Blogging the End of the World™
Fast-rising carbon emissions mean that worst-case predictions for climate change are coming true By Steve Connor and Michael McCarthy, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 The world is now firmly on course for the worst-case scenario in terms of climate change, with average global temperatures rising by up to 6C by the end of the century, leading […]
November 17, 2009 (NTVKenya) – Hundreds of squatters have continued to stream into makeshift camps claiming they have no alternative shelter. Earlier in the day a rift emerged between rift valley politicians over whom to blame for the current confusion. Hundreds of Mau squatters stream out of forest Technorati Tags: Africa,climate change,climate refugees,deforestation,poverty,Kenya,poaching
By Dmitry Orlov and Keith Farnish Are you still talking about Cyclone Nargis? Have you ever heard of Cyclone Nargis? Here’s a reminder: on 1 May 2008 a weakening low-pressure system suddenly picked up energy as it approached Burma from the Bay of Bengal. By the second day of this rapid strengthening, Cyclone Nargis was […]
Temperature in the equatorial Pacific Ocean (above). El Niño is characterized by warm temperatures (red), and La Niña is characterized by are cooler temperatures (blue) in the Eastern Pacific. Anomalies (below) are the variation above or below average values. NOAA’s El Niño Page Technorati Tags: ocean,drought,agriculture
9 February 2009: The worst fires in the country’s history have killed more than 130 people and destroyed towns in the state of Victoria. Australia hit by deadly bushfires Technorati Tags: wildfire,forest fire,heat wave,Australia,global warming,climate change,desertification
…I attended a Pan-African climate hearing in Cape Town last month where I heard stories from all over Africa about how climate change is already affecting and threatening lives. The stories I heard there were first hand accounts from people who are struggling to survive because climate change is making life so much harder for […]
Cambridge, UK, 10 November 2009—The illicit trade in ivory, which has been increasing in volume since 2004, moved sharply upward in 2009, according to the latest analysis of seizure data in the Elephant Trade Information System (ETIS). ETIS, one of the two monitoring systems for elephants under CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered […]
A severe drought believed to have been caused by the El Niño phenomenon has threatened water supplies in Bolivia, and has depleted the water level in Lake Titicaca. Lake Titicaca is very close to reaching its lowest level ever recorded since 2003. [Felix Trujillo, Employee, National Meteorology and Hydrology Service]: “…The lowest level in […]
By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.com, November 15, 2009 The International Commissions for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT) ignored the advice of its scientists to end fishing of the Atlantic bluefin tuna. Instead ICAAT set a quota of 13,500 tons of fish, which is only a ten percent reduction from last year’s quota of 15,000 tons. […]
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Man-made ponds and rice fields irrigated using groundwater may be responsible for arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh, a study has found. Arsenic is a naturally occurring chemical poisonous to humans and is known to cause skin lesions and cancers of the bladder, kidney, lung and skin. While it is known […]
