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Yellowstone earthquake swarm hits entire park, more than 60 on Friday alone
Yellowstone earthquake swarm hits entire park, more than 60 on Friday alone Earthquakes as big as 5.0 were recorded on USGS censors placed throughout the Yellowstone region YELLOWSTONE REGION (INTELLIHUB) — U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) seismology reports conclude that a massive swarm of earthquakes swept through the park triggering more than 60 separate events in […]
Worst Hurricane Season In A Decade Threatens Gulf Coast Production
Worst Hurricane Season In A Decade Threatens Gulf Coast Production 2017 could be an “above-normal” year for large hurricanes, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a potential problem for Gulf Coast oil drillers and refiners. NOAA puts the odds of an “above-normal” season for hurricanes at 45 percent, while the chances of […]
Merkel Furious With Trump After “Unprecedented” G-7 Failure To Reach Consensus On Climate Change
Merkel Furious With Trump After “Unprecedented” G-7 Failure To Reach Consensus On Climate Change In the end it was not mean to be. As discussed on Friday, during Trump’s first G-7 summit, world leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and new French President Emmanuel Macron, had hoped to persuade the the US president to endorse […]
After Years’ Long Push, Fracking Has Quietly Arrived in Alaska
After Years’ Long Push, Fracking Has Quietly Arrived in Alaska Hydraulic fracturing‘s horizontal drilling technique has enabled industry to tap otherwise difficult-to-access oil and gas in shale basins throughout the U.S. and increasingly throughout the world. And now “fracking,” as it’s known, could soon arrive at a new frontier: Alaska. As Bloomberg reported in March, Paul Basinski, a pioneer of […]
Canadians fight floods across the country
Canadians fight floods across the country Thousands in Central Canada, the Atlantic and B.C. spend the weekend struggling with rising water levels Erick Miner comforts a cat rescued by boat from a home Saturday on Rue Saint-Louis in Gatineau, Que., as rising river levels and heavy rains continue to cause flooding. (Justin Tang/Canadian Press) Across […]
Wet weather walloping much of Ontario, Quebec and heading east
Wet weather walloping much of Ontario, Quebec and heading east Ottawa River, Laurentian communities hit hard; New Brunswick expected to be next Some Pointe-Gatineau, Que., residents have had to abandon their cars trapped by flooding. Firefighters have gone door-to-door in parts of Gatineau to warn residents of the dangers of staying put as forecasts call […]
‘Get lined up’: Alberta gas producer’s demise leaves long list of creditors and costly messes
‘Get lined up’: Alberta gas producer’s demise leaves long list of creditors and costly messes Who will have to pay to clean up after Lexin Resources? Maureen and Wendell Strong have two former Lexin Resources natural gas wells on their land near Nanton, Alta. The province’s energy regulator shut down the struggling company back in […]
Wilder Fires and Rising Waters, Climate Impacts Coming to America’s Door
Wilder Fires and Rising Waters, Climate Impacts Coming to America’s Door Pair of new studies show how American climate refugees will ‘reshape’ population landscape of the nation The Chelan Butte fire encroaches on homes in coastal Washington state. (Photo: Ben Brooks/cc/flickr) Americans in many cases have been slow to acknowledge the real threats posed by […]
Climate change causes glacial river in Yukon to change direction
Climate change causes glacial river in Yukon to change direction Glacier retreated so much that its meltwater switched course, in an event not documented in modern times Geoscientist Dan Shugar gazes out over exposed sediments and dust storms at Kluane Lake in the Yukon in the summer of 2016. Covered in water just months before, […]
Blowout Week 172
Blowout Week 172 In this week’s Blowout we return to Brexit and its impacts. It is now reported that following Brexit the UK will “scale down its concern over climate change” and scrap the EU’s 15%-of-total-energy-from-renewables-by-2020 target. Can outright repeal of the 2008 Climate Change Act be far behind? Telegraph: Britain preparing to scrap EU […]
How a Judge Scrapped Pennsylvania Families’ $4.24M Water Pollution Verdict in Gas Drilling Lawsuit
How a Judge Scrapped Pennsylvania Families’ $4.24M Water Pollution Verdict in Gas Drilling Lawsuit For many residents of Carter Road in Dimock, Pennsylvania, it’s been nearly a decade since their lives were turned upside down by the arrival of Cabot Oil and Gas, a company whose Marcellus Shale hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) wells were plagued by a […]
Climate Change Has Already Had a Negative Impact on Animals on Every Continent
CLIMATE CHANGE HAS ALREADY HAD A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON ANIMALS ON EVERY CONTINENT A new study has revealed that we have underestimated the impact climate change has had on endangered species around the world. These effects have been particularly traumatic for mammals and birds on the endangered species list – even species included on the […]
Communications breakdown: Can we even talk about our environmental and energy problems?
Communications breakdown: Can we even talk about our environmental and energy problems? Conversations that seek genuine understanding by all sides ultimately require a common frame of reference. If we aren’t talking about the same things, how can we understand one another? We usually refer to this as talking past one another. Sometimes this happens because […]
Droughts, floods from weird jet stream linked to Arctic heat
Droughts, floods from weird jet stream linked to Arctic heat Something strange is going on, with more incidences of unprecedented heat waves, droughts and flooding happening in recent years, and based on the latest research, it’s looking more and more like climate change is to blame. The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on […]
Did The EPA Just Go Rogue Again
Did The EPA Just Go Rogue Again In late January, days after Donald Trump became president, various government workers employed by the EPA “defied” the president with what at the time appeared to be rogue twitter accounts emerging from the environemntal agency, most notably the Badlands National Park which slammed Trump’s climate change proposal. “Today, […]
