Blogging the End of the World™
By Joe RommSeptember 16, 2010 Uber-meteorologist and former NOAA Hurricane Hunter (!) discussed some of the remarkable records the 2010 season has already set, on his WunderBlog yesterday: The Atlantic hurricane season of 2010 kicked into high gear this morning, with the landfall of Tropical Storm Karl in Mexico, and the simultaneous presence of two […]
SAN FRANCISCO— The National Marine Fisheries Service today announced it will consider protecting Atlantic bluefin tuna under the Endangered Species Act. The decision is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on Sept. 21 and comes in response to a Center for Biological Diversity petition last May to protect the tuna, in dramatic […]
…At least Winston died relatively quickly which can’t be said of Keyhole, a big bull fully in his prime at 40 years old. He was the son of Esmeralda of the EA family. Born in 1970, he was just a two-year old when we first met him. He got his name because he had a […]
By Zephania Ubwani, Arusha11 September 2010 10:30 A huge consignment of ivory shipped from Tanzania has once again been seized by customs officials in Hong Kong.The contraband ivory is worth $ 1.4 million (nearly Sh2 billion) or 10.85m Hong Kong dollars, according to reports from the Far East country yesterday. Reports said customs officers impounded […]
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 16, 2010 – Scientists have for the first time estimated the physical footprint of human activities on the deep seafloor of the North East Atlantic. The findings published in the journal PLoS ONE reveal that the area disturbed by bottom trawling commercial fishing fleets exceeds the combined physical footprint of other […]
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Sept 15, 2010 – A severe drought parching northern Brazil this year has shrunk the mighty Amazon River — the world’s longest river — to its lowest level in 47 years, officials said Wednesday. The waterway’s depth at Manaus, the main city in the Amazon region, was just 19.34 meters (63.45 […]
As new floods cause further suffering for the population the US special envoy to Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, visits the country for the first time since the natural disaster hit. (Sept. 15, 2010) Fresh Flooding in Crisis Hit Pakistan Technorati Tags: flood,monsoon,Asia,global warming,climate change,climate refugees
ScienceDaily (Sep. 14, 2010) — Researchers have revealed an ominous finding: most of the world’s last remaining tigers — long decimated by overhunting, logging, and wildlife trade — are now clustered in just six percent of their available habitat. The securing of the tiger’s remaining source sites is the most effective and efficient way of […]
By Qurban Ali KhushikWednesday, 15 Sep, 2010 DADU: Twenty-five more villages in Sehwan and Johi came under water on Tuesday as the level continued to go up in the Manchhar lake, triggered by floodwater coming from the Tori bund breach. The rising water level continued to exert pressure on the lake embankment from Zero Point […]
By Joe RommSeptember 14, 2010 Last week, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) director Mark Serreze said, “Every bit of evidence we have says the ice is thinning.” Monday, NSIDC scientist Julienne Stroeve sent me this figure from a forthcoming article using data provided by J. Maslanik and C. Fowler. This is the end-of-winter […]
