22nd, 2010
Red Orbit: Much organically bound carbon is deposited on inland lake bottoms. A portion remains in the sediment, sometimes for thousands of years, while the rest is largely broken down to carbon dioxide and methane, which are released into the atmosphere. Swedish researchers have shown that carbon retention by sediment is highly temperature-sensitive and that a warmer climate would result in increased carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere. The study is published in the current issue of the journal ...
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Comments Off on Warmer Climate Entails Increased Release Of Carbon Dioxide By Inland LakesResidents tell EPA Pa. gas drilling poisons water
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 22nd, 2010
Associated Press: People who make a living from a natural gas drilling technique that involves pumping chemical-laced water into the earth and others who believe it has poisoned them or their well water packed into a hotel ballroom in southwestern Pennsylvania on Thursday night to make an impression on federal researchers. Residents of Hickory, about 15 miles southwest of Pittsburgh, called for intensive study of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and told a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency panel ...
Not enough hours in the day for endangered apes: Warming climate may change ape behaviour, resulting i
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 22nd, 2010
ScienceDaily: A study on the effect of global warming on African ape survival suggests that a warming climate may cause apes to run 'out of time'. The research, published today in Journal of Biogeography, reveals that rising temperatures and changes in rainfall patterns have strong effects on ape behavior, distribution and survival, pushing them even further to the brink of extinction. The researchers, from Roehampton University, Bournemouth University and the University of Oxford used data from 20 ...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Not enough hours in the day for endangered apes: Warming climate may change ape behaviour, resulting iKalahari Bushmen to appeal against court ban on well in game reserve
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 22nd, 2010
Guardian: The Kalahari Bushmen are to appeal against a decision by the Botswana high court forbidding them to use a well in the central Kalahari game reserve, one of the driest regions in the world, a spokesman announced today. The Bushmen, Africa's oldest inhabitants, won a ruling in 2006 against eviction from the game park, hailed as a victory for indigenous peoples around the world. Hundreds returned to their home villages but they have been prevented from reopening the well or drilling a ...
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Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 22nd, 2010
United Press International: Global warming will cause a risk of water shortages in two-thirds of U.S. counties by 2050, an environmental group warns. The Natural Resources Defense Council says more than a thousand counties in 14 states will probably see limitations on water availability and use as demand exceeds supply in mid-century, USA Today reported Tuesday. The high-risk areas include parts of Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New ...
United States: Huge Turnout for E.P.A. Fracking Hearing
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 22nd, 2010
New York Times: The Environmental Protection Agency will probably be getting an earful at a public meeting in southwestern Pennsylvania, part of its recently opened re-examination of hydraulic fracturing. Many Green readers will already know that gas drillers rely heavily on the practice, often called "fracking," which involves the high-velocity injection of a mixture of water, sand and chemicals designed to create fractures in rock formations deep underground so that gas can be ...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on United States: Huge Turnout for E.P.A. Fracking HearingUnited States: Marmots thriving amid climate change for now
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 22nd, 2010
LA Times: Every year, scientists fan out across Colorado's Upper East River Valley to count the yellow-bellied marmots that make their home in rocky meadows bordered by aspen, fir and spruce trees. Over the last decade, the work has gotten more tiring. Now they know why -- the population of squirrel-like critters has vastly expanded as a result of environmental changes brought on by global warming, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Nature. It's a rare example of ...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on United States: Marmots thriving amid climate change for nowSpeculating on food can starve the world’s poorest
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 22nd, 2010
Guardian: In defending cocoa futures trading, Seth Freedman is an apologist for big bankers, the "mammon worshipping culture" he feigns to despise. He not only gets his facts wrong, he attacks the World Development Movement (WDM) and a wider social movement who are on the right side of social justice. The WDM warriors – slings, arrows and all – have it right, and he's got it wrong. Freedman naively takes Goldman Sachs's riposte to our research at face value. Any journalist worth their salt ...
Pipeline repaired as China works to contain spill
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 22nd, 2010
Associated Press: China National Petroleum Corp. said Thursday a vital pipeline has resumed operations after an explosion caused the country's largest reported oil spill. Cleanup efforts -- marred by the drowning death of a worker, his body coated in crude -- continued over 165 square mile (430 square kilometer) stretch of water blanketed in thick, dark oil Thursday, after an official warned the spill posed a severe threat to sea life and water quality. The slick emptied beaches as its size doubled ...
Canada: U.S. environmental agency questions need for cross-border oilsands pipeline
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 21st, 2010
Canadian Press: A major U.S. government agency has thrown up a new political roadblock for a $12-billion TransCanada Pipelines (TSX:TCA.PR.X) project by questioning the need for a new pipeline to carry bitumen from Alberta's oilsands to American refineries. Documents released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency harshly criticize a draft environmental impact statement for the Keystone XL project. They say the assessment doesn't consider how importing more oilsands oil would affect U.S. climate ...
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