By Tom McIlroy5 December 2016 (Sydney Morning Herald) – Australia’s environmental sector wants the Turnbull government to explain its plans for significant changes to major programs, including savings of more than $350 million from axing the Green Army – Tony Abbott’s much-hyped employment project. Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg all but confirmed reports on […]
7 December 2016 (Columbia University) – Scientists have found evidence in a chunk of bedrock drilled from nearly two miles below the summit of the Greenland Ice Sheet that the ice nearly disappeared for an extended time in the last million years or so. The finding casts doubt on assumptions that Greenland has been relatively […]
By Sophie Vorrath24 November 2016 (RenewEconomy) – Australia’s top climate scientists have come out in support of their American counterparts, in response to news that the incoming Trump Administration will scrap climate research at the country’s top research facility, NASA. […] Here’s what Australia’s scientists are saying about Trump and NASA: “Just as we have […]
1 December 2016 (NASA) – On 10 November 2016, scientists on NASA’s IceBridge mission photographed an oblique view of a massive rift in the Antarctic Peninsula’s Larsen C ice shelf. Icebridge, an airborne survey of polar ice, completed an eighth consecutive Antarctic deployment on 18 November 2016. Ice shelves are the floating parts of ice […]
By Alister Doyle; editing by Mark Heinrich8 December 2016 OSLO, Norway (Reuters) – Giraffe numbers have declined by as much as 40 percent since the 1980s in a “silent extinction” driven by illegal hunting and an expansion of farmland in Africa, the Red List of endangered species reported on Thursday. Populations of the world’s tallest […]
By Daniel Berehulak 7 December 2016 (The New York Times) – You hear a murder scene before you see it: The desperate cries of a new widow. The piercing sirens of approaching police cars. The thud, thud, thud of the rain drumming on the pavement of a Manila alleyway — and on the back of […]
By Valerie Volcovici and Timothy Gardner7 December 2016 (WASHINGTON) – Donald Trump will pick an ardent opponent of President Barack Obama’s measures to curb climate change as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, a Trump transition team source said on Wednesday, a choice that enraged green activists and cheered the oil industry. Trump’s choice, Oklahoma […]
By Laura Snider5 December 2016 BOULDER, Colorado (NCAR) – At century’s end, the number of summertime storms that produce extreme downpours could increase by more than 400 percent across parts of the United States — including sections of the Gulf Coast, Atlantic Coast, and the Southwest — according to a new study by scientists at […]
By Shanika Gunaratna6 December 2016 (CBS News) – In an unusually direct message, the Weather Channel is taking Breitbart to task for using Weather Channel content to “mislead Americans” about climate change. “Though we would prefer to focus on our usual coverage of weather and climate science, in this case we felt it important to […]
Cannon Ball, North Dakota, 4 December 2016 (Stand With Standing Rock) – The department of the Army will not approve an easement that will allow the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under Lake Oahe. The following statement was released by Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II. Today, the U.S. Army Corps of […]
