Areas that will experience more than a 5% reduction in length of growing period (LGP). LGP is defined by the average number of growing days per year, in which a growing day is one in which the average air temperature is greater than 6°C and the ratio of actual to potential evapo-transpiration exceeds 0.35 (Jones […]
10 March 2012 (Radio Australia) – Towns across Australia’s eastern states of New South Wales and Victoria are starting the clean up, after more than a week of record flooding. Three quarters of NSW has been affected by the floods, and 46 areas have been declared disaster zones. Flood waters are receding in much of […]
By Richard Engel, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent7 March 2012 It’s what an insurance company might call “a write-off” – a place that seems beyond salvation, and certainly too expensive to fix. I’d never thought of land that way. You smash up a car, and then it’s compacted into a square and maybe even recycled. […]
By Deanna Conners 8 Mar 2012 Ice cover on the Great Lakes has decreased by 71% over the past four decades according to a new study published in February 2012 in the Journal of Climate. The Great Lakes, located in eastern North America, contain about 20% of the world’s surface supply of freshwater. The ice […]
9 March 2012 (AP) – Fearing that climate change could wipe out their entire Pacific archipelago, the leaders of Kiribati are considering an unusual backup plan: moving the populace to Fiji. Kiribati President Anote Tong told The Associated Press on Friday that his Cabinet this week endorsed a plan to buy nearly 6,000 acres on […]
29 February 2012 (USAgNet) – Global reserves of soybeans are shrinking the most in 16 years as demand for food, feed, and fuel rises, creating the biggest-ever exports for U.S. farmers. Inventories at the start of the next season on October 1 will be 20 percent lower than a year earlier, Jefferies Bache LLC predicts. […]
By CORNELIA DEAN5 March 2012 RODANTHE, N.C. — Last August, when Hurricane Irene sliced across the Outer Banks, it cut Highway 12, Hatteras Island’s lifeline, in two places. Engineers rushed to repair the damage, filling and repaving a washed-out stretch of roadway here and building a bridge over a newly formed inlet a few miles […]
By Faisal Raza Khan6 March 2012 ISLAMABAD – Hydrogen fluoride emissions from brick kilns have been found to damage trees and crops in new studies conducted by an international team of scientists in the Peshawar area of northern Pakistan. Peshawar has 450 brick kilns and hydrogen fluoride is also released by factories making aluminium, ceramics, […]
By William Pesek 6 Mar 2012 A year after an earthquake in Japan touched off the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl, here’s the question on my mind: Who’s going to jail? The news media are asking the obvious and safe questions ahead of March 11: How well did the government respond? Whither the devastated northeast? […]
6 March 2012 (BBC) – A fire that killed two workers and destroyed a gas exploration rig off Nigeria’s south-east coast has gone out after 46 days, Chevron has said. It stopped burning by itself after rock fragments within the underground natural gas well sealed off the leak. The US oil and gas firm, which […]
