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BBC News – Ebola outbreak: Virus still ‘running ahead of us’, says WHO
BBC News – Ebola outbreak: Virus still ‘running ahead of us’, says WHO. The Ebola virus that has killed thousands in West Africa is still “running ahead” of efforts to contain it, the head of the World Health Organization has said. Director general Margaret Chan said the situation had improved in some parts of the […]
Disaster Persists 30 Years after Bhopal Gas Catastrophe – SPIEGEL ONLINE
Disaster Persists 30 Years after Bhopal Gas Catastrophe – SPIEGEL ONLINE. When the monsoon washes away the dust of the Indian summer from the landscape, huts and people of Bhopal, the dry basin behind the slum of J.P. Nagar turns into a lake. Laughing children swim in it, fishermen wait for the telltale tug on […]
The Radio Ecoshock Show: RUNNING OUT OF FUTURE
The Radio Ecoshock Show: RUNNING OUT OF FUTURE. SUMMARY: Super scientist Kevin Trenberth on why oceans now hottest in recorded history, why that can make Europe colder. Stephen Leahy: we bankrupt water supplies with consumer purchases. Rob Aldrich on a generation with Nature Deficit Disorder. Radio Ecoshock 141203 Welcome back to Radio Ecoshock. Not a week goes by without a […]
New Report Highlights Fracking’s Global Hazards | DeSmogBlog
New Report Highlights Fracking’s Global Hazards | DeSmogBlog. A new report, issued the same day the latest round of global climate negotiations opened in Peru, highlights the fracking industry’s slow expansion into nearly every continent, drawing attention not only to the potential harm from toxic pollution, dried-up water supplies and earthquakes, but also to the […]
Knowing what ‘just enough’ is: Azby Brown on Japan’s Edo period – Part One | Transition Network
Knowing what ‘just enough’ is: Azby Brown on Japan’s Edo period – Part One | Transition Network. One of the most extraordinary books I have read in recent years is Just Enough: lessons in living green from traditional Japan by Azby Brown. Brown is director of the Konazawa Institute of Technologies Future Design Institute and has lived […]
Canada To Fall Way Short Of 2020 Climate Change Targets
Canada To Fall Way Short Of 2020 Climate Change Targets. Canada remains well short of meeting its international 2020 climate change commitment, Environment Canada reported Monday, even if the economy tanks and global oil and gas prices remain on the skids. Even under the worst-case scenario, the 2014 Emissions Report says Canada would still fail […]
Climate response made in the USA – The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Climate response made in the USA – The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). The climate talks in Peru are leading to the possibility that the post-2020 response will be “made in the USA”. Meanwhile, Australia could be doing more to help, writes Erwin Jackson. Will the post-2020 climate change framework be “made in the USA”? This […]
BBC News – Air pollution ‘causing deadly public health crisis’
BBC News – Air pollution ‘causing deadly public health crisis’. New schools, care homes and hospitals should be built far away from major roads because of the dangers of air pollution, a report by MPs says. The Environmental Audit Committee argues air pollution is a “public health crisis” causing nearly as many deaths as smoking. […]
Pipeline Protesters Aren’t Hypocrites for Driving Cars | Joseph McLean
Pipeline Protesters Aren’t Hypocrites for Driving Cars | Joseph McLean. The rallies on B.C.’s Burnaby Mountain are over. The core work is done, the crowds have dispersed. More than 100 people were arrested up there in the mud and rain, before the injunction hit the wall. Scientists and activists, first nations leaders and fresh-faced hippies. Arrested for crossing a […]
BBC News – Australia sweats over extreme hot weather
BBC News – Australia sweats over extreme hot weather. Australia has always suffered from bouts of extreme hot weather but the number and intensity of heatwaves is on the rise, prompting a rethink of how the country lives, works and plays in the sun. Some like it hot, but the 13-day stretch with temperatures exceeding […]
A Coming California Earthquake? | Armstrong Economics
A Coming California Earthquake? | Armstrong Economics. California’s Drought Ranks Worst in at Least 1,200 Years. The flooding that is taking place warns of something else. The major earthquakes correlate to these periods of extreme drought and then extreme rainfall. That may place added street on the fault lines. We warned last April that there […]
EU Countries Granted the Right to Ban GMO Crops | Environment News Service
EU Countries Granted the Right to Ban GMO Crops | Environment News Service. A political agreement on new legislation to allow EU member states to restrict, or ban, the cultivation of crops containing genetically modified organisms, GMOs, on their own territory, even if it is allowed at EU level, was reached by Parliament and Council […]
ALERT! Tell #COP20 Climate Delegates: If Not Cutting Emissions, You Are Failing | EcoInternet
ALERT! Tell #COP20 Climate Delegates: If Not Cutting Emissions, You Are Failing | EcoInternet. TAKE ACTION to urge immediate and fast emissions cuts at UN climate talks. Abrupt climate change threatens the world with runaway global warming, extreme weather weirding, and global ecosystem collapse unless together we embrace a 1.5° C warming goal and begin […]
Homes flattened as typhoon roars through Philippines | Reuters
Homes flattened as typhoon roars through Philippines | Reuters. (Reuters) – A powerful, slow-moving typhoon ripped through the central Philippines on Sunday, bringing howling winds that flattened houses and toppled trees and power lines in areas still scarred from a deadly super-storm just over a year ago. In the coastal villages of Dolores, on Samar […]
China Blocks Carbon Review Sought by U.S. at UN Talks – Bloomberg
China Blocks Carbon Review Sought by U.S. at UN Talks – Bloomberg. China rejected scrutiny of efforts to limit carbon emissions, a key tool that the U.S. says is necessary as more than 190 countries work to devise a new deal to fight climate change. Chinese negotiators sought yesterday at a climate conference in Lima, Peru to delete provisions […]
