Arctic seed vault sets record, over 500,000 samples.
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Other NewsEditorialsIs global warming cooling as an issue?One cold, miserable winter won’t end the debate about global warning, but the fact is the climate change issue lost its edge when scientists were found to be anything but unanimous about the world’s fate in a future global furnace. Sioux City Journal 10 Mar On a Redwood City development.Ecologically sensitive salt ponds on the outskirts of Redwood City are the wrong place to build 12,000 new homes at sea level surrounded by levees. In a time of global warming, the Bay Area should be running away from that kind of development, not approving it. San Francisco Chronicle 04 Mar Don't let nation's snow blind you on climate change.So let it snow. But let's also unleash far more investment in new energy sources. Washingtonians getting stuck in snowbanks shouldn't have to mean everyone else has to get stuck in the status quo. Detroit Free Press 20 Feb It's still a threat.We must - individually and collectively - become more energy efficient while simultaneously supporting development of renewable energy sources that will sustain, not destroy, Earth. Miami Herald 20 Feb Validation required.Transparency and quality control are essential in the highly uncertain business of assessing the impact of climate change on a regional scale. It is intrinsic to this research, after all, that scientists' best judgments will be subject to change. Nature 18 Feb A complicated argument.If the Maldives and lower Manhattan are destined to go under water, we won’t be able to avert that outcome with a Copenhagen greenhouse gas policy. When and if such threats become real, we’ll be obliged to take protective action for the particular problems at hand. Columbia Tribune 17 Feb Climate change: Snow won't slow warming.Whatever doubts there may be about the credibility of climate claims, they are not an excuse to act irresponsibly. Lakeland Ledger 10 Feb Climate resolution a lot of hot air.We note another time-waster in the Utah Legislature with the House's passage of House Joint Resolution 12, which purports to smack down so-called climate alarmists for their inability to connect global warming with the current downturn in global temperatures. Ogden Standard-Examiner 10 Feb OpinionReport: The case for global warming stronger than ever.The fact that climate change evidence that was "very likely" a few years ago has now been declared likelier still by the comprehensive Met Office report suggests that the evidence for human-caused climate change is getting better all the time. Time Magazine 13 Mar Sea birds and climate change.In the last few years, I've seen a cascade of reports about the sad state of birds. Rare birds are declining. Common birds are declining. They're losing habitat. They stand to be heavily impacted by climate change. Philadelphia Inquirer 13 Mar The reality of warming.Critics fail to distinguish between weather change and climate change. The distinction is important because unless it is understood, the arguments about global warming can stray from science, becoming hostage to political ideologies and simplistic reasoning. Cape Cod Times 13 Mar Why are climate scientists losing the American public?Even as predictions about the possible effects of climate change get more troubling each day, Americans are increasingly skeptical of the science. This is depressing news for those who have spent years building the case for public concern. Washington Post 12 Mar The new world order.Cleo Paskal, a London-based journalist and a scholar at the think tank Chatham House, presents a fascinating geopolitical chessboard, on which the United States and the European Union face off against China and Russia as climate change takes hold. Nature 11 Mar Climate-change deniers take a lesson from anti-evolution activists.The similarities between the anti-evolution movement and climate change-denial seem to get more numerous by the day. Washington Post 10 Mar Lake Turkana ecosystem: Development for ecology?Lake Turkana is the world’s largest desert lake. The lake's location in a fragile environment makes it particularly prone to climate change. A more immediate threat though is the latest hydroelectric dam on the lake’s permanent inflow, the Gibe III. Nairobi East African 09 Mar The global crisis of water scarcity.In recent years, climate change seems to have elbowed out other environmental issues to become the number one global problem. Ceylon Daily News 09 Mar |
Clean Water Act deal opens path to acidification abatement.
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U.S. EPA settled a lawsuit yesterday by agreeing to use the Clean Water Act to address ocean acidification – a move that some see as opening a side door to federal curbs on greenhouse gases that scientists link to problems in the marine environment. Greenwire 13 Mar US to lobby for endangered species listing for polar bear.This weekend, the US will warn that the threat from climate change to the survival of the polar bear is so great that the world must grant it the highest possible protection. London Guardian 13 Mar Farmers urged to adjust to changing weather patterns.The government has called on farmers to adjust to changing weather patterns and become more scientific in their approach to agriculture. Harare Herald 13 Mar Chatham plans for natural hazards.You can be skeptical of climate change and still advocate that Chatham County plan for rising sea levels and increased flooding. Wilmington Island resident Marianne Heimes made that point at a workshop sponsored by NOAA to help the county develop a road map for coastal risk. Savannah Morning News 13 Mar Fighting climate change.Hotter, drier summers. Intense winter storms. Rising sea levels. Craig Cornu, with South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, says conditions along the coast are changing. Coos Bay World 13 Mar Pelicans won't flow south.
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In January, scientists were stunned to see hundreds of brown pelicans that normally fly south before winter lingering on the Oregon coast. Now it's March and dozens are still here. They think climate change may be the reason. Portland Oregonian 13 Mar Land loss, climate change endangering La. birds.The combined forces of climate change and land loss pose a major threat to Louisiana bird species, especially those that depend on the disappearing coast, according to a report released Thursday, Thibodaux Daily Comet 13 Mar Louisiana's birds threatened by climate change, report says.Climate change poses a threat to most U.S. bird species, including many that live and visit Louisiana's rapidly disappearing coastline, according to a new report released Thursday by ornithologists. New Orleans Times-Picayune 13 Mar Report: Climate change would hurt coastal birds.To a long list of predators and threats, the western snowy plover, a sparrow-sized bird that nests in sandy beaches on the Sonoma coast, has a new nemesis: climate change. Santa Rosa Press Democrat 13 Mar Birds are losing the climate change battle.A new report is confirming the fears many conservationists and wildlife experts have been warning about for years: Climate change is seriously harming our nation's bird population. Bay Area NBC 13 Mar Lake Erie water quality worsening.Lake Erie was shrouded in fog Friday, but its future waters might be a muddier brown or an eerier bright green due to persistent pollution and climate change, experts suggest. Monroe News 13 Mar Shifting ice a problem for Antarctica penguins.Shifting sea ice around Antarctica is already disrupting penguin colonies as the world's climate warms, according to a new report by a team of polar scientists. San Francisco Chronicle 13 Mar How will the world really end?
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Predictions about the end of the world have been around since...well, the beginning of the world. What are the most plausible scenarios for humanity's demise? And how soon? A paleontologist, an astrophysicist, a nuclear terrorism expert, and others offer a menu of doomsday scenarios. Big Think 12 Mar EPA to consider how states can address rising acid levels in oceans after lawsuit settlment.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it will consider ways the states can address rising acidity levels in oceans, which pose a serious threat to shellfish and other marine life. Associated Press 12 Mar Climate change threatens migratory birds, report says.Global climate change poses a significant threat to migratory bird populations, which are already stressed by the loss of habitat and environmental pollution, according to a report released Thursday. Associated Press 12 Mar Searching for the wildest strawberries to save crop diversity .Climate change is expected to negatively affect agriculture, with crops in parts of the world having to deal with warmer temperatures, droughts and rising salinity of water. ClimateWire 12 Mar Floating golf course to be built in Maldives.The island nation of the Maldives, confronted by rising oceans and a landscape that is just a few feet above sea level, is poised to build a floating golf course and convention centre in the first off-shore development to confront the threat of global warming. London Independent 12 Mar NASA salvages vintage data.
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Once forgotten or erased, 1960s-era satellite images are being salvaged to aid climate science. Science 12 Mar Ocean acidification: Another path to EPA rules on carbon emissions?Move over global warming. Ocean acidification is getting its day in court. Christian Science Monitor 12 Mar Interior Secretary talks about birds and wildlife refuges in Austin.U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar unveiled the 2010 State of the Birds report, which warned that climate change threatens the habitat and survival of many birds, including those in Central Texas. Austin American-Statesman 12 Mar Coastal and ocean birds most at risk from global warming.Birds that rely on oceans and live on coastlines are more vulnerable to climate change than birds found in any other habitats in America, according to a new report released Thursday by federal biologists and other researchers. San Jose Mercury News 12 Mar Mapping out the future of Alpine glaciers.The Alps are known as “Europe’s water tower”. Their glaciers provide 40 percent of Europe’s fresh water. But these glaciers are facing an uncertain future, as studies show that temperatures in the Alps are increasing at a rate that’s more than twice the global average. Euronews 12 Mar Central American shrimp, lobster fast disappearing.Illegal fishing and climate change are decimating shrimp and lobster populations in Central America, threatening a two-billion-dollar industry and 136,000 jobs, regional experts said Thursday. Agence France-Presse 12 Mar Out of step.
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Recent changes in the seasonal timing of biological events such as flowering and migration have been linked to warmer temperatures. Now a study shows that such seasonal shifts are becoming increasingly common in the UK and could wreak havoc across ecosystems as they disturb the delicate balance of nature. Nature 11 Mar Souring seas.
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Marine plankton survived a period of intense ocean warming and acidification some 55 million years ago. But their future descendants might not be so lucky, suggests a new study. Nature 11 Mar Settling the science on Himalayan glaciers.The remote glaciers of the Himalayan mountains have been the subject of much controversy, yet little research. Mason Inman looks at the clues scientists have garnered on the fate of these glaciers from ground- and space-based studies. Nature 11 Mar Seas' acidity threatens life, livelihoods, film says.Oceans are becoming more acidic, which poses another threat in Virginia to oysters, clams and crabs as well as to water quality and coastal ecosystems, a panel of scientists and environmentalists warned Wednesday. Hampton Roads Virginian-Pilot 11 Mar Flourishing forests.A recent growth spurt among forests in the Northern Hemisphere may be the result of climate change, suggests new research. Until now, regrowth as a part of natural ecosystem recovery after disturbances such as logging or clearing has obscured the influence of climate change on recent boosts in forest biomass. Nature 11 Mar |