Blogging the End of the World™
By Staff WritersHanoi (AFP) Feb 26, 2010 Water levels in the northern Mekong River are at record-low levels, posing a threat to water supply, navigation and irrigation along a stretch of water that is home to millions, a regional official said. Northern Thailand, northern Laos and southern China have all been affected, Jeremy Bird, chief […]
Global pattern in the development of coastal hypoxia. Each red dot represents a documented case related to human activities. Number of hypoxic sites is cumulative through time. Black lines represent continental shelf areas threatened with hypoxia from expansion of OMZ and upwelling. Modified from Díaz and Rosenberg (2008) and Levin et al. (2009a). Over the […]
Nomads paid to collect goats and yaks killed by extreme drought followed by harsh winter to stop disease and soil contamination By Jonathan Watts, Asia environment correspondentwww.guardian.co.uk, Thursday 25 February 2010 14.06 GMT The United Nations has launched a $4m dollar carcass-clearing appeal for Mongolia as millions of camels, goats, yaks and horses perish across […]
By Victoria GillScience reporter, BBC News, Portland A century of whaling may have released more than 100 million tonnes – or a large forest’s worth – of carbon into the atmosphere, scientists say. Whales store carbon within their huge bodies and when they are killed, much of this carbon can be released. US scientists revealed […]
February 26, 2010 – 10:30AM Thailand has seized two tonnes of elephant tusks from Africa hidden in pallets labelled as mobile phone parts in the country’s largest ivory seizure. Thai customs officials valued Wednesday night’s haul at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport at 120 million baht ($4 million). It is a further sign that Thailand is emerging […]
February 23, 2010 Sweaty. Sticky. Uneasy. These are all words that could easily be applied to the temperatures endured by Sydneysiders overnight, before a morning change injected some cool relief. The city stayed above 26 degrees for most of the night, even increasing to 29 degrees just before 9am, Sam Terry Meteorologist with The […]
For over three decades, Chevron chose profit over people in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The cold and calculated decision to save $3 per barrel and yet poison entire communities is compounded daily as Chevron continues its PR campaign to suppress the truth and barrage the media with lies about its actions and responsibility. This blog is […]
A review of all available ocean data records concludes that the low-oxygen events which have plagued the Pacific Northwest coast since 2002 are unprecedented in the five decades prior to that, and may well be linked to the stronger, persistent winds that are expected to occur with global warming. In a new study to be […]
By Denene Erasmus, 25 Feb 2010 More than 2 000 ostriches have died in the Klein Karoo, as temperatures soared to more than 50°C in February. This follows the announcement that ostrich farmers in the drought-stricken southern Cape would not be benefiting from the R26,9 million in drought relief made available by the National Treasury for embattled […]
This image shows ice-front retreat in part of the southern Antarctic Peninsula from 1947 to 2009. USGS scientists are studying coastal and glacier change along the entire Antarctic coastline. The southern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula is one area studied as part of this project, and is summarized in the USGS report, Coastal-Change and Glaciological […]
