Higher ocean levels force Ventura officials to move facilities inland, an action that is expected to recur along the coast as the ocean rises over the next century. By Tony Barboza, Los Angeles TimesJanuary 16, 2011 At Surfers Point in Ventura, California is beginning its retreat from the ocean. Construction crews are removing a crumbling […]
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent; editing by David StampOSLO | Sun Jan 16, 2011 8:45pm GMT (Reuters) – Shrinking ice and snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere is reflecting ever less sunshine back into space in a previously underestimated mechanism that could add to global warming, a study showed. Satellite data indicated that Arctic sea […]
RedOrbit Staff & Wire ReportsSaturday, 15 January 2011, 07:00 CST The price of fighting climate change is even higher than what was estimated in a 2006 study, said British economist Nicholas Stern, who earned an estimated 500,000-dollar Spanish award on Friday for his work. Stern won the BBVA Foundation award for measuring the economic cost […]
By Jonathan HarwoodJanuary 14, 2011 Scientists have discovered more evidence of global warming after the sun rose two days early in Greenland, apparently because melting glaciers have lowered the horizon. The polar night usually ends on January 13, but this year residents of Ilulissat, the third largest settlement in Greenland, were surprised to see dawn […]
By Mark Kinver Science and environment reporter, BBC News 13 January 2011 Last updated at 08:20 ET The frequency of heavy rainfall during the autumn and winter over the uplands of North England has “significantly” increased, a study has shown. A team of UK researchers said the shift coincided with an increase in westerly weather […]
Contact: Genevieve Maul, Genevieve.maul@admin.cam.ac.ukUniversity of Cambridge Wild red deer on the Isle of Rum, which were featured in the BBC TV series Autumnwatch, are rutting earlier in the year, a study shows. Scientists believe the annual rutting season on the Isle of Rum could be changing because of warming spring and summer temperatures. The study […]
Media Contact: John Leslie, 301-713-2087, ext. 17January 12, 2011 According to NOAA scientists, 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest year of the global surface temperature record, beginning in 1880. This was the 34th consecutive year with global temperatures above the 20th century average. For the contiguous United States alone, the 2010 average annual temperature […]
By Ed Davies; additional reporting by Rob Taylor in CANBERRA and Amy Pyett in SYDNEY; editing by Rob Taylor and Mark BendeichThu Jan 13, 2011 6:49pm EST BRISBANE, Australia (Reuters) – Australia’s third-largest city began cleaning up stinking mud and debris in flood-hit areas on Friday, but whole suburbs remained submerged, smaller towns braced […]
STOCKHOLM, 13 January 2011 (AP) — Though you can’t make a direct link between Australia’s killer floods and climate change, they do hold a warning for the future: Scientists predict such extreme weather events will increase both in intensity and frequency as the planet warms. Raging floodwaters have swamped thousands of homes and businesses in […]
Issued at 6:45 am EST Friday 14 January 2011 Station details:Station Number: 540198 Name: Brisbane R at City Gauge # Owner: SEQWCO:143838 Flood levels: Minor: 1.70 Moderate: 2.60 Major: 3.50 Latest River Heights for Brisbane R at City Gauge #540198 Technorati Tags: Australia,flood,monsoon,global warming,climate change
