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Australia: Global warming undeniable: Study
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 30th, 2010
Age: VICTORIA and Australia experienced their second-hottest year on record in 2009, according to a report drawing on research from 48 countries that found evidence of global warming was undeniable. The 2009 State of the Climate report, published by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, found the past decade was the world's warmest since the advent of modern temperature records. Every year between 2000 and 2009 was hotter than the average global temperature of the ...
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Australia: Temperatures soaring to new highs
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 30th, 2010
Age: NSW had its hottest year last year and Australia its second warmest after 2005, according to the most comprehensive international report into global warming assembled. The State of the Climate 2009 report, produced by leading climate agencies in the US and Britain, collated evidence through 10 methods to show the world has ''unmistakably'' been warming up for more than 30 years. Temperatures have been creeping up steadily but almost imperceptibly since the middle of the last ...
Mammals decline in Chernobyl zone
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 30th, 2010
BBC: The largest wildlife census of its kind conducted in Chernobyl has revealed that mammals are declining in the exclusion zone surrounding the nuclear power plant. The study aimed to establish the most reliable way to measure the impact on wildlife of contamination in the zone. It was based on almost four years of counting and studying animals there. Continue reading the main story "Start Quote The truth is that these radiation contamination effects were so large as ...
Wildlife rescue escalates at Mich. river oil spill
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 30th, 2010
Associated Press: Volunteers and government officials scrambled on Friday to save geese and other wildlife damaged by an oil spill in a southern Michigan river as the Canadian company that owns the ruptured pipeline said the crude had been contained. Enbridge Inc., based in Calgary, Alberta, said it was preparing to remove the damaged section of pipe as its focus shifted to cleaning up the spilled oil in the Kalamazoo River, which it estimates at 820,000 gallons. The Environmental Protection Agency ...
Oil threat recedes for East Coast, much of Florida
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 30th, 2010
Reuters: South Florida, the Florida Keys and the East Coast will likely be spared from any contamination from the ruptured BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. government scientists said on Friday. Scientists had issued dire warnings that the oil from the BP spill would float into the loop current in the Gulf of Mexico and then ride the powerful Gulf Stream current around the fragile islands at the southern tip of Florida and up the Atlantic Coast as far as North Carolina. But the ...
Everglades, Madagascar rain forest on UNESCO list
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 30th, 2010
Reuters: The United Nations has added Florida's Everglades National Park and rain forests in Madagascar to its list of World Heritage sites in danger. The Everglades, home to 20 endangered species, was previously on the list from 1993 to 2007 because large amounts of water were being diverted to cities. The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization says in a statement the park was added again for the same reason. UNESCO says in the Atsinanana rain forests of ...
South Florida, East Coast likely spared oil impact
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 30th, 2010
Associated Press: Federal officials predicted Friday that most Gulf Coast beaches have seen their last major oiling from the BP spill, and South Florida and the East Coast should be spared any impact because the crude never reached the powerful loop current. A new analysis by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration showed most surface oil in the Gulf had degraded to a thin sheen. What remained on the surface and below was hundreds of miles from the loop current, which scientists feared ...
From fires to fish, heat wave batters Russia
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 30th, 2010
New York Times: This is a country that knows how to handle the cold, swaggering about during the most brutal of winters. But the heat is another story. And there has never been heat like this. Here is how extreme it has become: Oymyakon in Eastern Siberia is considered one of the coldest places on Earth, with winter temperatures dropping to as low as minus 90 degrees. On Thursday, the thermometer also read 90 degrees. Plus 90. In the evening. Much of Russia has been reeling. Forest fires have ...
Grim task of China oil clean-up
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 30th, 2010
BBC: China is struggling with an arduous clean up after the country's worst oil spill. A fortnight ago a fire at an oil depot caused crude to start leaking into the sea. The flow was not halted for several days. Now an army of volunteers and fishermen's been mobilised to clean up the pollution, but conditions for those involved are grim, as Chris Hogg found out.
US expert: China oil spill far bigger than stated
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 30th, 2010
Associated Press: China's worst known oil spill is dozens of times larger than the government has reported, and some of the oil was spilled deliberately to avoid an even larger disaster, an American expert said Friday. China's government has said 1,500 tons (461,790 gallons) of oil spilled after a pipeline exploded two weeks ago near the northeastern city of Dalian, sending 100-foot- (30-meter-) high flames raging near one of the country's key strategic oil reserves. It has not updated that estimate ...