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£1bn a month: the spiralling cost of oil theft in Nigeria
Posted by Observer: John Vidal on October 5th, 2013
Observer: The flames roared 20 metres above the Niger delta swamp for 48 hours; 6,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into the creeks and waterways around the village of Bodo and several people died. But although the Nigerian army and navy were stationed just 100 metres from the site of the massive explosion, no one knows – or will say – what really happened to Nigeria's most important oil pipeline around 2am on 19 June.
It could have been an accident. The Trans Niger pipeline, which transports around 150,000...
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Toxic algal blooms and warming waters: The climate connection
Posted by KUOW: None Given on October 5th, 2013
KUOW: A photograph displayed in Jacki and John Williford`s home commemorates a camping trip that would go down in family history.
The most memorable event from that outing in 2011 involved the mussels John and his two children collected from a dock near Sequim Bay State Park on Washington`s Olympic Peninsula. The family took them back to their campsite and steamed them in white wine with garlic and oregano.
“It was really good. Like the best mussels in the whole wide world,” remembers their son Jaycee,...
The hard math of flood insurance in a warming world
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 5th, 2013
Time: Thousands of homeowners in flood-prone parts of the country are going to be in for a rude awakening. On Oct. 1, new changes to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which offers government-subsidized policies for households and businesses threatened by floods, mean that businesses in flood zones and homes that have been severely or repeatedly flooded will start going up 25% a year until rates reach levels that would reflect the actual risk from flooding. (Higher rates for second or vacation...
Alaska’s High Court first supreme court in the nation to hear climate change case
Posted by APM: None Given on October 5th, 2013
APM: Alaska’s high court became the first state supreme court in the country yesterday to hear an appeal in one of more than a dozen climate change lawsuits.
The lawsuits pit young people against their states. The plaintiffs claim the state has an obligation to protect the atmosphere from excessive carbon emissions.
Nelson Kanuk is a freshman at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the main plaintiff inAlaska’s case.
His family’s home in the 600-person village of Kipnuk became uninhabitable...
Climate and algal blooms
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 5th, 2013
Living on Earth: It only takes a slight temperature uptick to make our oceans more hospitable to algae. Along with excess fertilizer run-off, that's leading to increasingly toxic algal blooms that can sicken people who eat the affected shellfish. Ashley Ahearn from the public radio collaborative EarthFix reports.
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CURWOOD: It's Living on Earth, I'm Steve Curwood. As the planet's oceans warm, coastal regions are seeing more and more blooms of algae, often exacerbated by fertilizer and manure that runs...
Nigeria: Before the next flood….
Posted by This Day: None Given on October 5th, 2013
This Day: The discovery of river-like water flowing in street drains is a sad confirmation of impending flood in some communities in Lagos and elsewhere in the country. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has advised states government to use the money voted for emergencies to establish camps to accommodate flood victims in the days and weeks ahead. The fund may not be much but the time for construction is running out, writes Bennett Oghifo
The rainy season has reached its peak and true to predictions...