By Rodrigo OrihuelaAug 3, 2010 7:45 AM PDT Argentina is importing record amounts of energy as the coldest winter in 40 years drives up demand and causes natural-gas shortages, prompting Dow Chemical Co. and steelmaker Siderar SAIC to scale back production. Electricity supplied from Brazil and Paraguay rose to a daily combined record of about […]
By CATHY ALEXANDERAugust 3, 2010 – 5:54PM (AAP) Cities may need “cool refuges” as climate change brings heat waves and the risk of mass casualties, engineers warn. They’ve raised the prospect of vulnerable people – including the elderly and the sick – heading into air-conditioned shopping malls to survive, possibly at night. The Australian Academy […]
Fairbanks, Alaska — Permafrost warming continues throughout a wide swath of the Northern Hemisphere, according to a team of scientists assembled during the recent International Polar Year. Their extensive findings, published in the April-June 2010 edition of Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, describe the thermal state of high-latitude permafrost during the International Polar Year, 2007-2009. Vladimir […]
By ANDREW E. KRAMERPublished: August 5, 2010 MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin banned all exports of grain on Thursday after millions of acres of Russian wheat withered in a severe drought, driving up prices around the world and pushing them to their highest level in two years in the United States. The move […]
The Sun’s energy received at the top of Earth’s atmosphere has been measured by satellites since 1978. It has followed its natural 11-year cycle of small ups and downs, but with no net increase (bottom). Over the same period, global temperature has risen markedly (top). Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States [pdf] Technorati […]
By Shaun Walker in Mokhovoye Thursday, 5 August 2010 “All around us, everything was on fire,” says Vladimir Anuryev. “Houses, trees, the ground itself – it was all in flames. Even the asphalt on the road seemed to be on fire. It was like descending into hell.” The 73-year-old has lived in Mokhovoye, a village […]
By Faris Ali; additional reporting by Asim Tanveer, Augustine Anthony and Kamran Haider in Islamabad and Junaid Khan in Swat; reporting and writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Nick MacfieWed Aug 4, 2010 9:43am EDT NOWSHERA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistanis facing life-threatening shortages scoured towns for belongings and food in several areas on Wednesday […]
Hundreds of fires burned across western Russia on August 2, 2010, but it is the smoke that conveys the magnitude of the disaster in this true-color image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. Dense gray-brown smoke extends across the width of this image, a distance of about 1,700 kilometers (1,000 […]
By Wanjiru MachariaPosted Tuesday, July 20 2010 at 21:00 Settlers evicted from South Western Mau are still in makeshift camps one year later even as the government plans to move to the next phase of evictions. While some left the camps after realising that nothing was forthcoming, more than 1,000 families are still languishing at […]
Analysis of air bubbles trapped in an Antarctic ice core extending back 800,000 years documents the Earth’s changing carbon dioxide concentration. Over this long period, natural factors have caused the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration to vary within a range of about 170 to 300 parts per million (ppm). Temperature-related data make clear that these variations […]
