February 21, 2011 (PhysOrg) – The contribution of Greenland to global sea level change and the mapping of previously unknown basins and mountains beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet are highlighted in a new film released by Cambridge University this morning. The work of glaciologist Professor Julian Dowdeswell, Director of Cambridge University’s Scott Polar Research Institute, […]
By MICHAEL FIELD26 February 2011 (Stuff) – An Antarctic ice shelf used as a runway is breaking away, forcing an emergency airlift to close summer operations on the continent. The situation is being complicated by the Christchurch quake which is limiting operations at Christchurch Airport. Staff at New Zealand’s Scott Base and the US’s McMurdo […]
By Jan KhaskheliSunday, February 27, 2011 Karachi (thenews.com.pk) – Residents of 16 small villages located near Hyderabad city and comprising a population of 20,000, are living an uncertain life after the recent flood wrought havoc, depriving them of their livelihood and basic facilities of life. In the absence of government assistance to rehabilitate the flood-affected […]
By Rich Davis, Evansville Courier & PressFebruary 25, 2011 EVANSVILLE — A flood warning has been issued for the Ohio River in the Evansville area in the wake of record rainfall, including snowmelt upriver. Meanwhile, searchers have now found the bodies of all four Amish children who were swept away in a creek swollen by […]
By Nadya Anscombe for environmentresearchweb, part of the Guardian Environment Network24 February 2011 14.46 GMT Integrated assessment models (IAMs) used by researchers today – where climate change data is integrated with economic data – are dangerously flawed because they are based on naïve assumptions, according to Kevin Anderson from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change […]
By Mike TidwellFriday, February 25, 2011; 4:00 PM Ten years ago, I put solar panels on my roof and began eating locally grown food. I bought an energy-efficient refrigerator that uses the power equivalent of a single light bulb. I started heating my home with a stove that burns organically fertilized corn kernels. I even […]
24 February 2011 (AFP) – LIMA — A glacier on Peru’s Huaytapallana Mountain shed half its surface ice in just 23 years, officials said Wednesday, reinforcing concerns of climate change’s growing threat to fresh water resources. “Recent scientific studies indicate that between June 1983 and August 2006, the glacier has lost 50 percent of its […]
By Faye SunderlandFebruary 25, 2011 Australia has abolished plans to help develop greener cars and encourage consumer uptake of lower emission vehicles. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced that the country’s $1.3 billion Green Car Innovation Fund will be dropped along with the Cleaner Car Rebate Scheme as part of spending cuts to help finance […]
By Fidelis Zvomuya 23 Feb 2011 UPINGTON, South Africa (AlertNet) – Temba Mduli’s fields resemble a vast lake, studded with treetops and half-submerged buildings. Once-green corn, soya beans, potatoes and sunflowers have been turned yellow by some of the worst flooding to cut through northern South Africa in years. “I will be lucky just to […]
By Gerard Wynn, ReutersWednesday, February 23, 2011 LONDON: A string of Arab uprisings are giving a foretaste of the likely havoc that climate change will cause without greater effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions, a British Foreign Ministry official warned. Soaring food prices, stoked by Russia’s drought last year and subsequent ban on wheat exports, […]
