Blogging the End of the World™
By Anne Witter2 November 2011 MV Rena remains intact despite water swelling in the Bay of Plenty where it is still wedged in on Astrolabe Reef as bad weather persisted in the area, bringing swells of up to 5m. Officials have feared that the recent bout of bad weather could finally break Rena in half, and […]
“A lot of times when you’re in science, you don’t get a chance to catch the big stories as they happen because you’re not there at the right place at the right time. But this time we were,” John Sonntag, a scientist with the NASA survey team that captured the data said in a video […]
By Ann M. Simmons in Los Angeles4 November 2011 Floodwaters in Thailand have crept closer to central Bangkok, forcing new evacuations and the closure of one of the country’s largest shopping malls as the deluge threatened to swamp the Thai capital’s subway system, according to international news agencies. Bloomberg news service reported Friday that Thai […]
November 3 (MENAFN / Khaleej Times) – There could be a severe global oil crunch by 2015 due to drastic changes in the oil market fundamentals, a World Bank consultant told the 17th Annual Energy Conference of the Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR). Addressing the ECSSR conference in the UAE capital, Dr […]
By Seth Borenstein5 November 2011 WASHINGTON (AP) – The global output of carbon dioxide jumped by the biggest amount on record, the US Department of Energy has calculated, a sign of how feeble the world’s efforts are at slowing man-made global warming. The new figures for last year mean that levels of greenhouse gases are […]
By Jake Ellison 3 November 2011 Calling it an “emerging threat,” Sen. Maria Cantwell testified in congress yesterday that a floating debris field five-times the size of the state of Washington is heading for the West Coast and could disrupt the state’s economy when it lands in 2014. “After the tragic tsunami that struck Japan, […]
By Stephen Gardiner20 October 2011 Sometimes the best way to make progress on a problem is to get clearer on what that problem is. Arguably, the biggest issue facing humanity at the moment is the looming global environmental crisis. Here, the problem is not that we are unaware that trouble is coming. After all, the […]
By Pete Spotts, Staff writer28 October 2011 Winter droughts have become increasingly common in the Mediterranean region, particularly over the past 20 years, and a new study finds that global warming has driven at least half of the change. Drought conditions in this politically explosive region are expected to grow more severe over the course […]
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By THOMAS FULLER, with additional reporting by Poypiti Amatatham in Bangkok. 1 November 2011 BANGKOK – In the rush to defend Bangkok from monsoon floodwaters on Tuesday, Thai officials were faced with the choice of saving men or machines. Angry residents of a northern Bangkok neighborhood are demanding that officials open a barrier that is […]
