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Davos: Western world ‘vulnerable’ to epidemics, warns Ebola expert
Davos: Western world ‘vulnerable’ to epidemics, warns Ebola expert The Western world is “vulnerable” to epidemics such as Ebola, and must invest more in researching vaccines, a leading scientist has warned. Prof Peter Piot told the BBC that developed nations would be in “deep trouble” if they failed to adequately prepare for another outbreak. Speaking […]
China’s interest in mining Antarctica revealed as evidence points to country’s desire to become ‘Polar Great Power’
China’s interest in mining Antarctica revealed as evidence points to country’s desire to become ‘Polar Great Power’ New evidence has emerged of China’s interest in exploiting Antarctica’s minerals despite an international agreement preventing it. It is thought the icy continent has abundant supplies of oil, gas, coal and iron ore. An emerging polar power, China […]
Yellowstone River Oil Spill Threatens Drinking Water in Montana
Yellowstone River Oil Spill Threatens Drinking Water in Montana Bottled water is being provided to residents of Glendive, Montana, after oil from True Companies’Poplar pipeline system leaked into the Yellowstone River. Dawson County has received complaints of odor in drinking water from people who use the municipal water system, according to a posting on the Montana government site. A […]
Heatwave in Rio
Heatwave in Rio Heatwave conditions have been affecting southeastern Brazil since the beginning of 2015. This comes after 2014 was declared the warmest, globally, since records began in 1880. The findings from the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) support earlier conclusions from both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the UK Met […]
Social Cost Of Carbon Drastically Underestimated: Report
Social Cost Of Carbon Drastically Underestimated: Report The U.S. government could be drastically underestimating how much climate change is going to cost us, according to astudy published by Stanford researchers in the journal Nature Climate Change. The researchers concluded that the Obama Administration is using a Social Cost of Carbon estimate that may be just one-sixth of the true […]
Fossil Fuel Use is Limited by Climate, if Not by Resources.
Fossil Fuel Use is Limited by Climate, if Not by Resources. We appear to be living in rather peculiar and unsettling times. A year ago, discussions and fears were over the high oil price, which until September 2014, had been above $100 a barrel http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/09/09/markets-oil-idUKL3N0RA1L220140909. The price rose to $115 in June 2014, but has subsequently […]
New—and Worrisome—Contaminants Emerge From Oil and Gas Wells
New—and Worrisome—Contaminants Emerge From Oil and Gas Wells Researchers find alarming levels of ammonium and iodide in fracking wastewater released into Pennsylvania and West Virginia streams. Two hazardous chemicals never before known as oil and gas industry pollutants – ammonium and iodide – are being released into Pennsylvania and West Virginia waterways from the booming […]
Ocean Life Faces Mass Extinction, Broad Study Says
Ocean Life Faces Mass Extinction, Broad Study Says A team of scientists, in a groundbreaking analysis of data from hundreds of sources, has concluded that humans are on the verge of causing unprecedented damage to the oceans and the animals living in them. “We may be sitting on a precipice of a major extinction event,” […]
Rising Temperatures on Land and Sea Made 2014 Hottest Year
Rising Temperatures on Land and Sea Made 2014 Hottest Year High temperatures across most of the globe made 2014 Earth’s hottest year in records dating back to 1880, a government report showed. The combined land and ocean temperature on the planet was 1.24 degrees Fahrenheit (about 0.7 Celsius) above the 20th-century average, the National Oceanic and […]
Malawi faces ‘unprecedented’ flood disaster – Africa – Al Jazeera English
Malawi faces ‘unprecedented’ flood disaster – Africa – Al Jazeera English. The waters may be receding and the rainfall subsiding but Malawi is only now coming to terms with the “unprecendented” floods that hit the southern half of the country last week. At least 176 people lost their lives and another 200,000 have been displaced when […]
We Must Start Digging Our Way Out of Canada’s Mining Dilemma
We Must Start Digging Our Way Out of Canada’s Mining Dilemma It sometimes seems people in the mining and fossil fuel industries — along with their government promoters — don’t believe in the future. What else could explain the mad rush to extract and use up the Earth’s resources as quickly and wastefully as possible? […]
Could Global Tide Be Starting To Turn Against Fossil Fuels?
Could Global Tide Be Starting To Turn Against Fossil Fuels? From an oil chill in the financial world to the recent U.S.-China agreement on climate change, recent developments are raising a question that might once have been considered unthinkable: Could this be the beginning of a long, steady decline for the oil and coal industries? by […]
Ontario To Put A Price On Carbon Emissions: Environment Minister
Ontario To Put A Price On Carbon Emissions: Environment Minister The Ontario government plans to put a price on carbon emissions to cut down on greenhouse gases, making good on a seven-year-old promise to fight climate change. The province’s environment minister said Tuesday his new climate strategy will set Canada’s most populous region on a […]
Why is there so little action on climate change?
Why is there so little action on climate change? According to the World Bank, human-induced or “anthropogenic” climate change may raise the earth’s temperature by two degrees in the next 20 or 30 years. Once four degrees is reached—which may arrive by the end of this century—the polar ice will be gone, sea levels will […]
Big Biomass 101: When Burning Wood for Energy Makes Sense
Big Biomass 101: When Burning Wood for Energy Makes Sense By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney The great boreal forest straddles the country and provinces from Nova Scotia to British Columbia have ample forestry resources. In a place like Canada biomass to energy can make a lot of sense. So we headed to the largest, […]
