Blogging the End of the World™
By Luis Enrique Martinez, with additional reporting by David Alire Garcia and Noe Torres23 September 2013 ACAPULCO (Reuters) – The death toll from a pair of storms that flooded much of Mexico rose to 123 on Monday, and large tracts of farmland were declared lost as the country cleans up some of the worst storm […]
BEIJING, 23 September 2013 (Reuters) – For China, global warming has become something of a convenient truth. Beijing blames climate change for wreaking havoc on scarce water resources, but critics say the country’s headlong drive to build its industrial prowess and huge hydro projects are just as responsible. On the eve of a global climate […]
By Melissa Chong 22 September 2013 SINGAPORE (CNA) – The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is slated to release the first part of its latest report on climate change on September 27. Governments around the world will be watching to see what hundreds of climate scientists have to say about the potential impacts […]
By Jeremy Hance18 September 2013 (mongabay.com) – One of the richest ecosystems on the planet may not survive a hotter climate without human help, according to a sobering new paper in the open source journal PLoS ONE. Although little-studied compared to lowland rainforests, the cloud forests of the Andes are known to harbor explosions of […]
19 September 2013 (EQECAT) – Colorado floods in September 2013 are expected to cause economic damages greater than $2 billion. Heavy rains, flash floods, and mudslides impacted some of the most populous counties. Flooding has resulted in multiple fatalities with an estimated 1,500 homes destroyed, and thousands more damaged in over 17 counties. Most of […]
By Tanya Dimitrova, special to mongabay.com 23 September 2013 (mongabay.com) – In 2010 President Anote Tong of Kiribati made a historic pledge, committing to protect the waters around his island nation in a massive marine protected area. He said the gesture represented Kiribati’s contribution to protecting the environment and he urged industrial countries to do […]
Fiona Harvey and Graham Readfern 20 September 2013 (The Guardian) – Big companies are paying contrarians to undermine the work of climate scientists, according to a top UN official speaking before the release of a landmark review of climate science this week by international researchers next Friday. Halldór Thorgeirsson, a director who reports to the […]
23 September 2013 (CNN) – At least 25 people have died after Typhoon Usagi slammed into the coast of southern China, state media reported Monday. Bringing strong winds and heavy rain, Usagi forced the relocation of hundreds of thousands of people, the cancellation of hundreds of flights and the closing of a major shipping lane. […]
By Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent 20 September 2013 (theguardian.com) – The Arctic is on course for an ice-free summer within the next few decades, as scientists on Friday declared that sea ice in the region had fallen to one of the lowest annual minimums on record. On 13 September, the expanse of frozen water […]
By Alex Crawford, Special Correspondent, in the Eastern Cape20 September 2013 (Sky News) – The number of rhinos killed in South Africa looks set to exceed last year’s record total. With just three months left in 2013, the number of rhinos killed is more than 500 and appears almost certain to top 2012’s death toll […]
