Blogging the End of the World™
The Nation of PakistanPublished: October 24, 2010 NEW YORK – The United States is pressuring Pakistan to allow more CIA officers into the country to expand US secret operations aimed at eliminating militant havens near the Afghan border, a prominent American newspaper reported Saturday. “The US asked Pakistan in recent weeks to allow additional Central […]
Study near Gulf of Mexico spill site finds surprisingly high methane uptake by microbes Contact: Steve Bradt, steve_bradt@harvard.edu, Harvard University 20 October 2010 CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 20, 2010 — Microbes living at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico may consume far more of the gaseous waste from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill than previously […]
By Ker Than for National Geographic NewsOctober 18, 2010 Around the world, surface winds are slowing down, a new study says. Strangely enough, the alleged culprits aren’t new buildings but new trees. The easing breezes—if also detected higher up—could affect movements of air pollution but may not necessarily give the wind power industry a case […]
This graph shows bank failures by week in 2008, 2009 and 2010.At this time last year, there were 106 bank failures – on the way to 140 total failures in 2009. This year there are 139 failures so far, and, at this pace, it looks like there will be around 175 total failures in 2010. […]
By Patrick Hennessy and Rebecca LefortPublished: 8:30PM BST 23 Oct 2010 Ministers are planning a massive sell-off of Britain’s Government-owned forests as they seek to save billions of pounds to help cut the deficit, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. Caroline Spelman, the Environment Secretary, is expected to announce plans within days to dispose of about […]
Long-term records of sea surface temperature show a period of colder surface waters from the period 1945–1978, switching to a long period of warmer surface waters from 1978–2006. The zooplankton community composition and several fisheries time series (e.g. salmon marine survival and sablefish recruitment) are correlated with large-scale climate signals (i.e. El Niño Southern Oscillation […]
By Mark Kinver Science and environment reporter, BBC News 22 October 2010 Last updated at 05:53 ET Future warming could have “profound implications” for the stability of freshwater ecosystems, a study warns. Researchers said warmer water affected the distribution and size of plankton – tiny organisms that form the basis of food chains in aquatic […]
By Karin BrulliardSaturday, September 11, 2010 IN KARACHI, PAKISTAN Even in the best of times, Pakistan is a tenuous federation riven by regional, ethnic, sectarian and class rivalries. These are not the best of times. The South Asian nation is struggling to cope with cataclysmic floods that inundated every province, destroying infrastructure and leaving millions […]
By NATION CORRESPONDENTPosted Friday, October 8 2010 at 10:35 Efforts to restore the Mau Complex were intensified on Friday when a one-week quit notice was issued to those who have encroached on the Maasai Mau Forest. The notice, according to Narok South DC Chimwaga Mongo, has been given to fresh encroachers who had gone deeper […]
By Megha Sandhu, TNNOct 23, 2010, 03.57am IST LEH: As an unforgiving winter waits to descend on the mountainous desert of Ladakh, its people face the grim possibility of spending the bitter months without a proper roof on their heads. Having suffered due to the August cloudburst, residents of Leh’s many villages have been banking […]
