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Less Rain in Hawaii
Posted by Environmental News Network: Andy Soos on April 25th, 2013
Environmental News Network: The Hawaiian Islands ecoregion includes one of the world's wettest places, the slopes of Mount Wai?ale?ale, which average 460 in (12,000 mm) of rainfall per year. However, almost imperceptibly, rainfall over the Hawaiian Islands has been declining since 1978, and this trend is likely to continue with global warming through the end of this century, according to a team of scientists at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) and the University of Colorado at Boulder. This latest Hawaii rainfall study,...
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Chinese airline to start biofuel-powered commerical flights
Posted by BusinessGreen: None Given on April 25th, 2013
BusinessGreen: China Eastern Airlines has said it plans to introduce biofuel-powered commercial flights, after yesterday completing its first successful trial of green aviation fuel.
An Airbus A320 landed at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport yesterday morning after completing an 85-minute flight using a biofuel made from a blend of palm oil and recycled cooking oil produced by Sinopec.
State media reported that Captain Liu Zhimin, who piloted Wednesday's flight, performed several extreme manoeuvres...
China: Lu Guang’s The Polluted Landscape
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 25th, 2013
Guardian: Chinese photojournalist Lu Guang goes deep into China's ravaged heartlands and documents the environmental crisis that has been triggered by the nation's dizzyingly rapid economic growth and development. Exposing the droughts caused by open-cast coal mines in Inner Mongolia, documenting under-reported oil spills and sidestepping censorship over chemical pollution of rivers, Guang is a fearless documenter of truth – and his message is starting to gather force among many Chinese who question the benefits...
United Kingdom: How trout are ‘rewilding’ both rivers and children
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 25th, 2013
Guardian: Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road, which I still believe is the greatest environmental work ever written, ends with the shock and beauty that runs through so much of the book:
"Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its...
Don’t let America get ‘fracked’
Posted by CNN: Phil Radford and Mark Ruffalo on April 25th, 2013
CNN: Even the heads of fossil fuel companies read the polls. They know the majority of Americans see global warming as an imminent threat and a clear sign that the way we use energy must change. But instead of offering the solar and wind choices America wants, fossil fuel companies like Shell, Exxon and Duke are offering what might be their most disastrous bait and switch yet: natural gas.
The bait? Burning natural gas is "clean" because it produces less carbon pollution than burning oil and coal....