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Enbridge Tar Sands Pipeline Project Across Upper Midwest Draws Opposition
Posted by Associated Press: Steve Karnowsk on March 6th, 2014
Associated Press: Environmentalists vowed Wednesday to fight Enbridge Inc.'s plan to replace and sharply boost the capacity of a crude oil pipeline that runs from Canada to Wisconsin, saying the project will exacerbate climate change by carrying more tar sands oil to U.S refineries.
Calgary, Alberta-based Enbridge announced the $7 billion plan this week, calling it the largest project in the company's history and the most efficient way to maintain the line's reliability.
Enbridge's existing Line 3 is a 1,031...
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Comments Off on Enbridge Tar Sands Pipeline Project Across Upper Midwest Draws OppositionTime running out for Great Barrier Reef:..
Posted by MSN: None Given on March 6th, 2014
MSN: Time is running out for Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef, with climate change set to wreck irreversible damage by 2030 unless immediate action is taken, marine scientists said Thursday.
Stretching along more than 2,000 km (1,200 miles) of Australia's eastern coast is one of the world's formost natural wonders - The Great Barrier Reef as shown is this file NASA satellite image
In a report prepared for this month's Earth Hour global climate change campaign, University of Queensland reef...
Alberta Regulator Quietly Halts Steam Bitumen Mining Due to Safety Concerns
Posted by Tyee: Andrew Nikiforuk on March 6th, 2014
Tyee: The Alberta energy regulator has suspended the fastest-growing source of bitumen production around Fort McMurray due to concerns about fracturing the region’s cap rock.
Last January, the regulator quietly issued a bulletin announcing the freeze on development in the Wabiskaw-McMurray deposit of the Athabasca Oil Sands Area while it completes “a thorough technical review of the factors that affect reservoir containment of steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) projects.”
The suspension affects...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Alberta Regulator Quietly Halts Steam Bitumen Mining Due to Safety ConcernsLouisiana’s coastline is disappearing too quickly for mappers to keep up
Posted by Grist: Stephanie Garlock on March 5th, 2014
Grist: Twenty-five years ago, miles of marshy land and grasses separated the small fishing outpost of Buras, La., from the Gulf of Mexico. But years of erosion - along with the one-two punch of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita - have washed away much of that barrier. Today, the islands, inlets, and bays that once defined the coastline of Plaquemines Parish have begun to melt together.
Like all coasts, the land around the Mississippi River is constantly evolving. In past centuries, that process was slowed...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Louisiana’s coastline is disappearing too quickly for mappers to keep upDocuments Show Australia Ignored Expert Advice Against Dredge and Dump in Great Barrier Reef
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on March 5th, 2014
EcoWatch: Last December the Australian Federal government gave the go-ahead to dredge and dump in the Great Barrier Reef. It did so despite strong, expert advice from the independent authority charged with protecting the reef that it was dangerous to the reef’s health.
Newly released internal documents clearly show that the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority repeatedly advised the Environment Department to reject the controversial dredging and dumping proposal--which would allow the expansion of the...
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Posted by Mashable: None Given on March 5th, 2014
Mashable: A team of climate scientists in the UK has launched an ambitious citizen science effort to quickly assess the role that manmade global warming may have played in that region's extraordinarily wet winter.
The program, known as the Weather@Home 2014 project, is part of a longer term and international push to develop scientific techniques to gain insight into the relationship between global warming and extreme weather events, from heavy precipitation events to heat waves.
The winter of 2013-14...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Scientists Need Your Help to Discern Global Warming’s Role in UK FloodsThe price of gold: winners and losers in Latin America’s mining industry
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 5th, 2014
Mongabay: On a Friday afternoon in June, the Plaza de Armas in Cajamarca is pulsing with life. It's winter here, and although thick white clouds hover low in the distance, the sun in this northern Peruvian city is warm. Couples sit on benches facing one another. Kids run in the grass between flowerbeds. Men in suits stride along the perimeter. It's an idyllic day. But signs of something more ominous are not far from sight. On the mountainside overlooking the town the words Nova Conga have been carved into...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on The price of gold: winners and losers in Latin America’s mining industryAustralia forecasts hotter climate, longer bushfire season
Posted by International Business Times: Jenille Cristy Maido on March 5th, 2014
International Business Times: Climate change has been blamed to play a crucial role in the summer's heat wave. The Australian report released on March 4 suggested the country will experience a longer bushfire season caused by the continual rising of greenhouse gases. This means a hotter weather with increased risks of extreme fire in bushlands.
Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) released a study supporting the impact of climate change recently affecting...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Australia forecasts hotter climate, longer bushfire seasonGlobal warming: Study shows Arctic sea ice melt season lengthening five days per decade
Posted by Summit Voice: Bob Berwyn on March 5th, 2014
Summit Voice: Averaged across the Arctic, the melt season is lengthening by five days each decade, with much of the change coming in the fall, when a warmer ocean simply takes longer to freeze than in the past.
“The extent of sea ice in the Arctic has been declining for the last four decades,” said University College London researcher Julienne Stroeve, part of a research team that studied satellite data to track sea ice trends in the age of global warming.
The data confirm that the Arctic Ocean absorbing...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Global warming: Study shows Arctic sea ice melt season lengthening five days per decadePentagon warns of climate change ‘threat multipliers
Posted by Examiner: Zack Colman on March 5th, 2014
Examiner: The effects of climate change are "threat multipliers" that will force the Pentagon to rethink how it engages in training, missions and humanitarian aid around the world, the Defense Department said Tuesday in its Quadrennial Defense Review.
The review, released every four years, steps up calls made to address climate change in the last version. It noted climate change would "aggravate stressors" such as "poverty, environmental degradation, political instability and social tensions -- conditions...