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Scientist captures amazing photos Alaskan sockeye salmon run
Posted by Mother Nature: None Given on December 14th, 2015
Mother Nature: If the realms of science and art seems worlds away from each other, you'd be gravely mistaken. After all, when you're studying the science behind the world around us, how can you not feel inspired by its sublime beauty? That's why it should come as no surprise to learn that some of society's most creative and passionate artists also happen to possess brilliant scientific minds. One such scientist is Jason Ching, a Washington-based researcher who has spent years studying and photographing Bristol...
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Side benefit of climate accord: Better health in polluted communities
Posted by Public Integrity: None Given on December 14th, 2015
Public Integrity: Saturday’s 196-nation climate pact is aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions, whose effects on the planet already are being seen. Another beneficiary, however, will be public health.
If, in fact, the accord marks a true shift away from dirty fossil fuels like coal and oil, people from South Texas to South Philadelphia should expect to live longer, higher-quality lives.
Start with areas of heavy oil and gas drilling, like the Eagle Ford Shale region south of San Antonio. Last year the Center...
How the world learned its lesson and got a climate deal
Posted by Reuters: Richard Valdmanis and Emmanuel Jarry on December 14th, 2015
Reuters: It was an agreement born from a fear of failure, delivered by the smoothness of French diplomacy.
Six years earlier, countries had bitterly walked away from global climate talks in Copenhagen without a deal. The decision to reassemble in Paris to try again at getting almost 200 countries to sign a pact on cutting carbon emissions was a gamble: another collapse could the end world’s ability to forge a common approach to dealing with climate change.
And no political leader wanted his reputation...
Can the Paris agreement protect poor farmers from climate change?
Posted by Reuters: Megan Rowling on December 14th, 2015
Reuters: Purity Gachanga is one small-scale farmer who is beating climate change. On her several acres of land in Embu North district in central Kenya, she keeps cows and goats that produce milk, grows trees for fodder, and collects water to irrigate her food crops in a pond filled with tilapia fish.
Since she started out in the 1970s, she has overcome increasingly erratic rainfall by using new technologies and trying out different crops and trees. She even turns her animal manure into biogas, harnessing...
How Trees Try to Cope With Climate Change
Posted by Discovery News: Patrick J. Kiger on December 14th, 2015
Discovery News: Imagine that you’re lost in a desert, or some other inhospitable environment. You’ve got two choices. One is to stay in place and conserve supplies and water, in order to make them last. The other is to push on tenaciously and hope that you find a way out of your predicament. As it turns out, trees are like that too, when it comes to coping with the hotter, drier environment created by climate change. In a new article in the journal Global Change Biology, University of Washington researchers studied...