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Beavers and the Environment: Dams Help Remove Nitrogen From Estuaries and Restore Streams
Posted by Nature World: None Given on October 22nd, 2015
Nature World: Beaver dams are helping prevent harmful levels of nitrogen from reaching vulnerable estuaries in the Northeastern U.S., a new study revealed. Researchers from the University of Rhode Island discovered that ponds created from beaver dams slow the movement of water, which subsequently causes nitrogen build up. Along with organic matter build up this creates ideal conditions for scientists to adequately remove nitrogen, according to a news release. With the increased use of agricultural fertilizers...
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Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 22nd, 2015
ScienceDaily: The process of evaporation, one of the most widespread on our planet, takes place differently than we once thought -- this has been shown by new computer simulations carried out at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. The discovery has far-reaching consequences for, among others, current global climate models, where a key role is played by evaporation of the oceans. They all evaporate: oceans and seas, microdroplets of fuel in engines and the sweat on...
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Posted by Guardian: Martin Lukacs on October 22nd, 2015
Guardian: On Monday night many Canadians breathed out a sigh of relief. Then they breathed in a whiff of apprehension. The ousting of the Conservatives was a victory, a rejection of Stephen Harper’s politics of fear and outright hatred. But Canadians now confront a Prime Minister gifted in the art of warm, fuzzy claptrap. They won’t be offered what they dreamed of: that was never an option in this election.
The election’s most revealing poll was scarcely reported by the media. Those voting against Harper...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Trudeau’s bold change pledge was a ruse. But Canada now a fighting chancePerth’s double whammy: as sea levels rise the city itself is sinking
Posted by Guardian: Calla Wahlquist on October 22nd, 2015
Guardian: Growing demand for water in Perth has caused the city to sink at up to 6mm a year and could be responsible for an apparent acceleration in the rate of sea level rise, according to new research released by Curtin University. The study, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research in October, found that the rate of subsidence in Perth increased between 2000 and 2005, at the same time as the Water Corporation of WA increased the amount of water it was drawing from the city’s two main aquifers to...
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Posted by Toronto Star: Chantal Hébert on October 22nd, 2015
Toronto Star: The cabinet Justin Trudeau unveils on Nov. 4 will have to hit the ground running.
From recasting Canada in the anti-Islamic State international coalition, to deciding the fate of the just-negotiated TransPacific Partnership, beating a ticking Supreme Court clock on medically-assisted suicide, rewriting the Conservative anti-terrorism legislation and setting up an inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women, many of the items on the incoming government’s to-do list are time sensitive.
On...
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Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 21st, 2015
New York Times: Just one year after 2014 set a record as the hottest year in the historical record, 2015 is on track to beat it by a substantial margin, possibly signaling a return to a sustained period of rapid global warming. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the American agency that tracks worldwide temperatures, announced Wednesday that last month had been the hottest September on record, and that the January-to-September period had also been the hottest since 1880. Scientists say it is now...
Before renewable power plant completed geothermal overtake hydro in Kenya
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 21st, 2015
Inter Press Service: In its quest to generate more reliable, climate-friendly electric energy, Kenya has become the first country in the world to make use of temporary geothermal wellheads, which are currently injecting an extra 56 megawatts into the national grid.
According to engineers at the Kenya Electricity Generation Company (KenGen), it takes a number of years to construct a single geothermal power plant, because it has to be fed by steam from several wells, which are often drilled and left open for years awaiting...
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Posted by Reatures: None Given on October 21st, 2015
Reatures: Tibet's exiled leaders, including the Dalai Lama, said on Tuesday two-thirds of the glaciers in their mountain homeland may disappear by 2050 because of climate change and demanded a stake in international climate talks later this year.
The Tibetan plateau, which has the largest store of ice outside the North and South Pole, has experienced rising temperatures of 1.3 Celsius over the past five decades, three times the global average, the leadership said in a statement.
Tibet, with an average...
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Posted by Star-Telegram: None Given on October 21st, 2015
Star-Telegram: A majority of Texans believe cities should be able to ban hydraulic fracturing even if state law otherwise permits it, according to a recent poll conducted by the University of Texas at Austin.
In Texas, 57 percent of those surveyed agree that cities should be able to block hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” and nationally 58 percent support giving cities that authority, according to the UT Energy Poll released Tuesday.
Continued support for local control comes after Gov. Greg Abbott signed...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Majority texans support local control of fracking, UT poll showsNew Canadian PM Justin Trudeau same support Keystone XL pipeline
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 21st, 2015
Washington Post: The Canadian election Monday ousted a strong supporter of the Keystone XL pipeline. And it brought into office another strong supporter of the Keystone XL pipeline.
The new Canadian prime minister, Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau, has supported the construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline as well as TransCanada’s proposed $12 billion Energy East pipeline, both of which would carry bitumen from Alberta’s vast oil sands to ports and world markets.
Trudeau has said that the pipelines...
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