By BILL HANNA, billhanna@star-telegram.com Monarch butterflies, hit hard by strong storms at their winter home in Mexico, have dwindled to their lowest population levels in decades as they begin to return to Texas on their springtime flight back to the United States and Canada. The monarch loss is estimated at 50 to 60 percent and […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Months of heavy rains throughout the South are forcing International Paper Co. to look beyond its usual suppliers for wood for its central South Carolina mill and turn to places that are known to have tree-destroying gypsy moths. The extensive steps federal regulators are requiring the company to take to make sure […]
NJ moves $65 mln from climate fund to general fund – money came from Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Reporting by Timothy Gardner; Editing by David Gregorio WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) – New Jersey has become the latest state in a regional cap-and-trade market on greenhouse gases to take money meant to support clean energy programs […]
By ADAM MORTONMarch 19, 2010 MELBOURNE’S temperature has topped 20 degrees for the past 100 days straight, the longest stretch of its type in more than 150 years of measurement. Yesterday’s maximum of 31 degrees continued a run of 20-plus degree days that began on December 9 last year. It has smashed the record of […]
By Margaret Kalekye / KNA, Posted: Sun, Mar 14, 2010 Tension was high on Sunday in Maasai Mau forest in Narok South District where government surveyors are marking new boundaries ahead of the third phase of Mau evictions. The over 15,000 settlers earlier blocked the demarcation exercise following reports that the team of surveyors was […]
As you know, Desdemona loves data, of all sorts, and this makes Google Analytics especially fun to use. So here are all the visits to Desdemona Despair for the last year. Here are some statistics to go with that graph. Looks like the trend is generally upward, which pleases Desdemona. Here are the top ten […]
For the first time, climate change has been shown to alter the timing of a natural event – the emergence of the common brown butterfly For the first time, a causal link has been established between climate change and the timing of a natural event – the emergence of the common brown butterfly. Although there […]
By John Platt Mammals, birds and fish living in the High Arctic experienced an average 26 percent drop in their populations between 1970 and 2004 due to the loss of sea ice, according to a new report from The Arctic Species Trend Index (ASTI), Tracking Trends in Arctic Wildlife [pdf]. The 2010 report, commissioned and […]
Longtime doomspotters ‘Doc Jim and ‘Doc Michael have published their compendium of unhappy tidings in Converging Emergencies, 2010-2020. It’s 60 pages of face-slapping wake-up call, which begins with a quick summary of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross’s five stages of grief[*], and then dives into an overview of their big themes: Species Collapse, Resource Depletion, Biology Breach, Climate […]
By LOUIS BERGERON In the first study ever done on the local health effects of the domes of carbon dioxide that develop above cities, Stanford researcher Mark Jacobson found that the domes increase the local death rate. The result provides a scientific basis for regulating CO2 emissions at the local level and points out a […]
