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Climate Change: Making The Nation’s Bears Hungry?
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 16th, 2011
National Public Radio: National Parks Week kicks off Saturday, but the celebration comes at a rough time for National Parks. Harried by federal funding cuts and urban development, the nation's park system is also facing the rising threat of climate change.
Those effects are becoming most visible in Yellowstone, one of the best known of all national parks, according to Paul Solotaroff. He wrote about Yellowstone's climate challenge in April's issue of Men's Journal and tells Weekend All Things Considered guest host Noah...
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South Africa’s photo-op penguins show signs of decline
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 16th, 2011
Agence France-Presse: Penguins waddle over giant boulders and dive into the shallow turquoise sea to the delight of camera-ready tourists near the tip of South Africa.
The birds are a top attraction in Simon's Town, a naval village in Cape Town where motorists yield to the seabirds, but their numbers are dwindling, a worrying factor that also points to wider threats to the world's oceans.
"The African Penguins have been decreasing, by 60 percent now, since 2004, so that's why we are all very worried," said Lorien...
Along Gulf, spill still defines state of mind
Posted by Associated Press: Adam Geller on April 16th, 2011
Associated Press: In the small brick church just across the road from the chocolate waters of Bayou Lafourche, the Rev. Joseph Anthony Pereira unbuttons his collar as the last parishioners pull out of the lot. Tonight, nearly a year after the BP oil spill began, he's asked his congregation of shrimpers and oil industry workers to think about lessons learned when survival is in jeopardy.
But Pereira doubts that many from the 5 p.m. Mass are ready to take his Lenten message to heart.
"You speak about this to them...
The coming storm
Posted by National Geographic: Don Belt on April 16th, 2011
National Geographic: We may be seven billion specks on the surface of Earth, but when you're in Bangladesh, it sometimes feels as if half the human race were crammed into a space the size of Louisiana. Dhaka, its capital, is so crowded that every park and footpath has been colonized by the homeless. To stroll here in the mists of early morning is to navigate an obstacle course of makeshift beds and sleeping children. Later the city's steamy roads and alleyways clog with the chaos of some 15 million people, most of them...
Bangladesh: Erosion by climate change biggest threat to Sunderbans
Posted by Daily Pioneer: Moushumi Basu on April 16th, 2011
Daily Pioneer: While the debate on the vulnerability of Sunderbans as one of the hot spots of climate change continues -- experts have predicted that at least a “dozen islands on the South-western part of the mangrove swamps are likely to lose an average of 65 per cent of their land by 2015.” These according to experts are “tangible impacts” of the climate change phenomenon being perceived here.
What adds to the concern is that of these 12 islands assessed to be the most vulnerable to accelerated erosion, five...
Natural gas emissions study draws fire
Posted by Nature: Richard Lovett on April 16th, 2011
Nature: In the calculus of global warming, natural gas is generally considered to be preferable to coal as a fuel. That's because, on a per-joule basis, burning methane, the primary constituent of natural gas, produces less carbon dioxide than burning coal.
But, earlier this week, the conventional wisdom was shaken by researchers from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, who argue in a study to be published in Climate Change1 that, over a 20-year period, the use of natural gas extracted from 'gas shales',...