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Russians seek shelter as fires rage out of control
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 7th, 2010
Financial Times: Pollution from peat and forest fires raging around Moscow surged to new highs on Saturday as Muscovites continued to flee the choking smog that has shrouded the city. Officials said carbon monoxide had soared to nearly seven times acceptable levels, the highest since Russia's worst heatwave in more than a century began, sparking forest fires and drought across a huge swathe of European Russia. The US State department warned its citizens not to travel to Moscow or central ...
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Has a Warming Russia Outpaced the World?
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 7th, 2010
New York Times: Firefighters sought Friday to halt a wildfire near Murmino, Russia, 110 miles southeast of Moscow. Better known for long, bitterly cold winters, Russia is well on the way to becoming the poster child for the perils of global warming this summer. On Thursday, the mercury hit 100 degrees in Moscow, the hottest day since record-keeping began in 1880; it was the fourth day in a week that the city set a temperature record. Highs for July and August typically average in the ...
Safety of Russian nuclear sites remains at risk as record heat wave holds and wildfires engulf vast expanses of ..
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 7th, 2010
Bellona: Deadly forest fires are threatening Russia's Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) and have already forced the evacuation of radioactive materials from a nuclear research centre in Nizhny Novgorod Region as this summer's scorching heat – and overall ill-preparedness for this sudden onset of some of the worse effects of climate change – continues to facilitate conditions for the growing emergency. Maria Kaminskaya, 06/08-2010 As Russia keeps battling this summer's biggest calamity -- ...
Climate change sparks quickest evolution
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 7th, 2010
AFP: At least one fish species can adapt in just three generations to survive a sharp change in temperature, researchers say in a study on the fastest rate of evolution ever recorded in wild animals. "Our study is the first to experimentally show that certain species in the wild could adapt to climate change very rapidly," lead researcher Rowan Barrett said on Friday. However, the University of British Columbia (UBC) evolutionary geneticist warned, the evolutionary jump carries a ...
Climate change sparks ‘quickest evolution ever’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 7th, 2010
AFP: At least one fish species can adapt in just three generations to survive a sharp change in temperature, researchers said in a study on the fastest rate of evolution ever recorded in wild animals."Our study is the first to experimentally show that certain species in the wild could adapt to climate change very rapidly," said Friday lead researcher Rowan Barrett. However, the University of British Columbia evolutionary geneticist warned, the evolutionary jump carries a deadly price tag: ...
Why Dmitry Medvedev should turn his attention to Russia’s peat bogs
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 7th, 2010
Guardian: What's black, squidgy and exhausting to walk on? The answer is peat, the gunk that gives malt whisky its smoky taste and burns sweetly when it's dried out. Dmitry Medvedev is busy just now, having cut short his holiday to deal with Russia's terrifying forest fires, but when he's done the president should think about his country's peat for a while. Why? Because alongside dozens of forest fires, there are another 56 peat fires, many of them around Moscow, threatening Russia's most ...