Blogging the End of the World™
Published on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 by Environment News Service QUITO, Ecuador – Yasuní National Park, located in the core of the Ecuadorian Amazon, is the most biodiverse area in all of South America, a team of Ecuadorean, American, and European scientists concludes in the first major peer-reviewed study of life forms in the park, […]
Monthly mean SEA rainfall for the long-term climatology (black bars), for the ongoing protracted drought (red bars); changes from the long term climatology are shown as blue bars. The continuous months with negative rainfall anomalies are outlined with the orange box. The long-term rainfall deficiency since October 1996 across South Eastern Australia (south of 33.5ºS […]
By SUSAN SAULNYPublished: January 19, 2010 CHICAGO — Genetic material from the Asian carp, a voracious invasive species long feared to be nearing the Great Lakes, has been identified for the first time at a harbor within Lake Michigan, near the Illinois-Indiana border, ecologists and federal officials said Tuesday. A second DNA match was found […]
By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News website The decline of honeybees seen in many countries may be caused by reduced plant diversity, research suggests. Bees fed pollen from a range of plants showed signs of having a healthier immune system than those eating pollen from a single type, scientists found. Writing in the journal […]
By Simon HancockBBC News, St Helena A botanist from Kew Gardens is fighting to save one of the rarest plant species in the world, the Bastard Gumwood tree. The last tree of this species is found on the tiny South Atlantic island of St Helena, and it is dying. To keep the Bastard Gumwood in […]
Washington, DC (Vocus/PRWEB ) January 20, 2010 — One of the world’s largest tiger populations could disappear by the end of this century as rising sea levels caused by climate change destroy their habitat along the coast of Bangladesh in an area known as the Sundarbans, according to a new World Wildlife Fund-led study published […]
By Keith Farnish and Dmitry Orlov …In Part I of this series, just a couple of months ago, we cheerfully wrote: “The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (that’s the big blob that surrounds the South Pole just off-centre) seems to be quite stable, and should remain that way for the next few centuries.” That would have […]
By Staff WritersParkes, Australia (AFP) Jan 18, 2010 Torrential rains in Australia have failed to quench the country’s “Big Dry”, a decade-long drought that has driven farmers to the wall and shows no signs of abating. While the rains flooded many areas in recent weeks, made parched rivers flow again and even halted the iconic […]
By BEN CUBBYJanuary 19, 2010 Life is blooming in Lake Pamamaroo, western NSW, as the Boxing Day floods wind their way down the Darling River. From the air the pale green, swollen river is a striking contrast to the scarred, orange plains on either side. On the ground the water level is visibly rising by […]
By BILL HOFFMANJanuary 18, 2010 THE central Sunshine Coast’s rapidly receding coastline means it is almost inevitable a hard structure will need to be built to halt further erosion. That is the grim assessment of Sunshine Coast Council manager of coast and canal engineering Denis Shaw as he has watched the high tide line close […]
