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By Alexander Villafania INQUIRER.NET In the aftermath of perhaps the worst typhoon that struck Metro Manila in recent years, environmental groups are blaming climate change for the effects of âOndoyâ (international name âKetsanaâ). In different statements, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Greenpeace warned that such a... | <urn:uuid:02304444-c95f-4f31-9bf8-87f611ecbc3f> | http://blogs.inquirer.net/insidescience/2009/09/ | 0.9975 | fineweb |
Our Changing Ocean
Vast and powerful though the ocean is people have changed it. It’s a different ocean now.
The ocean’s enduring surface beauty hides its plight. But the ocean today is a diminished version of a much healthier ocean of not so long ago.
The ocean is the source of about half the oxygen we breathe, much o... | <urn:uuid:37813f25-88c4-46b8-a404-67d7ad70dc62> | http://blueocean.org/issues/changing-ocean/?imgpage=-1&showimg=357 | 0.9961 | fineweb |
Bundelkhand’s ravine wastelands. Photo: Keya Acharya/IPS
BUNDELKHAND, India – Narrow, cobblestoned lanes separate the rows of mud houses with cool interiors and mud-smoothened patios, some with goats tethered to the wooden posts. This is Tajpura village, deep in this water-stressed, drought-prone region of northern Ind... | <urn:uuid:34eabe1a-7864-4b64-9b8b-dce88b0f492c> | http://climate-connections.org/2012/08/22/india-beating-the-weather-with-sustainable-crops/ | 0.8262 | fineweb |
Scientists have long projected that areas north and south of the tropics will grow drier in a warming world –- from the Middle East through the European Riviera to the American Southwest, from sub-Saharan Africa to parts of Australia.
These regions are too far from the equator to benefit from the moist columns of heate... | <urn:uuid:71855304-2f8a-4425-8945-02a9b90be1ae> | http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/deserts/ | 1 | fineweb |
The Seine, the scenic river running through Paris, has inspired artists, attracted tourists and served as the soul of the city, and now it will also be a source of renewable energy. Paris officials have announced a plan to place river turbines beneath four bridges on the Seine.
The Pont du Garigliano, Pont de la Tourne... | <urn:uuid:e338e7ab-37e4-40ee-98f0-254c81baa630> | http://ecogeek.org/component/content/article/3207-paris-putting-turbines-in-the-seine | 0.9792 | fineweb |
'Global Warming is real' declares new scientific work from an independent group of researchers called the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Study. The research team is at least partially funded by the Koch Brothers who fund several climate denial groups. The team was setup to identify flaws in the climate science of g... | <urn:uuid:8f8897c6-a03e-4bf4-ab03-1f6c22eaccaf> | http://takvera.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/temperature-study-funded-by-climate.html | 1 | fineweb |
New feat for Colombia’s urban innovator: slum escalators
MEDELLIN, Colombia — The upper reaches of a mountainside slum called Comuna 13 are so steep that streets give way to staircases. To get home, many residents here used to climb the equivalent of a 28-story building.
But last year, Medellin officials installed a $7... | <urn:uuid:10572917-2120-4414-8993-cdb67f158ca5> | http://todaycolombia.com/2012/12/30/new-feat-for-colombias-urban-innovator-slum-escalators/ | 0.5014 | fineweb |
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has a well established role in the Convention
process in communicating scientific information to the Convention through its regular assessment
reports and its wide range of special reports and technical papers. Although it does not carry out
its own research, it play... | <urn:uuid:48515474-548d-4af2-99a2-b4f371b6ea8a> | http://unfccc.int/science/workstreams/research/items/4371.php?normal=j | 1 | fineweb |
A world in which tigers and other wild species are safe from harm and humans are encouraged to live in climate-harmony with natural ecosystems.
To help protect India’s biodiversity and threatened wildernesses by supporting and motivating forest departments, non-government organisations and individuals. To highlight the... | <urn:uuid:2aa97359-1370-4fb7-936a-850d1f3e026f> | http://wildlifeconservationtrust.org/component/content/article/60 | 1 | fineweb |
The Maldives has set itself a tough target to be the world’s first UNESCO Biosphere reserve nation and it aims to win the accolade by 2017. The Indian Ocean nation has put together an implementation plan to run between 2013 and 2017 that will see more than half of the nations island atolls implementing the ‘Biosphere A... | <urn:uuid:e216be7b-f574-499e-ba00-f11ca736caef> | http://wildlifenews.co.uk/2013/maldives-aims-to-be-worlds-first-biosphere-nation/ | 0.9681 | fineweb |
Identifying Hurdles to Renewable Electricity Transmission
SOURCE: AP/Thanassis Stavrakis
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The next administration will face an extensive list of simultaneous policy challenges, not least of which include an international financial crisis, two wars abroad, an... | <urn:uuid:95960bc4-2bea-487f-8932-b02567fd318e> | http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/report/2008/12/18/5289/identifying-hurdles-to-renewable-electricity-transmission/ | 0.9945 | fineweb |
The National Drought Mitigation Center in Lincoln, Nebraska,says drought has produced an above-normal wildfire potential this season along the leeward sides of all the Hawaiian Islands, including the western third of Hawaii Island. Most of our state has received above-normal precipitation, but not parts of Hawaii Islan... | <urn:uuid:e76221f1-7c87-4c3c-89f2-95c160897c49> | http://www.bigislandnewscenter.com/drought-center-says-fire-a-huge-danger-this-year/ | 0.9999 | fineweb |
Scientists identified seven new species of bamboo coral discovered on a NOAA-funded mission in the deep waters of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. Six of these species may represent entirely new genera, a remarkable feat given the broad classification a genus represents. A genus is a major category in th... | <urn:uuid:ad26ba98-1713-48a2-a39f-70743debf943> | http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/New-deep-sea-coral-discovered-on-NOAA-supported-mission-7403-1/ | 1 | fineweb |
When was the last time you farmed after a devastating drought, and tried to figure out how to balance all of the agronomic challenges it presented. Lack of soil moisture? Herbicide carryover? Fertility needs? Biomass? Soil tilth? Dad and Granddad may or may not have worried about any of those, but today’s agriculture w... | <urn:uuid:d9b155ce-3ded-4207-ae58-38d20e970853> | http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/Cover-Crop--What-the-doctor-ordered-after-a-drought-168459296.html?view=all | 0.6895 | fineweb |
U.S. sees increase in shark attacks
Published: Monday, February 11, 2013 at 9:37 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, February 11, 2013 at 9:37 p.m.
Shark attacks in the U.S. increased last year, and Florida led the way, claiming nearly half of those attacks. But don't panic — that could actually be a good sign, said scientists... | <urn:uuid:a375e033-a7e2-4fb5-88c4-283f4be4ccf1> | http://www.ocala.com/article/20130211/ARTICLES/130219942/-1/archive?Title=U-S-sees-increase-in-shark-attacks | 0.689 | fineweb |
Story in the College of Arts & Sciences
Assistant Professor, Biology
Biology professor examines how the rarest plant species evolve over time in the coldest corners of Alaska.
Justen Whittall '96 is an expert on West Coast plants, particularly the ones that are hardest to find. The SCU biology professor, a native of th... | <urn:uuid:bc7e496a-3912-49d5-a75e-76eebce9ac36> | http://www.scu.edu/scustories/whittall.cfm?p=3315 | 0.7818 | fineweb |
"World Must Plan For Climate Emergency: Report"
"LONDON -- Humans may have to reset the Earth's natural thermostat and develop new technologies like reflecting sunlight back into space if climate talks fail, Britain's top science academy said on Tuesday.
So-called geoengineering was not a quick fix but may be needed to... | <urn:uuid:088ff32c-3590-441a-9d16-aae6ab063d69> | http://www.sej.org/headlines/world-must-plan-for-climate-emergency-report | 1 | fineweb |
The world is on course to warm as much as 4 degrees Celsius, or 7 degrees Fahrenheit, by 2100, prompting extreme heat-waves, severe drought and major floods as sea-level rises, warns the World Bank in a new report.
All regions would suffer, but the tropics and subtropics are among the most vulnerable and the planet's p... | <urn:uuid:65a2a952-d386-4d35-a6df-5ef23fc414d8> | http://www.sheboyganpress.com/usatoday/article/1715165?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cs | 1 | fineweb |
Australia: Sustainability and Environmental Action
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Comparison of water in two adjacent watersheds before and after implementing a brush management strategy in one of the watersheds helps us see what water resource characteristics are sensitive to brush management and how.
Changes in the way communities address potential problems with stormwater runoff may affect surfac... | <urn:uuid:bfd6d5a9-0ff7-493f-be13-62a7869b0cf1> | http://www.usgs.gov/science/science.php?term=548&b=40&n=10 | 0.9989 | fineweb |
Thanksgiving dinner's carbon footprint
As if you need another reason to feel guilty about chowing down on Thanksgiving
The Center for Food Safety wants Americans to lay off food produced by "industrial agriculture" for the sake of the planet, if not their health. (Chicago Tribune/Bob Fila)
Leave it to the Brits to rain... | <urn:uuid:6ce91a00-bf2d-469f-8899-5a5fabc931a7> | http://www.wask.com/waskfm/lifestyle/green/sns-green-thanksgiving-carbon-footprint,0,3466970.story | 0.9866 | fineweb |
During the week of May 13th, the CO2 level at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii topped 400 ppm repeatedly. Daily levels of CO2 can vary due to weather, and there are seasonal trends as well. The level of atmospheric greenhouse gases continues to increase, now over 120 ppm since the Industrial Revolution began. For mo... | <urn:uuid:9316d379-1f75-4e3f-992c-57d24c0b89af> | http://www.windows2universe.org/teacher_resources/sci_schools/ss_home.html&dev=1 | 0.6442 | fineweb |
Evidence from caves in Siberia indicates that a global temperature increase of 1.5° Celsius may cause substantial thawing of a large tract of permanently frozen soil in Siberia. The thawing of this soil, known as permafrost, could have serious consequences for further changes in the climate.
Permafrost regions cover 24... | <urn:uuid:867e4ca7-5a93-4c6d-b021-8088aa153645> | http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/02/small-rise-in-global-temperatures-could-thaw-permafrost/ | 0.9999 | fineweb |
Douglass Jacobs, an associate professor of forestry and natural resources, found that American chestnuts grow much faster and larger than other hardwood species, allowing them to sequester more carbon than other trees over the same period. And since American chestnut trees are more often used for high-quality hardwood ... | <urn:uuid:ade2c38d-a45b-4987-9c84-8d2fc184da53> | http://carbon-based-ghg.blogspot.com/2009/06/reviving-american-chestnuts-may.html | 0.9965 | fineweb |
However, wetlands along desert rivers are incredibly important for wildlife: for water, for fresh forage, for a place to escape the often harsh weather on canyon rims.
On the 45 Ranch, set deep in one of the most remote corners of the Owyhee Canyonlands of southwestern Idaho, a new restoration project is returning wetl... | <urn:uuid:ed1deee9-8e92-47d4-88bb-80503463d755> | http://idahonaturenotes.blogspot.com/2009_06_01_archive.html | 0.7112 | fineweb |
My first trip to Florida and I needed to take a few days to explore. First stop the Everglades.The Everglades are a natural region of subtropical wetlands in the southern of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large watershed. The Everglades are shaped by water and fire, experiencing frequent flooding in the wet... | <urn:uuid:55858dfa-4348-46c8-a9e4-97ba329d92ac> | http://melodycrust.blogspot.com/2012/03/really-road-trip-southern-florida.html | 0.9871 | fineweb |
Image courtesy Max Lautenschläger
Published May 12, 2010
The motley collection of buses, limos, and cars that rolled out of Berlin this morning under a gray sky all had one thing in common: Nothing but steam coming out of their tailpipes.
From a BMW luxury sedan to Toyota sport utility vehicles, the cars that pulled ou... | <urn:uuid:3b076834-221f-424d-854f-f25b3eb95550> | http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/05/100512-energy-berlin-fuel-cell-rally/ | 0.8979 | fineweb |
This section of the website provides tips and information on how to conserve water inside and outside
your home and/or office. You can help the program achieve a 10% reduction in water use per person within 10 years by saving 10 gallons of water per day
or start by saving 1 gallon of water per day every year for 10 yea... | <urn:uuid:c4d3df1f-6f2d-4083-a358-867f6442c603> | http://preservingeverydrop.com/Conservation/tabid/89/Default.aspx | 0.9984 | fineweb |
In order for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to respond to evolving national and global priorities, it must periodically reflect on, and optimize, its strategic directions. This report is the first comprehensive science strategy since the early 1990s to examine critically major USGS science goals and priorities.
The ... | <urn:uuid:f0fe5daa-0962-4922-a3ec-cfda47462d99> | http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/2007/1309/ | 0.9669 | fineweb |
Greenhouse Effect Basics: Warm Earth, Cold Atmosphere
Posted on 29 February 2012 by Tom Curtis
Heating and Heat Flow
Some physics, everyone knows. In our daily lives we encounter the effects of physics all the time, and as a result, we know what physics predicts in those circumstances at a gut level. We may not be able... | <urn:uuid:cf658369-b75c-4945-b276-042f88282485> | http://skepticalscience.com/basics_one.html | 0.6784 | fineweb |
The obvious answer to drought stress on lawns is to apply water. Deep, infrequent watering to the depth of the root system is the ideal situation. This should be done when lawns show the first signs of drought stress, such as wilting, darkening color, and footprints remaining after walking across the lawn. A variety of... | <urn:uuid:7b900c5c-2fc5-4003-86b4-f3a497b80ec7> | http://urbanext.illinois.edu/lawntalk/weeds/managing_lawns_during_drought.cfm | 0.5276 | fineweb |
Is Seaweed the Future of Biofuel? Monday, March 5, 2012
TAU scientist takes the search for alternative energy sources to the sea
As scientists continue the hunt for energy sources that are safer, cleaner alternatives to fossil fuel, an ever-increasing amount of valuable farmland is being used to produce bioethanol, a s... | <urn:uuid:4d27543d-0ab3-44f3-99cf-bf2174b9b1f7> | http://www.aftau.org/site/News2/2145498234?page=NewsArticle&id=16111&news_iv_ctrl=-1 | 0.5862 | fineweb |
THE APPALACHIAN HARDWOOD FOREST
The Appalachian Hardwood Region is the mountainous area
between New York and North Georgia with an approximate boundary at the
1,000-foot altitude contour. Within this area grow the finest
hardwood timber to be found in the world.
Thousands of years ago this area was bounded on the
north... | <urn:uuid:09cb9d64-601b-48ee-b656-45539326de81> | http://www.appalachianwood.org/forestry/appalachian.htm | 0.8498 | fineweb |
By John Myers
Even if scientists, regulators, politicians and industry leaders find common ground on how much sulfate is too much for wild rice, the issue of sulfate in Minnesota waterways isn’t going away.
Scientists studying wetlands in northern Minnesota recently published the findings of a study that ties elevated ... | <urn:uuid:041b914d-d3ac-4e99-bfa4-c950e6bc0a38> | http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/content/beyond-wild-rice-when-sulfate-goes-so-do-mercury-phosphates?qt-latest_trending_article_page=0 | 0.8543 | fineweb |
The Rogue River
The Rogue River is located in southwestern Oregon and flows 215 miles from Crater Lake to the Pacific Ocean. The 84 mile, Congressionally designated "National Wild and Scenic" portion of the Rogue begins 7 miles west of Grants Pass and ends 11 miles east of Gold Beach.
The Rogue was one of the original ... | <urn:uuid:4a2a8b2a-7956-4962-8f57-c954c1c3a3e0> | http://www.blm.gov/or/resources/recreation/rogue/index.php | 0.6081 | fineweb |
Green Urban Economy
It is widely acknowledged that cities play a leading role in the transformation from consumptive to eco-efficient societies in short, to a “green economy”. The process of urbanisation is advancing rapidly. Towns and cities are now the locus of almost four fifths of global GDP. Their share in global ... | <urn:uuid:c9a58679-24fc-4fb3-9427-40a8256053bd> | http://www.bonn-perspectives.de/en/dialogue-events/green_urban_economy.html | 0.7276 | fineweb |
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Make a resolution for a sustainable 2013
Lindsey Cromwell Kalkbrenner | December 31, 2012
While world leaders work to hammer out global solutions to climate change, there are many ways individuals can make sustainability a personal New Year's resolution in 2013. Sustainability requires us to more cl... | <urn:uuid:56957468-5e13-44cc-a879-e05d688cb7e0> | http://www.chron.com/opinion/openforum/article/Make-a-resolution-for-a-sustainable-2013-4158825.php | 0.884 | fineweb |
Smart Buildings for Sustainable Energy Consumption
VALERIE ST JOHN: Hello I'm Valerie St John. Our focus today on BizWiseTV smart buildings for sustainable energy consumption. It's where climate concerns and the nation's economic crisis intersect, this need to seize control of our nation's energy consumption. But where... | <urn:uuid:52f19ab9-3f95-4ad6-999e-f30340b6c709> | http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/ns340/ns339/ns638/ns915/html_BWTV/bwtv_episode_22.html | 0.9997 | fineweb |
As the year comes to a close, once again solar has experienced record growth in the U.S. This comes as new reports show that solar and renewables continue to fall in price and renewables are seen more and more as a mainstream power source. It also comes as some of the largest PV arrays ever conceived of are nearing com... | <urn:uuid:86f6f1a0-0854-4c12-a103-79319bfbc7ff> | http://www.cleanenergyauthority.com/solar-energy-news/week-in-review-growth-in-us-121712 | 0.6724 | fineweb |
Oceana Petitions the Government to Protect Loggerhead Sea Turtles
The majestic loggerhead sea turtle, an animal that has inhabited Earth longer than man, faces extinction because of human activities, such as threats from fishing gear. In fact, loggerhead sea turtle populations in the Atlantic are plummeting and a recen... | <urn:uuid:5b6a5419-cd3f-45e5-93ce-b46ec204322f> | http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/28288/print | 1 | fineweb |
Ozone - Good Up High Bad Nearby
What Causes "Bad" Ozone?
Ground-level or "bad" ozone is not emitted directly into the air, but is created by chemical reactions between oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOC) in the presence of sunlight. Emissions from industrial facilities and electric utilities, ... | <urn:uuid:8ef73396-d27f-4020-a16a-991ed09718fb> | http://www.epa.gov/oar/oaqps/gooduphigh/bad.html | 0.8453 | fineweb |
|No.4 October 2008|
|Crop Prospects and Food Situation|
North African countries have been seriously affected by high international cereal prices due to their high dependence on imports. Governments have implemented a series of measures aimed at offsetting the sharp increase in world prices, including the waiving of tar... | <urn:uuid:89d0e377-39b1-4f30-881d-ac178248b219> | http://www.fao.org/docrep/011/ai473e/ai473e06.htm | 0.76 | fineweb |
of lakes dot the marshy Arctic tundra regions. Now, in the latest addition to
the growing body of evidence that global warming is significantly affecting
the Arctic, two recent studies suggest that thawing permafrost is the cause
of two seemingly contradictory observations both rapidly growing and
rapidly shrinking lak... | <urn:uuid:5fdf99e1-ac10-4897-aae4-baeb9600a36e> | http://www.geotimes.org/sept05/NN_arcticlakes.html | 0.9633 | fineweb |
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Saturday, May 18, 2013
- The old adage ‘nature is the great equaliser’ no longer holds true in countries like Sri Lanka, where the poor bear the brunt of extreme weather events.
Gamhevage Dayananda, a farmer from the remote village... | <urn:uuid:1fda0a0c-a5c1-4d9c-90ef-47767dd2e04e> | http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/10/extreme-weather-hits-the-poor-first-and-hardest/ | 1 | fineweb |
Mon, Mar 16, 2009 -- 9:00 AM
Oceans RisingDownload audio (MP3)
Sea levels may rise twice as much by the end of this century than was previously predicted. That's according to an announcement last week by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Also last week, the Oakland-based Pacific Institute released a s... | <urn:uuid:69c7c90f-0734-4091-89e4-d86fe5a3ac25> | http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R903160900 | 0.9998 | fineweb |
A bill that has to do with water-related issues is going through the Kansas legislature. Numbered SB 43, it is being introduced by the joint committee on energy and environmental policy. It has to do with bank stabilizations and sediment issues.
The bill states "the Kansas water office shall prepare a comprehensive pla... | <urn:uuid:923d04ea-b04b-42b6-8907-b4edf5ae55e1> | http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130226/blogs/130229895/0/News%20Now | 0.9054 | fineweb |
Address complex natural resource and climate change adaptation issues, with a focus on increasing resiliency in the face of drought and other external shocks.
Poverty is widespread. Frequent drought, unpredictable harvests and sporadic conflicts put families and rural traditions at risk. Millions are still in urgent ne... | <urn:uuid:0fcb294d-ed95-43f9-b47a-0e88f1208c56> | http://www.mercycorps.org/ethiopia?page=4&source=79700&gclid=CPaoms62iLMCFSTKtAodYBwA_Q | 0.9982 | fineweb |
Worries about Pennsylvania facing a severe drought seem to have faded with recent rainstorms, but the question of how to care for your lawn during this summer’s heat is still important.
When it comes to maintaining your lawn, according to an expert in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, doing less really may... | <urn:uuid:21b3648e-75e9-46a0-853c-989bffeae2bb> | http://www.neagle.com/article/20120808/NEWS/308089986/0/Health | 0.6778 | fineweb |
Raising monarchs inside
Raising monarchs in aquariums
Why do this? For one thing, of course, it's fascinating!
For another, though, it's a way to maxmize the number of eggs that actually turn into butterflies.
I've read estimates that only 5-10% of the eggs laid survive to butterflyhood. Parasitism, predation, weather,... | <urn:uuid:1f3ab5e2-39e8-441d-9515-34f6fbe520cf> | http://www.ourhabitatgarden.org/creatures/monarchs-raising.html | 0.6594 | fineweb |
Discover the story of how Dale Larson saved 29 schoolchildren during a 1928 tornado in Thurston County, Nebraska. Imagine how the events of that tornado would have been different with the current advances in severe weather warning systems. Details »
Witness the growth of plants and the return of animals to Mt. St. Hele... | <urn:uuid:984145e5-e580-498c-9675-035b3e6178e6> | http://www.pbs.org/teachers/classroom/6-8/science-tech/resources/?page=1 | 0.9664 | fineweb |
Hansen is threatening humanity again with climate dice
Perceptions of Climate Change: The New Climate Dice
We conclude that extreme heat waves, such as that in Texas and Oklahoma in 2011 and Moscow in 2010, were “caused” by global warming
Hansen has been holding the dice since he had a full head of hair, and has been c... | <urn:uuid:757fd6f8-d93e-4ecd-adb0-aec36d25ca61> | http://www.real-science.com/roll-your-damn-dice-already | 1 | fineweb |
Far north within the Arctic Circle off the northern coast of Norway lies a small chain of islands known as Svalbard. These craggy islands have been scoured into shape by ice and sea. The effect of glacial activity can be seen in this image of the northern tip of the island of Spitsbergen. Here, glaciers have carved out... | <urn:uuid:16ea6476-5c8b-4b53-82e8-132f1d1b3ac1> | http://www.redorbit.com/images/pic/7968/bockfjorden/ | 0.9999 | fineweb |
Posted Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013, at 8:00 AM
Years ago, in 1999, some odd pictures were returned from The Mars Global Surveyor space probe orbiting the red planet. They showed what looked for all the world(s) like trees, banyan trees, dotting the Martian landscape. They made quite a splash on the internet, and you can see ... | <urn:uuid:641c25c1-c61b-496d-816a-517009d91725> | http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/02/24/martian_spiders_features_on_mars_look_like_alien_spiders_and_trees.html | 0.7237 | fineweb |
In September 2010, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, a public-private partnership led by the United Nations Foundation to save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women, and combat climate change by creating a thriving global market for clean and efficien... | <urn:uuid:b5f910cc-6c57-40d7-b8f0-06806393435d> | http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2011/07/168798.htm | 0.996 | fineweb |
How does the law treat Mountaintop Removal? Laws at the state and federal level regulate mountaintop removal coal mining and its environmental impacts, require varying levels of public participation, and apply varying amounts of scrutiny in the permitting process. This section will explore the governmental institutions... | <urn:uuid:af4c7880-f258-4680-af24-2539b741bf42> | http://auroralights.org/map_project/theme.php?theme=mtr&article=20 | 0.5412 | fineweb |
A key conclusion of this discussion is the fact that all sectors of the economy must achieve deep reductions, not just one or two. This certainly includes the transportation system, which in California is the largest single source of GHGs (38 percent of the total, according to the California Air Resources Board). Trans... | <urn:uuid:195a864c-5f6a-478a-bede-629b9396f444> | http://berkeley-crec.blogspot.com/2010/12/reaching-2050-climate-goals-ii-critical.html | 0.9993 | fineweb |
Diversity-biological as well as social, linguistic and cultural diversity-is the lifeblood of sustainable development and human welfare. It is key to resilience-the ability of natural and social systems to adapt to change and is essential for nearly every aspect of our lives.
That’s why, in the run-up to the IUCN World... | <urn:uuid:48b8e187-61e6-4b50-beb6-a8821c058d10> | http://brian.thomson@iucn.org/knowledge/publications_doc/archive/2008_issue1/ | 0.9722 | fineweb |
Economic growth in China has led to significant increases in fossil fuel consumption © stock.xchng (frédéric dupont, patator)
Per capita CO2 emissions in China reach EU levels
Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) – the main cause of global warming – increased by 3% last year. In China, the world’s most populous cou... | <urn:uuid:5dbd7929-f5e4-4e00-8ee1-ac82d4729d56> | http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/index.cfm?id=1410&dt_code=NWS&obj_id=15150&ori=RSS | 1 | fineweb |
Hurricane Irene of 2011 now rated history's 6th most damaging hurricane
New damage estimates released last month by NOAA now place the damage from 2011's Hurricane Irene at $15.8 billion, making the storm the 6th costliest hurricane and 10th costliest weather-related disaster in U.S. history. Irene hit North Carolina o... | <urn:uuid:db87577d-b044-4a77-89b1-842c860329f7> | http://english.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2085&theprefset=BLOGCOMMENTS&theprefvalue=100 | 1 | fineweb |
The Clinton administration knows how to add insult to injury. Not only is it committed to an environmental program that will sap the American economy of its vitality, it also refuses to level with the American people about the costs.
At the global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, the administration promised that the... | <urn:uuid:853f9cb7-bc72-4bed-bd3b-ad7d872bc349> | http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/price-junk-science/ | 0.9985 | fineweb |
A new report published today (4 February) by WWF-UK and the Food Ethics Council examines whether reducing meat consumption, and instead placing greater value on the meat we consume, could potentially be beneficial for people’s health, the environment, and for producers and consumers.
High meat consumption is associate... | <urn:uuid:627baae0-8207-487e-ab3a-1e60afdee081> | http://foodethicscouncil.org/node/691 | 0.9025 | fineweb |
Midwest Energy News: “Can airports be green? With solar farm, Chicago argues they can.”
Aviation is a carbon intensive industry, with air travel and transport contributing two percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
But airports around the world are making... | <urn:uuid:9a8b1d7e-0273-406b-8e67-0673b3a2b259> | http://knowledgeproblem.com/2012/09/20/can-airports-be-green-with-a-little-greenwashing-they-can/ | 1 | fineweb |
Tue March 5, 2013
Study Finds Climate Change To Open Arctic Sea Routes By 2050
Originally published on Tue March 5, 2013 11:22 am
Climate change will make commercial shipping possible from North America to Russia or Asia over the North Pole by the middle of the century, a new study says.
Two researchers at the Universi... | <urn:uuid:c39e160a-255c-4e00-bb7c-ed02df13d757> | http://kvnf.org/post/study-finds-climate-change-open-arctic-sea-routes-2050 | 1 | fineweb |
By Mark Kinver
Science and environment reporter, BBC News
The populations of the world's common birds are declining as a result of continued habitat loss, a global assessment has warned.
The survey by BirdLife International found that 45% of Europe's common birds had seen numbers fall, as had more than 80% of Australia... | <urn:uuid:73f989c0-8fdf-4b9b-88c7-3308c8965da8> | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7622904.stm | 0.9139 | fineweb |
A recent report by the World Economic Forum on the future of the gas markets has highlighted the revolution that is currently happening in this sector.
The report started by saying: “What a difference a few years can make in one of the world’s major energy markets. Advances in the production of unconventional gas – sha... | <urn:uuid:567b06f5-9493-47ce-849b-286b5d7ab8bf> | http://priceofoil.org/2011/08/12/will-europe-heed-warnings-over-fracking-from-us/ | 0.9537 | fineweb |
Save the Clean Air Act to Fight Global Warming
Scientific consensus is clear: We must reduce the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide to 350 parts per million (ppm) or below to avoid global catastrophe. Unfortunately, pending climate legislation isn't going to get us to 350 ppm -- but the Clean Air Act could.
To reach 3... | <urn:uuid:bb7fe6cb-4b57-4493-9085-28f2b20863b4> | http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/content.jsp?content_KEY=6635 | 0.9997 | fineweb |
The coral is at the mercy of natural circumstances like water quality and starfish population, but can be aided by human intervention. The first step to take will be decreasing population and CO2 emissions.
Coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef has dropped by more than half over the last 27 years, according to scientis... | <urn:uuid:abe92949-5b38-4785-8ba0-6474ec1a9938> | http://skift.com/2012/10/02/coral-cover-of-the-great-barrier-reef-is-disappearing-fast-thanks-to-pollution-and-hungry-starfish/ | 0.9999 | fineweb |
A commercial airline? Or a rogue geoengineering experiment?
The World Economic Forum has put out a new report on global risks for 2013, and the report’s chapter on “X factors” — concerns more remote than the report’s primary risks, but still worthy of note — includes a section on rogue “geoengineering” experiments.
Geo... | <urn:uuid:e311ddf6-de9a-4e19-9dea-e1060a3942db> | http://thinkprogress.org/climate/issue/?m=20130109&mobile=nc | 1 | fineweb |
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Articles, documents and multimedia from ABC Science
Monday, 18 February 2013
Heavy metal music fans in a mosh pit act like atoms in a gas - a finding that could advance emergency evacuation design and planning.
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
An Australian seismologist says this week's tr... | <urn:uuid:3ab4852f-3f65-46af-a429-f89b21ced198> | http://www.abc.net.au/science/tag/browse.htm?tag=emergency-planning | 0.9902 | fineweb |
Climate Change May Lead to Fewer -- But More Violent -- Thunderstorms Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Number of flash floods and forest fires could increase with temperature, says TAU researcher
Researchers are working to identify exactly how a changing climate will impact specific elements of weather, such as clouds, rainfall,... | <urn:uuid:b7e1cd3d-cfd1-4c46-9cf1-aa54d40e8c89> | http://www.aftau.org/site/News2/362060729?page=NewsArticle&id=16927&news_iv_ctrl=-1 | 1 | fineweb |
Bikinis are thriving but Lebanon's sea turtles are no longer on the beach
The number of sea turtle nests laid on the Tyre Coast Nature Reserve dropped by half from about ten to just five this year, raising concerns among conservationists that the threatened animals may be losing the battle for survival.
Reserve directo... | <urn:uuid:b0767da7-f557-45a7-af0b-04169516b443> | http://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/lebanon-sea-turtles-445851?quicktabs_accordion=1 | 0.6281 | fineweb |
Dr. Girish Paniker, director of conservation research, School of AREAS, was among 3,000 scientists, professionals, educators, and students to participate in the 2010 International Annual Meetings of American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) he... | <urn:uuid:90ca4373-0c20-48e1-9e35-1627fa8eee08> | http://www.alcorn.edu/offices/Relations/Default.aspx?id=6367 | 0.5213 | fineweb |
News - Ocean Observations
Photo credit: Peter Rejcek
Posted: July 7, 2010
Courtesy: Antarctic Sun
By Peter Rejcek
Underwater robots and marine animals outfitted with scientific sensors are part of a proposed strategy for monitoring polar oceans into the 21st century, particularly a stretch of sea along the western Anta... | <urn:uuid:5d47cba1-4b20-45d1-ab44-d623e4d5f02d> | http://www.antarcticconnection.com/shopcontent.asp?type=news-ocean | 0.988 | fineweb |
AMHERST – What was once a sure thing is now not so sure.
With a week to go before Christmas, it’s still too early to tell if the area will have a white or green Christmas.
“The long-term forecast looks warmer than normal,” Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips said. “When it comes down to it it’s going... | <urn:uuid:22c5a88f-16e7-4c94-b02a-b19f02125060> | http://www.cumberlandnewsnow.com/News/Local/2012-12-17/article-3141851/Will-it-be-white%2C-or-green%3F/1 | 0.6688 | fineweb |
A study led by researchers at the University of Colorado has determined that the pace of planet warming in the first decade of this century was slowed by volcanic activity, and not by industrial activity in Asia, as was previously believed.
Previous research in 2009 had suggested that an increase in stratospheric aeros... | <urn:uuid:8694d936-0085-4edd-a6e6-c8493988c285> | http://www.dailycamera.com/2012election/city-county-ballot-issues/ci_22701953/cu-boulder-researcher-links-volcanic-activity-recent-dip | 0.9984 | fineweb |
What is “Renewable Energy”?
Renewable energy comes from sources that are essentially limitless. Some sources of renewable energy include the wind, the sun, flowing water and the heat of the earth. In addition to being plentiful in supply, many forms of renewable energy yield zero greenhouse gasses, and therefore hold p... | <urn:uuid:26e9007e-b7d1-42de-8509-cd5b44689628> | http://www.delmarva.com/energy/renewable/default.aspx | 1 | fineweb |
The winter months have been highly variable in terms of precipitation and temperature. One week would bring a winter thaw; the next, a cold spell. Minimum daily temperatures were -45 C or lower in northern Ontario.
Meanwhile, southern Ontario had maximum temperatures above 15 C, and new record highs were set January 11... | <urn:uuid:1ddfbcfd-0bb1-4fcf-a64f-1dd3d6b13ef8> | http://www.ducks.org/conservation/habitat/late-winter-habitat-conditions-in-canada/page7 | 0.9825 | fineweb |
Unprecedented sea-level rise over 20th century pins down future of rising oceans
Sea-level rises from global warming remain one of the big unknowns in the jostling crowd of climate threats. We know that warming water expands - and so coastal communities will be threatened, as the sea swells in response to rising temper... | <urn:uuid:66c1334a-f2a1-4bea-a6b3-481e80977839> | http://www.earthtimes.org/climate/unprecedented-sea-level-rise-20th-century-pins-future-rising-oceans/1052/ | 0.9999 | fineweb |
water rice-based systems and wetlands to mangrove and coastal strips used primarily for fishing.
Much irrigation (mainly rice) is practised in the coastal low-lying areas where drainage is often difficult due to lack of slope.
Assessment of the impacts of the tsunami will address the damage by flooding (duration), eros... | <urn:uuid:dcd0dcc4-97c0-4959-8008-79161c8a9a5c> | http://www.fao.org/ag/tsunami/assessment/assess-soil-a.html | 0.979 | fineweb |
Editor’s note: An update from the author has been added to this article on September 20, 2012.
Antarctic sea ice set another record this past week, with the most amount of ice ever recorded on day 256 of the calendar year (September 12 of this leap year). Please, nobody tell the mainstream media or they might have to r... | <urn:uuid:75f73a85-e17d-4cf1-8660-2d729640a10a> | http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2012/09/19/antarctic-sea-ice-sets-another-record/?commentId=comment_blogAndPostId/blog/comment/1363-735-4115 | 1 | fineweb |
Prescribed Fires Burn Hazardous Fuels at Supawna Meadows Grasslands
Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Refuge staff recently used prescribed fire to control hazardous fuels and reduce the chances of wildfire on refuge land.
Fire control officers burned two areas on the refuge February 19th. Refuge managers targeted one ... | <urn:uuid:4493402a-5837-43dc-a6c8-1ea39e80c548> | http://www.fws.gov/fire/news/nj/newsitem1.shtml | 0.9291 | fineweb |
by Doug Mazeffa
Saturday, February 18, 2012
So 2012 is the year for a new car! Or you just love seeing what the car companies are up to. Either way, you're in the right place. Along with safety, fabulous styling and, of course, price, a car's impact on the environment is something most people care about. Since our choi... | <urn:uuid:dbab6603-a9a2-4431-bbc6-4ad71a1267be> | http://www.greenopia.com/USA/product_news.aspx?id=10&date=2-18-2012&title=Greenopia-Launches-Green-Car-Ratings-Guide | 0.9803 | fineweb |
With global climate change and rapid urbanization process, rainstorm flood disaster has become major issues and severe challenges faced by human society and economic development. Vulnerability assessment is important basic content of risk assessment, which is a hot point researchof international disaster prevention and... | <urn:uuid:a9c5efe0-77f5-47c8-8948-fd8a5427de5a> | http://www.gripweb.org/~gripwebo/gripweb/?q=countries-risk-information/documents-publications/gis-based-study-vulnerability-rainstorm-inundation | 1 | fineweb |
The European Union's Emissions Trading System (ETS) is the world's biggest scheme for trading greenhouse gas emissions allowances. Launched in 2005, it covers some 11,000 power stations and industrial plants in 30 countries, whose carbon emissions make up almost 50% of Europe's total.
A cap on the total emissions allow... | <urn:uuid:9914355a-17ef-4061-a5b0-96b5bfb9b4dd> | http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/07/ets-emissions-trading | 1 | fineweb |
EL ALTO, Bolivia
Every morning from 6:00 to 8:00 AM, native people in this sprawling working-class suburb of La Paz, Bolivia listen to the programme broadcast by former education minister Donato Ayma in the Aymara language.
Peru will debut a new mechanism for prior consultation with indigenous peoples by seeking their ... | <urn:uuid:930ac7bb-d185-4236-b42f-a473431cfeca> | http://www.ipsnews.net/topics/indigenous-people/ | 0.9921 | fineweb |
The purpose of Maryland's Environmental Education program is to enable students to make decisions and take actions that create and maintain an optimal relationship between themselves and the environment, and to preserve and protect the unique natural resources of Maryland, particularly those of the Chesapeake Bay and i... | <urn:uuid:10be53de-ef3e-4ce4-930f-374a0220d135> | http://www.marylandpublicschools.org/MSDE/programs/environment/?WBCMODE=Presen%25%3E%25%25%25%25%25 | 0.7044 | fineweb |
Living With Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond
Katrina Exhibit Opens in Louisiana State Museum
Five years after the most devastating Hurricane ever to hit the United States and the massive destruction that followed, an exhibit has opened at the Louisiana State Museum documenting that destruction.
"Living with Hurricanes: K... | <urn:uuid:0bccf4c4-b786-4cb4-be22-433373462d8c> | http://www.neworleansonline.com/news/2010/Nov/katrina.html | 0.9881 | fineweb |
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Barrie Hunt, says 'Despite 2010 being a very warm year globally, the severity of the 2009-2010 northern winter and a wetter and cooler Australia in 2010 relative to the past few years have been misinterpreted by some to imply that climate change is not occurring.'
'Recent wet cond... | <urn:uuid:df0d3c64-9bd5-4d02-98f8-7a7c217e5a58> | http://www.powerboat-world.com/index.cfm?Nid=78813&ntid=57&subid=&nlid=460644 | 1 | fineweb |
Southern Polar Cap
Mars has a seasonal southern polar cap composed of carbon dioxide (CO2, commonly known as dry ice), that overlies a permanent polar cap which is a mixture of CO2 ice, water ice and dust. As the CO2 evaporates in the spring the escaping gas carves channels in the permanent cap below. Often these chann... | <urn:uuid:b8b666a2-3c95-422e-8fa4-e9ccd35c4602> | http://www.redorbit.com/images/pic/14006/southern-polar-cap/ | 0.9619 | fineweb |
29 November 2010 | EN
Average growing period for crops may reduce (grey and black areas) by 20 per cent (black) in Africa over the next 80 years
Thornton et al. (2010)/The Royal Society 2010
A widespread farming catastrophe could hit Africa if global temperatures rose by four degrees Celsius or more, according to a stu... | <urn:uuid:9c22da9a-5496-4aaf-8220-33d01482f526> | http://www.scidev.net/en/news/four-degree-rise-would-scupper-african-farming-.html | 0.9976 | fineweb |
Jan. 21, 2005 Wheat grown under elevated levels of carbon dioxide over the next half-century will need slightly more nitrogen to grow, but not as much as previously predicted, according to a two-year study by Agricultural Research Service scientists and cooperators.
Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels are projected... | <urn:uuid:e9042937-699b-47b5-9cf7-cbd998199cfb> | http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/01/050121093440.htm | 0.986 | fineweb |
CURBING WASTE: Simple actions like cutting back on food waste or properly inflating tires on your car could collectively cut greenhouse gas emissions by as much as one billion metric tons. Image: © iStockphoto.com
Energy efficiency seems to make rational economic sense—the less energy used, the more money saved. Yet, i... | <urn:uuid:be7d4ad3-58b7-4875-a08d-c7c6d709db0a> | http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=overconsumption-consumer-green | 0.7799 | fineweb |
Gather Power From Thin Air
Renewable energy is the wave of the future. Discover the applications of wind power with this hands-on activity kit.
Build a working wind turbine and use it to conduct more than 20 experiments, including using it to generate electricity to power an LED or charge a battery.
Vary the number of ... | <urn:uuid:564f13bf-ff98-429c-ae8f-66e12f724d63> | http://www.scientificsonline.com/review/product/list/id/5393/?price=1%2C1000000&telescope_brand=69&telescope_opticaldesign=3 | 0.5557 | fineweb |
Living snow fence utilization is one of the most sustainable engineering actions DOTs can do along highway corridors. Living snow fences are designed plantings of trees and/or shrubs and native grasses along highways, roads and ditches that create a vegetative buffer that traps and controls blowing and drifting snow. T... | <urn:uuid:aefaae87-104a-4f54-a0ec-1de7069ecb8c> | http://www.terralogicss.com/_blog/Sustainable_Transportation/post/Living_Snow_Fences_and_Highways/ | 0.8912 | fineweb |
The Road to Rio+20 and beyond World Bank Group
Twenty Years on from the Earth Summit
1. Twenty years ago, the Rio Earth Summit provided the staging ground for a global conversation that continues to this day ? a conversation about the long-term survival of the planet and the quality of life of those who live on it. Pro... | <urn:uuid:f6d5906c-325d-4a9a-9ec3-67b8562c9a01> | http://www.uncsd2012.org/index.php?page=view&type=510&nr=582&menu=20 | 0.979 | fineweb |
Rapid urbanization -- together with climate change -- is emerging as the most challenging issue of the twenty-first century. As the region with the highest percentage increase in urban population over the last two decades, Asia faces fundamental economic, social and environmental challenges to its continued development... | <urn:uuid:f1081356-d96b-4028-9b6f-635cb23f529f> | http://www.unhabitat.org/pmss/listItemDetails.aspx?publicationID=3345 | 0.994 | fineweb |
- Agriculture and Food Security
- Increasing Food Security through Feed the Future
- Food Aid Reform
- Expanding and Enhancing Agricultural Markets and Trade
- Supporting Agricultural Capacity Development
- Supporting Global Nutrition
- Investing in Sustainable Agriculture
- Food Assistance
- Board for International Fo... | <urn:uuid:6811f2b7-07cc-47f4-b365-711c52a092c8> | http://www.usaid.gov/zimbabwe/food-assistance | 0.5262 | fineweb |
A new world record wind gust: 253 mph in Australia's Tropical Cyclone Olivia
The 6,288-foot peak of New Hampshire's Mount Washington is a forbidding landscape of wind-swept barren rock, home to some of planet Earth's fiercest winds. As a 5-year old boy, I remember being blown over by a terrific gust of wind on the summ... | <urn:uuid:3cf8391c-7628-4b73-b23d-af8d16292401> | http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1420&page=7 | 0.9948 | fineweb |
India’s Central Statistics Office has published their Energy Statistics 2012 document, a provisional assessment of the state of play for the country. It’s interesting, to say the least.
They lead off with an energy map of nuclear power generation–and India has 52 plants with 6,780 MW capacity either up and running or u... | <urn:uuid:870abf9c-3ff2-4c70-8af6-b0c510ba7724> | http://3000quads.com/2012/10/10/lets-look-at-indias-energy-consumption-again/ | 0.9535 | fineweb |
|Community-Scale Biomass Energy: The Facts|
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When community-scale biomass energy systems are well-designed, well-run, and sustainably supplied, it is a positive, proven, renewable energy option that can be practical and safe, can strengthen our economy and security, and can help ease the u... | <urn:uuid:a906d319-cb20-4de8-b92e-cdac6c1b9921> | http://biomasscenter.org/component/content/article/58/274-commscalefacts.html | 0.7735 | fineweb |
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