By P. Solomon Banda, with additional reporting by Colleen Slevin, Steven K. Paulson, and Thomas Peipert in Denver and Mead Gruver in Longmont 13 September 2013 LYONS, Colorado (Associated Press) – With rain still falling and the flood threat still real, authorities called on thousands more people in the inundated city of Boulder and nearby […]
12 September 2013 (BBC News) – A famous Hindu temple badly damaged by floods in India’s Uttarakhand state has reopened for prayers. The temple at Kedarnath in Rudraprayag district is famous for its temple of Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction. But it was damaged by the floods and landslides in June that affected more […]
By Tom McGhee12 September 2013 (The Denver Post) – The record-breaking rain that has dropped up to 10 inches in the metro area, tapered off a bit Thursday afternoon but is expected to come down with a vengeance again after 6 p.m., said Mike Nelson, chief meteorologist at Denver’s Channel 7 News. Flooding that killed […]
By Robin Wilkey 28 August 13 (Huffington Post) – In the tidal wave of Yosemite Rim Fire photos, no image has quite captured the awe and terror of the disaster for local residents quite like this shot of smoke over downtown Groveland. Almost as shocking as the photo itself is the source of the image: […]
Professor Michael Mann, Pennsylvania State University – Mann, 47, and colleagues are the climate scientists who brought the world the so-called hockey stick graph, showing a sharp rise in global temperatures in the last century. He responds to climate change deniers on his RealClimate blog. Bloomberg Markets’ Most Influential Thinkers Technorati Tags: global warming,climate change
By Jeff Goodell12 September 2013 (Rolling Stone) – On September 27th, a group of international scientists associated with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will gather in an old brick brewery in Stockholm and proclaim with near certainty that human activity is altering the planet in profound ways. The IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report offers slam-dunk […]
By Pallab Ghosh, Science correspondent10 September 2013 (BBC News) – Researchers have found evidence to suggest that climate change, rather than humans, was the main factor that drove the woolly mammoth to extinction. A DNA analysis shows that the number of creatures began to decrease much earlier than previously thought as the world’s climate changed. […]
By Rhett A. Butler10 September 2013 (mongabay.com) – Harrison Ford sparked a complaint from Indonesia’s top forest official after the actor asked a series of tough questions about ongoing rainforest destruction in the Southeast Asian nation, reports Indonesian state media. Ford is in Indonesia filming a segment for Years of Living Dangerously, a Showtime documentary […]
By Holli Riebeek10 September 2013 (NASA) – The extreme floods that have been threatening northeastern China and the Russian Far East are slowly moving north along the length of the Amur River. The bulge of flood water has now reached Komsomolsk-on-Amur, a Russian city of about 500,000 people. The flood overwhelmed a dam, and the […]
By Jon Campbell10 September 2013 (USGS) – Drought is a stealthily incremental disaster that is much more costly to the national economy than most people suspect. Even as the eastern states have seen an unusually wet summer, citizens in the midsection of the country read in May that the High Plains Aquifer could no longer […]
