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Protesters block effort restart work controversial Hawaii telescope; 11 arrested
Posted by Science: None Given on June 25th, 2015
Science: An attempt to restart construction on what would be one of the world’s largest telescopes was blocked yesterday, after state authorities escorting construction vehicles clashed with protesters blockading the road to the summit of Hawaii’s Mauna Kea volcano.
Officers from Hawaii’s Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), and construction workers for the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT), turned back from the summit shortly after noon Wednesday, citing concerns for public safety after finding...
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Comments Off on Protesters block effort restart work controversial Hawaii telescope; 11 arrestedClimate change could eventually claim a sixth of the world’s species
Posted by Science: None Given on April 30th, 2015
Science: Up to one-sixth of the species on Earth could disappear if climate change remains on its current course, according to a new analysis of more than 100 smaller studies.
“All the studies are in pretty good agreement: The more warming we have, the more species we’ll lose,” says Dov Sax, a conservation biologist at Brown University who was not involved in the work. “This is really important to know, from a policy viewpoint.”
Industrial emissions of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming greenhouse...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Climate change could eventually claim a sixth of the world’s speciesIPCC reaches finish line releases major climate change synthesis report
Posted by Science: None Given on November 2nd, 2014
Science: Climate change is taking hold and will bring worrying impacts – but there is still time to limit the damage. That, in a nutshell, is the message delivered by a new report that synthesizes the findings of three massive studies issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) over the past year. The Synthesis Report, released today at a meeting in Copenhagen, caps work on the fifth assessment of climate science and mitigation that the IPCC has completed since 1990.
The report demonstrates...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on IPCC reaches finish line releases major climate change synthesis reportExtreme weather to occur more often around Indian Ocean rim
Posted by Science: None Given on June 11th, 2014
Science: A double whammy of weird ocean behavior washed over the world in 1997. The Pacific Ocean had already succumbed to an exceptionally strong El Niño, and then the Indian Ocean was hit fiercely by El Niño’s close cousin: the so-called Indian Ocean Dipole. Surface waters off the coast of Indonesia cooled and the ocean’s predominant westerly winds reversed, leading to catastrophic weather. Fires raged across a drought-stricken Indonesia, and floods across east African nations killed thousands.
Climate...
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