11 March 2011 (AAP) — Sydney could be swamped by sea waters once a year, instead of once every one hundred years, if nothing is done to address climate change. The claim is part of the findings of a new report from the Australian Government’s climate change advisor, Professor Ross Garnaut. He says Australia may […]
13 March 2011 (ABC) — A remote Aboriginal community in Western Australia’s north is almost entirely under water. Police have evacuated parts of Fitzroy Crossing and Warmun in the Kimberley as floodwaters in the region rise. People in Wyndham, Kununurra and Halls Creek, including outlying communities in the Ord River Catchment, are also being told […]
VIDEO: Rain to continue in Nth Qld AAP, The Courier-MailMarch 11, 2011 ALMOST every inch of Queensland has been disaster-declared following the state’s devastating summer season. Premier Anna Bligh announced Richmond Shire Council and Kowanyama Aboriginal Shire Council were the latest local governments to qualify under joint state and federal government natural disaster relief and […]
[UPDATE 4 October 2011: Sadly, World Catastrophe Map has closed down for good.] Occasionally, Desdemona runs across a site or a blog that’s uncannily dialed into the Des vibe. All dedicated Doomers know the Apocadocs and Wit’s End, but the World Catastrophe Map is a new and delectable find for Des. “Let the End Times […]
Caption by Holli RiebeekMarch 10, 2011 Early in February 1902, Captain Robert Falcon Scott sailed into McMurdo Sound and docked his ship, the Discovery, in a small, sheltered bay at the tip of a rocky peninsula on Ross Island. Eager to begin a year exploring one of Earth’s last untouched places, Scott and his men […]
For years the Ogallala Aquifer, the world’s largest underground body of fresh water, has irrigated thousands of square miles of American farmland. Now it is running dry By Charles Laurence 07 Mar 2011 There is not much to be happy about these days in Happy, Texas. Main Street is shuttered but for the Happy National […]
With promises to curb CO2 emissions by 2020, China will need more than blackouts to get there By David BielloMarch 11, 2011 China has won international plaudits for its commitment to green goals. It has pledged to reduce carbon emissions by at least 40 percent per economic unit by 2020 and is also adding alternative […]
Beijing (AFP) March 2, 2011 – China has said that snow and rain in the country’s northern wheat-growing regions over the past week had helped to ease a crippling drought that had sparked fears about rising global food prices. “The drought in most of the country’s winter wheat-growing regions has eased considerably after the widespread […]
By ELISABETH ROSENTHALMarch 9, 2011 TIMBÍO, Colombia — Like most of the small landowners in Colombia’s lush mountainous Cauca region, Luis Garzón, 80, and his family have thrived for decades by supplying shade-grown, rainforest-friendly Arabica coffee for top foreign brands like Nespresso and Green Mountain. A sign in the center of a nearby town proclaims, […]
Study suggests black carbon pollution has greater effect than carbon dioxide on region’s ice By Janet RaloffMarch 8th, 2011 In high-elevation snowy regions, the warming effects of greenhouse gases pale in comparison to those triggered by soot, new computer calculations show. The finding could help explain the accelerating pace of melting on the Tibetan Plateau, […]
