Blogging the End of the World™
By Abdullahi Jamaa, 6 January 2010 Nairobi — A group of young are gathered behind a makeshift structure where they have been living on edge. They have been sitting idle for the some hours. Their discussion returns to poverty, and how to overcome it. Sweat beads on their worried foreheads. Indeed, if there is […]
By Michael FitzpatrickScience reporter, BBC News Scientists have uncovered what appears to be a further dramatic increase in the leakage of methane gas that is seeping from the Arctic seabed. Methane is about 20 times more potent than CO2 in trapping solar heat. The findings come from measurements of carbon fluxes around the north of […]
By Antony Sguazzin in Johannesburg (asguazzin@bloomberg.net)Last Updated: January 6, 2010 08:13 EST Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) — Dairy farms along South Africa’s south west coast, which are among the nation’s most productive, are threatened by the region’s worst drought in 130 years, an industry body said. Farmers in the area between Bredasdorp and Plettenberg bay, towns […]
In 1998, scientists predicted that the Chacaltaya glacier above La Paz would have completely disappeared by 2015. Now experts say it will already be gone completely early this year. The 2 million residents of the city of La Paz and its suburb El Alto depend on the surrounding glaciers for some of their water needs. […]
By Cain Burdeau4:00 AM Wednesday Jan 6, 2010 …Bourg is a tidy Cajun bayou town a few kilometres north of Dardar’s hurricane-smashed Indian village, in the marsh to which holdout families are being urged to move by a tribal chief, scientists and public officials. Why? Because life on this spit of soggy land 10km from […]
Using climatological salinities (World Ocean Atlas available from NOAA NODC at http://www.nodc.noaa.gov) and NOAA SSTOI, we extended this approach to model fields back through 1988 (Figure 2b), revealing regionally averaged Ωar values declining at a rate of about 3% per decade amid considerable seasonal variability. These values are consistent with in situ measurements obtained at […]
By John Platt 2009 was the deadliest year on record for Florida panthers (Felis concolor coryi) and manatees (Trichechus manatus), two endangered species that most often lose their lives when their habitats collide with that of humans. A record high 17 panthers were struck by vehicles and killed in Florida last year, two deaths above […]
Whales living off the coast of Argentina are being attacked by seagulls. The birds pick at and eat the backs of the endangered mammals forcing them to dive deep into the ocean. Now scientists are calling for the gulls to be culled. Candace Piette reports. Argentine whales attacked by seagulls Technorati Tags: marine mammal,mammal decline,endangered […]
Thousands of dead octopuses have washed up on a beach in northern Portugal, in what is being called an environmental disaster. They cover a 5-mile stretch of Vila Nova de Gaia beach – no reason has yet been found for their appearance. The authorities have warned the public not to eat them. Thousands of dead […]
By Jeremy Hancewww.mongabay.comJanuary 05, 2010 Members with the conservation group Lion Guardians stumbled on a rare site in the Amboseli area of Kenya recently: six hyenas and a number of jackals were attacking and eating a 12-foot-long python. On their blog at WildlifeDirect, Lion Guardians describe the attack: “[the hyenas and jackals] tore into its […]
