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Oil developers want to use controversial fracking method to tap California’s oil supply
Posted by Press-Telegram: None Given on September 11th, 2013
Press-Telegram: Oil developers want to use controversial fracking method to tap California’s oil supplyz
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Comments Off on Oil developers want to use controversial fracking method to tap California’s oil supplyWildfires set to increase in western United States
Posted by International Business Times: Sachin Trivedi on September 11th, 2013
International Business Times: The rim fire at the Yosemite National park has wrecked havoc at the quality of air in nearby cities like Fresno California. Climate change is reported to cause more wildfires especially in western U.S.
According to a report by Live Science, rising temperatures across the globe have had a major impact on wildfires. The pollution caused by the smoke and soot from the wildfires have a detrimental effect on the health of people living close by. Although a rise in temperature is not directly responsible...
Researchers trace how West Nile vectors will respond to climate change
Posted by ClimateWire: Umair Irfan on September 11th, 2013
ClimateWire: Through tracking changes in the climate, researchers aim to get a lead on West Nile virus outbreaks by anticipating where the insects that spread the disease will emerge. Like most vector-borne pathogens, West Nile virus has links to temperature and rainfall. However, the disease can go from surging epidemics to nearly negligible numbers of infections from one year to the next, even under similar weather conditions (ClimateWire, Aug. 20). This makes it especially difficult for health officials...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Researchers trace how West Nile vectors will respond to climate changeLouisiana’s Gulf Coast adapts to global warming’s rising seas
Posted by Marketplace: None Given on September 11th, 2013
Marketplace: In southern Louisiana, the coast is moving. The sea is overtaking the land...pretty fast, too. Stronger hurricanes and tropical storms predicted for coming decades will wash away more of it. And while you often hear people invoke the rich cultural heritage as a reason to save the region, there’s a lot of rich oil and gas companies that would like protection, too.
Terrebonne Parish is the setting for "Beasts of the Southern Wild," last year’s Oscar-nominated film about a magical little girl and...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast adapts to global warming’s rising seasBritish Columbia agricultural region issue preliminary blueprints dealing climate change
Posted by Vancouver Sun: Randy Shore on September 11th, 2013
Vancouver Sun: Increased salinity and greater risks of flooding are two of the possible effects of climate change on Delta farmland.
Three agricultural regions in B.C. have produced preliminary plans for dealing with the effects of climate change on food production.
Cowichan Valley, Delta and Peace River will deal with vastly different effects as temperatures rise and precipitation patterns change, from increased frequency of flooding to lengthy drought and the need for water rationing and new irrigation...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on British Columbia agricultural region issue preliminary blueprints dealing climate changeGlobal warming adds punch to bad weather
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 11th, 2013
Washington Post: DID global warming contribute to the punishing heat wave much of the country endured during the summer of 2012? How about Superstorm Sandy? A group of 78 scientists led by experts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) last week gave its preliminary answers, releasing a series of peer-reviewed analyses on those and other major weather events from last year. The picture the group offers is of a planet in which warming has boosted the chances, in some cases significantly, that...
Fracking fight heats up in Ohio
Posted by Environmental News Network: Nick Cunningham, Duncan Gromko on September 11th, 2013
Environmental News Network: What could make a former Marine, retired cop, and self-described "ultra-conservative" oppose fracking in his home state of Ohio? At a diner off of Route 22 near Steubenville, OH, Ed Hashberger had the answer. Dressed in a red polo shirt emblazoned with the U.S. Marine Corps logo and carrying a Marine Corps notebook, Hashberger first described his bona fides. He served three years in Panama. He recited half a dozen close relatives who served in World War II, the Vietnam War, Afghanistan, and Iraq....
Life found in the muck of Antarctic lake
Posted by LiveScience: Megan Gannon on September 11th, 2013
LiveScience: Researchers have found signs of life in mud pulled from the bottom of an ice-covered lake in Antarctica. Studying microbes in such extreme and closed-off environments could help scientists understand how life may thrive in the harshest places on Earth and potentially other planets. Scientists with the British Antarctic Survey and other institutions drilled through the ice sheet to dig up clean sediment samples from the bottom of Lake Hodgson, which is on the Antarctic Peninsula and 305 feet (93...
Policies worry farmers more than climate change, says new study
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 11th, 2013
PhysOrg: California farmers feel more threatened by climate policy than they do by climate change, according to a new study from the University of California, Davis.
The study, published in the journal Global Environmental Change, found that the greatest climate risk Yolo County farmers believe they face in the future is not drought, water shortages, or temperature changes, but government regulations.
However, this view did not make them less likely to participate in government incentive programs that...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Policies worry farmers more than climate change, says new studyKenya discovers huge water source
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 11th, 2013
BBC: A huge water source has been discovered in the arid Turkana region of northern Kenya, which could supply the country for 70 years, the government says.
The discovery brings hope to the drought-hit region, tweeted Environment Minister Judi Wakhungu.
The Lotikipi Basin Aquifer was found using satellites and radar.
Last year, scientists released a map detailing the vast reservoirs which lie under much of Africa.
Another aquifer was found in Namibia - the continent's driest country.
Turkana...