As new floods cause further suffering for the population the US special envoy to Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, visits the country for the first time since the natural disaster hit. (Sept. 15, 2010) Fresh Flooding in Crisis Hit Pakistan Technorati Tags: flood,monsoon,Asia,global warming,climate change,climate refugees
By Qurban Ali KhushikWednesday, 15 Sep, 2010 DADU: Twenty-five more villages in Sehwan and Johi came under water on Tuesday as the level continued to go up in the Manchhar lake, triggered by floodwater coming from the Tori bund breach. The rising water level continued to exert pressure on the lake embankment from Zero Point […]
By Joe RommSeptember 14, 2010 Last week, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) director Mark Serreze said, “Every bit of evidence we have says the ice is thinning.” Monday, NSIDC scientist Julienne Stroeve sent me this figure from a forthcoming article using data provided by J. Maslanik and C. Fowler. This is the end-of-winter […]
By Juan ColeSeptember 9, 2010 The Great Deluge in Pakistan passed almost unnoticed in the United States despite President Obama’s repeated assertions that the country is central to American security. Now, with new evacuations and flooding afflicting Sindh Province and the long-term crisis only beginning in Pakistan, it has washed almost completely off American television […]
UPISept. 13, 2010 at 4:23 PM BREMERHAVEN, Germany, Sept. 13 (UPI) — The ice around the North Pole has experienced another severe meltdown this year, German scientists said. Around 1.9 million square miles of the Arctic Ocean will be covered by ice by the end of this summer, the third-lowest figure since satellite monitoring began […]
By Michael Graham RichardThu Sep 9, 2010 16:14 More than 180 scientists and government officials have recently gathered in Boston for the 7th International Penguin Conference. The conclusions of the conference are rather alarming: the scientists warn that 10 of the 18 penguin species are experiencing population decline and that a variety of things are […]
Ryanair’s chief executive rips into ‘fucking eco-warriors’, ‘bogus’ scientists and aviation’s ‘crap’ tax deal By Leo HickmanFriday 10 September 2010 Hilarious stuff from Michael O’Leary in the Independent this morning. Just when you thought Ryanair‘s chief executive couldn’t make a bigger prat of himself, he manages to up the ante. This time, by quite some […]
Video: Ocean acidification threatens oysters Technorati Tags: ocean acidification,carbon dioxide,shellfish decline,ecosystem disruption,global warming,climate change
By Alister Doyle, Environment CorrespondentTue Sep 14, 2010 9:48am EDT JUVFONNA, Norway (Reuters) – Climate change is exposing reindeer hunting gear used by the Vikings’ ancestors faster than archaeologists can collect it from ice thawing in northern Europe’s highest mountains. “It’s like a time machine…the ice has not been this small for many, many centuries,” […]
By Sean Maroney 11 September 2010 Nowshera, Pakistan — Celebrations for the holiday Eid-al-Fitr in Pakistan are muted as millions of Pakistanis continue to suffer in the wake of the country’s worst flooding. The heavy rains came to Pakistan just before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, known locally as Ramazan, arrived. Sunrise-to-sunset fasting is […]
