By Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent 20 December 2013 (theguardian.com) – Conservative groups have spent $1bn a year on the effort to deny science and oppose action on climate change, according to the first extensive study into the anatomy of the anti-climate effort. The anti-climate effort has been largely underwritten by conservative billionaires, often working […]
By Tom Moroney 18 December 2013 (Bloomberg News) – Paul LePage, Maine governor and climate-change skeptic, has found a new way to enrage environmentalists. Global warming is not only real, he now says: It’s a gold mine. Specifically, the Arctic ice melt could create faster shipping routes to Europe, Russia, and Asia and a chance […]
By Nicole Mortillaro 9 December 2013 TORONTO (Global News) – Autumns are now longer and warmer than they once were in the Arctic, and the first cases of sunburn were reported to researchers by Inuit in Tuktoyaktuk, according to a study on the effects of climate change on the Inuit culture. In the same study, […]
By Krystle Alarcon and Matthew Millar 21 November 2013 (Vancouver Observer) – Politicians, environmentalists and First Nations alike are infuriated that the federal government worked hand-in-hand with the oil industry to spy on groups that opposed pipeline projects. Documents obtained by the Vancouver Observer under the Access to Information Privacy Act revealed that the National […]
By PAUL WALDIE 18 November 2013 LONDON (The Globe and Mail) – Canada has fallen behind in a global ranking on international development initiatives and ranks last when it comes to environmental protection. The Washington-based Center for Global Development assesses 27 wealthy nations annually on their commitment to seven areas that impact the world’s poor. […]
By David Schmalz27 November 2013 (Monterey County Weekly) – Tucked away on the third floor of the Naval Postgraduate School’s building of Engineering and Applied Sciences, a small team of researchers is leading an effort that will change the way the world thinks about the world. Their project is the Regional Arctic System Model (RASM), […]
By Maria Godoy17 November 2013 When you think of Oregon and food, you probably think organic chicken, kale chips and other signs of a strong local food movement. What probably doesn’t come to mind? Food stamps. And yet, 21 percent of Oregon’s population – that’s one out of every five residents – relies on food […]
By PATRICK McGEEHAN and GRIFF PALMER6 December 2013 LONG BEACH, N.Y. (The New York Times) – For Kathryn Fitzgerald and her young daughter, Megan, home was a modest three-bedroom house here, on a tightly packed segment of Delaware Avenue two blocks from the Atlantic Ocean. That was the only home that Megan had ever known, […]
By GUY KOVNER5 December 2013 (THE PRESS DEMOCRAT) – Climate change is the likely cause of unprecedented mass of oxygen-poor water off the Sonoma Coast, a phenomenon that could harm the region’s prized Dungeness crab and other marine life. Scientists at the Bodega Marine Laboratory, who were the first to detect the hypoxic (low-oxygen) waters, […]
By Greg Hanscom13 December 2013 (Grist) – It’s a balmy, mid-November morning in Miami Beach, Fla., and I’m sitting at one of the cafe tables in front of the local Whole Foods, sipping a cup of coffee, and watching the tide come up. Oh, you can’t see the ocean from here. The tide is gurgling […]
