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As Climate Warms American West, Iconic Trout In Jeopardy
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 14th, 2013
National Public Radio: In the mountain streams of the American West, the trout rules. People don't just catch this fish; they honor it. And spend lots of money pursuing it.
But some western trout may be in trouble. Rivers and streams are getting warmer and there's often less water in them. Scientists suspect a changing climate is threatening this iconic fish.
I joined two such scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey as they drove up a mountain road in Montana, in the northern Rockies, a place dense with stands...
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More Heat Waves, Drought, Sea Level Rise In Store For Southeast U.S.: Report
Posted by Weather Channel: Terrell Johnson on November 14th, 2013
Weather Channel: Southerners will see more drought, longer and more severe heat waves, and poorer air quality over the next 20 years and beyond, according to a new report on the impact of climate change in the Southeastern U.S.
Titled Climate of the Southeast United States: Variability, Change, Impacts and Vulnerability, the report is part of the U.S. National Climate Assessment and comes billed as the "most comprehensive look to date" at climate-related impacts across an 11-state region that stretches from the...
Australia’s Politics of Global Warming
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 14th, 2013
New York Times: Huge clumps of strange, pink-stringed jellyfish drifted into the protected bay near my home in Sydney last year. Thousands swarmed under the surface, stinging indiscriminately. I swam through them in a full-body wet suit for several long months with my swimming group, wondering if warmer currents had changed the habitat patterns. Scientists are now talking about a peculiar “jellification” of the sea, prompted by climate change. We smeared ointments on our faces and packed antihistamines and creams...
Island biodiversity in danger of total submersion with climate change
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 14th, 2013
ScienceDaily: Sea level rise caused by global warming can prove extremely destructive to island habitats, which hold about 20% of the world's biodiversity. Research by C. Bellard, C. Leclerc and F. Courchamp of the University of Paris Sud look at 3 possible scenarios, from optimistic to very pessimistic, to bring attention to the dangers in store for some of the richest biodiversity hotspots worldwide. The study was published in the open access journal Nature Conservation. Despite climate change having received...
Desperate Philippine typhoon survivors loot, dig up water pipes
Posted by Reuters: Andrew R.c. Marshall and Stuart Grudgings on November 14th, 2013
Reuters: Desperation gripped Philippine islands devastated by Typhoon Haiyan as looting turned deadly on Wednesday and survivors panicked over shortages of food, water and medicine, some digging up underground water pipes and smashing them open.
Five days after one of the strongest storms ever recorded slammed into cities and towns in the central Philippines, anger and frustration boiled over on Wednesday as essential supplies dwindled. Some survivors scrawled signs reading "Help us".
Controversy also...