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Global food supply at severe risk from climate change
Posted by Verge: Jacob Kastrenakes on November 3rd, 2013
Verge: A scientific panel set up by the United Nations has found that climate change will pose a serious threat to the world's food supply in the coming decades, reports The New York Times. The findings aren't set to be announced until March and are still undergoing editing, but a copy of the report has leaked online. The findings come from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has been releasing reports on the matter around every six years -- the Times reports that its 2007 findings...
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Federal Pipeline Regulatory Body Re-Opens Line Causing Biggest Fracked Oil Spill in US History
Posted by Huffington Post: Steve Horn on November 3rd, 2013
Huffington Post: A month after over 865,200 gallons of oil spilled from Tesoro Logistics' 6-inch pipeline near Tioga, North Dakota, the cause of the leak is still largely unknown to anyone but Tesoro. The pipeline resumed operations today. Carrying oil obtained via hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), the controversial horizontal drilling method used to capture oil and gas found embedded in shale rock basins worldwide, the Bakken Shale pipeline spill on September 29 was the largest fracked oil spill in U.S. history....
13 Arrested Blocking Highway at Site of Spectra Energy Pipeline
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on November 3rd, 2013
EcoWatch: Thirteen people were arrested yesterday for blocking the West Side Highway adjacent to the site where Spectra Energy has completed a natural gas pipeline entering Manhattan, NY from New Jersey.
Thanks to the Environment TV crew for capturing this direct action on video.
According to the Sane Energy Project, the “New Jersey-New York Expansion Project” is a high-pressure gas pipeline, varying in diameter from 42-30? routed up the New Jersey shoreline, through the edge of Staten Island, under...
What Happens When the World Dries Out
Posted by Climate News Network: Tim Radford on November 3rd, 2013
Climate News Network: A warmer, drier world will be bad news for those people who already live on the edge. Higher temperatures will do more than evaporate the soil moisture: they will alter the natural soil chemistry as well.
Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo of the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, in Seville, Spain, and fellow scientists report in Nature that they looked at soil samples from 224 dryland ecosystem plots in every continent except Antarctica.
Drylands matter: they account for more than 40 percent of the planet's...
Leaked IPCC Report Predicts More Food Shortages, War and Disease From Warming
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 3rd, 2013
Associated Press: Starvation, poverty, flooding, heat waves, droughts, war and disease already lead to human tragedies. They're likely to worsen as the world warms from man-made climate change, a leaked draft of an international scientific report forecasts.
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will issue a report next March on how global warming is already affecting the way people live and what will happen in the future, including a worldwide drop in income. A leaked copy of a...