Blogging the End of the World™
21 July 2013 (Reuters) – Officials evacuate 200 villages after monsoon rains cause flooding in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. Andrew Raven reports. [TRANSCRIPT] Flash floods sweep across southern India, washing out roads and forcing villagers from their homes. Fed by monsoon rains, the floodwaters inundated much of the coastal state of Andhra Pradesh. […]
By Aaron Huertas9 July 2013 (The Mercury) – The Mercury has published two opinion pieces in recent months that attack Pennsylvania State University climate researcher Michael Mann. Columnist Gil Spencer and contributor Steve Goreham both conveyed misinformation about climate science, but I find their personal attacks directed at Dr. Mann most troubling. I refer to […]
By Dana Liebelson and Chris Mooney17 July 2013 (Mother Jones) – The Central Intelligence Agency is funding a scientific study that will investigate whether humans could use geoengineering to alter Earth’s environment and stop climate change. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will run the 21-month project, which is the first NAS geoengineering study financially […]
By Chip Taylor 14 March 2013 (Monarch Watch) – The World Wildlife Fund-Mexico / Telcel Alliance, in collaboration with Mexico’s National Commission of Natural Protected Areas (CONANP), held a press conference late on the 13th of March 2013 to announce the results of the status of the monarch populations that overwinter in the oyamel forests […]
By Jeremy Hance18 July 2013 (mongabay.com) – Brazil has launched a military campaign to evict illegal loggers working from the fringes of an indigenous reserve home to the Awá people, reports Survival International. Inhabiting the Amazon rainforest in northeastern Brazil, only around 450 Awá, also known as Guajá, survive today, and around a quarter of […]
By Amy Joi O’Donoghue18 July 2013 SKULL VALLEY, Tooele County (Deseret News) – The blistering heat and thirst were greater enemies than the people lingering next to the watering trough. A solitary, gray stallion fought through his instincts to flee and instead wandered closer and closer, beaten down by perhaps days upon days without life-sustaining […]
20 July 2013 (Reuters) – Continuous heavy rainstorms in China trigger floods, forcing local residents to evacuate. Lily Grimes reports. [TRANSCRIPT] Two small children are pulled to safety as floods hit Shandong Province in eastern China on Friday, 19 July 2013. State television reports torrential rain left at least 10 villagers trapped by flood water […]
By Andrew Winston 17 July 2013 (Harvard Business Review) – “Tackling climate change is one of America’s greatest economic opportunities.” So proclaims the Climate Declaration, a public statement signed by a fast-growing list of U.S. corporate giants, including GM, Nike, Intel, Starbucks, Unilever, eBay, Swiss Re, and even The Weather Channel. This new attempt to […]
By Bettina Boxall 16 July 2013 (Los Angeles Times) – When oil sheen appeared on the sea surface last fall not far from the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, authorities wanted to know where it was coming from. Was BP’s sealed Macondo well — the source of the biggest […]
By Neal Ungerleider19 July 2013 (Fast Company) – Before he passed away, British futurist James Martin predicted a massive real estate boom in fortified “Climate Change Cities,” where the global elite go to escape the ravages of rising sea levels and unstable weather patterns. Fabulously wealthy British futurist James Martin spoke about climate change at […]
