By John Gill, Special to Scripps Texas Newspapers24 September 2011 Mother Nature is still tossing curve balls at wildlife and hunters.First, she came with a withering statewide drought and then she hurled widespread wildfires, some that are still burning in the Lone Star State. Allan Cain, biologist and project leader for whitetail deer at the […]
September 19 (www.mongabay.com) – Converting West African rainforests into cropland reduces rainforest in adjacent forest areas, reports research published in Geophysical Research Letters. The study, based on a computer model used to simulate rainfall under different land-use conditions, found that cutting down tropical forests in West Africa reduces precipitation over neighboring forest areas by about […]
By Randy McIlwain, NBCDFW.com 22 September 2011 More than 1 million North Texas water customers will be under Stage 3 water restrictions beginning Nov. 1. The North Texas Municipal Water District’s board of trustees unanimously voted to implement a Stage 3 drought plan for its 1.6 million customers. “This is an ongoing drought, and it […]
KABUL, 21 September 2011 (IRIN) – The current dry spell sweeping across Afghanistan’s northern, northeastern and western provinces could lead to a large-scale food crisis and the humanitarian community should act quickly to ensure this does not degenerate into a disaster, government and aid officials warn. “The issue is very serious. Every other year drought […]
By Gregor Macdonald September 20, 2011 There are many unfortunate outcomes to Peak Oil. One of the more serious is the world’s transition back to coal. Expensive BTU from crude oil has influenced the energy adoption pathway of the Developing World for ten years now, pushing the five billion people in the Non-OECD towards coal. […]
By Anna Haynes19 September 2011 See Tamino’s post for the excellent (34 min) interview & a discussion thereof. Here are my notes from watching: Marshall Institute was originally founded (by 3) to defend SDI (star wars) The idea of demanding equal time – Seitz learned it from tobacco industry They came from cold war rocketry […]
By Lewis Smith20 September 2011 Changes in the water temperature have put an end to hopes that the North Sea cod population can return to the levels it enjoyed in the 1970s. Warmer conditions have altered the availability of prey species and driven the cold-loving cod northwards so even if the fishery is managed perfectly […]
By Tamino17 September 2011 […] One of the best long-term (on a century time scale) estimates of Arctic sea ice is the Walsh & Chapman data set (described in Walsh & Chapman 2001, Annals of Glaciology, 33, 444-448). It’s based on a vast array of available information, as described in Walsh & Chapman. […] It […]
By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent26 June 2011 Warming ocean waters are causing the largest movement of marine species seen on Earth in more than two million years, according to scientists. In the Arctic, melting sea ice during recent summers has allowed a passage to open up from the Pacific ocean into the North Atlantic, allowing […]
Islamabad, Sept 18 (ANI) — Around 300 people have lost their lives and another six million affected by devastating rains and floods in Pakistan’s Sindh province, a new report has said. According to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), all 23 districts of Sindh have been affected by this year’s floods, the Dawn reports. The […]
