Residents stand on the porch of their home at the edge of landslide damage in the Caleme neighbourhood of Teresopolis, Brazil. Felipe Dana / AP Deadly flooding and mudslides in Brazil SAO PAULO, Brazil— ReutersPublished Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011 9:14AM EST Brazilian officials say the floods and mudslides that hit Rio de Janeiro state last […]
23 January 2011 (BBC) – Parts of the south-eastern Australian state of Victoria are braced for the approach of a giant lake of floodwater 55 miles (90km) long, as Australia’s severe flooding problems continue. Deputy PM Wayne Swan said the recent floods would rank as one of Australia’s most costly natural disasters ever. More than […]
ScienceDaily (Jan. 22, 2011) — Around one in four Montrealers take some kind of anti-depressant, and according to new research, the drugs are passing into the waterways and affecting fish. The findings are internationally significant as the city’s sewage treatment system is similar to that in use in other major cities, and moreover, it is […]
By ELISABETH ROSENTHALJanuary 21, 2011 KINANGOP, Kenya — Simon Joakim Kiiru remembers a time not long ago when familiar birdsongs filled the air here and life was correlated with bird sightings. His lush, well-tended homestead is in the highlands next to the Aberdare National Park, one of the premier birding destinations in the world. When […]
For years researchers have watched plants and animals migrate to cooler quarters in response to global warming. But a new study suggests some plants are moving downhill, drawn by increased precipitation. By Pete Spotts, Staff writerJanuary 21, 2011 For years, scientists have recorded the gradual march of plants and animals up mountain slopes and toward […]
Caption by Holli RiebeekJanuary 12, 2011 Torrential rain pounded southeast Queensland, Australia, on January 10, 2011, bringing devastating flash floods to several communities just west of Brisbane. This image, made from the Multi-Satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) based on data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), shows the intense rain on January 10. The storm […]
By Tiffany Stecker and ClimatewireJanuary 18, 2011 Atlantic cod is yet another species being threatened by climate change. According to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, warmer summer waters off the Norwegian coast are dwarfing the growth of the fish. The researchers culled data from surveys dating back […]
By Barbara Mae Dacanay, Bureau ChiefPublished: 00:00 January 22, 2011 Manila: Climate change which has shortened the distance between the occurrence of El Niño (drought) and La Niña (continuous rains) have imperilled already scant Philippine rice production in 2010, a trend which is expected to continue in 2011, the department of agriculture said in a […]
MELBOURNE, 21 Jan 2011 (AFP) — Australia’s flood crisis deepened Saturday with a giant “inland sea” threatening more communities in the southeast, as officials continued the grim search for bodies in worst-hit Queensland. Sandbagging was underway in some villages in Victoria, where weeks of floods have affected as much as one-third of the state, with […]
By DARREN GOODE & ROBIN BRAVENDER1/20/11 4:32 AM EST Top staff members for key House and Senate Republicans met in a closed-door session Tuesday with energy industry interests to work on strategy to handcuff the Obama administration’s climate change agenda. With the backing of GOP caucus leaders, aides for House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred […]
