BANGKOK, 12 March 2012 (Global Nation) – The Asia-Pacific region needs to spend about $40 billion a year to “climate proof” its economies against the impact of global warming, Asian Development Bank vice president Bindu Lohani said Monday. Countries need to undergo “transformational change” to build resilience to climate-change disasters, Lohani told the Asia-Pacific Climate […]
San Francisco, 12 March 2012 (SPX) – Climate change has been studied extensively, but a new body of research guided by a San Francisco State University hydrologist looks beneath the surface of the phenomenon and finds that climate change will put particular strain on one of our most important natural resources: groundwater. SF State Assistant […]
Areas that will experience more than a 5% reduction in length of growing period (LGP). LGP is defined by the average number of growing days per year, in which a growing day is one in which the average air temperature is greater than 6°C and the ratio of actual to potential evapo-transpiration exceeds 0.35 (Jones […]
10 March 2012 (Radio Australia) – Towns across Australia’s eastern states of New South Wales and Victoria are starting the clean up, after more than a week of record flooding. Three quarters of NSW has been affected by the floods, and 46 areas have been declared disaster zones. Flood waters are receding in much of […]
By Deanna Conners 8 Mar 2012 Ice cover on the Great Lakes has decreased by 71% over the past four decades according to a new study published in February 2012 in the Journal of Climate. The Great Lakes, located in eastern North America, contain about 20% of the world’s surface supply of freshwater. The ice […]
9 March 2012 (AP) – Fearing that climate change could wipe out their entire Pacific archipelago, the leaders of Kiribati are considering an unusual backup plan: moving the populace to Fiji. Kiribati President Anote Tong told The Associated Press on Friday that his Cabinet this week endorsed a plan to buy nearly 6,000 acres on […]
29 February 2012 (USAgNet) – Global reserves of soybeans are shrinking the most in 16 years as demand for food, feed, and fuel rises, creating the biggest-ever exports for U.S. farmers. Inventories at the start of the next season on October 1 will be 20 percent lower than a year earlier, Jefferies Bache LLC predicts. […]
By CORNELIA DEAN5 March 2012 RODANTHE, N.C. — Last August, when Hurricane Irene sliced across the Outer Banks, it cut Highway 12, Hatteras Island’s lifeline, in two places. Engineers rushed to repair the damage, filling and repaving a washed-out stretch of roadway here and building a bridge over a newly formed inlet a few miles […]
WASHINGTON, 29 February 2012 (AP) – Americans’ belief in global warming is on the rise, along with temperatures and surprising weather changes, according to a new university poll. The survey by the University of Michigan and Muhlenberg College says 62 percent of those asked in December think the Earth is getting warmer. That’s up from […]
WASHINGTON, 4 March 2012 (CNHI) – National Weather Service officials said Saturday this week’s tornado outbreaks in the South and Midwest set records for twisters in March, and that tornado alley should brace for more of the same in the weeks ahead. Tuesday’s series of more than 50 tornadoes in Kansas, Missouri and Illinois combined […]
