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Salamander Fungus: Lacey Act to Keep Out 201 Foreign Amphibians
Posted by Nature World: Samantha Mathewso on January 25th, 2016
Nature World: Roughly 201 salamander species were recently listed as injurious wildlife - or those likely to cause harm - under Lacey Act by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). Researchers say that keeping these particular foreign amphibians out of the country will help prevent the fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, also known as Bsal or salamander chytrid, from spreading into the U.S., which is a global hotspot for salamander diversity.
"This action should be seen as an effective step toward controlling...
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Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 25th, 2016
ScienceDaily: The first-ever global nitrogen footprint, encompassing 188 countries, has found the United States, China, India and Brazil are responsible for 46 percent of the world's nitrogen emissions.
The international collaboration, led by the University of Sydney's Integrated Sustainability Analysis team in the Faculty of Science, found developing countries tend to embody large amounts of nitrogen emissions from their exports of food, textiles and clothing. Australia is one of the few wealthy nations that...
Is Climate Change Causing The Recent Streak Of Record-Setting Warm Years?
Posted by Popular Science: None Given on January 25th, 2016
Popular Science: Last year was the warmest on record. Red and orange show areas that were above the average temperature last year. Blue areas show places where temperatures were cooler than average.
We're on a roll. 2015 was the hottest year on record, just like 2014 was the hottest year on record, and before that, 2012 was the hottest year on record... In fact, 15 of the 16 hottest years on record have happened in the last 15 years. What are the odds?
In a paper released in Scientific Reports today, researchers...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Is Climate Change Causing The Recent Streak Of Record-Setting Warm Years?Flint rewrites water testing directions blamed in lead pollution crisis
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 25th, 2016
Guardian: The city of Flint has belatedly rewritten water testing instructions that have been blamed for the gross underestimation of its lead pollution crisis, with the Michigan government to be sued this week over its continued support for the distorted tests revealed by the Guardian. 'It's all just poison now': Flint reels as families struggle through water crisis Read more People in Flint have been complaining about their water since the summer of 2014. Until December 2015, officials in the city were...
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Posted by Business Times: None Given on January 25th, 2016
Business Times: The Virunga National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is simultaneously one of the most beautiful yet heartbreaking places on Earth. Africa's oldest national park has been a hotbed of armed conflict throughout the country's turbulent history, but it is also home to some of the world's last remaining mountain gorillas, lions, forest and savanna elephants, rare species of birds and some 20,000 hippopotamuses.
The landscape of lush greenery, lava plains and snowcapped mountains...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on DRC: Battle to protect Virunga National Park and wildlife living thereRecord hot 2015 gave glimpse at future of global warming
Posted by Guardian: Dana Nuccitelli on January 25th, 2016
Guardian: 2015 smashed the record for hottest year by about 0.14°C. To put that into perspective, the previous two hottest years (2014 and 2010) only broke the prior records by 0.002°C, according to Berkeley Earth data. The only time the temperature record was shattered by such a large margin was in the monster El Niño year of 1998.
While the current El Niño event is also becoming monstrously strong, it’s only now reaching its peak intensity, and there’s an approximately 4-month lag before changes in El...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Record hot 2015 gave glimpse at future of global warmingRecord hot years almost certainly caused by man-made warming
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 25th, 2016
Reuters: A record-breaking string of hot years since 2000 is almost certainly a sign of man-made global warming, with vanishingly small chances that it was caused by random, natural swings, a study showed on Monday.
Last year was the hottest since records began in the 19th century in a trend that almost all scientists blame on greenhouse gases from burning of fossil fuels, stoking heat waves, droughts, downpours and rising sea levels.
"Recent observed runs of record temperatures are extremely unlikely...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Record hot years almost certainly caused by man-made warmingRecord hot years near impossible without manmade climate change – study
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 25th, 2016
Guardian: The world’s run of record-breaking hottest years is extremely unlikely to have happened without the global warming caused by human activities, according to new calculations.
Thirteen of the 15 hottest years in the 150-year-long record occurred between 2000-14 and the researchers found there is a just a 0.01% chance that this happened due to natural variations in the planet’s climate.
2015 was revealed to have smashed all earlier records on Wednesday, after the new study had been completed,...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Record hot years near impossible without manmade climate change – study21st century warm streak ‘almost certainly’ human caused
Posted by Climate Home: Megan Darby on January 25th, 2016
Climate Home: The chances of natural variability causing the record warm streak this century are vanishingly small.
Greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels are "almost certainly" behind the surge in global temperatures, according to a study published in Nature.
Without human activities, scientists calculate the odds are between 1 in 5000 and 1 in 170000 of the pattern seen between 2000 and 2014: thirteen of the 15 warmest years on record.
"2015 is again the warmest year on record, and this can hardly...
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Posted by Guardian: Tomas Holderness and Etienne Turpin on January 25th, 2016
Guardian: Five major floods hit Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, in 2015, sparking more than 100,000 flood-related Twitter conversations in the city.
Jakarta, the world’s second largest city, is regularly devastated by flooding during the annual monsoon. The global proliferation of smartphones has meant citizens increasingly take to social media networks to share information during emergency events like these.
That’s why PetaJakarta.org (Map Jakarta) was born: it’s an online platform that transforms Twitter...
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