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New methane rule has support in northern New Mexico
Posted by Durango Herald: Edward Graham on February 13th, 2016
Durango Herald: A proposed rule from the U.S. Department of the Interior to reduce the venting, leaking and flaring of methane and other natural gases from oil and gas drilling operations on public lands has strong support among New Mexico leaders
In a news call on Thursday, local leaders and residents of northern New Mexico voiced their support for the new rule, which was developed by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management.
Kent Salazar, a lifelong resident of New Mexico and the western vice...
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TMT would relocate if permit not secured soon
Posted by Tribune Herald: TOM CALLIS on February 13th, 2016
Tribune Herald: The TMT International Observatory’s decision to consider locations other than Mauna Kea for its next-generation telescope didn’t come as much of a surprise to supporters of the project, given the hurdles it still faces.
But the announcement is nonetheless increasing anxiety that Hawaii Island could lose out on the jobs and funding for education that comes with the $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope.
“I think we put it in a precarious situation,” said Bill Walter, Hawaii Island Chamber of Commerce...
Climate change is awfully hard on native plants
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 13th, 2016
Climate Central: Willis Linn Jepson encountered a squat shrub while he was collecting botanical specimens on California’s Mount Tamalpais in the fall of 1936. He trimmed off a few branches and jotted down the location along the ridge trail where the manzanita grew, 2,255 feet above sea level.
The desiccated specimen is now part of an herbarium here that’s named for the famed botanist. It was among hundreds of thousands of specimens of thousands of different species that were used recently to track the movement...
Climate: Land areas storing more water, slowing sea level rise
Posted by Summit County: Bob Berwyn on February 13th, 2016
Summit County: As crucial as it is for the future of humanity, calculating the rate of sea level rise has never been easy, and new measurements by NASA satellites have added a new twist to the equation. Careful study of the data from NASA`s twin NASA`s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites helped show how climate-driven increases of liquid water storage on land have affected the rate of sea level rise.
In the past decade, Earth`s land masses have soaked up an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water...