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UN: Unprecedented climate change
Posted by Pravda: None Given on July 4th, 2013
Pravda: The latest UN Report on Climate Change, The Global Climate, 2001-2010, A Decade of Extremes, paints an alarming picture of a world faced with unprecedented climate extremes with rising temperatures smashing national records.
The Global Climate 2001-2010, A Decade of Extremes shows that in the first decade of the new millennium, more temperature records were broken across the globe than at any other time, being the warmest decade for the northern and southern hemispheres both on land and at sea...
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China’s largest algal bloom turns the Yellow Sea green
Posted by Guardian: Karl Mathiesen on July 4th, 2013
Guardian: The largest algal bloom ever recorded in China has turned the Yellow Sea green and may be related to pollution from agriculture and industry.
Officials in the city of Qingdao had used bulldozers to remove 7,335 tonnes of the growth from beaches according to the Xinhua news agency.
The phenomenon has become an annual occurrence in the region over the past six summers. This year's incident has swathed 28 900 sq km (11 158 sq miles), twice as much as the previous biggest bloom in 2008.
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Chinese beaches overwhelmed by algae – in pictures
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 4th, 2013
Guardian: The seas of China have been hit by their largest ever growth of algae. A large quantity of non-poisonous green seaweed, enteromorpha prolifera, hit the Qingdao coast in recent days. More than 20,000 tons of such seaweed has been removed from the city's beaches
United Kingdom: As well as cull, contraceptives lined up for badgers in battle against farm TB
Posted by Independent: Tom Bawden on July 4th, 2013
Independent: The government is working on a contraceptive for badgers as it looks for new ways to reverse the rapid spread of bovine tuberculosis in cattle. A birth control pill or injection could play a key role in reducing the population of badgers which help spread the disease among cows, a government official said today. TB in cattle has soared over the past decade, resulting in the slaughter of 28,000 infected cows last year, and the government says Britain's growing badger population is largely responsible....
South Africa Wants to Flood Illegal Black Market with Rhino Horns
Posted by Nature World News: James A. Foley on July 4th, 2013
Nature World News: A plan by the South African government to sell some of its $1 billion stockpile of rhinoceros horn could potentially flood the illegal black market and cause prices to plummet as well as enable the country to further finance its conservation efforts. (Photo : WikiCommons)
A plan by the South African government to sell some of its $1 billion stockpile of rhinoceros horn could potentially flood the illegal black market and cause prices to plummet as well as enable the country to further finance...
Josh Fox’s “Gasland II” to expose power politics of fracking
Posted by Grist: None Given on July 4th, 2013
Grist: Pictures of flames shooting out of a tap in Josh Fox`s Oscar-nominated first film about the natural gas boom helped make fracking a household word in America.
Gasland Part II, scheduled to air on HBO on July 8, aims to expose the money and political power driving the rush to gas -- although it does also feature pictures of a homeowner in Texas lighting his garden hose on fire.
"This isn`t just about fracking at all anymore. This is about our system of government, and this is about climate change,"...
EARTH MEANDERS ESSAY: Happy Interdependence Day
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on July 4th, 2013
Earth is dying if we let it. We need the Earth and each other to survive and thrive. Ecological Internet needs the financial support of its network participants at http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/donate/ to continue our unique and effective biocentric advocacy on the net, or we may be closing soon.
Essay by Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet
Earth Meanders come from Earth's Newsdesk
The global ecological system is being overrun by human industrial growth, ecosystem habitats and our one shared biosphere are collapsing. We have come to understand Gaia the Earth System is alive, yet are slow to recognize she is dying at our hand.
These are some of the findings of my new science journal article currently being peer reviewed titled Terrestrial Ecosystem Loss and Biosphere Collapse and available in draft at http://bit.ly/EICollapse.
There have been few deep ecology voices as clear and dependable as Ecological Internet and myself over the past twenty years. We understand ecology is the meaning of life, and that industrial growth is destroying ecosystems and all their life. Yet Ecological Internet continues to barely cover basic expenses, and continually sinks further in debt, to urgently spread the message of how to sustain our one shared biosphere. Our public ...
UN: Last decade was warmest on record, but weather-related fatalities fell
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 4th, 2013
Christian Science Monitor: The first decade of the 21st century was the warmest decade on record and yielded some of the most extreme weather events – drought, floods, heat waves, intense rain and snowfall – on record in various regions of the world, according to an overview of the last decade produced by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
While natural swings in climate played a key role, those have been superimposed over a general warming trend in Earth's climate. The trigger for this longer-term warming has...
Biodiversity conservation funding can be better targeted, scientists find
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 4th, 2013
Mongabay: Researchers identified the most underfunded countries globally for nature conservation in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) this week. The 40 most severely underfunded countries contain a third of the world’s threatened mammals. The study provides an opportunity for a ‘rapid global triage’ in conservation: better coordination between donors and a very modest increase in international assistance can limit immediate biodiversity losses at relatively little...
North India among climate change impact hotspots: Study
Posted by Zee News: None Given on July 4th, 2013
Zee News: A new study by an international team of researchers has suggested that north India is among the few regions identified as ‘hotspots’ vulnerable to extreme climate changes, which in turn could lead to a fall in agricultural production and severe ecosystem changes.
The study, based on the computer simulations of future climate scenarios, was conducted by the international researchers from Germany and was published in the US journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
While the climate...