Showing posts with label III Earth Rape. Show all posts
Showing posts with label III Earth Rape. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
No more glaciers? Imagine that The Seattle Times
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No more glaciers? Imagine that. Eight years until "Glacier National Park" is just "National Park." The ice had been the lure to get the family to go see the great glaciers before they're gone. But I misjudged how far gone they already are. As did the ...
Monday, August 13, 2012
Stakeholders Scale Up Reforestation Crusade in CRR AllAfrica.com
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Speaking at the site, the Regional Agriculture director , Ousman Jammeh underscored the importance of tree planting, which he said will serve as wind breakers in addition to controlling erosion, and improve soil fertility. He lamented that soil ...
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Environmental cost of Keystone project too great South Bend Tribune
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There already are numerous examples of bitumen pipelines rupturing. The Keystone XL pipeline is supposed to be built over the Ogallala Aquifer, which extends from Montana to New Mexico.
Thousands file claims after Chevron refinery fire Boston.com
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RICHMOND,
Calif. (AP) - Several thousand Richmond residents have filed legal
claims against Chevron Corp., seeking compensation for a refinery fire
that fouled the region's air for hours and sent more than 4000 people to
seek medical care for breathing ...
U.S. fossil fuel drought causing global increase in poverty WWLP
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NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) - An increase in the price of grains is putting a dent in the global
food reserve and consumers' pockets, and it largely has to do with the
drought that much of the nation is dealing with right now.
Global Food Reserves Falling as Drought Wilts Crops
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NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) - An increase in the price of grains is putting a dent in the global
food reserve and consumers' pockets, and it largely has to do with the
drought that much of the nation is dealing with right now.
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NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) - An increase in the price of grains is putting a dent in the global
food reserve and consumers' pockets, and it largely has to do with the
drought that much of the nation is dealing with right now.
Friday, August 10, 2012
Drought Cited as US Predicts Corn Yield at 17-Year Low New York Times
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WASHINGTON
- With the worst drought in a half century decimating crops in the
United States, the government on Friday slashed its estimate of the
annual corn yield by about 17 percent in the last month to the lowest
level since 1995.
Amid drought, USDA cuts corn crop estimate to 17-year
World's Largest Butterfly Threatened by Shrinking Habitat and Deforestation Scientific American
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But the Queen Alexandra's butterfly, named after the wife of King Edward VII of England, faces an ever-shrinking habitat due to deforestation in its only home, the rainforests of PNG, and conservationists fear that the species may soon run out of room ...
Where the world's running out of water, in one map Washington Post
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And with the global population
soaring past 7 billion, this is one of the biggest questions the world
is now facing. Can better conservation practices and new technology
enable farmers to keep feeding the planet without depleting its most
important ...
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Anti MTR activists charged The Lincoln Journal
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HAMLIN - A number of activists, opposed to mountaintop removal mining, were arrested on misdemeanor charges in Lincoln County, Saturday, July 28, 2012.
UN Agency: Global Food Prices up Due to US Drought ABC News
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A
UN agency says an increase in the cost of grain and sugar helped to
drive up global food prices in July, as a widespread US drought
continues punishing corn crops.
Indigenous Peoples Are Being Pushed to the End of Their World Jakarta Globe
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Globally, although the indigenous peoples represent only about 5 percent of the world's population, they occupy one-fifth of entire earth's territory from the Arctic to the South Pacific.
Boston Underwater: Global Warming Is Going to Gobble Up the Go-To Spots Say ... BostInno
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A powerful storm surge could put some of Boston's most beloved landscapes under water if global warming isn't addressed, according to state elected officials.
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Nearly one in four people food insecure CattleNetwork.com
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The
authors project a percentage decline from 24 to 21 percent food
insecure, but the actual number of food-insecure people will increase by
37 million, reflecting growth in the global population. For this report, the agency defines food insecurity as ...
Global warming: Diseased trees may be major methane source Summit County Citizens Voice
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It also has a global warming
potential equivalent to 18 percent of the carbon being sequestered by
these forests, reducing their climate benefit of carbon sequestration by
nearly one-fifth.
Hydroelectricity Production Is Vulnerable to Climate Change CleanTechnica
Hydroelectricity Production Is Vulnerable to Climate Change
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“Climate change
is expected to affect the quantity and timing of water flow in the
state,” Madani said. “Under dry climate warming, the state will receive
less precipitation, with most of it as rain instead of snow, impacting
hydropower supply and ...
July is hottest month on record – human-caused climate change cited Reno Gazette Journal
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The record came on the heels of a study by NASA's James Hansen, linking increased extreme weather events with climate change. He found that the odds of hitting record temperatures from the 1950s to 1980s was about 1 in 300 but has now dropped to 1 in ...
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by more than 20% Nature.com
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Deforestation down Deforestation
in the Brazilian Amazon fell by more than 20% between August 2011 and
July 2012, according to an early - and uncertain - analysis released on 2
August by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research.
Oyster industry struggles to adapt to climate change Mother Nature Network
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