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First Phase of Global Fracking Expansion: Ensuring Friendly Legislation
Posted by Inter Press Service: Kitty Stapp on December 1st, 2014
Inter Press Service: Multinational oil and gas companies are engaged in a quiet but broad attempt to prepare the groundwork for a significant global expansion of shale gas development, according to a study released Monday.
Thus far, the hydraulic fracturing (or "fracking") technologies that have upended the global gas market have been used primarily in North America and, to a lesser extent, Europe. With U.S. gas production in particular having expanded exponentially in recent years, however, countries around the world...
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These Mammals Are Hit Hard By Climate Change
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 1st, 2014
Time: December`s here and snowshoe hares are putting on their white winter coats as they`ve done for countless generations. But because climate change is transforming their environment much faster than evolution can react to it, the species is increasingly out-of-sync with its landscape: As snows arrive later and melt earlier, the hares, whose coloration change is thought to be triggered by the changing length of days, not the actual temperature and precipitation around them, are turning white when their...
UN Climate talks kicked off in Lima
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 1st, 2014
Times of India: Amid hope to seal the climate deal in Paris next year, crucial negotiation under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was kicked off in Peruvian capital on Monday with key UN body appealing the world to step up their actions to deal with disastrous consequences of global warming.
How much burden each of the nations would share to save the world may be known only later in the run up to the Paris meeting, the current meetings - called COP20 (20th edition of the Conference...
UN Climate Change Talks Begin In Peru
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 1st, 2014
RedOrbit: The United States and China announced an agreement earlier this year to reduce carbon emissions, and some observers are predicting the announcement could kick-start a trend of similar commitments from other countries as the annual UN climate conference begins in Peru today.
The talks in Lima will focus mostly on a new global climate agreement among 195 nations which is expected to go into effect by the end of 2015.
The site of the UN meeting is particularly notable, considering that Peru appears...
NASA airborne campaigns to tackle questions on climate
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 1st, 2014
Business Standard: Five new NASA airborne field campaigns will take to the skies next year to investigate how long-range air pollution, warming ocean waters, and fires in Africa affect our climate.
These studies into several incompletely understood Earth system processes were competitively-selected as part of NASA's Earth Venture-class projects. Each project is funded at a total cost of no more than USD 30 million over five years.
Steven Wofsy of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will lead the Atmospheric...
Russian Money Suspected Behind Fracking Protests
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 1st, 2014
New York Times: Vlasa Mircia, the mayor of this destitute village in eastern Romania, thought he had struck it rich when the American energy giant Chevron showed up here last year and leased a plot of land he owned for exploratory shale gas drilling. But the encounter between big business and rural Romania quickly turned into a nightmare. The village became a magnet for activists from across the country opposed to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Violent clashes broke out between the police and protesters. The...