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Dalai Lama: Cultivate Inner Peace to Save the Planet
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on May 13th, 2013
Environment News Service: "The main thing is the oneness of humanity," His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, said during an environmental summit Saturday in Portland.
"In 1959 I came from Tibet and escaped to India. Now the whole world has some problems, but there is no other place to escape," he told an audience of 11,000 people. "Environmental protection, taking care of our world, is like taking care of our own home. This is our only home, so we have to take care, and not only for our generation."
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European shrub threatens US frogs
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 13th, 2013
BBC: An invasive shrub is disrupting US Mid-West ecosystems and threatening amphibian populations, say researchers. Buckthorn, listed as an invasive species in the US, is understood to release a chemical into the environment that reduces successful hatching. Since its introduction in the 19th Century as a hedgerow shrub, the plant has spread widely and is now found across two-thirds of the country. The results will appear in Natural Areas and the Journal of Herpetology. "What we are finding is a suppressed...
Why a Hotter World Will Mean More Extinctions
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 13th, 2013
Times: The end of last week saw the carbon concentrations in the atmosphere finally pass the 400-part-per-million threshold. That means carbon levels are higher now than they`ve been for at least 800,000 years, and most likely far longer. There`s nothing special per se about 400 parts per million -- other than giving all of us a change to note it in article like this one -- but it`s a reminder that we are headed very fast into a very uncertain future.
Parts per million and global temperature change,...
The effect of climate change on iceberg production by Greenland glaciers
Posted by SPX: None Given on May 13th, 2013
SPX: While the impact of climate change on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet has been widely studied, a clear understanding of the key process of iceberg production has eluded researchers for many years.
Published in Nature this week, a new study presents a sophisticated computer model that provides a fresh insight into the impact of climate change on the production of icebergs by Greenland glaciers, and reveals that the shape of the ground beneath the ice has a strong effect on its movement....