By JUDY FAHYS, The Salt Lake Tribune 14 April 2012 What Bruce Tremper saw when he ventured into the Wasatch backcountry this spring surprised him. Bare patches littered the winter landscape where he was used to seeing snow — even on high-elevation ridge tops. In one of his last forecasts of the season for the […]
Number of hottest (above) and coldest (below) day-of-the-month (highest maximum) records at 43 Australian climate reference stations with daily data from 1910; for each year (orange line) and each decade (grey boxes), and the 11-year average (black line). The average for the most recent 10-year period (2002-2011) is shown in darker grey. Australian annual-average overnight […]
[This result might be difficult to reconcile with recent Gallup poll results: U.S. worry about water, air pollution at historic lows – Concern about global warming dead last. Also, keep in mind recent research on characterizing the relationship of extreme weather to climate change, which may diverge greatly from naïve expectations.] By JUSTIN GILLIS17 April […]
By Luzi Ann Javier and Ranjeetha Pakiam17 April 2012 Demand for edible oils is climbing to a record as drought damages crops across South America, leaving buyers with the smallest stockpiles in three decades. The use of soy, palm, rapeseed and six other oils will rise 3.9 percent this year, reducing the ratio of reserves […]
By JOHN M. BRODER17 April 2012 WASHINGTON – Members of the presidential panel that investigated the 2010 BP oil rig explosion and spill sharply criticized Congress on Tuesday for refusing to act on any of its recommendations and gave the Obama administration and the oil industry mixed marks. Their report [pdf] said that federal regulators […]
16 February 2012 (UCS) – Federal decision makers need access to the best available science in order to craft policies that protect our health, safety, and environment. Unfortunately, censorship of scientists and the manipulation, distortion, and suppression of scientific information have threatened federal science in recent years. This problem has sparked much debate, but few […]
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent; Editing by Marilyn W. Thompson and Philip Barbara17 April 2012 (Reuters) – The number of earthquakes in the central United States rose “spectacularly” near where oil and gas drillers disposed of wastewater underground, a process that may have caused geologic faults to slip, U.S. government geologists report. The average number […]
By Kevin Pieper, USA TODAY18 April 2012 A much-used herbicide, which for years has helped farmers throughout the United States increase profits, is losing its effectiveness and forcing producers to spend more and use more chemicals to control the weeds that threaten yields. “I’ve gone from budgeting $45 an acre just two years ago to […]
KUWAIT CITY: Hundreds of Kuwaiti firemen on Tuesday fought to contain a massive fire in a dump for used tires, with some members of parliament calling the blaze an environmental catastrophe. Firemen from the national guard, the army and the oil sector joined efforts to extinguish the fire that was still raging 10 hours after […]
CONTACT: Center for Biological DiversityMiyoko Sakashita, miyoko@biologicaldiversity.org, (415) 632-5308April 11, 2012 SAN FRANCISCO – April 11 – A new study confirms the link between massive oyster die-offs in the Pacific Northwest and ocean acidification caused by carbon dioxide emissions. Since 2006, there have been widespread failures of natural and farmed oysters in Washington and Oregon. […]
