Blogging the End of the World™
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The costs of illness and premature deaths in Appalachia related to coal mining far outweigh economic benefits the industry brings to the region, says Michael Hendryx, Ph.D., associate director of the West Virginia University Institute for Health Policy Research in WVU’s Department of Community Medicine. “The human cost of the Appalachian coal […]
‘Once-in-a-century’ drought sending campers indoors and stunting crops North Texas has had average rainfall this year, and three “cool” days this week felt like Christmas in July. But don’t tell your friends in Central and South Texas, because they are feeling hot, parched and bothered. A “once-in-a-century” drought is baking a big swath of Texas, […]
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor (07-09) 17:30 PDT — Four divers led by a land-based ecologist hunted the turbid waters of San Francisco’s South Beach marina Thursday for a nasty, invasive seaweed that is taking over harbors and estuaries all along the Pacific coast. Although their prey didn’t seem to have a chance, the divers […]
From Calculated Risk: Just using Sacramento as an example … I wish the NAR broke out the data like this! The Sacramento Association of REALTORS® is now breaking out monthly resales by equity sales (normal resales), and distressed sales (Short sales and REO sales). Here is the June data. They started breaking out REO sales […]
ScienceDaily (July 10, 2009) — New Envisat images highlight the dramatic retreat of the Aral Sea’s shoreline from 2006 to 2009. The Aral Sea was once the world’s fourth-largest inland body of water, but it has been steadily shrinking over the past 50 years since the rivers that fed it were diverted for irrigation projects. […]
By Gitte Laasby, Post-Tribune staff writer MERRILLVILLE — Northwest Indiana is at an increased risk for flooding as a result of global warming, according to a report released Thursday. Making matters worse, the region has already committed nearly every mistake in the book as far as preventing floods: We have straightened rivers to speed […]
One of the world’s largest glaciers on the west coast of Greenland is shrinking at an alarming rate as a result of global warming with potentially dire consequences. Ilulissat, a UNESCO-listed glacier, is shedding ice into the sea faster than ever before, according to one of Denmark’s top experts on glaciology. Andreas Peter Ahlstroem, […]
By Slim Allagui – Thu Jul 9, 2:13 am ET NUUK (AFP) – From his trawler that motors along the Nuuk fjord, fisherman Johannes Heilmann has watched helplessly in recent years as climate change takes its toll on Greenland. Global warming is occurring twice as fast in the Arctic as in the rest of the […]
Slide 12In analogy with oil scarcity: it’s highly unlikely that we will find another “Saudi-Arabia” or another “North Sea” of rich mineral deposits. Metal Minerals Scarcity and the Elements of Hope Technorati Tags: resource depletion
By Ana Campoy Oil bulls betting that a burgeoning economic recovery would boost crude prices got another slap today. New government data showed that the nation’s fuel stockpiles continue to balloon as demand for them remains in the doldrums. Diesel inventories, in particular, soared to their highest level since 1985, more than 30% above their […]
