3 September 2013 (The Siberian Times) – Water levels hit record high levels in both Khabarovsk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur on Tuesday. ‘The water continues to rise in the Khabarovsk territory. The Komsomolsk-on-Amur area is at worst risk’, presidential envoy to the Far East Federal District Yury Trutnev told a meeting with prime minister Dmitry Medvedev. The […]
By Miranda Leitsinger3 September 2013 TOMS RIVER, N.J. (NBC News) – Thousands of homeowners in New York and New Jersey impacted by Hurricane Sandy are facing a tough choice that may thwart their efforts to rebuild: Comply with costly new federal construction guidelines or prepare to pay annual flood insurance rates that could top $20,000. […]
By Holli Riebeek2 September 2013 (NASA) – Smoke from the Rim Fire choked Yosemite National Park during the busy Labor Day Weekend. Air quality reached unhealthy levels from Yosemite to the San Joaquin Valley, warned the National Weather Service in an air quality alert. Since fine particles in smoke can irritate the eyes and respiratory […]
Average temperature over winter in South Pacific nation was highest since record-keeping began in 1909 Wellington, 3 September 2013 (AP) – Winter lacked an Antarctic chill this year in New Zealand, to record effect. Scientists said on Tuesday that the South Pacific nation had its warmest winter since record-keeping began more than a century ago. […]
GENEVA, Genève, 2 September 2013 (AFP) – Humanity has pushed the world’s climate system to the brink, leaving itself only scant time to act, the head of the UN’s group of climate scientists said on Monday. “We have five minutes before midnight,” warned Rajendra Pachauri, whose organisation will this month release the first volume of […]
2 September 2013 (NBC Nightly News) – Scientists are trying to uncover why Minnesota’s moose population is rapidly declining. NBC’s Anne Thompson reports. Where have all the moose gone? Technorati Tags: North America,mammal decline,ecosystem disruption,habitat loss,global warming,climate change,invasive species
1 September 2013 (Press TV) – Indian officials say floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains have affected more than five million people in over a dozen districts of the northern Bihar state, as rain-swollen rivers burst their banks. “Major rivers, including the Ganga, Sone, Budhi Gandak, Kosi and Gandak, are not showing receding trend so […]
8 August 2013 (CalEPA) – Summertime (June-August) maximum (Tmax) and minimum (Tmin) temperatures have increased between 1950 and 2010 for each of the six climate regions. The map of California climate regions is based on a space-time analysis of temperature extremes (see Richman and Lamb, 1985; Comrie and Glenn, 1998; Guirguis and Avissar, 2008 for […]
By Brad Plumer31 August 2013 (Washington Post) – The world’s oceans are turning acidic at what’s likely the fastest pace in 300 million years. Scientists tend to think this is a troubling development. But just how worried should we be, exactly? It’s a question marine experts have been racing to get a handle on in […]
By Vlad Grinkevich2 September 2013 (Voice of Russia) – The Russian Far East is into a second month of an unusually rainy monsoon season. In its main city Khabarovsk, the Amur River is flowing at a record 8 meters above its normal level, more than a meter and a half higher than at the time […]
