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Freshwater Summit to address Great Lakes issues
Posted by Grand Traverse Insider: Kristine Morris on October 26th, 2014
Grand Traverse Insider: This year's Freshwater Summit, an annual conference of environmental professionals and concerned citizens focusing on current issues facing the Great Lakes region, will be held from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31 at the Hagerty Center, Northwestern Michigan College Great Lakes Campus, 715 E. Front St., in Traverse City. The cost is $35 per adult and $15 for students. Lunch is included.
This year's guest speakers will discuss climate change, invasive species, water levels and the economic...
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Karachi has a lot on its plate, but still food insecure
Posted by Tribune: None Given on October 26th, 2014
Tribune: In the face of rising population and climate change, one of the biggest challenges that nations all over the world are facing is food insecurity.
The World Food Summit defines food security as: “when all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life”. At present, in total, around three billion people are malnourished out of a total global population of 7.2 billion people, which implies that around 40 per cent of the world is malnourished.’...
Dam-building boom could be electricity boon, environmental blight
Posted by Al Jazeera: Wilson Dizard on October 26th, 2014
Al Jazeera: A dam-building boom across the developing world will bring electricity to growing, power-hungry cities across Asia, Africa and Latin America. But it can also put the world’s climate and people at risk, according to a new study by researchers aiming to reduce the host of environmental problems that can come with dam construction. Researchers at Tübingen University in Germany have have compiled a database of the 3,700 different dam projects planned or underway worldwide. They predict that global hydropower...
Drought, disease wait in Valley for migratory birds
Posted by Fresno Bee: None Given on October 26th, 2014
Fresno Bee: Great horned owls hang out at the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge. Swift, silent and scary, these winged terminators hunt critters at night. And duck is on the menu.
“Imagine if you’re a duck floating next to your pal and suddenly you find yourself alone,” said Jack Sparks, a recreation planner at the refuge. “These owls swoop down and carry off ducks.”
Don’t be fooled by the happy honking geese and dancing sandhill cranes. This may seem like a happy winter pit stop for migrating birds, but...
Two Years After Sandy’s Surge, New York City Shifts Toward a Softer Relationship with the Sea
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 26th, 2014
New York Times: Just ahead of the two-year anniversary of the calamitous flooding of New York City by the surge from Hurricane Sandy, Alan Feuer has written a fine piece summarizing how this maritime metropolis, facing decades, if not centuries, of inevitable sea-level rise, is slowly evolving a softer relationship with the sea. Here’s the nut: In the storm’s aftermath, there were calls for a single big fix, like sea gates that would close off New York Harbor to swells of rising water. But the solutions being...
U.N. climate change draft sees risks of irreversible damage
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 26th, 2014
Reuters: Climate change may have "serious, pervasive and irreversible" impacts on human society and nature, according to a draft U.N. report due for approval this week that says governments still have time to avert the worst.
Delegates from more than 100 governments and top scientists meet in Copenhagen on Oct 27-31 to edit the report, meant as the main guide for nations working on a U.N. deal to fight climate change at a summit in Paris in late 2015.
They will publish the study on Nov. 2.
European...
Sydney’s scorcher set continue; global records could tumble
Posted by Guardian: Eryk Bagshaw, Tom Decent and Peter Hannam on October 26th, 2014
Guardian: Sydney's scorching weather is set to continue on Monday, with temperatures forecast to surge beyond 31 degrees and the chance of a thunderstorm developing during the day.
In Sydney's western suburbs, temperatures are expected to hit the mid-30's, eclipsing Sunday's high of 36 degrees, said Jane Golding, a meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology.
It is a familiar story across the state.
Over the weekend towns in north-western NSW experienced their first 40-degree day for spring this year,...