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Earth’s Large Lakes Are Warming From Climate Change
Posted by NASDAQ: None Given on November 24th, 2010
NASDAQ: The earth's largest lakes have warmed over the last 25 years due to climate change, according to a study published Wednesday by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The study, by researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., found greater warming in lakes of the mid- and high latitudes of the northern hemisphere, particularly in northern Europe and Russia, and the U.S. West, than in low latitudes and the southern hemisphere.
The study comes less than a week...
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Appeals Court Halts U.S.-Sanctioned Killing of Sea Lions
Posted by Greenwire: Lawrence Hurley on November 24th, 2010
Greenwire: A federal appeals court has put a stop to a program in the Pacific Northwest that authorized the killing of sea lions in order to protect the stock of salmon in the Columbia River.
The National Marine Fisheries Service allowed the states of Oregon and Washington to kill up to 85 sea lions a year at the Bonneville Dam.
But the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held yesterday that the agency violated administrative procedures in reaching its decision.
Although the Marine...
Link to the Pacific: Road, Rail or Ship?
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 24th, 2010
Inter Press Service: A land route to the Pacific, long coveted by Brazil, would not reduce the cost of transporting Brazilian exports to China and other markets in Asia and would not make them more competitive, as advocates of paving roads and building bridges through the Amazon jungle argue.
"It's a myth," said Olivier Girard, basing his assertion on the Competitive North Project, a study by his company, Macrologística, on the transport infrastructure in Brazil's Amazon jungle states.
The study, carried out for...
Minister for Climate Change Responds to Report: Managing Our Coastal Zones in a Changing Climate: the Time to Act is Now
Posted by News 4 Us: None Given on November 24th, 2010
News 4 Us: A coordinated national approach is needed to prepare Australia’s coastal communities for rising sea levels, storm surges and erosion caused by climate change, the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Greg Combet, said today.
He was speaking about the Government’s response to the House of Representatives report: Managing Our Coastal Zones in a Changing Climate: the Time to Act is Now. The response was tabled today. Mr Combet said the Government would work with state and territory...
Lakes are warming across the globe
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 24th, 2010
ScienceNews: Throughout the past quarter-century, inland lakes have been experiencing a small, steadily rising nighttime fever. Globally, the average increase has hovered around 0.045 degrees Celsius per year, but in some regions the increase has been more than twice that -- or about 1 °C per decade.
In some regions -- notably the Northern Hemisphere’s mid and upper latitudes -- lakes have been warming faster than have surrounding air temperatures.
No question, the upticks have been small. They also appear...
World’s lakes getting hotter, more than the air
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 24th, 2010
Associated Press: A first-of-its-kind NASA study is finding nice cool lakes are heating up - even faster than air.
Two NASA scientists used satellite data to look at 104 large inland lakes around the world and found that on average they have warmed 2 degrees (1.1 degree Celsius) since 1985. That's about two-and-a-half times the increase in global temperatures in the same time period.
Russia's Lake Ladoga and America's Lake Tahoe are warming significantly and the most, said study co-author Simon Hook, a scientist...
Madagascar Rice Harvest Delayed by Climate Change, Express Says
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 24th, 2010
Bloomberg: Climate change will cause a delay in Madagascar’s rice harvest for the third consecutive season, l’Express reported, citing Andry Randrianarivelo, group secretary of the Intensive Ricefarming System.
A lack of rain means the crop will be reaped in late January at the earliest, the Antananarivo-based newspaper said. Industry experts have recommended that farmers manage water better and use seeds that take less time to mature, it said.
A shortage of rice in the Indian Ocean island nation may...
NASA says Earth’s lakes are warming
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 24th, 2010
Agence France-Presse: The Earth's largest lakes have warmed up over the past 25 years in response to climate change, the US space agency said Tuesday, announcing the first such global study of its kind.
Scientists Philipp Schneider and Simon Hook of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California used satellite data to measure the surface temperature of 167 lakes around the world, NASA said.
"They reported an average warming rate of 0.81 degrees Fahrenheit per decade, with some lakes warming as much as...
Earth’s biggest lakes warming up as climate changes
Posted by IBTimes: None Given on November 24th, 2010
IBTimes: Even as scientists are warning that the increasing global warming could be a threat to aquatic species, NASA researchers have determined that Earth's largest lakes have warmed during the past 25 years in response to climate change.
NASA researchers have determined that Earth's largest lakes have warmed during the past 25 years in response to climate change.
Water bodies in certain regions including the Great Lakes in Northern America and some in northern Europe appear to be warming more quickly...