"Before We Drown We May Die of Thirst"
"The island nation of Kiribati is one of the world's most vulnerable to rising sea levels. But residents may have to leave well before the ocean claims their homes."
Source: Nature, 10/29/2015
Climate Change
Email Disclosure Conflicts Continue on Environmental Issues
Investigations into emails are a hotter topic than ever. A new face-off between Congressional climate science deniers and the federal scientists who compile climate data is making headlines.
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"Feds Eye Protection for Glacier-Dependent Bugs"
Melting glaciers in Glacier National Park are endangering stoneflies which are dependent on cold water. In the coming year, federal biologists will decide whether such insects deserve endangered species status.
Source: Summit Co Voice, 10/28/2015
Scientists Confirm E Antarctica’s Biggest Glacier Is Melting From Below
Scientists have observed a thinning of East Antarctica's Totten Glacier, which they now believe is because it is being undermined by sea water. This could cause significant sea level rise.
Source: Wash Post, 10/28/2015
"Ticks Are Migrating to Western Pennsylvania"
"In 2014 there were just 24 cases of Lyme Disease in West Virginia, but over 6 thousand in Pennsylvania according for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ticks are migrating and it may have something to do with the weather."
Source: WV Public Broadcasting, 10/28/2015
"Nearly Half of Senate Challenges Obama Carbon Rules"
"Nearly half of the U.S. Senate supports a resolution to challenge the Obama administration's regulation cutting carbon emissions from power plants, the core of the United States' broader climate change strategy, sponsors of the measure said on Tuesday." President Obama will veto the measure, which lacks votes for an override.
Source: Reuters, 10/28/2015
"Global Warming Puts Snow Leopards in a Bind: Study"
"GENEVA -- In what is turning out to be one of the hottest years on record, the warming temperatures pose an immediate threat to one of Pakistan’s most endangered creatures, the snow leopard."
Source: AFP, 10/27/2015
"Catholic Church Leaders Issue Appeal on Climate Change"
"VATICAN CITY — Roman Catholic cardinals, patriarchs and bishops from around the world on Monday appealed to climate-change negotiators to approve a 'fair, legally binding and truly transformational climate agreement' when they meet at a widely anticipated United Nations conference in Paris next month."
Source: NY Times, 10/27/2015
"Mayday: Gulf of Maine in Distress"
"Big changes are occurring in one of the fastest-warming spots on Earth".
Source: Portland Press Herald, 10/27/2015
"Greenland Is Melting Away"
"The midnight sun still gleamed at 1 a.m. across the brilliant expanse of the Greenland ice sheet. Brandon Overstreet, a doctoral candidate in hydrology at the University of Wyoming, picked his way across the frozen landscape, clipped his climbing harness to an anchor in the ice and crept toward the edge of a river that rushed downstream toward an enormous sinkhole."
Source: NY Times, 10/27/2015
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