Blogging the End of the World™
By Oliver Milman10 November 2013 (theguardian.com) – Australia is “on track” for its warmest ever calendar year, temperatures in October 1.43C above the long-term average and more than 100 heat-related records broken in the past 12 months, according to a new report. The Climate Council study, called Off the Charts, says that the country has […]
By Lindsay Abrams11 November 2013 (Salon) – What happens when polar bears in a warming Arctic start losing their natural source of food? Increasingly, the starving bears are leaving their (melting) ice floes and making their way onto land in search of something to eat — leading to dangerous encounters with humans. In the northern […]
By Paul Bledsoe8 November 2013 (The Hill) – On Monday, 11 Nov 2013, representatives of 195 nations will convene in Warsaw as the United Nations climate change negotiations begin their 19th annual meeting. Many climate experts in the U.S. have written off the UN process after years of dysfunction and limited results. But there is […]
By Jamie Henn11 November 2013 (350.org) – Diplomats, negotiators, and civil society representatives from around the world held their breath this afternoon at the United Nations Climate Talks in Warsaw, Poland, this afternoon as Yeb Sano, the lead negotiator for the Philippines, began to address the opening of the conference. More than 10,000 people are […]
By Nancy Snyderman, Harry Smith and F. Brinley Bruton11 November 2013 TACLOBAN, Philippines (NBC News) – Aid workers and emergency officials warned that there had been no contact with many typhoon-hit parts of the Philippines more than three days after one of the most violent storms to ever make landfall slammed into the country. Tacloban, […]
By Abdiqani Hassan11 November 2013 BOSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) – At least 100 people were killed when a tropical cyclone hit Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region at the weekend, the government said on Monday, declaring a state of emergency and appealing for international aid. The government said hundreds of people were missing after the storm made landfall […]
By Rhett A. Butler 8 November 2013 (mongabay.com) – Complete deforestation of the Amazon rainforest could reduce rainfall in the Pacific Northwest by up to 20 percent and snowpack in the Sierra Nevada by up to 50 percent, suggests new research published in the Journal of Climate. The study is based on high resolution computer […]
By Kevin Begos10 November 2013 PITTSBURGH (AP) – The grove of hemlock trees around where United Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11 is being attacked by an insect that wasn’t there 20 years ago, and some scientists say it’s an example of how climate change combines with other factors to cause environmental damage. The problem […]
By Monte Morin 8 November 2013 (Los Angeles Times) – Over 600,000 bats were killed by wind energy turbines across the United States last year, with the highest concentration of kills in the Appalachian Mountains, according to new research. In a paper published Friday in the journal BioScience, University of Colorado biologist Mark Hayes used […]
9 November 2013 (Sky News) – More than 1,000 bodies are reported in just one Philippine town as a UN official likens the devastation to the 2004 tsunami. Thousands of people are feared to have been killed in the areas of the Philippines hit by Super Typhoon Haiyan. The country’s Red Cross says it has […]
