Blogging the End of the World™
By Milton Carrero Galarza And Kurtis Lee 19 November 2017 AÑASCO, Puerto Rico (Los Angeles Times) – The lights remain off in bustling cities and in small rural villages. Gas generators, the only alternative to the downed power lines that seem to be everywhere, continuously hum outside hospitals and bodegas. When night falls, it’s the […]
By Carol Rasmussen 1 November 2017(NASA) – New maps of Greenland’s coastal seafloor and bedrock beneath its massive ice sheet show that two to four times as many coastal glaciers are at risk of accelerated melting as previously thought.Researchers at the University of California at Irvine (UCI), NASA and 30 other institutions havepublished the most […]
By Dino Grandoni 17 November 2017 (The Washington Post) – Despite the drumbeat of opposition to President Trump’s political nominees, Senate Democrats haven’t been able to do much to stop Congress from confirming them.Fourteen Trump picks to executive branch jobs have withdrawn their names after being selected, according to the nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service. […]
By Irene Ying; Editing by Karl Hille 13 November 2017 (NASA) – A new study by researchers at NASA and the University of Maryland indicates that India may be the world’s top sulfur dioxide emitter. Sulfur dioxide is an air pollutant that causes acid rain, haze and many health-related problems. It is produced predominantly when […]
By Chris Mooney 15 November 2017 (The Washington Post) – New York City has plenty to worry about from sea level rise. But according to a new study by NASA researchers, it should worry specifically about two major glacier systems in Greenland’s northeast and northwest — but not so much about other parts of the […]
By Lev Facher 13 November 2017 WASHINGTON (STAT) – President Trump, breaking a tradition that stretches back nearly two decades, will not personally greet the eight American Nobel laureates this year before they travel to Sweden in December to receive their prizes. Not all the honorees are disappointed.Two American Nobel Prize winners, when contacted by […]
By Christopher Ingraham 17 November 2017 (The Washington Post) – Supporters of trophy hunting say that permit fees from the practice, which can run into the tens of thousands of dollars in the case of large game like elephants, can be put toward conservation efforts that help bolster the populations of endangered animals.In part, that’s […]
By Jessica Resnick-Ault and Nick Brown 17 November 2017 NEW YORK (Reuters) – The head of Puerto Rico’s indebted utility has resigned following criticism of the slow restoration of power to the island after Hurricane Maria, the U.S. territory’s governor said.Ricardo Ramos, who was named head of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) in […]
By Jennifer Chu 13 November 2017 (MIT News) – As the city of Houston continues to recover and rebuild following the historic flooding unleashed by Hurricane Harvey, the region will also have to prepare for a future in which storms of Harvey’s magnitude are more likely to occur.A new MIT study, published online this week […]
By Nick Perry, with additional writing by Muneeza Naqvi 15 November 2017 NEW DELHI (Associated Press) – Hundreds of students marched Wednesday in India’s capital to demand action to improve the city’s toxic air.New Delhi has been wrapped in a choking haze for much of the past week. The smog did lift a little in […]
