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One in 10 will live in climate hotspots by 2100
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 2nd, 2013
AFP: One in 10 people around the world will live in a place where climate change is damaging at least two major sectors such as crop yields, water, ecosystems or health, said an international study on Monday.
These so-called climate "hotspots" will be most widespread in the southern Amazon, with "severe changes" in water availability, yields and ecosystems, said the study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a US journal.
The second largest hotspot region is southern Europe, where...
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San Francisco seafood restaurants go sustainable
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 2nd, 2013
Mongabay: The Seafood Watch, first created by Monterey Bay Aquarium in the late 1990s, is arguably the best-known guide to sustainably-caught seafood in the U.S. Listing seafood choices in three categories-green (best choices), yellow (good alternatives), and red (avoid)-the guide informs consumers of the best-managed options. However, it's one thing to create a well-respected guide, and another issues altogether to get producers and consumers to use it. But a new program, the Seafood Watch Restaurant Program,...
Will Boris Johnson drill for shale gas in London?
Posted by Guardian: Mat Hope on July 2nd, 2013
Guardian: The London mayor, Boris Johnson, is a big fan of shale gas. So much so that he told the Times today:
"If reserves of shale can be exploited in London we should leave no stone unturned, or unfracked, in the cause of keeping the lights on".
Putting a drilling rig in the middle of one of the world's most densely populated cities may sound like a outlandish scheme - even for the notoriously eccentric Mayor. But could it work?
Dr Nick Riley, Team Leader for Unconventional Gas at the British Geological...
Deluge from sub-glacial lake’s burst
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 2nd, 2013
BBC: Scientists have seen evidence for a colossal flood under Antarctica that drained six billion tonnes of water, quite possibly straight to the ocean.
The cause is thought to be a deeply buried lake that suddenly over-topped.
Satellites were used to map the crater that developed as the 2.7km-thick overlying ice sheet slumped to fill the void left by the escaping water.
The peak discharge would have been more than double the normal flow rate of London's River Thames, researchers say.
The...
Amazon, Mediterranean and East Africa likely hot spots for severe climate changes
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 2nd, 2013
Asian News International: Intersectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISI-MIP) has recently found out that the Amazon region, the Mediterranean and East Africa regions might experience severe change in multiple sectors.
The article will be featured in a special issue of PNAS later this year.
"Overlapping impacts of climate change in different sectors have the potential to interact and thus multiply pressure on the livelihoods of people in the affected regions," lead-author Franziska Piontek of the Potsdam Institute...
NASA experiment uncovers Arctic climate time bomb
Posted by RTCC: John Parnell on July 2nd, 2013
RTCC: The Arctic could prove to be a climate time bomb according to early results from a NASA experiment to monitor the release of greenhouse gases from thawing permafrost. With previous data on CO2 and methane released from the carbon rich soils imprecise, the Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE) has been able to fill in the blanks with initial indications creating cause for concern. While it was known that the release of gases that had previously been trapped in solid ground...
Chinese factory accused of poisoning Somaliland water supplies
Posted by Guardian: Sean Williams on July 2nd, 2013
Guardian: A Chinese-owned tanning factory based in Somaliland has been accused of dumping dangerous chemicals in waterways. But the government has failed to intervene for fear of spooking foreign investment, according to local people.
Jeronimo Group of Industries and Trading PLC, a subsidiary of Chinese glove-making firm Phiss, is the first and only foreign-owned company in the breakaway east African state. It has been operating a factory in the village of Dar-Buruq, 60km outside the capital Hargeisa, since...
Stand with Ecological Internet
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on July 2nd, 2013
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July 1, 2013
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Citizens Ask Exxon to Pay Its $1.7 Million Fine for Yellowstone Oil Spill
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 2nd, 2013
Billings Gazette: A group of more than 50 Billings area residents gathered on the north bank of the Yellowstone River at Coulson Park on Monday, chanting, waving signs and making a simple demand. Holding signs that said "Pay Your Fine" and "Take Responsibility," the group asked ExxonMobil Corp. to pay in full $1.7 million in penalties proposed by the federal government in relation a July 2011 spill that dumped 63,000 gallons of crude oil into the Yellowstone River. "Today we're asking for not only individual responsibility,...
Blasting heat keeps hold on Western states
Posted by Reuters: Sharon Bernstein and Alexia Shurmur on July 2nd, 2013
Reuters: A heat wave scorching the Western United States fueled lightning-sparked fires in several states and pushed temperatures well above normal on Monday in typically cooler regions such as Seattle and parts of the Rocky Mountains.
In Arizona, the weather cooled off slightly - to 111 degrees (44 C) on Monday from 115 (46 C) the day before. But a wildfire that killed 19 firefighters on Sunday raged unchecked, engulfing 8,400 acres of tinder-dry chaparral and grasslands.
In Boise, Idaho, where a ridge...