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Unusual weather divides Britain
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 3rd, 2010
Telegraph: Britain is famous for its variable weather but meteorologists said the north/south divide is more pronounced than usual this year because of persisting high pressure over the south east of the country. The "unusual' weather patterns have caused two distinctly different Britains to emerge this July. In the south tourists have been flocking to the seaside, eating ice cream and going camping. While in the north sales of 'hot vegetables' like broccoli are up, hotels are struggling and ...
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Utah board upholds strip mine near national park (
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 3rd, 2010
Associated Press: A coal company claimed victory Tuesday when a Utah state board rejected a legal challenge brought by environmental groups that say a proposed strip mine will pollute waterways and kick up dust at Bryce Canyon National Park. The Utah Board of Oil, Gas & Mining said Alton Coal Development LLC could strip 440 acres of private lands, the start of a project that could take in thousands of acres of surrounding national forest in southern Utah. Alton is seeking federal approval to ...
Pakistan floods: evacuations, aid supplies and protests
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 3rd, 2010
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Greenland ice core drilling project reaches milestone
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 3rd, 2010
Climate Central: "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.' --Yogi Berra Yogi wasn't talking about climate change when he said these immortal words (if he said them at all; Yogi has also asserted that "I didn't really say everything I said.') Either way, it applies. We know for a fact that carbon dioxide is a heat-trapping greenhouse gas, and we know that humans have been adding carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere, mostly through the burning of fossil fuels. Virtually ...
Northeast headed for milder winter: AccuWeather
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 3rd, 2010
Reuters: The U.S. East Coast will be granted a reprieve from the tremendous snowfall that caused 2009's winter to be dubbed "snowmaggedon," meteorologist Joe Bastardi of AccuWeather.com said in a early forecast for winter 2010 released Tuesday morning. The forecast is for November 15-March 15. Temperatures are expected to be 0.5 to 1 degree Fahrenheit (0.2-0.6 degree Celsius) slightly higher-than-normal for Boston, Washington, D.C. and New York City, he predicted. "You'll have ...
Pakistan floods: ‘No one was prepared for this. People are angry’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 3rd, 2010
Guardian: The monsoons have never happened like this before, people have been terrified and have had to be evacuated. In the Nowshera area, which has been worst hit, buildings have been submerged up to the rooftops and this morning the rain started again. The worst thing is that the health infrastructure has been hit and all the contingency plans have been affected. Those warehouses of Unicef [the UN agency for children] containing medical supplies for two months were completely washed away ...
Three million affected by Pakistan floods: UNICEF
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 3rd, 2010
Reuters: The worst floods in memory in Pakistan have devastated the lives of more than 3 million people, a U.N. spokesman said on Tuesday, while outrage over the unpopular government's response to the suffering spreads. The catastrophe, which started almost a week ago and has killed more than 1,400 people, is likely to deepen as more rains are expected and a breakout of water-borne diseases such as cholera could create a health crisis. It has also called once again into question the ...
Oil spill ‘largest in US history’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 3rd, 2010
BBC: US government scientists have said around 4.9 million barrels of oil leaked from an oil well in the Gulf of Mexico before it was capped last month, making it the largest accidental oil spill in history. BP will begin testing on Tuesday to see whether it can permanently seal the leak with mud.
Fires, dying grain beset Russia
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 3rd, 2010
Wall Street Journal: President Dmitry Medvedev declared a state of emergency in forest-fire-afflicted regions of Russia and the country's grain authority lowered its harvest projection amid one of Russia's hottest, driest summers on record. Women remove preserves on Monday from their home in Ostafyevo, outside Moscow. Forest fires across the parched country have killed 34 people. Much of the country west of the Urals is suffering through a severe drought, and in Moscow, the summer has been the ...
A deadly addiction: figures confirm BP spill is biggest in history
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 3rd, 2010
Guardian: We thought it was big, but now we know it is huge – the greatest accidental oil spill in all history. The latest calculations of the vast quantity of oil polluting the Gulf of Mexico after the blowout of BP's Macondo well conclude that 4.9m barrels poured into the ocean. The scientists making the estimate believe it is accurate to within 10%, so even the smallest leak would be a third bigger than the 3.3m barrels released into Mexico's Bay of Campeche when the Ixtoc I oil rig blew out in ...