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Warmer climate threatens Nebraska
Posted by North Platte Bulletin: None Given on October 6th, 2012
North Platte Bulletin: So say a panel of five environmental scholars and professionals, who presented “Climate Change and Nebraska: What Does Our Future Hold?” Saturday at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to warn of the dangers of a potential 4-10 degree temperature increase in the state.
The speakers examined the scientific evidence for climate change, the impact this could have on the future and the steps that can be taken to assuage it. Robert Oglesby, a professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at UNL, said...
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Radiation from Idaho fire posed no health risks: officials
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 6th, 2012
Reuters: Smoke from a wildfire in Idaho that burned mining sites with traces of uranium and thorium contained elevated levels of radiation, but none that posed a risk to human health, state officials said on Friday.
The state Department of Environmental Quality last month took air samples in North Fork, a town in the burn zone in east-central Idaho, after the so-called Mustang Complex fire swept through a former uranium mine and two abandoned gold mines.
Health officials said then they believed risks...
Show Your Solidarity for Frontline Activists Protesting the Keystone XL Pipeline
Posted by Rainforest Action Network: None Given on October 6th, 2012
Rainforest Action Network: As we write, our friends with the Tar Sands Blockade are blocking construction of TransCanada`s Keystone XL pipeline in the woods of Texas. For the past six months they have built a movement of climate activists, rural landowners, Texans, Oklahomans and people from all over the country to fiercely resist it. For two weeks, they have captured the imagination of the world with a daring tree-sit and bold ground actions near Winnsboro, TX that have delayed TransCanada`s operations.
TransCanada has...
Watch out for the roads
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 6th, 2012
IRIN: Disaster reduction experts have been calling on countries to "climate-proof' infrastructure like roads, but until now, there have been no studies showing the scale or importance of these interventions.
A recent study by the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four says developing countries will have to spend about US$200-300 billion per year by 2020 to construct public infrastructure - like bridges, power supplies and roads - that are not only environmentally friendly but can also withstand extreme...