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Is climate change burning Russia?
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 12th, 2010
New Scientist: Russia has sweltered under an intense heatwave since mid-July, recording its highest ever temperatures. The heat has caused widespread drought, ruined crops and encouraged wildfires that have blanketed Moscow in smog and now threaten key nuclear sites. According to the head of Moscow's health department, the city's daily death rate has doubled "" up to 700 from the usual average of 360 to 380. What caused the heatwave? The primary cause was a "blocking event" "" a static ...
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United States: New Orleans Judge Picked to Handle Gulf Spill Suit
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 12th, 2010
NPR: A judicial panel has decided that the 300 plus lawsuits filed after the Deepwater Horizon blowout will be handled by a federal judge in New Orleans. The judicial panel said the federal court based in New Orleans is the best place for the litigation. Some attorneys had favored Houston or Gulfport, Miss.
We have yet to see the biggest costs of the BP spill
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 12th, 2010
Nation: We're almost at the happily-ever-after stage of the gulf oil-spill story. The well has been killed, the beaches are being scrubbed and wicked Tony Hayward has been banished to Russia. All that's left now is for BP to make good on the damage it has caused. The company has set aside $32 billion to meet its liabilities, while doing everything in its power to keep the damages below that figure. But even if it has to pay the full price, it will have won one of the biggest bargains in corporate ...
Long hot summer of fire and floods fit predictions
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 12th, 2010
AP: Floods, fires, melting ice and feverish heat: From smoke-choked Moscow to water-soaked Pakistan and the High Arctic, the planet seems to be having a midsummer breakdown. It's not just a portent of things to come, scientists say, but a sign of troubling climate change already under way. The weather-related cataclysms of July and August fit patterns predicted by climate scientists, the Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization says -- although those scientists always shy from tying ...
ALERT! Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Sells Out Democracy, Local Peoples and Resources to Red China’s Mining Agency
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on August 12th, 2010
TAKE ACTION HERE NOW!
Sir Michael Somare [search] - PNG's deeply corrupted PM, and once the great founder of this amazing country - is illegally clinging to power and giving away natural resources by gutting environmental law. PNG has Earth's third largest rainforests [search] and important intact fisheries which are being threatened by his efforts to run roughshod over landowners, including those trying to stop the dumping of mine waste into Madang's bays and lagoons. Given his increasingly despotic and unbalanced behavior, it is clearly time for Mr. Somare to resign.
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