(CBS) This story was first published on Oct. 21, 2007. It was updated on Sept. 3, 2009. […] 60 Minutes joined up with Tom Boatner, who after 30 years on the fire line, became chief of fire operations for the federal government. “A fire of this size and this intensity in this country would have […]
By Brandon Keim June 30, 2011 The plants and animals of the southwestern United States are adapted to fire, but not to the sort of super-sized, super-intense fires now raging in Arizona. The product of drought and human mismanagement, these so-called megafires may change the southwest’s ecology. Mountainside Ponderosa forests could be erased, possibly forever. […]
By Pete Wilton June 28, 2011 Half the elephants from West and Central African savannahs have vanished in the past 40 years, scientists report in PLoS One. A team, including Iain Douglas-Hamilton of Oxford University’s Department of Zoology, estimate that around 7,750 elephants remain in the Sudano-Sahelian zone, which covers 20% of the continent, a […]
By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.com30 June 2011 A prolonged drought in East Africa is bringing many of the region’s impoverished to their knees: the World Food Program (WFP) is warning that 10 million people in the region are facing severe shortages. While not dubbed a famine yet, experts say it could become one. Meanwhile, a recent […]
June 30 (KOAT) – The Las Conchas Fire is now estimated to be 92,735 acres and a 1/2 of a mile from the closest home. Evacuations Still In Place, Fire Chief Says Technorati Tags: wildfire,forest fire,North America,drought,heat wave,global warming,climate change
WASHINGTON, June 28 (MSNBC) – It’s been more than 300 months since the average global average temperature was below average, scientists and the U.S. government said in the annual State of the Climate report released Tuesday. The experts tracked 41 climate indicators during 2010, four more than in the previous year, and “they all show […]
By P. SOLOMON BANDA and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN, Associated Press30 June 2011 LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) – A wildfire that is threatening the nation’s premier nuclear weapons laboratory and a community in northern New Mexico is poised to become the largest fire in state history. The fire near Los Alamos has charred nearly 145 square […]
By BETSY BLANEY, Associated Press 28 June 2011 LUBBOCK, Texas — West Texas farmer Billy Brown remembers the devastating drought that spanned the state in the 1950s — and believes this one is worse. […] “The grass just crackles underneath the feet,” Brown, 72, said of walking across his acreage in the town of Panhandle […]
By LAWRENCE HURLEY AND PAUL QUINLAN of Greenwire29 June 2011 A federal appeals court handed Georgia an enormous victory in long-running, tri-state water litigation yesterday, overturning a decision by a federal judge that could have sharply curtailed the availability of water in Atlanta beginning next summer. The three-judge panel of the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit […]
By Bronwyn Herbert 27 June 2011 TONY EASTLEY: Just 41 per cent of Australians think addressing climate change is a serious and pressing issue. The key finding is in the annual Lowy Institute poll, in which 1000 people were interviewed in March. The institute also finds three-quarters of adult Australians believe the Federal Government has […]
