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Climate Progress:
The multiyear ice covering the Arctic Ocean has effectively vanished….“I would argue that, from a practical perspective, we almost have a seasonally ice-free Arctic now, because multiyear sea ice is the barrier to the use and development of the Arctic,” said Barber [Canada's Research Chair in Arctic System Science at the Un (Read More)
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Mongabay.com News:
In George W. Bush's eight years as president, he placed 62 species under the protection of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), an average of eight species per year. While, Bush's slow pace in protecting endangered species frustrated environmentalists in light of continued decline among many species, Obama is moving even slower. (Read More)
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environment,
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Scientific American - Environment:
As utilities fire up their "clean coal" machines and international negotiators haggle over the precise definition of a tree , only one entity has the courage to stand and deliver the hot air the world so desperately craves on climate change: the U.S. Senate. After a hectic couple of weeks, filled with Republican walkout (Read More)
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Scientific American - Environment:
NEW HAVEN, W.Va.--A 100-story smokestack belches a roiling, white cloud of water vapor, carbon dioxide and other leftover gases after burning daily as much as 12,000 tons of coal at the Mountaineer Power Plant --a total of 3.5 million tons a year. The facility just outside the town of New Haven boasts a single 65-meter-hig (Read More)
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DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science:
At the U.S. delegation press conference this afternoon on the final day of the Barcelona climate talks, I asked U.S. deputy climate change envoy Jonathan Pershing what effect, if any, Senator James Inhofe (R-Denial) might have on the process in Copenhagen, and whether GOP intransigence is hurting Obama’s ability to come up (Read More)
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Knight Science Journalism Tracker:
Here’s a story with an irony nicely told. Along the San Francisco Bay The Contra Costa Times’s Suzanne Bohan jumped into a car with a biologist to go visit some salt ponds being reverted to a good simile of their erstwhile wetlands environs. It seems that a certain seabird that is a constant presence along California beache (Read More)
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Energy,
environment
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Knight Science Journalism Tracker:
(English intro to Spanish lang. post) Latin American journalists at the Climate Change meeting in Barcelona are making one thing clear: “we are already suffering the consequences of the global warming that you – rich countries — have caused. You should mitigate – not us – and also give us quite a lot of money for adaptation (Read More)
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cop15.dk News:
Governments that do not invest in low carbon solutions will end up losing, and their voters will turn away from them, the global conservation organization WWF predicts. (Read More)
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Carbon,
greenhouse
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Eureka! Science News - Earth & Climate:
The seriousness of current global warming is underlined by a reconstruction of climate at Maxwell Bay in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic Peninsula over approximately the last 14,000 years, which appears to show that the current warming and widespread loss of glacial ice are unprecedented.
read more. (Read More)
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Yale Environment 360:
The Philippine government plans to approve 19 new contracts to develop the nation’s massive geothermal energy resources in the next five months. A top energy official said financial incentives for the development of renewable energy projects could attract more than $2.5 billion in private dollars from domestic and internati (Read More)
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cop15.dk News:
Political will and leadership is what is needed now to give next month's UN climate change conference in Copenhagen a ”final push” and ”get us to a result", UN climate chief Yvo de Boer said Friday. (Read More)
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Climate Change,
Climate
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cop15.dk News:
Mozambique, Niger and Zambia receive World Bank funding for demonstration projects that will implement climate change adaptation into existing economic development planning. (Read More)
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Climate Change,
Climate
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Development in a Changing Climate:
Climate change in the news (Nov 2 - Nov 6, 2009). (Read More)
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Climate Change,
Climate
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DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science:
070206_luntz_vmed_1p.widec_.jpg When I'm trying to unravel public relations spin, I frequently find myself asking WWFLD (What Would Frank Luntz Do)?As you'll recall Frank Luntz is a chief Republican spin-doctor famous for his memo on climate change.We have seen a lot of spi (Read More)
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Climate Progress:
Contrary to reports from many in the media, the prospects for a climate bill are as good as ever now that the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has finished its work. E&E News makes that clear in a series of interviews with key Senate swing votes,”Senate moderates see an opening now that EPW gridlock is history (Read More)
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