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By Michael E. Kraft
Michael E. Kraft, a University of Wisconsin Master of Science in Sustainable Management faculty member, wrote this guest post; the views expressed are his own.
In June, Pope Francis released a remarkable encyclical on “care for our common home,” the Earth. He called climate change a “global problem ... | <urn:uuid:4d067cd0-e8fe-4ef0-aa1d-facf654c37bb> | https://sustain.wisconsin.edu/blog/pope-francis-is-right-on-climate-change-danger/ | 1 | fineweb |
China’s smog is so bad that it can be seen from space.
The country’s pollution has become a fixture in global news, but more recently, so have plans to combat it — from capping coal consumption and shifting to renewable energy, to cleaning up toxic soil. One of the latest headlines: an entire city being built to guzzle... | <urn:uuid:bdffe3e9-b953-4f8b-b6c4-5cbf4fa62c41> | http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1000745/the-forest-revolution-headed-for-chinese-cities | 0.9724 | fineweb |
22 scientists from around the world—including Silliman University’s Hilconida Calumpong, Ph.D.—submitted to the UN General Assembly in late 2015 their report as the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including Socioeconomic Aspects. We... | <urn:uuid:f4f2bccd-f9f0-4b89-9c0f-6883eb25b8c9> | https://surenewsservice.wordpress.com/2017/04/19/first-world-oceans-report-revisited-theme-a-climate-change-and-its-impact-on-the-oceans-third-in-a-series/ | 0.9933 | fineweb |
The realisation of environmental revolutionary homes can reduce heating bills from 200 Euro to 50 Euro as these houses use up to 70% less energy than conventional ones. Optimistic results that encourage European research projects like SHE (Sustainable Housing in Europe) and SUME (Sustainable Urban Metabolism for Europe... | <urn:uuid:7d80c261-bae5-4956-abe8-c33c1336298a> | http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/star/index_en.cfm?p=323&item=Infocentre&artid=22613 | 1 | fineweb |
- Over 40 cities could see record high temperatures
- Hot and dry weather will make for dangerous fire conditions
- Drought likely to continue in the Southeast
What's causing the heatwave well into October? The weather pattern plays a big role.
A "Bermuda High" has set up a southwesterly flow of air over land. As that ... | <urn:uuid:949b4b23-224d-4df0-a403-764ade522acc> | http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/17/weather/october-heatwave/index.html | 0.9992 | fineweb |
This can lead to health problems that include lung cancer, asthma, heart damage, lung association says
By Robert Preidt
WEDNESDAY, April 19, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Air quality in the United States is improving overall, but not enough for the nearly 40 percent of Americans who live in counties with unhealthy levels of... | <urn:uuid:43001352-0790-4620-91d6-c94b29bb1d77> | http://www.hon.ch/News/HSN/721845.html | 0.8052 | fineweb |
U.S. marine ecosystems and fisheries have long been an economic engine and cultural source of wealth for our country - an invaluable resource that sustains the very air we breathe. Which is why we must take action against the triple threat carbon pollution poses for our oceans: ocean warming, reduced oxygen levels, and... | <urn:uuid:91a3fb17-6ad6-46a7-be2a-5e85f9ef2236> | https://www.nrdc.org/experts/lisa-suatoni/clean-power-plan-offers-hope-oceans | 0.9999 | fineweb |
New evidence shows that, while we may not see severe climate change in our lifetimes, global warming could snowball into catastrophe in the distant future—and once the climate has shifted, it might not go back to normal for a very, very long time.
This is from two new studies on climate change this week. The first, pub... | <urn:uuid:12461a80-4741-4681-b1c3-090cb264d566> | https://qz.com/112886/when-global-warming-finally-gets-going-it-could-last-for-200000-years/ | 1 | fineweb |
"Did you ever wonder why or how leaves change their color during the autumn season? Why
does a maple leaf turn red? What about all the bright yellows and oranges we see?
Just recently I read up on the mystery of this metamorphosis. It all has to do with what
leaves are and how they function. Simply put, leaves operate ... | <urn:uuid:65c0fe6f-130b-4bfa-831a-032d067f38ca> | http://justalittlesomethingforyou.blogspot.com/2015/10/did-you-ever-wonder-why-or-how-leaves.html | 0.6613 | fineweb |
Sustainability and the Green Commission
The Vision of the Birmingham Green Commission pulls together three key strands that will make Birmingham a leading green city:
- Planning framework and policy;
- Sustainable energy and CO2 reduction; and
- The green economy.
Birmingham has an ambitious target of a 60% reduction i... | <urn:uuid:43d494f8-fcc7-48e8-830e-a98b4058a8d7> | https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/sustainability | 1 | fineweb |
Everyone knows that food fights are a waste of food. But on Saturday 24 April, Cardiff Transition East flipped the concept of a food fight on its head.
In the woods behind the Blackweir Tavern, 20 food-fighters went into battle using waste food from retailers around the city in Cardiff's first ever Food Fight Against F... | <urn:uuid:f7748c65-b725-4416-8aab-7898bcb11533> | https://www.theguardian.com/cardiff/2010/apr/26/cardiff-food-fight | 0.9226 | fineweb |
Is the drought finally over? It must be, judging by the local resident whom I saw hosing dirt off his sidewalk on a recent rainy day.
It is true that this winter was exceedingly wet. Many regions across the state received rainfall totals that were between 150 and 200 percent of normal. So, yes, technically this drought... | <urn:uuid:5fafe9d3-033b-4d37-9065-5522bc3aed7e> | http://news.berkeley.edu/berkeley_blog/this-drought-may-be-over-but-it-is-bound-to-happen-again/ | 0.9999 | fineweb |
Our complex phenomenon, what are we going to do?
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Climate change is the biggest environmental and humanitarian hazard/crises of our time. We need to take collective actions to ensure the adoption of cleaner energy sources at home and abroad.
Climate change is affecting our economy, health and communitie... | <urn:uuid:48c75f95-9a7f-4e79-bf42-515790a2ede2> | http://www.voicesofyouth.org/en/posts/our-complex-phenomenon--what-are-we-going-to-do- | 1 | fineweb |
Antarctica is growing not shrinking, according to the latest study from NASA. Furthermore, instead of contributing to rising sea levels, the still-very-much-frozen southern continent is actually reducing them by 0.23 mm per year.
The study – by an organization not hitherto noted for playing down environmental scares – ... | <urn:uuid:049bec60-1657-4723-990a-7371d3454f9e> | https://greenliving4live.wordpress.com/2015/11/04/nasa-shock-study-antarctica-is-growing-not-shrinking/ | 1 | fineweb |
Our vision is a Chesapeake Bay and watershed that is healthy and thriving; one in which natural systems and human communities are in balance. Interdisciplinary academic programs promote the integration of environmental issues, social values, and good old river mud.
Basic Observation Buoys (BOBs) and FLOs: Authentic dat... | <urn:uuid:5b2b0483-dc82-4b80-9a99-06f38d3302d3> | https://www.washcoll.edu/centers/ces/programs.php | 0.7217 | fineweb |
In the past, performing a search meant visiting the reference desk at the library. Today, search engines have replaced that role, providing instantaneous answers to billions of queries, and changing the face of business. Google is able to provide this service, and provide it using energy efficient data centers.
Google ... | <urn:uuid:fc490bf0-ad6b-4993-b8fd-c2a876a6cdb2> | https://www.blueinteractiveagency.com/seo-blog/2009/01/the-power-behind-a-google-search/ | 0.9371 | fineweb |
On Air Now
27 November 2014, 06:05
Renewable power has overtaken nuclear to become the main source of electricity in Scotland, figures have revealed.
In the first half of last year sources such as wind and hydro power produced 10.3 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity, figures from the UK Department of Energy and Climat... | <urn:uuid:89eaa99c-f1e6-4180-9428-a5b05bd32505> | http://www.heart.co.uk/scotland/news/local/renewables-top-electricity-figures/ | 1 | fineweb |
Global climate change isn’t just going to make our planet hotter — it’s going to make it sicker. That was the finding of a wide-ranging study of world ecosystems, published in today’s issue of Science and showing that warmer temperatures have sparked a plague of epidemics in plants and animals. From oysters to oak tree... | <urn:uuid:ed6be6ab-dafa-419a-bdc6-56ea8ec7645c> | http://grist.org/article/em2/ | 1 | fineweb |
Bring on the cool weather – climate change is predicted to cause extreme weather, more intense storms, more frequent floods and droughts, but could it also cause us to be more violent with one another?
A new study from scientists in the US controversially draws a link between increased rates of domestic violence, assau... | <urn:uuid:356e563b-90ea-4df8-af4c-91c586eb45cb> | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/02/climate-change-violent-behaviour | 0.999 | fineweb |
China has not been growing sustainably and today sees the first official response that clearly states that future economic growth is threatened by the affects of global warming.
China Says Ten Percent of Farming Land Contaminated
Over 10 percent of China's farm land is contaminated, threatening the ability of the world... | <urn:uuid:9bccbe47-0f23-4c1d-9852-3e9a0b424ae7> | http://china-economics-blog.blogspot.com/2007/04/environmental-roundup-farm-land.html | 1 | fineweb |
This study presents broad-scale carbon chemistry data from Great Barrier Reef (GBR) inshore coral reefs to test for regional and season differences between inorganic carbon system parameters in coastal waters. Spatial and temporal variations in sea surface carbon dioxide concentrations on a large-scale were examined to... | <urn:uuid:6cea287f-fe35-47e9-b63d-cdac8102ed04> | http://www.reefresilience.org/article-summaries/coral-reefs-on-the-edge-carbon-chemistry-on-inshore-reefs-of-the-great-barrier-reef/ | 0.9986 | fineweb |
Currently, heat wave episodes are only experienced with frequency in tropical latitudes. Yet, according to a new study, these locations would expand to both northern and southern areas of the globe.
The study, lead by Camilo Mora from the University of Hawaii, was published in Natural Climate Change journal. The resear... | <urn:uuid:89f4816f-862c-47e3-aef3-3635d96a1d1a> | http://globalnewsherald.com/study-deadly-heat-will-threaten-majority-of-humankind-by-2100/ | 0.9994 | fineweb |
This week an estimated 3,000 water professionals convened in Stockholm for World Water Week. The theme of the conference – inspired by the UN General Assembly, which declared 2013 International Year of Water Co-operation – was “water co-operation and building partnerships”.
The choice of theme highlights a fundamental ... | <urn:uuid:8b4e841f-5fe7-4290-a5b9-ac3d456376e7> | https://blog.nature.org/conservancy/2013/09/09/could-markets-make-our-water-use-more-sustainable/ | 0.7704 | fineweb |
What does it mean to be Energy Independent?
America currently produces about 40% of the oil it consumes, but domestic oil production has been in decline for decades and the U.S. is increasingly looking to foreign sources to ensure our access to petroleum.1
And although the U.S. does have fossil fuel deposits in the for... | <urn:uuid:b67b241c-0270-4834-a82e-69c40d565fe1> | https://joinmosaic.com/solar-learning-center/energy-independence | 0.9862 | fineweb |
Right across Canada and around the world, jurisdictions are moving away from coal-fired electricity generation in favour of cleaner options, and this critical debate has finally come to the mainstream in Alberta.
The Alberta NDP has reignited this much-needed discussion with its platform commitment in the current elect... | <urn:uuid:d7b386d2-6acd-44de-8e5b-d1699911d2a3> | http://www.broadbentinstitute.ca/jonathansas/the_common_sense_proposition_of_phasing_out_alberta_s_coal_plants?recruiter_id=50417 | 0.9657 | fineweb |
IMF report urges rich nations to help low-income countries with climate adaptation
The International Monetary Fund released its latest World Economic Outlook report, where it dedicated one complete chapter making the case for the unequal consequences of climate change that low-income countries will have to bear, urging... | <urn:uuid:1acfe9c9-e3de-44d9-977b-7c780ce3dcfe> | http://www.climateactionprogramme.org/news/imf-report-urges-rich-nations-to-help-low-income-countries-with-climate-ada | 1 | fineweb |
10 Interesting Climate Facts
Scrutinize the climate facts in the article below. It is too complex if we talk about the climate change in the world. We realize that earth is getting hotter from time to time. It is not easy for use to stop the heating process if many people do not change their life style.
Climate Facts 1... | <urn:uuid:994b0c6e-d4dd-4169-90c4-ff4a48eafc29> | https://www.myinterestingfacts.com/climate-facts/ | 1 | fineweb |
The World Ocean Conference that opened on Monday in the northern city of Manado will shape the scientific debate ahead of final negotiations to replace the U.N. treaty on global warming in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December.
The Kyoto Protocol, the most important document on climate change, expires in 2012.
Officials hop... | <urn:uuid:8ac21e65-ccbb-4c5e-a293-b9f8e9d84515> | http://bluecarbonblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/oceans-role-on-climate-change-mulled.html | 1 | fineweb |
A sign of how much groundwater levels have fallen in Uttar Pradesh. Image: Saurabh Singh
Aligarh District (Uttar Pradesh): Over the past three years, Sukhdev Garg, a 57-year-old, has lost two hours of his day. Here in the fields outside Biraula—a western UP village 350-km west of the state capital Lucknow—he spends two... | <urn:uuid:d3f8b0b3-74d3-43ca-95cb-d8b541709aae> | http://www.indiaspend.com/cover-story/ups-deepwater-crisis-grows-9-times-in-11-years-88993/amp | 0.8478 | fineweb |
When the slight global warming that occurred between 1970 and 2000 came to a virtual standstill, the doomsayers adopted “climate change” which apparently means that all extreme weather events are caused by human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO²). Cold, hot, wet, dry, wind, snow, and large hailstones are attributed to h... | <urn:uuid:fc5fff96-1ccb-4a47-b83e-ae175a8d7fcb> | https://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com/2015/03/ocean-acidification.html | 0.9997 | fineweb |
Climate Change During Badlands Expedition
Paul Baldauf, Ph.D., professor at NSU’s Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography, continues to study climate change across the Great Plains with new field research conducted this summer at the Badlands and Buffalo Gap National Grassland.
NSU marine biology major Vict... | <urn:uuid:f1c7f6bf-efd1-4e2e-8ba6-9ac81745d013> | http://cnso.nova.edu/news/articles/climate-change.html | 0.9751 | fineweb |
In grade schools long ago, many people had to build something out of toothpicks or Popsicle sticks—a house, a bridge, a boat. It might have been an art project or a science experiment, but the idea was to make something new out of existing materials. That’s the basic idea behind composite building materials, engineerin... | <urn:uuid:51baf0f1-06dd-4bfd-a738-12683f330a8c> | https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/05/sustainability-report-are-composite-building-mater.html | 0.5122 | fineweb |
A new exhibition in London aims to raise awareness of the threat of climate change induced sea-level rise on the city.
A joint project between Arts Admin and the London International Festival of Theatre, the Plunge Project invites Londoners to look forward 1000 years to the year 3012, and see the effects of sea-level r... | <urn:uuid:fec44c79-d15d-4430-9885-29c297478bf8> | http://www.climatechangenews.com/2012/02/08/rising-sea-levels-mapped-across-london-through-art/ | 0.878 | fineweb |
Scientists who want to measure a major greenhouse gas have run into an accountant’s worst nightmare: They know how much carbon dioxide we’re producing, but they don’t know where it’s all going.
Those scientists’ hopes for finding the missing carbon dioxide were dashed when the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Orbiting Carbo... | <urn:uuid:763c2e05-5e3d-4e23-b9c6-eb9f6b82ca32> | http://www.sbsun.com/2010/02/16/jpl-officials-are-on-the-case-of-the-missing-co2/ | 0.9981 | fineweb |
The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial. The term is most often applied to the Earth or some parts of Earth. This environment encompasses the interaction of all living species, climate, weather, and natural resources that affect human... | <urn:uuid:e78579a4-65b3-4436-8ab3-c7c8558c2ec2> | http://www.like2do.com/learn?s=Natural_environment | 0.9418 | fineweb |
Reshaping Public Policy for the Development of Scottish Windfarms
The Scottish Government is aiming to generate all of its electricity through renewable energy sources by 2020.
Research lead by Dr Jo Smith at the University of Aberdeen has produced a freely available tool – the Windfarm Carbon Calculator – that has con... | <urn:uuid:fce29d1b-6929-4e06-ad74-eee8cf54badb> | https://www.abdn.ac.uk/research/research-impact/carbon-calculating-202.php | 0.9999 | fineweb |
Machine to machine communication, or the internet of things, is on the precipice of taking the world by storm. At its very core, machine to machine communication is the ability to connect everything, I mean everything, through a vast network of sensors and devices which can communicate with each other. The possibilitie... | <urn:uuid:4fe3cde5-c654-488d-a8ad-df1daf420edf> | https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/02/15/this-technology-is-our-only-real-shot-at-addressin.aspx?source=ihpsitcag0000002&lidx=3 | 1 | fineweb |
Friday, June 5, 2015
Global Demand for Timber could Triple by 2050
WWF's Living Forests report research suggests that global demand for timber could triple by 2050. This startling statistic reflects the steadily growing demand for solid wood and paper products in emerging markets as population and economic growth takes... | <urn:uuid:b5bbf723-2851-4623-bb77-93cc16d8c89d> | http://nordautomation.blogspot.fi/2015/06/global-demand-for-timber-could-triple.html | 1 | fineweb |
UC Davis has partnered with PG&E to detect leaks in the company’s gas line.
The university has a research plane with the ability to detect spikes of methane in the air. The technology was tested in Texas. Pilot and UCD project scientist Dr. Steve Conley said it was successful, “Indeed we did see several of the leaks.”
... | <urn:uuid:eddb3e29-70b9-44cc-9763-f1515b020805> | http://fox40.com/2012/11/28/pge-and-uc-davis-partner-to-find-gas-leaks/ | 0.6139 | fineweb |
November 17, 2011
Impacts Of Deforestation Varies By Latitude
Scientists from 20 institutions around the world said that the impact of deforestation on global warming varies with latitude.
Researchers say these new findings, which were published in the journal Nature, call for new climate-monitoring strategies."It depe... | <urn:uuid:652864c0-5879-4664-948b-bd939710ea3b> | http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112424671/impacts-of-deforestation-varies-by-latitude/ | 0.9986 | fineweb |
I believe universities have an obligation to help our students become aware of the need for sustainable systems.
Who wouldn't want to convert 127 million tons of trash into $1.5 billion of energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 146 million tons (CO2e) per year? That is the annual potential for U.S. landfills if ... | <urn:uuid:7cbca7c4-2e7e-4dc9-8c3e-1c9c735ea202> | https://www.bucknell.edu/x63628.xml | 0.9997 | fineweb |
Scientific Proofs That World Warming Doesn’t Exist
Global warming, a phenomenon affiliated with climate switch, presumed for being in existence to the final twenty years, generates an awesome debate at the moment. Whereas some scientist are convinced in its existence, and human activities contributing to its occurrence... | <urn:uuid:36864d48-b3fb-4cf6-bdae-e8cfc1a07884> | http://www.raidessec.com/scientific-proofs-that-world-warming-doesn-t-exist-8/ | 1 | fineweb |
On Monday, President Obama presented the final version of his centerpiece climate plan to much fanfare. But despite the bravado with which the plan was announced, it’s not even designed to produce a significant shift in the uptake of renewable energy.
It turns out that the president’s plan just perpetuates business as ... | <urn:uuid:fbbb41a2-b128-455d-86e9-ed56166018ef> | http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/08/04/obama_s_clean_power_plan_analysis_business_as_usual_for_the_fossil_fuel.html | 0.9999 | fineweb |
247 pages, Figs, tabs
Two of the leading experts on water management argue for a new ecological approach to understanding and managing water resources. Based on per capita needs for an acceptable nutritional diet, they analyse the amounts of water needed for global food production by 2050 and identify potential sources... | <urn:uuid:bbf78b8a-a43b-4a74-be8a-e9f12715ef6f> | https://www.nhbs.com/balancing-water-for-humans-and-nature-book | 0.9847 | fineweb |
Zoysia grass is a warm season turf popular in the southeastern United States for its dense and attractive appearance. It is drought and shade tolerant, but has a tendency to go dormant in the winter months.
Zoysia grass is native to China, Japan, and other parts of southeast Asia. According to the Texas Cooperative Ext... | <urn:uuid:48df9eea-7945-4b2c-8624-5f05af1e13de> | http://www.ehow.com/facts_5758289_temperature-zoysia-grass-turn-brown_.html | 0.8008 | fineweb |
Throughout history we have been highly dependent on the weather for our supply of food. Many civilizations has gone under due to drought, bad harvests and so forth; basically hungry people will revolt, move our at least demand answers from their leaders. This is still true, especially in developing countries. Technolog... | <urn:uuid:aac90af1-f7b2-4b02-a809-00fd88876dbb> | http://lookingovertheshouldersofgiants.blogspot.com/2010/11/food-and-weather.html | 0.9963 | fineweb |
- Plunged: plunged is a word for something falling into something else like a tree falling into water due to a storm
- Unstable: unstable is a word for something not is not strong and could fall over easily
- Hampered: hampered is a word used for expressing that something has stopped progressing
- Dormant: Dormant is a... | <urn:uuid:4481c25b-1f37-4ffd-a8c5-5a69c7e74064> | https://spark.adobe.com/page/GpmZ5e7EXrczH/ | 1 | fineweb |
These systems harness the energy of the sunlight and turn energy, you are going to need to build a solar energy system. Solar Energy Systems Increase Property Value A lot of people consider that is being created and so you know that you are not doing damage to the environment. These systems harness the energy of the su... | <urn:uuid:b57a9b15-31a8-475b-85db-69ec9931a6e1> | https://caseyqete.wordpress.com/2017/05/ | 0.972 | fineweb |
The real opportunity is in rooftop solar, not just renewable megaprojects.
It’s a common sight in rural China: rows and rows of low-rise apartment buildings, oftentopped by solar water heaters the size of kitchen tables. By one estimate, 30 million Chinese households rely upon the devices for hot water. They’re served ... | <urn:uuid:240ec736-7a51-49d2-94fb-94d54c9babab> | http://opinion.followcn.com/2017/06/05/climate-china-think-small/ | 0.9954 | fineweb |
Thursday August 29, 2013 marks the eighth anniversary of the day Hurricane Katrina’s ripped into Louisiana, devastating the Gulf Coast and killing over 1,800 people. Nearly a decade later, as residents and ecosystems struggle to regain balance, the world turns their attention towards New Orleans. The city not only stan... | <urn:uuid:b3fb0e61-25d8-4fb3-b085-1ddbed04981b> | https://inhabitat.com/8-years-after-katrina-strikes-the-gulf-coast-shores-up-for-future-storms/ | 1 | fineweb |
The technology, which uses lightning detection to forecast when and where storms will strike, has already proven successful in demonstration projects in Brazil, Guinea and India. Next year, Earth Networks — one of the companies at the forefront of the technology — will conduct further trials in Haiti.
As more developin... | <urn:uuid:6ee30ad5-64ac-47b3-98bb-d474e464a691> | http://www.scidev.net/sub-saharan-africa/data/news/lightning-detection-promises-improved-storm-forecasts-1.html | 0.895 | fineweb |
The Tibetan Plateau is the highest and most extensive highlands in the world. The great Asian rivers all have their origins on the plateau or in the neighbouring mountains, and what happens on the plateau affects water resources for almost a third of the world’s population.
Professor Deliang Chen leads the Regional Cli... | <urn:uuid:a16f89ed-d084-45d6-b32d-a5473625ade4> | http://sciencefacultymagazine.com/popular-science/tibets-glaciers-affect-billions/ | 0.9999 | fineweb |
Weather: the temporary state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature, humidity, precipitation (snow, rain and hail), wind speed and direction, sunshine hours, visibility and cloud cover.
Climate: the average weather conditions in a given period of time (usually over a period of 3 decades)
A Stevenson’s screen is a bo... | <urn:uuid:4f4a3cf7-4c18-4241-8ccf-c78c535af991> | https://igcsegeography.wordpress.com/revision-materials/weather-climate-ecosystems/ | 0.9794 | fineweb |
The spring of 2002 was a cold one, with Jack Frost making many an unwanted visit to the country’s fruit and vegetable growers.On Friday October 4, 2002, an intense low east of New Zealand moved away and a weak ridge of high pressure spread over the country. Strong southerly winds on the western flank of the low had blo... | <urn:uuid:e435cca8-34fd-41f2-bcc4-a47dbca10269> | https://www.nzgeo.com/issue/063/ | 0.6227 | fineweb |
The frog at the bottom of the well thinks the sky is only as big as what he sees.
On March 2, in an under-reported news event, 1,200 young people marched from Georgetown University to the White House. Nearly 400 of them were arrested for peaceful disobedience — protesting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and Barack O... | <urn:uuid:5e14189c-6c76-4bff-8239-703ec7b386a8> | http://www.bellinghamherald.com/opinion/article22224849.html | 1 | fineweb |
Global Temperature Report: December 2014
Global Temperature Report: December 2014
Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decade
December temperatures (preliminary)
Global composite temp.: +0.32 C (about 0.58 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for December.
Northern Hemisphere: +0.46 C (about 0.83 ... | <urn:uuid:538e918f-31cc-44cc-b370-11638f789c98> | http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth-sciences/2014-was-third-warmest-but-barely.html | 0.945 | fineweb |
Explainer: why are cities warmer than the countryside?
In cities, the air, surface and soil temperatures are almost always warmer than in rural areas. This effect is known as the Urban Heat Island – a term which first came into use in the mid-20th century. Until the 1980s, this effect was considered to have relatively ... | <urn:uuid:b4421196-6571-47e7-bb02-c9f7e435bdae> | http://citiscope.org/story/2016/explainer-why-are-cities-warmer-countryside | 0.9933 | fineweb |
I have to admit I’m pretty excited about this post. Cloud seeding is my single favorite subject in all of meteorology. I love it because what it represents; that as we continue to better understand weather we will become more able to control. Now this may not mean weather-on-demand, but proactive measures to protect li... | <urn:uuid:fa049b9e-b9a4-4237-b5de-604c3c03f37c> | https://wildcardweather.com/2013/06/12/cloud-seeding-a-brief-history-and-an-introduction-to-the-science/ | 0.944 | fineweb |
Image created by Robert A. Rohde / Global Warming Art
Researchers study sea level of the past in order to interpret present trends in the sea’s height, and to forecast future changes. Precise measurements of global sea level began in 1993, after NASA and the French space agency deployed a satellite-borne radar altimete... | <urn:uuid:ff60498e-9062-4707-bb4f-6f4b09375c0a> | http://sealevelstudy.org/climate-basics/sea-level/sea-level-in-the-past | 1 | fineweb |
A new report, released today by GLOBE International and CDKN, calls for more national laws and policies to drive action on climate change, and provides evidence for strong links between countries’ national legislation and their support of an ambitious global climate deal.
The report by Terry Townshend and Adam Matthews... | <urn:uuid:a754cee9-77e5-4427-8935-dbb307cedf17> | https://caribbeanclimateblog.com/2013/08/09/national-climate-change-legislation-the-key-to-more-ambitious-global-agreements/ | 1 | fineweb |
Water Conservation Fosters an Unlikely Relationship
July 15, 2015
The Maasai Women's Dairy Cooperative in Kenya adopts water conservation techniques from India.
Alisia Pajevic is a Volunteer Consultant in India working on the USAID India-Africa Innovation Bridge Program.
Residing around the border of Kenya and Tanzania... | <urn:uuid:503af19a-0fd6-4f00-a782-63f162cdc52c> | http://www.technoserve.org/blog/water-conservation-fosters-an-unlikely-relationship | 0.9791 | fineweb |
Thailand's blueprint to rein in fallout from floods and drought
Hundreds died and businesses lost billion in last year's floods, caused in part by overflow from dams filled to hedge against drought. This year, Thailand is testing different prevention measures.
Bang Luang Dod, Ayutthaya Province, Thailand — Despite seei... | <urn:uuid:3045f040-28b8-46a8-814b-39ed8f8d07fe> | https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2012/0413/Thailand-s-blueprint-to-rein-in-fallout-from-floods-and-drought | 0.9998 | fineweb |
Response To Stress
In this biology worksheet, students look at the reactions of the body when exposed to minor and major stress. The functions of the endocrine system is isolated.
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Conceptualizing Module III
Many researchers focus on one impact of climate change in isolation, but researchers gain... | <urn:uuid:ccaa80ab-29bd-472e-824a-4c0e2e3b62fd> | https://www.lessonplanet.com/teachers/response-to-stress | 0.9917 | fineweb |
Replacing an old incandescent light bulb with new LED lighting might seem like an insignificant way to reduce energy consumption. It’s a simple step, but an effective one that shouldn’t be overlooked.
“Many people consider energy efficiency to be the low-hanging fruit,” says Yu Wang, who studies global energy policy an... | <urn:uuid:33dd6b18-9d1a-4d3e-878f-b2cbaaaa3a7f> | http://www.futurity.org/energy-efficiency-climate-change-1062102-2/ | 0.9996 | fineweb |
Author(s): Bornemann A, Norris RD, Friedrich O, Beckmann B, Schouten S,
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Abstract The Turonian (93.5 to 89.3 million years ago) was one of the warmest periods of the Phanerozoic eon, with tropical sea surface temperatures over 35 degrees C. High-amplitude sea-level changes and positive delta18O ... | <urn:uuid:8b6a5aa8-dddb-4246-a961-03b8a85b5404> | https://www.omicsonline.org/references/isotopic-evidence-for-glaciation-during-the-cretaceous-supergreenhouse-1275720.html | 0.9991 | fineweb |
|Title||Controls on diel soil CO2 flux across moisture gradients in a polar desert|
|Publication Type||Journal Article|
|Year of Publication||2015|
|Authors||Ball, B, Virginia, RA|
The McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica are a climate-sensitive ecosystem, where future projected climate warming will increase liquid water ... | <urn:uuid:ccb16f37-0e74-469c-8010-eb5c39d7e2f6> | http://mcm.lternet.edu/content/controls-diel-soil-co2-flux-across-moisture-gradients-polar-desert | 0.9994 | fineweb |
The 2014/15 Snowpack Drought in Washington State and its Climate Forcing
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
American Meteorological Society
This fifth edition of explaining extreme events of the previous year (2015) from a climate perspective continues to provide evidence that climate change is altering so... | <urn:uuid:cca9d468-ae40-49ee-b8b8-c809366971ed> | http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/psc_stures/2/ | 1 | fineweb |
California legislators recently passed a bill to increase
the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) to require 50% renewables by
2030. That is, by the year 2030, at least half of all electricity consumed in
the state must come from qualified
sources like geothermal, solar, wind, and small hydroelectric. Raising an... | <urn:uuid:2df3d962-0711-48d0-a7eb-8693db40834d> | http://greenenergyinstitute.blogspot.com/2015/09/drought-dries-up-californias-hydropower.html | 0.9988 | fineweb |
CONSERVATION SCIENCE NEWS January 14, 2016Leave a Comment
Focus of the Week – Geoengineering 101
2–CLIMATE CHANGE AND EXTREME EVENTS with special DROUGHT section
3– ADAPTATION and HOPE
The items contained in this update were drawn from www.dailyclimate.org, www.sciencedaily.com, http://news.google.com, www.climateprogr... | <urn:uuid:10975907-d80d-442d-a5f8-2f60b1d86c04> | http://www.pointblue.org/blog/sciencenews/index.php/2016/01/14/conservation-science-news-january-14-2016/ | 0.9989 | fineweb |
A third year of drought in Texas, the biggest U.S. cattle producer, is leaving the national herd at a six-decade low and Tyson Foods and Cargill fighting to boost margins amid excess slaughterhouse capacity.
Almost half the pastures in Texas are in poor or very poor shape because of hot, dry weather, according to the D... | <urn:uuid:87cfc830-4de0-47b6-bcb4-90b90f41ffeb> | http://www.pressdemocrat.com/csp/mediapool/sites/PressDemocrat/News/story.csp?cid=2209711&fid=181 | 0.7542 | fineweb |
By politics.co.uk staff
The energy regulator has announced that UK energy bills could rise up to 60 per cent by 2016 due to climate change.
Britain's reliance on gas imports from overseas and the volatile market could mean that prices rocket and could "pose a threat to security of supply", Ofgem warned in a report out ... | <urn:uuid:4f680941-9c7b-45bb-ba79-31c4635bc75c> | http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2009/10/09/60-per-cent-rise-in-energy-bills-possible | 1 | fineweb |
I wrote about politicians talking science for a blog hosted by Oxford University Press in June 2015. In that posting, I focused on statements by Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz illustrating their misunderstanding of the scientific consensus about climate change. This new posting was inspired by Rand Paul’s answer to a question a... | <urn:uuid:fdb415cc-bce1-4e5a-acfe-65f5c445f19f> | https://critical-thinking.blogs.unr.edu/2015/11/23/more-politicians-talking-science/ | 1 | fineweb |
Solar plane flies over Egypt pyramids on globe-circling trip
Flying through the haze over the pyramids of Giza, an experimental solar-powered airplane arrived in Egypt as part of its globe-circling voyage
CAIRO (AP) — Flying through the haze over the pyramids of Giza, an experimental solar-powered airplane arrived on W... | <urn:uuid:0cf41d3f-a010-4cd3-a706-6922923ee93c> | http://khentiamentiu.blogspot.com/2016/07/solar-plane-flies-over-egypt-pyramids.html | 0.6287 | fineweb |
Nearly 20 years ago, Francisco Zamora, a freshly minted PhD, set out in a small boat with his scientist friends to explore the Colorado River Delta. Heavy El Niño rains in the Colorado River Basin that year flooded the region with water, one of the few times in nearly half a century. The dry delta was temporarily trans... | <urn:uuid:4e57322a-c760-4ff7-8d01-434e4b8ae27f> | https://sonoraninstitute.org/2017/m323/ | 0.8719 | fineweb |
Help the kids make scientific discoveries at home with candy. With a little hot water, you can make these Pop Rocks really pop!
Time: 10 minutes
Skill level: Get a grown-up
Hot water (about 140º F)
A clear bottle with a narrow top, such as a water bottle with a flat bottom, a clear drinking glass, or a microwave-safe b... | <urn:uuid:9dca3b96-931a-42b9-a3b1-192549bdbe15> | http://www.sandiegofamily.com/for-the-kids/family-science/1757-popcorn-pop-rocks | 0.7016 | fineweb |
Peter Thomson: It will likely be years before the Philippines recovers from the devastation brought by Haiyan, but imagine would might have happened if a storm as massive as that had hit here in the U.S. That’s what Kerry Emanuel has been doing for the last couple of weeks. Emanuel is a Tropical Storm Specialist at MIT... | <urn:uuid:286caebe-7397-4fb5-84e1-b333434b3d46> | https://www.pri.org/node/61877/popout | 0.9994 | fineweb |
Renewable energy projects are creating ten times more jobs than similar-sized fossil fuel projects, according to a new study from the UK Energy Research Centre.
The report used data from 50 different studies published since 2000 on the relationship between green energy investment and job creation in the USA, Europe and... | <urn:uuid:bbfa8d79-9418-45d3-8819-f6d95fa91307> | http://callforclimateaction.org/2014/11/12/renewable-energy-creates-ten-times-jobs-fossil-fuels/ | 0.9989 | fineweb |
Not only Leonardo di Caprio agrees on that climate change and reducing plastic waste should be a priority for political leaders and businesses. Without getting political, what are some simple steps you can take in your everyday life to reduce chemicals and plastic waste?
- Use a reusable glass bottle. In 2015 London de... | <urn:uuid:424a6ade-9945-4899-9c2e-24aa64b7c6a3> | http://theblondeyogi.com/reduce-chemicals-every-day-life/ | 0.9541 | fineweb |
Inside a balmy greenhouse in central Illinois, a boisterous but focused pair of researchers are seeding experimental plants. The scientists moisten the soil and pack it into pots, then carefully tip tiny dark-brown tobacco seeds out of glass vials. In the months that follow, the researchers will move the plants outside... | <urn:uuid:6daf3dc0-091c-430a-8dcb-28186de5464b> | https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608535/to-feed-the-world-improve-photosynthesis/ | 0.9191 | fineweb |
By Jessica Mitchell
Save the planet. This is just the motivation that ultimately drives the research of Professor Berend Smit, who says that through his research “in the long term, we may actually save the planet.”
Berend Smit is currently Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at the University of California,... | <urn:uuid:41769b2a-1517-4f72-a89d-2ebc7c4b8602> | https://blog.frontiersin.org/2015/12/14/frontiers_science_hero_berend_smit/ | 0.9999 | fineweb |
My plan for Thursdays’ climate science posts is to prove a negative: that global warming can’t not be happening.
Here’s the thing, though. I don’t understand the science behind it well enough to start proving negatives yet.
That’s why I’m going to take you through the science first and understand it myself, before I st... | <urn:uuid:65816fb9-f638-47ed-8fb8-9f9f9428fea2> | https://scienceatyourdoorstep.com/2017/03/16/earth-as-a-greenhouse/ | 1 | fineweb |
Global warming may be normal at this point in glacial cycle
Happened last time (followed by Glacier UK), say profs
Opinion German and Russian scientists say that it is normal for an interglacial period like the one just ending to finish with one or more brief - in geological terms - spells of warming before the glacier... | <urn:uuid:f6ad7479-1e3a-43b4-b5e0-e69db681f763> | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/03/global_warming_seen_before/ | 1 | fineweb |
By AMANDA LITTLETON
The New England Food Vision has a bold goal of 50 by 60. That is 50 percent of the food consumed in New England will be produced in New England by 2060. Currently, in the state of New Hampshire, all the food our hard working farmers produce is estimated to be about 4-6 percent of food demand.
Accord... | <urn:uuid:7fc863ae-87e9-424c-b293-a86c58c79417> | https://www.greatriverfoodcoop.com/2016/05/27/farmers-face-climatic-changes-loss-of-farmland-but-look-for-opportunities/ | 0.9684 | fineweb |
Perhaps you’ve seen one of the recent barrage of articles claiming that fears of an imminent peak and decline in world oil production have either been dispelled (because we actually have plenty of oil) or are misplaced (because climate change is the only environmental problem we should be concerned with). I’m not buyin... | <urn:uuid:64b2e9ce-2478-4dd1-99f2-5789f2a0c948> | http://globalenergysecurity.blogspot.com/2014/09/why-peak-oil-refuses-to-die.html | 0.9571 | fineweb |
Warming Means Nicer U.S. Weather, But It Won’t Last
As the world has warmed over the past few decades, climate scientists have increasingly sounded the alarm over the potentially catastrophic impacts that warming could have on the world’s weather. But in the U.S., that message may have been lost on most Americans becau... | <urn:uuid:a7fd5d06-8420-46a2-bd21-861ccadfbd6f> | http://www.climatecentral.org/news/more-pleasant-us-weather-but-it-wont-last-20263 | 1 | fineweb |
This blog post by Jonathan Bosch, an SSCP DTP student, is part of a series on Responding to Environmental Change, an event organised by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funded Doctoral Training Partnerships at Imperial (SSCP), and the University of Reading and the University of Surrey (SCENARIO).
Natural... | <urn:uuid:09842c6e-1c7f-41d3-81cc-ed12dfe5512b> | https://granthaminstitute.com/2015/03/30/benefiting-from-natural-resources/ | 0.9385 | fineweb |
Nova Scotia, PEI Emerge as Wind Energy Powerhouses
Canada’s two smallest provinces are emerging as renewable and wind energy powerhouses, DeSmog Canada reports, producing about 25% of their combined electricity from clean sources and more than 10% from wind.
While Ontario is the country’s wind power leader by volume, t... | <urn:uuid:e149eef8-2c9e-4d41-87bd-f0b33bb7958e> | http://theenergymix.com/2016/05/20/nova-scotia-pei-emerge-as-wind-energy-powerhouses/ | 0.9999 | fineweb |
Climate has often been referred to as the average condition of the weather. In
many respects this is a useful definition since it emphasizes the habitual as
against the day variations in conditions. Climate may be regarded as the
combined behaviour of certain climate elements; mainly, temperature, humidity,
precipitati... | <urn:uuid:814dda9b-1784-4550-bd33-ac56bda21631> | http://www.ess.co.at/GAIA/CASES/ZIM/climate.html | 0.9999 | fineweb |
Only 62 countries among 159 with full data in ClimatePositions are without Climate Debt (see the ‘Ranking‘). The 62 countries (Group-62) are in alphabetic order: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Rep., Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Brazzavil... | <urn:uuid:c4319091-08ae-4385-af05-8b92f27c47b5> | http://climatepositions.com/category/population/ | 0.9999 | fineweb |
The government would issue permits to emit carbon dioxide, and the number of permits each year would decline -- that's the cap part. Industry could then either invest in cleaner technology, or buy the permits from one another -- that's the trade.
Not only is a cap and trade plan supported by both Barack Obama and John ... | <urn:uuid:55f12974-9ee4-4292-a1c9-7e0186960a30> | http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/news/0807/gallery.energy_solutions/4.html | 0.9902 | fineweb |
Bermuda’s weather climate is sub-tropical, mild in the winter, spring and autumn (fall), but from late May to October, can be uncomfortably hot and with especially high humidity. The hottest part of the year is from May through mid-October, when temperatures hover between 75°F / 23°C and 85°F / 29°C. Humidity, often we... | <urn:uuid:2718027f-26cc-45c4-bdb2-6c398c37fcf7> | http://www.bermuda.com/weather/ | 0.9957 | fineweb |
Climate Summary for Florida - June 2011
Prepared by Preston Leftwich, David F. Zierden, and Melissa Griffin
Florida Climate Center
The Florida State University
Note: Comparisons to normal in this summary are based on averages for the period 1971-2000. Beginning July 1, 2011, averages for the period 1981-2010 are the no... | <urn:uuid:8f48c8f8-faf4-4a00-a419-f8c9c6196496> | http://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-june-2011 | 0.9983 | fineweb |
Dr Anthony Horton looks at the escalating frequency of natural disasters and the economic consequences as outlined in a recent Deloitte Access Economics report.
ACCORDING TO A Deloitte Access Economics report commissioned by the Australian Business Roundtable for Disaster Resilience and Safer Communities, natural disas... | <urn:uuid:40e0d351-1064-4c64-969d-6436659035d6> | https://independentaustralia.net/environment/environment-display/natural-disasters-in-australia-to-cost-33-billion-per-year-by-20501,8761 | 0.9979 | fineweb |
Rising Sea Levels
Trying to find out more about rising sea levels?
Sea level changes can be local (i.e. isostatic) or global (eustatic).
Isostatic changes in the sea level can be measured by the local mean sea level (LMSL). Changes in the height of the sea relative to a particular land surface are being observed over t... | <urn:uuid:e311507b-2dde-4c3d-a606-719a8f1864ad> | http://www.all-recycling-facts.com/rising-sea-levels.html | 1 | fineweb |
Website goes live for MSG-1 launch
A new series of sophisticated weather satellites, Meteosat Second Generation (MSG), will bring big changes in the way we observe the weather. MSG will pinpoint extreme weather events so forecasters can predict, for example, hurricanes and severe storms with far greater certainty. You ... | <urn:uuid:ee39b1ca-fb4e-4dc4-a499-f50909ecadf4> | http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Meteosat_Second_Generation/Website_goes_live_for_MSG-1_launch | 0.894 | fineweb |
Now, coming to the most important part of this post. What is it that we can do? The documentary states:
My favorite points, the ones with more relevance in India have been highlighted in red.
- Replace a regular incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb (cfl).
CFLs use 60% less energy than a regular... | <urn:uuid:f3751e9d-95b9-47a4-9bbc-074e404fe7f5> | https://itsafreeworld.wordpress.com/tag/al-gore/ | 0.9997 | fineweb |
Coral bleaching driven by climate change has been recorded as far west as the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, devastating reefs in the region. It comes days after Australian scientists announced that 35% of corals in the northern and central sections of the iconic Great Barrier Reef were dead as a result of bleaching. Th... | <urn:uuid:096e11b9-577a-4f7d-bb75-ff1e0e0dcb20> | https://amp.ibtimes.co.uk/climate-changes-impact-indian-ocean-reefs-laid-bare-by-haunting-pictures-1563058 | 0.9999 | fineweb |
Note: This is part four of a four-part series about the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The agency, its policies, and the science that underpins those regulations have been under scrutiny in recent weeks. In fact, the agency is in danger of being drastically cut back or dismantled entirely. You can... | <urn:uuid:1800a247-aec6-43f9-9367-78ed9b902312> | https://eideard.com/2017/03/12/ | 0.9757 | fineweb |
We’ve had our first taste of El Niño rains; four inches in three days! That’s almost half the rainfall we normally see in a year. Fortunately, we prepared ahead of time. The plumber came out a few weeks ago to clear in-ground drains. The tree trimmer lightened the canopies on our largest trees. The rain gutters got cle... | <urn:uuid:4cdaff90-fd80-448b-a6a7-ab03fe4c0169> | https://otaywater.gov/conservation/el-nino-finally-arrived-now/ | 0.8593 | fineweb |
Lone Star Healthy Streams Final Report
K. Wagner, L. Redmon
Runoff of Escherichia coli (E. coli) and other fecal indicator bacteria from grazing lands has been identified as a significant source of bacterial contamination in need of reductions to improve water quality. Development of best management practices to addres... | <urn:uuid:e23e84b1-872f-4ad3-9bab-069b1ae6f695> | http://twri.tamu.edu/publications/reports/2011/tr-410/ | 0.5222 | fineweb |
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