Blogging the End of the World™
By Jake RichardsonPublished on November 26th, 2009 A recent study has produced some astonishing and disturbing results. Tuna was ordered from 31 sushi restaurants. Genetic tests were then used to identify the species of fish ordered. Nineteen of the restaurants surveyed incorrectly described or could could not indicate which species of fish they had served. […]
ALICE SPRINGS, Australia – Australian authorities plan to corral about 6,000 wild camels with helicopters and gun them down after they overran a small Outback town in search of water, trampling fences, smashing tanks and contaminating supplies. The Northern Territory government announced its plan Wednesday for Docker River, a town of 350 residents where thirsty […]
By Richard Ingham PARIS (AFP) — Estimates vary widely on the costs of damage from climate change, easing these impacts and taming the carbon gas stoking the problem, but economists agree the bill is likely to be in the trillions of dollars. Figures depend on different forecasts for greenhouse-gas emissions and the timeline for reaching […]
By Boris Bachorz – Thu Nov 26, 6:15 am ET NAIROBI (AFP) – From prolonged droughts to melting ice caps to heavy flooding and unpredictable weather patterns, climate change effects are already wrecking lives in Africa, the continent that pollutes the least. Around 23 million people currently face starvation across east Africa as successive failed […]
By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor, Friday, 27 November 2009 Concern is growing about the huge number of seabirds being killed by fisheries in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) said yesterday. Although conservationists’ fears have so far focused on seabirds in the Southern Ocean, especially […]
By CHARLES DUHIGGPublished: November 22, 2009 It was drizzling lightly in late October when the midnight shift started at the Owls Head Water Pollution Control Plant, where much of Brooklyn’s sewage is treated. A few miles away, people were walking home without umbrellas from late dinners. But at Owls Head, a swimming pool’s worth of […]
From Calculated Risk: No one saw this coming … From Bloomberg: Dubai Debt Delay Rattles Confidence in Gulf Borrowers Dubai is shaking investor confidence across the Persian Gulf after its proposal to delay debt payments risked triggering the biggest sovereign default since Argentina in 2001. … Moody’s Investors Service and Standard & Poor’s cut the […]
November 24, 2009 Southern Africa’s plains zebras and the asiatic wild ass have been identified among animals whose migratory habits have been left in tatters. A quarter of the world’s migrating species are suspected to no longer migrate at all because of human changes to the landscape, and all of the world’s large-scale terrestrial migrations […]
By 2030, demand in India will grow to almost 1.5 trillion m3, driven by domestic demand for rice, wheat, and sugar for a growing population, a large proportion of which is moving toward a middle-class diet. Against this demand, India’s current water supply is approximately 740 billion m3. As a result, most of India’s river […]
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) – Roads, buildings and pipelines in Canada’s north are at risk from global warming and the government must do more to protect infrastructure in the remote frozen region, an official panel said Thursday. Temperatures in the north — which includes the Arctic — are rising much faster than elsewhere […]
