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Climate Change: Mountain Ponds Dried Up in the Heat Leaves Amphibians Starving for Water
Posted by Nature World: None Given on September 6th, 2015
Nature World: Between less winter snowfall, increased evaporation and the lengthened period of drought occurring in the Pacific Northwest, amphibians are stressing as they lose their mountain pond habitats.
"We've seen that the lack of winter snowpack and high summer temperatures have resulted in massive breeding failures and the death of some adult frogs," Wendy Palen, co-author and associate professor at Canada's Simon Fraser University, said in a news release. "More years like 2015 do not bode well for the...
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Evacuation Order Lifted on First Town Near Fukushima
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on September 6th, 2015
Environment News Service: On Saturday, Naraha became the first town to allow evacuated residents to return after an earthquake and tsunami damaged the nearby Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant more than four years ago.
The accident caused a meltdown in two of the plant`s six reactors that released radiation over a wide area. The entire area of Naraha falls within the 20 kilometer exclusion zone imposed by the Japanese government around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi power plant.
About 100 people, including government...
Putting Human Faces India Mega Problems
Posted by National Geographic: Simon Worrall on September 6th, 2015
National Geographic: The monsoon rains in the state of Maharastra are late. If it doesn't rain in the next fortnight, this boy's family will lose their crop of sugarcane.
Like China, India is a leviathan among the world's emerging economies. As with China, economic and social progress have come at a price: pollution, depleted natural resources, and overpopulation.
Presenting an overview of these issues in a country of 1.2 billion people, with a stunning diversity of landscapes, faiths, and ethnic groups, can be...
Singapore’s Impressive Food Security
Posted by Diplomat: None Given on September 6th, 2015
Diplomat: In many parts of the world, food security is emerging as a serious threat. Increasing population, land and water constraints, changes in dietary habits with increasing affluence, the impact on global food production of floods and droughts in major food producing areas, falling food exports, and a rising number of importing countries – all are contributing to these uncertainties. The problem is likely to be compounded in the future by climate change. In the years to come, food security in most countries...