WASHINGTON (AP) — Like a chronic disease spreading through the body, “dead zones” with too little oxygen for life are expanding in the world’s oceans.
“We have to realize that hypoxia is not a local problem,” said Robert J. Diaz of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. “It is a global problem, and it has severe [...]
Offsetting is popular because it makes people feel much better about taking long-haul flights or driving gas-guzzling vehicles. “They are being misled,” says Oakley. “Most carbon offsetting companies are making a killing.” Climate Care, the company David Cameron pays his green-guilt tax to, has recently been bought by the investment bank J P Morgan. In [...]
Satellite imagery from the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder reveals that a 13,680 square kilometer (5,282 square mile) ice shelf has begun to collapse because of rapid [...]
red Orbit: An Atlantic storm that kicked up huge waves reaching as high 30 feet has caused the beaches of Barbados to become littered with pieces of broken coral.
Some of the white coral had washed up in chunks as heavy as seven pounds, with their polyps rubbed away by the rough surf.
Scientists reported Sunday that [...]
Summary: As American economy collapses, how can we build new energy system? Wall St plans to make billions from climate change. Buffett invisible on climate; and RAN on investment activism.
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Reaction to Bear Stearns, Fed bailouts, economic [...]
Emergency management spokeswoman Renee Preslar says the Cargill Meat Solutions plant exploded around 2 p.m. Sunday, injuring an unknown number of people. She says the ammonia leak has forced an evacuation of an unknown number of people who live southeast of the plant.
The capitalist accommodation of greenism proves, paradoxically, the imminent catastrophe of capitalism. This dissertation clarifies how greenism remains in complicity with the sustainability of capital against nature, not of man in nature. Environmentalism prods capitalism to a reflective recognition of its own limits, while ecologism dilutes everyday struggles in the fantasies of back-to-nature claims.
1. Amazon Rainforest
2. North Atlantic Current
3. Greenland Ice Sheet
4. Ozone Hole
5. Antarctic Circumpolar Current
6. Sahara Desert
7. Tibetan Plateau
8. Asian Monsoon
9. Methane Clathrates
10. Salinity Valves
11. El Nino
12. West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Sierra Leone has banned timber exports. The Forestry Ministry says foreign logging companies are destroying forests in the country’s north. Rapid deforestation has led to soil erosion, forcing local communities off the land. The ban will be lifted when a policy is introduced to ensure local communities can benefit from logging.
BAGHDAD - The flakes melted quickly. But the smiles, wonder and excited story-swapping went on throughout the day: It snowed in Baghdad.
The morning flurry Friday was the first in memory in the heart of the Iraqi capital.
Stabroek News: Following recent investigations of continuous pollution of the Essequibo River by some operators who discharge tailings waste into the waterway, more stringent actions against miners guilty of such breaches will be taken by the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC).
“The GGMC, both the mines officers and environmental officers and technicians have to go [...]
Iran-Desert-Snow
Governor of District of Shahdad in mid-southern province of Kerman said snow today for the first time whitened the central desert of Loot.
Mohammad Momeni told IRNA on Monday snow covered two villages of Karimabad and Hashemabad which are usually covered by dunes.