By Eric Niiler17 October 2015 (Discovery News) – Sea turtles are the ocean’s “canaries in the coal mine” when it comes to climate change, according to researchers who are trying to find out how they are adapting to a warmer climate that may be leaving baby male turtles high and dry. Recent studies have shown […]
By Andrew Freedman and Johnny Simon23 October 2015 (Mashable) – UPDATED 2:45 p.m. ET: Since this story was posted, yet another storm — Hurricane Patricia — in the eastern Pacific intensified to Category 4 status [and then, Category 5 –Des], making it 22 Category 4 and 5 storms that have formed so far this year. […]
[UPDATE5: In SETI: No Signal Detected from KIC 8462852, Paul Gilster quotes Seth Shostak: “The history of astronomy tells us that every time we thought we had found a phenomenon due to the activities of extraterrestrials, we were wrong. But although it’s quite likely that this star’s strange behavior is due to nature, not aliens, […]
By: Jeff Masters21 October 2015 (wunderground.com) – September 2015 had the largest departure of temperature from average of any month among all 1629 months in the record that began in January 1880, said NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) on Wednesday. (Note that since July and August are typically the warmest months globally in […]
By Sara Jerving, Katie Jennings, Masako Melissa Hirsch, and Susanne Rust9 October 2015 (Los Angeles Times) – Back in 1990, as the debate over climate change was heating up, a dissident shareholder petitioned the board of Exxon, one of the world’s largest oil companies, imploring it to develop a plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions […]
By Jim Salter14 October 2015 ST. LOUIS (AP) – A report card is out on the Mississippi River basin, and the grade is not good: a D+, with an aging transportation infrastructure topping the list of concerns. The report by America’s Watershed Initiative, released Wednesday in St. Louis, assesses categories such as the abundance of […]
By Andrew Freedman17 October 2015 (Mashable) – Super Typhoon Koppu, known as Typhoon Lando in the Philippines, made landfall close to 1 a.m. local time on Sunday morning near the town of Casiguran in Luzon’s Aurora Province, as a powerful Category 4 or 5 storm. The storm was on the cusp of being declared a […]
By Peter Frumhoff10 October 2015 (UCS) – Internal Exxon memos recently brought to light through meticulous investigative reporting by Inside Climate News (ICN) show that senior company executives knew by 1978 that emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels posed significant risks of disrupting the climate. Over the decade before NASA scientist James Hansen’s 1988 […]
By Aimee Picchi15 October 2015 (CBS News) – The likes of Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jay Gould — the robber barons of the late 19th century — might feel right at home in today’s economy. The coffers of the uber-rich have exploded since the Great Recession, reaching a level “possibly not seen for almost a century,” […]
By Kerry Sheridan 13 October 2015 Miami (AFP) – Say goodbye to Miami and New Orleans. No matter what we do to curb global warming, these and other beloved US cities will sink below rising seas, according to a study. But making extreme carbon cuts and moving to renewable energy could save millions of people […]
