Blogging the End of the World™
By Richard Pauli, guest blogger23 September 2010 Every so often, Rolling Stone magazine presents some outstanding journalism. This is just my opinion. The recent issue has an exciting read about the science of ice. I am reading it now…It’s about glaciers and ice sheets and how ice is controlled by atmosphere and then how oceans […]
Mountain Pine Beetle in BC (1981-2005) 2, 3 The area of BC forest affected by the Mountain Pine Beetle (MPB) has more than doubled, from 4 million hectares in 2003 to 8.7 million hectares in 2006, with much of this in the Fraser Basin. The MPB reduces trees’ nutrient and water uptake, resulting in defoliation […]
Full Report [pdf – 3.8 Mbytes] United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)Date: 22 Sep 2010 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The monsoon induced flooding in Pakistan constitutes an evolving crisis on an unprecedented scale. The impact of the flood has varied: The flash floods in the mountainous north (KPK) were intense and highly destructive. This was also largely […]
By Brett Israel, www.LiveScience.com Tue Sep 21, 8:31 pm ET NEW YORK – Now that BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil well has been sealed, the long, hard work of assessing the damage begins even as the oil is dispersing throughout the Gulf. A research team from Columbia University in New York returned this past weekend (Sept. […]
UPIPublished: Sept. 22, 2010 at 10:44 AM ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 22 (UPI) — Breaches in Pakistan’s largest freshwater lake have flooded 75 villages in southern Sindh Province and displaced thousands of residents, the government says. Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority said Wednesday nearly 1.5 million people are living in relief camps in the province after […]
ScienceDaily (Sep. 8, 2010) — The potential for outbreaks of spruce and mountain pine beetles in western North America’s forests is likely to increase significantly in the coming decades, according to a study conducted by USDA Forest Service researchers and their colleagues. Their findings, published in the September issue of the journal BioScience, represent the […]
By Jasper Fakkert, Epoch Times Staff Sep 21, 2010 Seven weeks after floods submerged large parts of Pakistan, thousands of people continue to flee their homes every day, the United Nations said on Tuesday. “The flood waters are rising, and every day we are seeing 20,000 to 30,000 people newly displaced,” said Andy Pendleton, a […]
By Marcela ValenteSep 19, 2010 BUENOS AIRES (Tierramérica) – Argentina’s glaciers, along with Chile’s the most extensive of South America, manifest the damage caused by climate change, while they also face threats from mining and major transportation infrastructure projects. A law to protect them has been postponed yet again. Glaciers are vast reserves of freshwater, […]
By Christopher Dunagan, Kitsap SunSeptember 21, 2010 at 10:45 a.m. HOODSPORT — The massive fish kill that many researchers warned about Monday may have begun early this morning, as many hundreds of dead fish and thousands of shrimp washed up on Hood Canal beaches, officials say. “We have hypoxic (low oxygen) conditions all the way […]
SEATTLE, Washington, September 20, 2010 (ENS) – Scientists analyzing 20 years of measurements taken in the deep oceans of the world find a warming trend that is contributing to sea level rise, especially around Antarctica. “Previous studies have shown that the upper ocean is warming, but our analysis determines how much additional heat the deep […]
