By Bruce Henderson, Charlotte ObserverJanuary 16, 2011 MANNS HARBOR, N.C. — The sea that sculpted North Carolina’s coast, from its arc of barrier islands to the vast, nurturing sounds, is reshaping it once again. Water is rising three times faster on the N.C. coast than it did a century ago as warming oceans expand and […]
Higher ocean levels force Ventura officials to move facilities inland, an action that is expected to recur along the coast as the ocean rises over the next century. By Tony Barboza, Los Angeles TimesJanuary 16, 2011 At Surfers Point in Ventura, California is beginning its retreat from the ocean. Construction crews are removing a crumbling […]
Al Jazeera and Agencies Last Modified: 05 Jan 2011 20:56 GMT A 26-year-old Tunisian man who set off a wave of protests after attempting to commit suicide by setting himself on fire last month has died of third-degree burns in hospital, his relatives and human rights groups have said. Mohamed Bouazizi died at 5:30 pm […]
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent; editing by David StampOSLO | Sun Jan 16, 2011 8:45pm GMT (Reuters) – Shrinking ice and snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere is reflecting ever less sunshine back into space in a previously underestimated mechanism that could add to global warming, a study showed. Satellite data indicated that Arctic sea […]
RedOrbit Staff & Wire ReportsSaturday, 15 January 2011, 07:00 CST The price of fighting climate change is even higher than what was estimated in a 2006 study, said British economist Nicholas Stern, who earned an estimated 500,000-dollar Spanish award on Friday for his work. Stern won the BBVA Foundation award for measuring the economic cost […]
By Jonathan HarwoodJanuary 14, 2011 Scientists have discovered more evidence of global warming after the sun rose two days early in Greenland, apparently because melting glaciers have lowered the horizon. The polar night usually ends on January 13, but this year residents of Ilulissat, the third largest settlement in Greenland, were surprised to see dawn […]
By Johann HariMonday, Jan. 10, 2011, at 6:51 AM ET When Jonathan Watts was a child, he was warned: “If everyone in China jumps at exactly the same time, it will shake the earth off its axis and kill us all.” Three decades later, he stood in the gray sickly smog of Beijing, wheezing and […]
Population trends for northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis) and key predators off eastern Newfoundland and Labrador. The biomass series for shrimp (■, left Yaxis) is represented by the CPUE index for NAFO Division 2HJ3K. The biomass series for fish predators (♦, right Y-axis), obtained from published documents in most cases, are given as tons x 103 […]
By Mark Kinver Science and environment reporter, BBC News 13 January 2011 Last updated at 08:20 ET The frequency of heavy rainfall during the autumn and winter over the uplands of North England has “significantly” increased, a study has shown. A team of UK researchers said the shift coincided with an increase in westerly weather […]
Contact: Genevieve Maul, Genevieve.maul@admin.cam.ac.ukUniversity of Cambridge Wild red deer on the Isle of Rum, which were featured in the BBC TV series Autumnwatch, are rutting earlier in the year, a study shows. Scientists believe the annual rutting season on the Isle of Rum could be changing because of warming spring and summer temperatures. The study […]
