By STEVEN DUBOIS Associated Press WriterPosted: 01/26/2010 05:51:24 PM PSTUpdated: 01/26/2010 05:51:25 PM PST PORTLAND, Ore.—California brown pelicans are begging for food on the Oregon coast rather than migrating south to breeding grounds. An estimated 1,000 brown pelicans have remained on the state’s coast, an unheard of number at a time of year when they […]
The icy cap over Earth’s North Pole reaches its summer minimum in September and its winter maximum in late February or early March. Satellite observations since 1979 have shown that amount of ice that survives the summer is getting smaller; declines have been especially dramatic in the past decade. Recently, scientists from NASA and the […]
By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.com January 28, 2010 Sometime around 2050 researchers estimate that the global population will level-out at nine billion people, adding over two billion more people to the planet. Since, one billion of the world’s population (more than one in seven) are currently going hungry—the largest number in all of history—scientists are […]
By Staff WritersRosetta, Egypt (AFP) Jan 28, 2010 The Nile Delta, Egypt’s bread basket since antiquity, is being turned into a salty wasteland by rising seawaters, forcing some farmers off their lands and others to import sand in a desperate bid to turn back the tide. Experts warn that global warming will have a major […]
By Ben Blanchard, BEIJINGWed Jan 27, 2010 9:39am EST BEIJING (Reuters) – China still faces a serious threat from pollution despite recent government efforts to clean up, the Cabinet said on Wednesday, adding the country would step up investment in environmentally friendly industries. While noting some progress at closing outdated factories, cleaning up dirty rivers […]
Rise tied to warming and receding glaciers By Larry O’Hanlonupdated 12:49 p.m. PT, Wed., Jan. 27, 2010 Mountains along the southernmost swath of South America are growing taller at a record rate, say researchers, who attribute the growth to the accelerating loss of glaciers there. The new GPS-based measurements from Patagonia’s southern ice field show […]
Migrating birds can and do keep their travel dates flexible, a new study published online on January 28th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, reveals. But in the case of pied flycatchers, at least, an earlier takeoff hasn’t necessarily translated into an earlier arrival at their destination. It appears the problem is travel […]
A review of the amount of water flowing into Melbourne’s dams shows 2000-2009 was the worst on record for Melbourne’s major reservoirs. It was significantly down on the previous low set during the 1980s. Decade in dam levels Technorati Tags: drought,freshwater depletion,Australia,global warming,climate change,agriculture
After initially losing sight of the polar bear spotted near Thistilfjördur fjord in east Iceland in the early afternoon yesterday, police and three hunters tracked it down by the abandoned farm Ósland around 4 pm and killed it. Ósland is only a few kilometers east of the farm Saverland where the polar bear was first […]
January 28, 2010 (AAP) – Sydney’s controversial desalination plant has been switched on and is pumping purified sea water into the city’s drinking supply. NSW Premier Kristina Keneally pushed the button on the $1.9 billion plant, at Kurnell in Sydney’s south, this morning. At capacity, the plant will generate 250 million litres of water a […]
