By Chris Wickham; Editing by Janet Lawrence9 May 2012 LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists are predicting the disappearance of another vast ice shelf in Antarctica by the end of the century that will accelerate rising sea levels. The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf fringing the Weddell Sea on the eastern side of Antarctica has so far not seen […]
By DAVID JOLLY and ANDREA ZARATE7 May 2012 Late last year, fishermen began finding dead dolphins, hundreds of them, washed up on Peru’s northern coast. Now, seabirds have begun dying, too, and the government has yet to conclusively pinpoint a cause. Officials insist that the two die-offs are unrelated. The dolphins are succumbing to a […]
By Clarissa Thorpe and Ben Atherton11 May 2012 The Australian National University has released a series of abusive and threatening emails which were sent to its climate change scientists. The 11 emails to members of the university’s Climate Change Institute have been made public after a Freedom of Information request. ANU management initially turned down […]
8 May 2012 (MCCIP) – The Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP) launched its latest Report Card [pdf] today at the World Fisheries Congress in Edinburgh. It focuses on how climate change is affecting the fish and shellfish we find in our seas, providing both opportunities and threats, and what the social and economic consequences […]
By JAMES HANSEN9 May 2012 GLOBAL warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening. That is why I was so troubled to read a recent interview with President Obama in Rolling Stone in which he said that Canada would exploit the oil in its vast tar sands reserves “regardless of what we do.” If Canada proceeds, […]
By David Sassoon, InsideClimate News10 May 2012 Over the last decade, Charles and David Koch have emerged into public view as billionaire philanthropists pushing a libertarian brand of political activism that presses a large footprint on energy and climate issues. They have created and supported non-profit organizations, think tanks and political groups that work to […]
By Eric Sorensen, WSU science writer3 May 2012 PULLMAN, Washington – Washington State University researchers have found that ovarian disease can result from exposures to a wide range of environmental chemicals and be inherited by future generations. WSU reproductive biologist Michael Skinner and his laboratory colleagues, including Eric Nilsson and Carlos Guerrero-Bosagna, looked at how […]
By Suzanne Goldenberg US environment correspondent, www.guardian.co.uk8 May 2012 A network of ultra-conservative groups is ramping up an offensive on multiple fronts to turn the American public against wind farms and Barack Obama’s energy agenda. A number of rightwing organisations, including Americans for Prosperity, which is funded by the billionaire Koch brothers, are attacking Obama […]
By Bill Blakemore6 May 2012 A Metaphor to Change Fear Into Action and Extinguish the Panic and Despair so Deadly in a Great Crisis Nature’s Edge Notebook #27 Observation, Analysis, Reflection, New Questions Sometimes, the right metaphor can save your life. “Hug the monster” is a metaphor taught by U.S. Air Force trainers to those […]
By Julia Whitty7 May 2012 Something awful is happening in the waters off Peru’s northern coast, where some 3,000 dolphins have died and washed ashore since January. This rates as one of the worst, if not the worst, Unusual Mortality Event (UME) ever recorded. (I’ve been writing about the UME with marine mammals in the […]
