Blogging the End of the World™
By Renee Duff, AccuWeather meteorologist 29 July 2018 (AccuWeather) – The hot, dry weather that contributed to the deadly California firestorm shows no sign of letting up into the first part of August.“Unfortunately, not much is expected to change in regards to the weather pattern for a majority of the West, with hot, dry weather […]
By Mike Ives 29 July 2018 ATTAPEU, Laos (The New York Times) – As heavy rains lashed southern Laos over the weekend, volunteers from many countries were continuing to help victims of earlier flooding caused by the failure of a foreign-funded hydropower dam.“It shows the spirit of humanity,” Yen Saisamon, a 17-year-old Laotian volunteer, said […]
By Cheryl Katz 25 July 2018 (Hakai Magazine) – Plastics, those indestructible relics of our throwaway culture, are omnipresent in the oceans, making their way into everything from sea salt to seabirds. Now, a new study finds seabirds may be giving back, shuttling particles from ocean garbage gyres back to shore in their poop. Around […]
By Steven Pearlstein 27 July 2018(The Washington Post) – Like most people, you probably assume that the level of lending done by banks at any moment is largely driven by how much demand there is from borrowers. But in the world of modern finance, that’s only part of the story. For just as important is […]
By Christina Hoover Moorehead 25 July 2018 (ChavoBart Digital Media) – The southeastern United States is losing trees fast. Between 2000 and 2012, trees in the region were cut up to four times faster than in South American rainforests. Smith: “In the southeastern U.S., what’s driving the loss of forest cover is industrial-scale logging.”That’s Danna […]
By Gideon Long 24 July 2018 Bogotá (Financial Times) – Inflation in Venezuela this year is likely to hit levels seen in the Weimar Republic in Germany in the 1920s and Zimbabwe a decade ago as the government continues to pump out bank notes in response to its deepening economic crisis, the International Monetary Fund […]
5 July 2018 (EGU) – The Baltic Sea is home to some of the world’s largest dead zones, areas of oxygen-starved waters where most marine animals can’t survive. But while parts of this sea have long suffered from low oxygen levels, a new study by a team in Finland and Germany shows that oxygen loss […]
27 July 2018 (Met Office) – In the UK the hot weather has been with us on and off since April. Some parts of East Anglia and southeast England have had virtually no rain in more than 55 days, and we may see our all time highest temperature record of 38.5C fall by the end […]
By Alexandria Sage, with additional reporting by Bernie Woodall and Brendan O’Brien; Editing by Scott Malone and Matthew Lewis 28 July 2018 REDDING, California (Reuters) – Nine people were reportedly missing as a monster wildfire in Northern California grew by two-thirds overnight after killing two firefighters, destroying hundreds of buildings and sending thousands of frantic […]
By Dennis Mersereau 28 July 2018 (Forbes) – Typhoon Jongdari made landfall east of Kyoto, Japan, just after midnight local time on Sunday, coming ashore as the latest in a long string of weather-related disasters to plague the Japanese archipelago. The weather has not been kind to Japan this month. The typhoon’s landfall comes after […]
