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edited by Cecilia Schubert. This story features the work of Arame Tall, who is currently participating in the 6th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation (CBA6) in Hanoi, Vietnam.
In an effort to understand how men and women adapt to climate variability and change to maintain food security, the CGIAR Res... | <urn:uuid:2b2c3491-ba43-432a-b1ef-d367f8b760e7> | http://ccafs.cgiar.org/blog/unleashing-potential-rural-women-active-agents-change | 1 | fineweb |
Gasoline prices have increased rapidly during the past several years, pushed up mainly by the sharply rising price of oil. A gallon of gasoline in the US rose from $1.50 in 2002 to $2 in 2004 to $2.50 in 2006 to over $4 at present. Gasoline prices almost trebled during these 6 years compared to very little change in no... | <urn:uuid:f233a3f5-7030-4ac7-86a7-3c91855cbc39> | http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2008/07/should-us-taxes-on-gasoline-be-higher-becker.html | 0.9485 | fineweb |
Green airports on carbon cutting mission
More airports looking to integrate latest green-tech into daily operations
The aviation sector is renowned as a carbon intensive business, but an increasing number of airports are looking to change that by integrating the latest green-tech into their daily operations.
Air travel... | <urn:uuid:ccaa23b7-ed78-4e42-b885-d85e06487abe> | http://www.koco.com/news/money/Green-airports-on-carbon-cutting-mission/-/9843810/16815520/-/view/print/-/go4d0j/-/index.html | 0.9883 | fineweb |
Pleistocene Park and the North-East Scientific Station
The North-East Scientific Station (NESS) and Pleistocene Park are scientific organizations located in the north of Siberia, 5 km from the town of Chersky (Yakutia)
(68° 44'N, 161° 23'E).
Established in 1977, the North-East Scientific Station has become one of the w... | <urn:uuid:2aa8054e-c6b8-4cdb-b6ab-56bed2771674> | http://www.pleistocenepark.ru/en/ | 0.8924 | fineweb |
1 in 4 children malnourished, global report says
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Five children around the world die every minute because of chronic malnutrition, according to a report released Wednesday that also said that almost half a billion children risk are at risk of permanent damage over the next 15 years.
A report from ... | <urn:uuid:e24e3a37-3a5d-426f-8d7b-420b0edc1480> | http://www.samoanews.com/?q=node/3022 | 0.6687 | fineweb |
If true the polar bears have survived an iceless Arctic during several periods, which will dent their iconic “global warming” status somewhat. We knew, of course, that they had certainly survived the Holocene Climatic Optimum, significantly warmer than now but this suggests they successfully negotiated at least two pri... | <urn:uuid:f7a00518-4b45-4ee6-8445-0feb4de9a416> | http://junkscience.com/2012/04/20/poley-lineage-more-than-half-a-million-years-old/ | 0.9999 | fineweb |
Ocean creatures face climate consequences
Sharks, blue whales and loggerhead turtles look like losers due to climate change coming to the Pacific Ocean in this century, scientists report.
Sea birds, tuna and leatherback turtles, on the other hand, look more likely to prosper as global warming shifts sea temperatures an... | <urn:uuid:402fc682-1597-4eae-9219-c96ac67a3715> | http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/sciencefair/story/2012/09/24/climate-shifts-ahead-for-pacific-ocean-sharks-and-whales/57836736/1?csp=34news | 1 | fineweb |
Mexico tries to tackle nutrition problem
Mexico is struggling to come to grips with a nutritional problem that experts say affects half the nation's population. ''Millions of Mexicans eat the same thing everyday - tortillas, beans, and sometimes vegetables and fruits,'' says Hector Bourges, a specialist with the Mexica... | <urn:uuid:7187c9bb-4024-4ae0-99f3-46c97ced3691> | http://www.csmonitor.com/1983/1107/110752.html | 0.7882 | fineweb |
- Rob Freda
- Pylesville, MD
- United States
In a rigorous analysis is this "missing link" a solution or evidence of a much larger and systemic policy, market, and investment problem?
While Prof. Sadowy is correct on energy issues, his “the missing link” conclusion lacks perspective and highlights a larger problem in c... | <urn:uuid:0105f4bd-fb35-45b9-8050-01fae1d17988> | http://www.ted.com/conversations/15780/in_a_rigorous_analysis_is_this.html?c=588502 | 0.8493 | fineweb |
There is an overwhelming amount of news coverage related to the state of the economy, international politics, and various domestic programs. The environment and environmental policy on the other hand, are being ignored. When environmental policy is discussed many citizens and representatives champion the need for subst... | <urn:uuid:601a56d2-b3ec-413e-80c1-296b8bc9080e> | http://www.nupoliticalreview.com/?p=1545 | 0.9998 | fineweb |
Trading house Sumitomo Corp and two other Japanese firms plan to earn greenhouse-gas emissions rights by reducing the level of global-warming gases in China, a press report said yesterday.
They will take advantage of an international arrangement under the Kyoto Protocol, a UN pact on global warming, that accords emissi... | <urn:uuid:a6429bb1-7c3e-4bcc-999b-a6c3f111fd0a> | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2004/11/15/2003211186 | 1 | fineweb |
|Written by Charles Mpaka|
|Monday, 11 January 2010|
For a country whose lifeblood is agriculture, the cost of droughts and
floods does not end with the wilting or washing away of crops. It also
hits the national economy. CHARLES MPAKA writes
As Frackson Saidi accounts for his desperation now that his maize has wilted ... | <urn:uuid:bf23122a-ff33-4111-852b-89168ce2d9ec> | http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2007-2008/news/africa/title,19802,en.html | 0.9642 | fineweb |
Update on Remotely-Sensed Antarctic Sea Ice Extent
Pezza, A.B., Rashid, H.A. and Simmonds, I. 2012. Climate links and recent extremes in Antarctic sea ice, high-latitude cyclones, Southern Annular Mode and ENSO. Climate Dynamics 38: 57-73.
According to Pezza et al. (2012) there has been a modest increasing trend in sea... | <urn:uuid:65515481-433d-4f5a-8cbd-0efa71e131cb> | http://sppiblog.org/news/update-on-remotely-sensed-antarctic-sea-ice-extent | 0.9999 | fineweb |
PROVIDENCE, RI -- Shifting glaciers and exploding volcanoes aren't confined to Mars' distant past, according two new reports in the journal Nature.
Glaciers moved from the poles to the tropics 350,000 to 4 million years ago, depositing massive amounts of ice at the base of mountains and volcanoes in the eastern Hellas ... | <urn:uuid:3b3957fd-03ff-4083-b0d3-e93cff20fba9> | http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-03/bu-fai031405.php | 0.6144 | fineweb |
People in the Midwest sure haven’t seen any rain in a while, and the economic consequences have already begun to ripple. Despite reports that climate scientists expect drought conditions to level off in the coming weeks, it’s a little too late for Midwestern farmers who have already seen major crop losses. We traveled ... | <urn:uuid:ffefcbd4-9548-479b-830a-1ff54a34b972> | http://greenpeaceblogs.org/tag/illinois/ | 1 | fineweb |
The National Park Service has begun an internal review of the wolf population and wildlife dynamics on Isle Royale. The NPS has developed a plan to move forward with identifying options and evaluating the implications of intervention.
The actions follow in response to Michigan Technological University studies, headed b... | <urn:uuid:1aaf8f19-1094-45d5-84d2-4e0a31055c99> | http://wtip.org/drupal/content/dr-rolf-peterson-isle-royales-wolves | 0.9845 | fineweb |
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Why UN Climate Agreements Fail
History will undoubtedly deliver the harshest condemnations of the UN climate talks currently underway in Doha, Qatar. But the conference was laughable before it began; the inept "goals" of the talks stand in tragic-comic op... | <urn:uuid:498eb203-f8b9-47c2-81b9-8044999cc148> | http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/03-1?quicktabs_1=1 | 1 | fineweb |
Ethiopia’s agricultural sector, which is dominated by smallscale, mixed-crop, and livestock farming, is the mainstay of the country’s economy. It constitutes more than half of the country’s gross domestic product, generates more than 85 percent of foreign exchange earnings, and employs about 80 percent of the populatio... | <urn:uuid:d5917599-c5fa-49ef-a873-275f57d1524f> | http://www.ifpri.org/publication/analysis-determinants-farmers-choice-adaptation-methods-and-perceptions-climate-change | 1 | fineweb |
Undertaking water education to help conserve one of Jordan’s scarcest resources
Under the joint UN programme “Adaptation to climate change to sustain Jordan’s MDG achievement”, UNESCO is implementing a national water education project to increase the level of understanding of water issues in Jordan among school teacher... | <urn:uuid:dc562813-40f3-416c-8682-a198636846e1> | http://www.unesco.org/new/en/amman/about-this-office/single-view/news/undertaking_water_education_to_help_conserve_one_of_jordans_scarcest_resources/ | 1 | fineweb |
The National Research Council has just released a report that outlines the benefits, and the increasing need, to create drinking water from wastewater. The viability of this approach was a central point to Braden Allenby’s keynote at the recent GeoDesign Summit, used to illustrate the need for us to manage and adapt to... | <urn:uuid:c673b783-feb9-4150-b12a-8ddc8a08c713> | http://www.sensysmag.com/spatialsustain/get-used-to-drinking-water-from-wastewater.html | 1 | fineweb |
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Drawn into controversy
Wearing his wide-brimmed hat, climate scientist James Hansen starts his TEDTalk by asking, ”What do I know that would cause me, a reticent midwestern scientist, to get arrested in front of the White House, protesting?”
Hansen studied under professor James Van Allen, w... | <urn:uuid:d44ce976-2ef0-4a6c-aa1f-7b3db6a74681> | http://blog.ted.com/2012/02/29/why-i-must-speak-out-on-climate-change-james-hansen-at-ted2012/ | 0.9999 | fineweb |
Tata teams up with Aussies for India’s first floating solar plant
The pilot project, which is due to start operations by the end of the year, is based on a Sunengy patented Liquid Solar Array (LSA) technology which uses traditional concentrated photovoltaic technology - a lens and a small area of solar cells that track... | <urn:uuid:a9635421-6f3c-47fb-b1b6-0bd49aad4d63> | http://www.cleanbiz.asia/story/tata-teams-aussies-india%E2%80%99s-first-floating-solar-plant | 0.9246 | fineweb |
Mysterious Night-Shining Clouds Getting Brighter
After the sun sets on a summer evening and the sky fades to black, you may be lucky enough to see thin, wavy clouds illuminating the night, such as these seen over Billund, Denmark, on July 15, 2010.
CREDIT: Jan Erik Paulsen/ NASA Earth Observatory.
Clouds bright enough ... | <urn:uuid:e3c7c377-e352-4493-be54-970ec0247e7b> | http://www.space.com/10706-mysterious-night-shining-clouds-brighter.html | 0.9429 | fineweb |
CLIMATE OF ALASKA
TOPOGRPHIC FEATURES – Alaska is the westernmost extension of the North American Continent. Its east-west span covers a distance of 2,000 miles, and from north to south a distance of 1,100 miles. The State’s coastline, 33,000 miles in length, is 50 percent longer than that of the conterminous United St... | <urn:uuid:2db812c6-bffa-4bf7-9fae-fd9d4539ee2b> | http://climate.uaa.alaska.edu/html/WRCC.ALASKA.CLIMATE.html | 0.8572 | fineweb |
It accounts for more than half of the planet’s remaining rainforest and is home to more than half the world's species of plants and animals.
But over the last 40 years, this great verdant tract has been increasingly threatened by deforestation. Clearing of the forest began in the 1960s and reached a peak in the 90s whe... | <urn:uuid:fe076039-1ddf-4a8b-86a5-afff72c4854b> | http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130226-amazon-lungs-of-the-planet | 0.9999 | fineweb |
How will the technology and policy changes now sweeping through the industry affect the architecture of the utility grid? Will America build an increasingly robust transmission infrastructure, or...
Unforeseen consequences of dedicated renewable energy transmission.
Growth in renewable electricity (RE) generation will ... | <urn:uuid:be40a391-ba3c-4564-a4eb-3d42885d4685> | http://www.fortnightly.com/fortnightly/2012/02/not-so-green-superhighway | 0.9514 | fineweb |
A new carbon cycle model developed by researchers in Europe indicates that global carbon emissions must start dropping by no later than 2015 to prevent the planet from tipping into dangerous climate instability.
The finding is likely to put new pressure on the world’s top two carbon emitters — China and the US — both o... | <urn:uuid:3c48599d-00d0-4bef-8ac0-94d34a0f8472> | http://www.greenbang.com/clocks-ticking-carbon-emissions-must-peak-by-2015_14888.html | 1 | fineweb |
Interpreting Pre-Quaternary Climate from the Geologic Record. Judith Totman Parrish. 338 pp. Columbia University Press, 1998. $65.
Paleoclimatology is the study of ancient climates that existed before humans began collecting instrumental measurements of weather (rain gauges for precipitation, thermometers for temperatu... | <urn:uuid:7bcf06f3-b014-471d-bc99-fbe32d79131e> | http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/id.2529,content.true,css.print/bookshelf.aspx | 0.9754 | fineweb |
But it also says changed weather patterns -- possibly due to climate change -- are altering flowering times as well as causing droughts and floods.
The United Kingdom has about 250 species of bees, of which one is the honeybee, 25 are bumblebees and the remainder are so-called solitary bees, which, because they do not ... | <urn:uuid:9ee0d727-c0a1-48e4-94cb-c20725898500> | http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=beekeepers-abuzz-over-climate-change-and-hive-losses&page=2 | 1 | fineweb |
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Full SubmissionProposals for Rio+20: Sustainable Development Needs a New Impetus Almost twenty years ago the UN Conference on Environment and Development was held in Rio de Janeiro and launched the unique glo... | <urn:uuid:08509b00-c962-4762-9737-317ddb80679e> | http://www.uncsd2012.org/index.php?page=view&nr=525&type=510&menu=20&template=529&str=Crisis | 0.5124 | fineweb |
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Intermittent renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar, will become increasingly important in the electricity supply mix if ambitious renewable energy targets are to be met. This paper
presents evidence on the effectiveness of different ... | <urn:uuid:a4bf0082-d700-46ea-9ef0-a6c9c439ac85> | http://www.oecd.org/environment/publicationsdocuments/4/ | 0.997 | fineweb |
Harvesting clean, reliable energy
Securing reliable, cost effective energy sources is a priority of the Santa Clara Valley Water District. In response to the energy crisis and rolling blackouts in the summer of 2001, the district completed construction of a solar energy project that is providing 20 percent of the campu... | <urn:uuid:65675194-4860-4993-9509-687c790882ff> | http://www.scvwd.dst.ca.us/Services/solar.aspx | 1 | fineweb |
02 Jun 2011
Forum: Is Extreme Weather Linked to Global Warming?
In the past year, the world has seen a large number of extreme weather events, from the Russian heat wave last summer, to the severe flooding in Pakistan, to the recent tornadoes in the U.S. In a Yale Environment 360 forum, a panel of experts weighs in on ... | <urn:uuid:c5098e75-a7f2-4aca-8f1a-b0459762b99a> | http://e360.yale.edu/mobile/feature.msp?id=2411 | 1 | fineweb |
A new study from a team of international scientists found that deforestation is advancing rapidly in tropical nations and most reserves are losing some or all of their surrounding forest, leaving these nations struggling to sustain their biodiversity.
Many of the protected areas in tropical nations are struggling to su... | <urn:uuid:88fd7cbc-0ee8-4513-9dc1-ed607c93710d> | http://scitechdaily.com/many-nature-reserves-struggling-to-sustain-their-original-biodiversity/ | 0.9682 | fineweb |
Scientists from The Ecosystems Center have conducted a program of long-term research at several sites in northern Alaska since 1975. The Centerís arctic research program is based at Toolik Lake, in the northern foothills of the Brooks Range (Fig. 1). The three principal components of the program are: (1) lake studies, ... | <urn:uuid:25322597-c57a-44f6-b6cc-374c6da8b51a> | http://ecosystems.mbl.edu/StaffWeb/ldeegan/arc.html | 0.9862 | fineweb |
Some thoughts on recent Algae Biofuels Lifecycle Analysis
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Sweden Water Export
Water – the origin of life and our most basic need.
We all need water to survive. The world’s water resources is very unbalanced – in some places there is an abundance, in other there is a great need. Drought, natural disasters and conflicts often aggravates the situation and can create immediate ne... | <urn:uuid:d07b0351-8b61-4b7e-bbe5-d488a7ad945a> | http://www.swedenwaterexport.com/contact | 0.8666 | fineweb |
As the debate over climate policy picks up again in the wake of Hurricane Sandy and President Obama’s reelection, policymakers should prioritize efforts that will accelerate the adoption of zero-carbon technologies, especially the only proven baseload source available: next generation nuclear.
Whereas traditional nucle... | <urn:uuid:32f78780-0aa8-438e-8f3e-c3fcd25fa799> | http://bravenewclimate.com/2013/01/03/next-nukes/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=7ebcc2514d | 0.5502 | fineweb |
One Step Closer: USU Chemists Convert Greenhouse Gas to Fuel
Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
USU biochemistry professor Lance Seefeldt, left, and doctoral student Zhiyong Yang published findings in the Nov. 12, 2012, early online edition of 'The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.'
Yang and Seefeldt used genetic e... | <urn:uuid:80acc5f8-95de-497b-8c94-67150df3621d> | http://nancy.mesner@usu.edu/ust/index.cfm?article=51860 | 0.9742 | fineweb |
The Ocean as a Physical Environment
Isolated by wind, water, and time, geological landforms have eroded into seastacks.
To the human observer, the ocean is oddly two dimensional, a stark horizon separating the sky from
the reflecting, undulating water. What we don't see is the continuation of a landscape that extends
c... | <urn:uuid:b8c25d66-3237-4e27-a7f6-65bb10bf3769> | http://olympiccoast.noaa.gov/living/oceanenvironments/oceanenviro.html | 0.9448 | fineweb |
The Taiga is a forest biome that rings the upper latitudes of the northern hemisphere. The Taiga is dominated by black spruce and paper bark birch growing together. The sunlight is low in intensity and there are only 50-100 frost free days during the summer but the taiga is the largest and most productive forest on the... | <urn:uuid:860aca34-e7fa-4d08-a104-709bbab20397> | http://conservapedia.com/Taiga | 0.8306 | fineweb |
From Sioux Falls to Rapid City, fire weather meteorologists are watching conditions closely. And until we receive widespread, heavy moisture they'll be monitoring what is known as the Keetch-Byram Drought Index or KBDI.
It measures the amount of precipitation needed to return the soil to full saturation. It uses a syst... | <urn:uuid:18ab9e3d-e911-44bd-a8d5-0c3c3e67c967> | http://www.keloland.com/newsdetail.cfm/fire-weather-index/?id=137711 | 0.9953 | fineweb |
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Building professionals who care about the environment are choosing wood products for green construction – both new structures and renovations. Wood grows naturally, using solar energy; it is recyclable and renewable. Wood products need less energy to extract, process a... | <urn:uuid:e5781d30-e455-4de1-9f5b-35d9bd5b9831> | http://www.planetfriendlycanada.com/index.php/en/environmental-credentials-of-wood | 1 | fineweb |
Dr Norman Page March 7, 2012 at 11:54 pm Permalink
As an Earth scientist I am appalled by the whole tone of this piece. You say “Frankly, the sentiment vacillated between utter disgust and sheer anger. ” You sound like a bunch of priests being appalled at hearing heresy which questions your received truth. In the piece... | <urn:uuid:e675247b-fc8c-4d31-8117-fd3c6445a853> | http://climatesense-norpag.blogspot.com/2012_03_01_archive.html | 0.9997 | fineweb |
In a study published in Environmental Research Letters, Cohen et al. (2012) note that over the last four decades Arctic temperatures have warmed at nearly double the global rate, citing Solomon et al. (2007) and Screen and Simmonds (2010); and they state that “coupled climate models attribute much of this warming to ra... | <urn:uuid:8a7ad48a-eaea-497f-b11d-8051904f0d25> | http://junkscience.com/2012/07/13/global-warming-fosters-high-latitude-cooling/ | 1 | fineweb |
Policy actions that aim to reduce CO2 emissions are unlikely to influence future climate. Policies need to focus on preparation for, and adaptation to, all dangerous climatic events, however caused
Open Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations
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The ongoing U.S. drought may have one bright side, researchers said, as a record-low number of tornadoes have been recorded.
While drought and hot, dry weather has devastated agriculture this summer and led to the deaths of dozens of people, it has also decreased the outbr... | <urn:uuid:537a3930-07ae-470d-89bf-3b2cda489426> | http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Tornado_numbers_lower_because_of_drought_999.html | 0.9979 | fineweb |
Urban and wild trees in the United States have often been subjected to diseases and destruction by pests, microbes, drought, storms and fires. But instances of certain pests or microbes affecting a particular species of tree on a large scale and threatening to wipe them away are more problematic.
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Growing population and an increasing poverty gap are major challenges for global food security especially when the issue of biofuels produced from crops is introduced. According to Tahereh Alavi Hojjat of DeSales University, in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, USA, governments around the world must address fiv... | <urn:uuid:3a76cb6b-d26e-4400-8bd5-5c7e7356d432> | http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/five-major-challenges-to-avoid-food-crunch.html | 0.9994 | fineweb |
U.S. Power Plant Carbon Emissions Zoom in 2007
WASHINGTON, DC, March 18, 2008 (ENS) – The biggest single year increase in greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power plants in nine years occurred in 2007, finds a new analysis by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Environmental Integrity Project. The finding of a 2.9 percent rise ... | <urn:uuid:dc1a8aec-de58-4413-8512-51862619d9e3> | http://www.sundancechannel.com/blog/2008/03/us-power-plant-carbon-emissions-zoom-in-2007/ | 1 | fineweb |
An energy expert with the United Nation's Samoa Office said climate change should not be viewed nor addressed as merely an environmental issue, the Islands Business online reported on Thursday.
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Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/21/mars_geysers/
Martian pole freckled with geysers
Unlike anything on Earth
Every spring, the southern polar cap on Mars almost fizzes with carbon dioxide, as the surface is broken by hundreds of geysers throwing sand and dust hundreds of feet into the Martian "air".
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Environmental protection vital to reducing natural disaster impact...
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Mountain Meadows Dwindling in the Pacific Northwest
Some high mountain meadows in the Pacific Northwest are declining rapidly due to climate change as reduced snowpacks, longer growing seasons, and other factors allow trees to invade ecosystems that once were carpeted with grasses, shrubs and wildflowers.
The process a... | <urn:uuid:e5f4b1e3-65de-464d-8b9d-42025091009a> | http://eponline.com/articles/2012/11/02/mountain-meadows-dwindling-in-the-pacific-northwest.aspx?admgarea=News | 0.9997 | fineweb |
No flood, no money. What a trade!
When asked about his future, Nguyen Van Nghe, a fisherman in Dong Thap Province answered: “No flood, no money. What a trade!” He was referring to the fact that over the last 10 years the construction of high dykes in Dong Thap and the Long Xuyen Quadrangle has blocked the annual replen... | <urn:uuid:b81f265f-7682-429a-b24e-792b78f2ff29> | http://cms.iucn.org/about/union/secretariat/offices/asia/asia_where_work/vietnam/?9560/No-flood-no-money--What-a-trade&add_comment | 0.9538 | fineweb |
Photo: Rainforest Action NetworkOn a humid afternoon in Sungai Tohor, a coastal village in Sumatra’s Riau province, 50 or so men are packed into a town-hall conference room. They sit in neat rows of blue plastic chairs, many clad in knee-high rubber boots, loose-fitting polo shirts, and baggy pants — the casual uniform... | <urn:uuid:bfcdf0a3-fa46-4b45-b754-446d9990a4c5> | http://grist.org/article/2010-12-06-indonesias-billion-dollar-climate-experiment/ | 0.6952 | fineweb |
Five years ago, 220 scientists from around the world signed a statement calling for marine managers to shift to an ecosystem-based approach. Such an approach would seek to protect “ecosystem structure, functioning and key processes,” recognize the interconnectedness of human and marine systems, and be place-based rathe... | <urn:uuid:94d53634-7d6e-4044-a1dd-341bb213c50e> | http://thesolutionsjournal.org/node/875?quicktabs_1=2 | 0.8356 | fineweb |
Guest post by David Archibald
Willis Eschenbach’s post on lab work on coral response to elevated carbon dioxide levels, and The Reef Abides, leads to a large scale, natural experiment in Papua New Guinea. There are several places at the eastern end of that country where carbon dioxide is continuously bubbling up throug... | <urn:uuid:2445f580-b3a3-4894-924b-f916d4c61dbc> | http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/12/28/the-fishes-and-the-coral-live-happily-in-the-co2-bubble-plume/ | 0.9411 | fineweb |
April 22, 2011
Advancement through education: K-State community contributes to state's scientific history
On Saturday Kansans are encouraged to celebrate the state's 150 years of scientific achievements. And throughout this scientific sesquicentennial, Kansas State University has been there since nearly the beginning.
... | <urn:uuid:eb0c2bf4-b510-45c3-9185-96792a3f7583> | http://www.k-state.edu/today/announcement.php?id=787&category=kudos&referredBy=K-State%20Today%20Archive | 0.9955 | fineweb |
[en] 3D models; Activation barriers; Atmospheric pollution; Dielectric barrier discharges; Electrical field; Endothermic reactions; Environmental problems; Kinetic mechanism; MATLAB program; Plasma process; Post-discharge; Reaction engineering; Reactive species ; Air pollution; Dielectric devices; Flow control; Industr... | <urn:uuid:d81236ee-ec3f-49a0-a522-c95a7eed6304> | http://orbi.ulg.ac.be/handle/2268/126453 | 0.7508 | fineweb |
U.S. Geological Survey Collects Data, Evaluates Water Quality in Utah
Every five years, the United States Geological Survey compiles data detailing the amount of water consumed by agriculture, municipal and industrial uses, mining, private industrial wells and thermoelectric generation.
Prior to 1985, state comparisons... | <urn:uuid:7de01779-21f1-4496-91ae-7eb3dd02eb22> | http://www.sunadvocate.com/index.php?tier=1&article_id=7533&poll=271&vote=results | 0.9979 | fineweb |
"We're pretty convinced that this has an influence on the surface temperatures," said Richard Wood of the Met Office Hadley Centre in Exeter in the United Kingdom.
"We don't expect climate change to be just a smooth warming of the climate, each year after the next. It's superimposed on natural variations of the climate... | <urn:uuid:916058c0-80ac-4850-8c8d-42c3fbab8215> | http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080430-global-cooling_2.html | 1 | fineweb |
In a year of extreme weather patterns, Purdue University agronomists advise farmers to harvest their grain wetter than usual.
Drought conditions have severely stressed much of the corn crop in many parts of Indiana, causing stalks to weaken and some plants to die prematurely. In order to avoid additional problems, agro... | <urn:uuid:19bc032a-de5b-44e5-a458-7bed079b252f> | http://cornandsoybeandigest.com/harvest-corn-wet-avoid-more-yield-loss | 0.9983 | fineweb |
Vanishing Arctic Ice Shows No Sign Of Returning
Author: Yereth Rosen
University of Alaska scientist Rick Steiner (R) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration oceanographer Jim Overland pose in front of a U.S. Coast Guard C130 in Barrow, Alaska during refueling stopover for their flight over the Arctic Ocean ... | <urn:uuid:ac0d4218-b490-4d8b-8d6c-469748c192b4> | http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/54960 | 1 | fineweb |
- The future is uncertain, and risk assessments are our way of navigating uncertainty. They can contribute to decision making about sustainability, especially by making comparisons across major domains of risk, like climate change and terrorism.
- Comparing one risk to another requires examining various driving factors... | <urn:uuid:9065a261-0324-450d-aa33-4cf6c99e4aa7> | http://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/node/1068?page=0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C1 | 0.9999 | fineweb |
Snowfall maps tell the tale of La Niña – El Niño cycles
SUMMIT COUNTY — Each year’s weather triggers discussions about past seasons, and without having exact statistics at hand, it’s easy to get mixed up about snowfall records or dry spells. Last year, for example, during the big La Niña snows, there was a lot of talk ... | <urn:uuid:ac39589e-029c-4db3-8517-d9e15c3bf995> | http://summitcountyvoice.com/2012/04/15/colorado-a-little-snow-history/ | 0.9874 | fineweb |
May 12, 2011 / ENERGY GLOBE Award
Project presentation - "Winery at monastery"
The winery at the monastery in Klosterneuburg has analyzed all processes in the entire estate in order to know their impact on climate and environment and improve it. Now the climate protector pioneer "ClimatePartner" certified Klosterneubur... | <urn:uuid:f1a03956-7cc0-49ed-afd5-ee08c91da682> | http://www.energyglobe.com/news/details/category/2/id/1744/?egp=fb0486d0a004c9093c9fc9b5fe6aa64b | 0.9998 | fineweb |
In a new paper, Shiney Varghese of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) examines proven agricultural practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen resilience to climate change through a case study of the Tamilnadu Women’s Collective in India. The collective, a federation of village-leve... | <urn:uuid:35a96ad2-d632-4faa-8215-3a865370045c> | http://genderfoodpolicy.wordpress.com/tag/water/ | 1 | fineweb |
WASHINGTON — The effects of climate change driven by human activity are spreading through the United States faster than has been predicted, increasingly threatening infrastructure, water supplies, crops and shorelines, according to a review of climate science and its effects by a federal advisory committee.
The draft T... | <urn:uuid:89c5ff0f-e491-45bb-a020-a3f2193648d2> | http://www.eagletribune.com/worldnational/x730427706/Climate-change-hitting-U-S-faster-than-predicted-panel-says | 1 | fineweb |
Water resources of Virginia - Total Maximum Daily Load [ More info] Description of a project to develop watershed models that can be used to track sources of fecal coliform bacteria by assigning Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL) to three stream segments in Virginia.
Acid Rain in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia [ More... | <urn:uuid:6340c4ec-8b3e-44a4-8c2b-b2033295bd06> | http://www.usgs.gov/science/science.php?term=f51015&type=place | 0.9792 | fineweb |
Summary: Solid carbon dioxide is added to a large beaker of water containing universal indicator. As the CO2 dissolves, the indicator changes from neutral (green) to acidic (orange).
Dry Ice is extemely cold, use gloves or tongs when handling.
Chemicals and Solutions:
universal indicator solution
2 lbs. dry ice
25 mL o... | <urn:uuid:73777b8a-a85d-4e25-ab02-50b328ce28c8> | http://depts.washington.edu/chem/facilserv/lecturedemo/DryIceBrew-UWDept.ofChemistry.html | 1 | fineweb |
Population trends today are a highly contested issue that emerge in a range of related debates: climate change; development; environmental sustainability; migration and, in the case of the advanced industrial nations like the UK, ageing. Often they are either cast simplistically as the amplifier of all society’s proble... | <urn:uuid:d53c70c7-5a5e-4654-a5a2-0533ebb6e7f6> | http://www.britishscienceassociation.org/people-science-magazine/december-2009/population-growth?qt-popular_pages_in_this_section=1 | 0.7547 | fineweb |
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NOAA predicts sea levels could rise 6 feet by 2100
Experts worry rising waters could permanently flood parts of South Florida
A National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) study predicts that much of South Florida could be underwater by the year 2100.
Experts say the battered shoreline of Fort Lauderdale and wid... | <urn:uuid:cf408818-5279-4187-9ffb-2517141c9f1e> | http://www.local10.com/weather/NOAA-predicts-sea-levels-could-rise-6-feet-by-2100/-/1717142/17723964/-/format/rss_2.0/view/print/-/14nahysz/-/index.html | 1 | fineweb |
Wind energy is recognized worldwide as cost-effective and environmentally friendly and is among the world's fastest-growing sources of electrical...
Wind energy is recognized worldwide as cost-effective and environmentally friendly and is among the world's fastest-growing sources of electrical energy. Despite the amazi... | <urn:uuid:2ea483a0-0a4a-47c4-b3c4-0c04f3f1e6ee> | http://www.scivee.tv/node/53649 | 0.9906 | fineweb |
But who killed the Medieval Warm Period?
Before we begin the investigation into the usual suspects, some background for people who those who don’t follow climate science closely, which certainly includes most of the disinformers and apparently at least two statisticians.
- There is a high probability that the recent wa... | <urn:uuid:3e1d97c6-b7d4-40d7-8c12-0d5712ba08c2> | http://thinkprogress.org/?m=20100816&mobile=nc | 1 | fineweb |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is the first state to introduce mandatory green building standards after a new policy was created to achieve a statewide goal of 33 percent renewable energy use by 2020 and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, and water use.
The building codes, which take effect Ja... | <urn:uuid:18616e6e-7cdd-4450-91a3-493124aacec6> | http://www.correctionalnews.com/articles/2010/03/12/ca-green-building?quicktabs_1=0 | 0.9999 | fineweb |
Europe is a crucial region for IUCN. Home to the European Union (EU) – the world’s largest development aid donor – the region’s influence goes beyond its territorial boundaries. Over the years, the EU has been recognized for its leadership role in international environmental and climate governance.
The IUCN Programme 2... | <urn:uuid:63aabae8-5363-4d78-b22c-ca78b519530a> | http://brian.thomson@iucn.org/about/union/secretariat/offices/europe/work/ | 0.9876 | fineweb |
Basins of the Future: Connecting water from source to city
21 September 2012 | News story
Growing urban populations and economic growth are putting more pressure on the watersheds and infrastructure supplying water to cities. This is where IUCN and IWA have joined forces in pulling together their knowledge, networks an... | <urn:uuid:d883e66c-6c93-4169-a488-864e91148be8> | http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/wcpa_worldheritage/?11109/Basins-of-the-Future-Connecting-water-from-source-to-city | 0.9017 | fineweb |
Why the Earth's air is really an ocean
Explore This Story
The next time you're in Carnegie Hall and the atmosphere seems stuffy, don't blame the upper crust in their box seats. Blame the building's air. It weighs almost 32,000 kilograms.
It's one of many little-known facts about the stuff we breathe that British scienc... | <urn:uuid:30186760-d5e7-44eb-b360-da8d9366af52> | http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2007/09/09/why_the_earths_air_is_really_an_ocean.html | 0.6793 | fineweb |
The Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean is a relatively small sea. It connects three
continents: Asia, Africa, and Europe. It covers 2.5 million square
kilometers. The area of the Mediterranean is only 3% of the area of
all the seas and oceans in the world, which collectively comprise 71%
of the area of the Earth.
Unli... | <urn:uuid:9132a7c9-97b4-4ab3-9ae5-d3780c1ec92f> | http://www.israelweather.co.il/english/sea.asp | 0.5363 | fineweb |
Findings on Biochar, Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Ethylene
By Ann Perry
December 13, 2011
Adding a charred biomass material called biochar to glacial soils can help reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists.
Studies by scient... | <urn:uuid:54467d2d-f0e7-494e-88c1-05c73441af95> | http://ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2011/111213.htm | 0.9494 | fineweb |
The stated goal of a new poll of Massachusetts residents’ views on climate change was to determine whether the Commonwealth has a “culture of climate protection,” which the authors of the report define as widespread
- recognition of global warming as a problem and a priority for action,
- support for policy efforts to ... | <urn:uuid:51ae9dc7-7e6c-4afa-918f-dc6837eba3bb> | http://climatide.wgbh.org/2011/04/four-segments-of-massachusetts-climate-culture/ | 1 | fineweb |
by Keith Miller, Kristina Costa, and Donna Cooper
Seven years ago, Hurricane Katrina pushed ashore in Louisiana, devastating the city of New Orleans and crippling an entire region. Massive storm surges overtook the city’s levees and washed away entire neighborhoods, leaving more than 1,800 dead and displacing more than... | <urn:uuid:94f16cc2-71cf-417b-a1da-0943a2d7c278> | http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/09/20/882001/in-the-face-of-climate-change-we-must-invest-in-our-nations-critical-dams-and-levees/?mobile=nc | 0.9903 | fineweb |
09 Dec 2008:
NASA Satellite Technology Can Monitor Natural Oil Seepage
Scientists are using NASA satellites to track natural oil slicks seeping to the surface of the world’s oceans
, providing better leads on potential sources of greenhouse gas emissions as the slicks break up and release carbon dioxide. Such natural s... | <urn:uuid:6c4572d7-23c0-4a2c-9e1e-6e5c38b08e33> | http://e360.yale.edu/content/digest.msp?id=1652 | 0.8609 | fineweb |
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UNEP World Conservation Monitori... | <urn:uuid:701ba308-2421-45e5-b23b-81cbfb2bd9d4> | http://www.grida.no/graphicslib/detail/coldwater-coral-reefs-distribution_fb50 | 0.9995 | fineweb |
Climate change is the defining human development challenge of the 21st Century. Failure to respond to that challenge will stall and then reverse international efforts to reduce poverty. The poorest countries and most vulnerable citizens will suffer the earliest and most damaging setbacks, even though they have contribu... | <urn:uuid:d1a04e75-07aa-41a3-a7ee-a6c19c39639e> | http://ziarra.net/light-wind/ | 1 | fineweb |
Cost Just the Beginning of Offsets’ Problems
July 27th’s San Francisco Chronicle includes an article David Baker on Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s failing ClimateSmart whcih so far has collected just $2.6 million to run a $9.7 million program. And what does that program do exactly? Baker reports:
People who sign up for... | <urn:uuid:9a900ae3-1a7c-4736-bf00-242a016b5db0> | http://nrinstitute.org/mediamalpractice/?p=342 | 1 | fineweb |
Armchair scuba divers across the world and marine conservationists will soon be able to immerse themselves in the most spectacular survey of the Great Barrier Reef ever undertaken, thanks to a new research project unveiled by conservationists and backed by Google on Thursday.
Tens of thousands of 360-degree, high-defin... | <urn:uuid:586590c8-542f-46a6-b047-50207e402d9a> | http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/23/virtual-diving-online-great-barrier-reef | 0.945 | fineweb |
The Working Group III Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN) presents an assessment of the literature on the scientific, technological, environmental, economic and social aspects of the contribution of six renewable energy (RE) sources to the mitigation of climate change. It is... | <urn:uuid:85828e38-8149-4c95-a497-d73d92671dea> | http://www.seia.org/research-resources/residential-photovoltaic-energy-systems-california-effect-home-sales-prices-2011 | 0.9983 | fineweb |
EU focuses on global warming issue
As more evidence supporting global warming comes to light, climate
change is being taken very seriously by the European Union. A new
European Commission is urging leaders to take steps to contain global
warming, warning that drought-like conditions, catastrophic damage to
the economy ... | <urn:uuid:9cdecfb8-8d90-4ffc-8643-536d59d7cde4> | http://www.all-creatures.org/cva/th-20070119-e.htm | 1 | fineweb |
|Title||Global and regional exposure to large rises in sea-level: a sensitivity analysis. This work was prepared for the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change|
|Publication Type||Tyndall Working Paper|
|Series||Tyndall Centre Working Papers|
|Tyndall Consortium Institution|| |
|Secondary Title||Tyndall Centre... | <urn:uuid:12309bfd-1e00-46f0-acf3-d45615792831> | http://tyndall.ac.uk/content/global-and-regional-exposure-large-rises-sea-level-sensitivity-analysis-work-was-prepared-st | 0.6892 | fineweb |
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Drought Puts Texas Ranchers, And Cattle, At Risk
In the cattle town of Emory in East Texas, the worst drought in state history is threatening a way of life. Scorching temperatures and no rain have forced many ranchers to sell off their stock.
Normally before being brought to market... | <urn:uuid:32597195-2725-4e36-9d9d-44b02c793761> | http://wrvo.org/post/drought-puts-texas-ranchers-and-cattle-risk | 0.9246 | fineweb |
Diverse but united: the EU at international negotiations
Currently, world leaders are gathering in Doha, Qatar at the 18th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to discuss how to we can deal with the changing climate. The European Union, representing its 27 memb... | <urn:uuid:d5e55185-a39b-4756-aad9-2bdf849bd60b> | http://iucn.org/news_homepage/news_by_date/2012/?11612/Diverse-but-united-the-EU-at-international-negotiations&add_comment | 0.9838 | fineweb |
"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.." -- Rachel Carson
About the Women in Conservation Program
Audubon's Women in Conservation Program was created for girls and women to discover the world of conservation and connect with the best and brightes... | <urn:uuid:1d582173-6f15-4988-a730-e161ef5eba25> | http://web4.audubon.org/WIC/about.html | 0.9595 | fineweb |
Family: Corvidae, Crows, Magpies, Jays view all from this family
Description ADULT Has a pale gray-brown back, but otherwise mostly dark blue upperparts; note, however, the dark cheeks and eyeline and pale forecrown, extending back as faint supercilium. Throat is whitish and streaked, with discrete demarcation from oth... | <urn:uuid:007f6280-3b67-492c-aae2-0c291fb254c8> | http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/detail.asp?sortBy=has+audio&curFamilyID=246&curGroupID=1&lgfromWhere=&viewType=&curPageNum=2 | 0.5288 | fineweb |
Aerial view of Syncrude Aurora tar sands mine in the Boreal Forest north of Fort McMurray.
© Greenpeace / Jiri Rezac
Greenpeace is calling on oil companies and the Canadian government to stop the tar sands and end the industrialization of a vast area of Indigenous territories, forests and wetlands in northern Alberta.
... | <urn:uuid:a7b45c65-1abb-4aa5-88a8-8c0f02ca84da> | http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/campaigns/Energy/tarsands/?tab=2 | 0.9997 | fineweb |
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