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Climate change will hit poor countries hardest, study shows
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 27th, 2013
Guardian: Low-income countries will remain on the frontline of human-induced climate change over the next century, experiencing gradual sea-level rises, stronger cyclones, warmer days and nights, more unpredictable rains, and larger and longer heatwaves, according to the most thorough assessment of the issue yet.
The last major UN assessment, in 2007, predicted runaway temperature rises of 6C or more by the end of the century. That is now thought unlikely by scientists, but average land and sea temperatures...
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Comments Off on Climate change will hit poor countries hardest, study showsU.N. Panel Report: Most Global Warming Is Caused By Humans
Posted by National Public Radio: David Greene and Richard Harris on September 27th, 2013
National Public Radio: Scientists assembled by the United Nations sent out a renewed warning Friday that the planet is warming up and human beings are largely responsible. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released a report that projects more warming air, melting ice and rising seas in this century.
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on U.N. Panel Report: Most Global Warming Is Caused By HumansHow farmworkers experience a warming climate
Posted by Northwest Public Radio: None Given on September 27th, 2013
Northwest Public Radio: For 20 years, Victor Gonzales has traveled the West picking crops. In the Northwest that means pears, cherries and apples.
Right now, he’s working at a Hood River pear orchard. In the summer, temperatures here can reach 100 degrees. Gonzalez remembers one day when he’d been working really hard, sweating more than normal.
Gonzales felt like he was going to pass out. He was shaky and very sleepy, he says through a translator. Instead of sleeping, he went to the farmworker housing unit and drank...
Investigating mercury pollution in Indonesia
Posted by Science Daily: None Given on September 27th, 2013
Science Daily: Professor Takanobu Inoue of Toyohashi Tech's Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering has been conducting field surveys of mercury poisoning in Indonesia for over a decade. His findings have serious implications and the situation is not improving. "The main source of this pollution today is small-scale gold mining," says Inoue, who is an expert on water environmental engineering. "Gold mining is easy to learn and simple to operate, so for people living on the poverty line, it offers hope...