By HYUNG-JIN KIM 17 September 2012 SEOUL, South Korea – A powerful typhoon lashed North and South Korea with strong wind and heavy rain Monday, killing at least one person, leaving dozens of others homeless and cutting power to many homes and businesses in the South. In North Korea, rain drenched parts of the country, […]
By Erika Bolstad17 September 2012 CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (McClatchy Newspapers) – It was just six words, but when President Barack Obama gave a shout-out to global warming in his acceptance speech this month, he reintroduced an issue that had all but disappeared from the political debate. “Climate change is not a hoax,” Obama said, an […]
By Nina Chestney; Editing by Rosalind Russell16 September 2012 LONDON (Reuters) – The chance to save the world’s coral reefs from damage caused by climate change is dwindling as man-made greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, scientists said in a study released on Sunday. Around 70 percent of corals are expected to suffer from long-term […]
By John Vidal, Arctic Sunrise, www.guardian.co.uk17 September 2012 One of the world’s leading ice experts has predicted the final collapse of Arctic sea ice in summer months within four years. In what he calls a “global disaster” now unfolding in northern latitudes as the sea area that freezes and melts each year shrinks to its […]
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy [Desdemona finds it very hard to watch the last of Earth’s charismatic megafauna suffer as they become extinct.] By Miguel Llanos, NBC News13 September 2012 Wildlife biologist Ian Bullock is a seasoned visitor to the Arctic, but even he was surprised by what […]
By Michael Mann17 September 2012 Breaking: A victory for science! ATI loses ATI/UVa FOIA case. Judge issues final order. Affirms the university’s right to withhold scholarly communications and finds that the documents & personal emails of mine demanded by ATI were indeed protected as the university had contended. I am gratified for the hard work […]
By Marques G. Harper 14 September 2012 JONESTOWN – Struggling with the economic effects of a two-year drought, Jonestown has shed its police chief and head librarian. With revenue down — fees from boat launches and building permits have dropped significantly, officials have said — the Lake Travis community’s City Council late Thursday unanimously approved […]
By John Vidal and Adam Vaughan, www.guardian.co.uk14 September 2012 Sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk to its smallest extent ever recorded, smashing the previous record minimum and prompting warnings of accelerated climate change. Satellite images show that the rapid summer melt has reduced the area of frozen sea to less than 3.5 million square […]
Contact: Alan Barber (202) 293-5380 x11528 August 2012 Washington, D.C. (CEPR) – Unionization in the United States has been on the decline since the 1960s. While many reasons have been offered to explain this drop in the rate of unionization, a new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research highlights the roles that […]
Contact: Esther Harward, Press Officer, University of Leeds, +44 113 343 4196, e.harward@leeds.ac.uk 12 September 12 Research released today shows that within the next 10 years large parts of Asia can expect increased risk of more severe droughts, which will impact regional and possibly even global food security. The report, led by the University of […]
