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Climate change challenges power plant operations
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 9th, 2012
Washington Post: Drought and rising temperatures are forcing water managers across the country to scramble for ways to produce the same amount of power from the hydroelectric grid with less water, including from behemoths such as the Hoover Dam. Hydropower is not the only part of the nation’s energy system that appears increasingly vulnerable to the impact of climate change, as low water levels affect coal-fired and nuclear power plants’ operations and impede the passage of coal barges along the Mississippi River....
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Mountain forest study shows vulnerability to climate change
Posted by Phys.Org: None Given on September 9th, 2012
Phys.Org: CU-Boulder assistant professor Noah Molotch deploying an automated snow depth sensor and solar panel in Sequoia National Park in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California. Molotch and colleagues have found that mid-level mountain ecosystems in the West where people live, camp, hike, fish and mountain bike are the most sensitive to climate change. Credit: Image courtesy Noah Molotch, University of Colorado
A new University of Colorado Boulder-led study that ties forest "greenness" in the western...
River turns red in China
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 9th, 2012
Telegraph: State broadcaster CCTV said that the environmental protection bureau in Chongqing had ruled out the possibilities of industrial and sewage pollution causing the river to turn red. "It's not a problem," one boatman said in Chongqing. "The water [colour] is within the normal range. For us boatmen, [the colour] just means the river is washing its water. "[But] the colour this year is redder and darker," he added. Investigations are still underway but authorities said silt deposits brought in by floods...
In swing states climate change considered critical election issue
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 9th, 2012
Christian Science Monitor: Climate change, a signature issue for President Obama, has thus far been absent on the campaign trail. Here's why you can expect it to soon dominate the debate.
In Tampa, Mitt Romney threw down the gauntlet to Barack Obama, for whom global warming – and the consequent sea level rise – has been a signature issue since he promised in 2008 to do something about it as president.
"President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet," Mr. Romney told GOP delegates...
Ecologist accuses govt of burying report on Western ghats
Posted by Daily News and Analsyis: Yogesh Pawar on September 9th, 2012
Daily News and Analsyis: Senior ecologist Madhav Gadgil who led a panel to map the eco-sensitivity of the western ghats has charged the state and central governments of attempting to bury his findings. Gadgil who was at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) in the city for a talk on eco-conservation pointed out how the Central Information Commissioner (CIC) had himself pulled up the government for suppressing the report. Gadgil recalled that the CIC had said, "Unless the government does not logically explain its decision...