By Michael Slezak29 January 2013 The east coast of Australia has been drenched by floods and torrential rains, even as recent bush fires affecting much of the country continued to burn. Four people are known to have died as Australians get a further taste of extreme weather that is predicted to become more common as […]
28 January 2013 (NOAA) – According to a new technical report, the effects of climate change will continue to threaten the health and vitality of U.S. coastal communities’ social, economic and natural systems. The report, Coastal Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerabilities: a technical input to the 2013 National Climate Assessment, authored by leading scientists and experts, […]
By Peter Hannam, Carbon economy editor29 January 2013 (Sydney Morning Herald) – Update A slew of January rainfall records were broken as the remnants of ex-tropical cyclone Oswald heads south along the NSW coast. Pine Ridge, south of Tamworth, copped 131 millimetres of rain in the 24 hours to 9am Tuesday, setting an annual record, […]
By Jeremy Hance28 January 2013 (mongabay.com) – According to Susan Kelly, koalas have become “urban refugees,” under siege by expanding cities that bring with them deforestation, dogs, traffic, and other ills for native wildlife. Director of Global Briefing, and writer, producer and director of the new documentary Koala Hospital, Kelly has spent 3 years working […]
By Ilya Gridneff, Nicole Hasham, and Amy Remeikis29 January 2013 (Sydney Morning Herald) – A week after some of the hottest temperatures on record, four Queenslanders are dead and two men remain missing as winds and torrential rain lash the east coast and flooding wreaks havoc in parts of northern NSW. Ex-tropical cyclone Oswald has […]
By Sam Nelson, with additional reporting by Carey Gillam in Kansas City; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe28 January 2013 CHICAGO (Reuters) – Dry weather continues to plague the drought-stricken U.S. Plains and western Midwest with only light showers and snowfall expected this week, an agricultural meteorologist said on Monday. “The Plains and the northwest Midwest will […]
By Judy Keen27 January 2013 (USA TODAY) – Thousands of trees died in the historic drought of 2012, and many more will succumb in the next few years. Communities that have lost trees are hesitant to replant now. Hundreds of thousands of trees died in the historic drought of 2012, and many more will succumb […]
By Sally Willoughby and Georgina Mitchell28 January 2013 (Sydney Morning Herald) – The heavy rainfall following cyclone Oswald which has caused widespread flooding in Queensland is forecast to hit Sydney on Monday as long-weekend holidaymakers return to the city. Experts describe the flooding and tornadoes battering the east coast as the worst they have seen […]
By KEITH JOHNSON 25 January 2013 (The Wall Street Journal) – Climate change is back on the agenda in Washington after President Barack Obama’s call to action in his second inaugural address. And while polls suggest that public belief that manmade causes are behind warmer temperatures isn’t yet back to the levels seen in the […]
By Heather Stewart and Larry Elliott26 January 2013 (The Observer) – Lord Stern, author of the government-commissioned review on climate change that became the reference work for politicians and green campaigners, now says he underestimated the risks, and should have been more “blunt” about the threat posed to the economy by rising temperatures. In an […]
