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Santiago, Chile (UPI) Nov 15, 2010 – Chile is working on a $3.85 billion plan to pipe freshwater to its arid north as part of a government strategy to stimulate social and economic development in the region. The ambitious project, now in an advanced stage, will involve laying a pipeline undersea for about 600 […]
By Lauren Morello and Climatewire November 16, 2010 Unusually warm ocean temperatures in the summer and fall of 2005 caused a mass die-off of Caribbean corals that is the worst ever recorded there, according to new research published yesterday in the online journal PLoS ONE. More than 80 percent of corals bleached and over 40 […]
By Peter Foster in Beijing 11:54AM GMT 16 Nov 2010 World leaders must pledge to more than double the numbers of wild tigers in the world by 2022 in order to bring the big cats back from the brink of extinction, conservation groups have said. Leaders from the 13 countries that are still home to […]
NewsCore November 14, 2010 9:57PM Noise from shipping traffic, wind farms and oil exploration was forcing whales near the UK to shout louder to make their mating calls heard, scientists have said. Marine biologists studying whales in the seas around Britain found that their calls became 10 times louder over the past 50 years as […]
By Staff WritersNov 10, 2010 Penang, Malaysia (AFP) Nov 10, 2010 – Overfishing in Southeast Asian seas has left garoupas and sea bass in dire straits, searching for mates on denuded seabeds, according to experts alarmed by ever-declining catches. Marine scientists and fishermen say that popular fish species — especially the large and valuable ones […]
By Staff WritersNov 12, 2010 Beijing (AFP) Nov 12, 2010 – Beijing will collect and melt snow this winter in a bid to quench the water shortage that has plagued the Chinese capital for years, state media reported Friday. Two vehicles with high-powered heaters capable of processing around 100 cubic metres (3,500 cubic feet) of […]
Media Contact: Jana Goldman, jana.goldman@noaa.govNovember 15, 2010 The troposphere, the lower part of the atmosphere closest to the Earth, is warming and this warming is broadly consistent with both theoretical expectations and climate models, according to a new scientific study that reviews the history of understanding of temperature changes and their causes in this key […]
By Shujaat BukhariNovember 15, 2010 SRINAGAR — Most of them who lost their houses on August 5 in the Leh cloudburst are all set to get their shelter by the end of this month as the reconstruction work is going on in full swing. With Prime Minister’s Office monitoring the work on weekly basis, the […]
By JUSTIN GILLISNovember 13, 2010 TASIILAQ, Greenland — With a tense pilot gripping the stick, the helicopter hovered above the water, a red speck of machinery lost in a wilderness of rock and ice. To the right, a great fjord stretched toward the sea, choked with icebergs. To the left loomed one of the immense […]
Between 1979 and 2008, first-year sea ice in the summer has been declining at a rate of 8.7% per decade, whereas the thick multi-year sea ice in the summer is being lost at an average rate of 6.4% per decade and over 20% per decade in some areas of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. This decreasing […]
