Blogging the End of the World™
By Tim Wheeler October 20, 2010 The last house standing on Holland Island, an eroding sliver of land in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, has been claimed by the water. The two-story frame structure, abandoned and badly damaged by Tropical Storm Isabel in 2003, has been teetering on the brink of collapse for some […]
By Sarah Walters | News reporter Published: Sunday, October 17, 2010 James Hansen, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, visited the University Saturday to talk about the scientific impacts of climate change on the Earth’s species and the importance of protecting the planet for future generations. Hansen, a Columbia University professor of earth and […]
ScienceDaily (Oct. 26, 2010) — As the ice-capped Arctic Ocean warms, ship traffic will increase at the top of the world. And if the sea ice continues to decline, a new route connecting international trading partners may emerge — but not without significant repercussions to climate, according to a U.S. and Canadian research team that […]
Pre-fishery biomass (in 1000s of tonnes) of Pacific herring in three subregions of the North Coast and Hecate Strait ecozone. The top left panel is for the Central Coast, the top right panel for Haida Gwaii, and the lower panel for the Prince Rupert District. The horizontal line represents the minimum spawning stock biomass. 2010 […]
By Lee-Maree GalloOctober 25, 2010 – 11:36AM Increased snowfall in the Antarctic has been linked to drought in south-western Australia. Researchers, including Australian Antarctic Division principal research scientist Tas van Ommen, have been analysing ice cores in the Antarctic and revealed snowfall variability may be linked to climate in the Southern Ocean and the South-West. […]
MSH/ZHD/HRFSun Oct 24, 2010 6:29AM More than 7 millions are still without shelter in Pakistan as water-borne diseases and nutrition are still a grave concern for millions of the country’s flood victims after the July-August flooding, a Press TV correspondent said in a report on Sunday. This is while the United Nations has launched several […]
By Haider Ali Hussein MullickBest Defense chief Pakistan correspondent Monday, October 25, 2010 – 10:53 AM I just got back from my third trip to Pakistan this year, where I examined the scope and scale of its counterinsurgency strategy and al Qaeda’s response. The bottom line is that al Qaeda’s big plans for world dominance […]
Caption by William L. Stefanov, NASA-JSCOctober 25, 2010 The Merowe Dam is located near the 4th cataract of the Nile River, in the Nubian Desert of the Republic of the Sudan (also known as Sudan). The dam was built to generate hydroelectric power—electricity intended to further industrial and agricultural development of the country. This astronaut […]
By Natalia RealFriday, October 22, 2010, 14:10 (GMT + 9) The Australian Antarctic Division has conducted study on ocean acidification and found that increased levels of carbon dioxide kill krill embryos. Krill is one of the main types of plankton, itself the basic food source of nearly all animals in the ocean. Krill were exposed […]
By Bob Marshall, The Times-Picayune Saturday, October 23, 2010, 7:22 PM A Coast Guard official said Saturday the orange substance floating in miles-wide areas of West Bay on the Mississippi River delta appears to be algae, not oil as reported Saturday morning by The Times-Picayune. Lt. Cmdr. Chris O’Neil said a Coast Guard pollution investigator […]
