By Roger Harrabin, Environment analyst, BBC News 4 February 2011 New research challenges the view that people would migrate to other nations as a result of climate change. The study by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) said people tended to stay in their own country. It added that people had been uprooted […]
By Amanda Drury, CNBC News AnchorPublished: Friday, 4 Feb 2011 | 11:27 AM ET El Niño and La Niña have a lot to answer for. And we’re not talking about two naughty kids. Weather pattern El Niño brought Australia a crippling drought for nearly decade. La Niña has taken its place with decidedly strong and […]
© The Cairns PostFriday, February 4, 2011 TOWNSVILLE may have escaped the worst of cyclone Yasi, but now faces the prospect of running out of water. Townsville Mayor Les Tyrell has warned the city could run out of fresh drinking water after power was cut to the main water treatment plant. Cr Tyrell has pleaded […]
By Leon GettlerFebruary 1, 2011 Urbanisation, climate change and globalisation are leading to more and bigger catastrophes. THE floods that ravaged Queensland and Victoria are a warning for businesses to overhaul their risk-management strategies. They are events that tell us we are now in a very different world. How different? Erwann Michel-Kerjan, managing director of […]
Contact: Hannah Isom, h.isom@leeds.ac.uk, University of Leeds3 Feb 2011(University of Leeds) New research shows that the 2010 Amazon drought may have been even more devastating to the region’s rainforests than the unusual 2005 drought, which was previously billed as a one-in-100 year event. Analyses of rainfall across 5.3 million square kilometres of Amazonia during the […]
By Malcolm Farr, National Political Editor, news.com.auFebruary 03, 2011 6:00PM THE Government’s global warming adviser Ross Garnaut today warned flood and storm battered Australians: “You ain’t seen nothing yet”. Prof Garnaut said climate change caused by global warming would increase the incidence of severe weather features and cause bigger natural disasters. He did not directly […]
Cars are blocked by flood waters on the Bruce Highway south of Innisfail, Australia, after Cyclone Yasi. The surrounding banana plantation has been destroyed. AAP Cyclone Yasi – Overnight and aftermath Uprooted trees in Queensland, Australia, after Cyclone Yasi. BBC In pictures: Cyclone Yasi A pile-up of boats in Hinchinbrook Marina after Cyclone Yasi. Paul […]
By Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent, www.guardian.co.uk Monday 31 January 2011 10.40 GMT The deepest recession since the 1930s has failed to reverse rising global carbon emissions, as plummeting industrial output in the west was offset by the continuing rapid expansion of China and a handful of other emerging economies, new statistics for 2009 show. While […]
RICHMOND, Vt.— A fast-spreading fungus responsible for the deaths of more than a million bats in the United States has now reached a second Midwestern state. Wildlife officials in Indiana confirm that two bats found in the southern part of the state have the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome, a deadly disease that has […]
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Feb 03, 2011 – A study led by the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) has studied precipitation trends in Spain’s 10 hydrological basins over the 1946 to 2005 period. The results show that precipitation has declined overall between the months of March and June, reducing the length of the rainy season. The rains […]
