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2014 Likely ‘Hottest’ Year on Record, Ocean Temps Spike | Environment News Service
2014 Likely ‘Hottest’ Year on Record, Ocean Temps Spike | Environment News Service. LIMA, Peru, December 3, 2014 (ENS) – The year 2014 is likely to go down in the record books as one of the hottest years in modern history, according to estimates released today by the World Meteorological Organization. One cause is record […]
BBC News – World on course for warmest year
BBC News – World on course for warmest year. This year is in the running to be the hottest globally and for the UK since records began, early estimates show. In the first 10 months of 2014, global average air temperature was about 0.57 Celsius above the long-term average. And the first eleven months in […]
Belgian expert: WHO messed up Ebola response – Africa – Al Jazeera English
Belgian expert: WHO messed up Ebola response – Africa – Al Jazeera English. A Belgian scientist who helped discover Ebola in 1976 has accused the World Health Organisation (WHO) of mismanaging the current outbreak response. Peter Piot, an award-winning microbiologist, told Al Jazeera that “we wasted too much precious time”. “It took three months for […]
Seeing Peru’s forests through the trees – Features – Al Jazeera English
Seeing Peru’s forests through the trees – Features – Al Jazeera English. Puerto Maldonado, Peru – In an Amazonian timber yard bordering Bolivia and Brazil, Nelson Kroll names stacks of rough-hewn hardwoods, pointing out shihuahuaco and pumaquiro species freshly felled from select tracts of the Madreacre logging concession. “In this campaign we’ve cut 39,000 cubic metres of round timber, which is about […]
In Decades Since Leaders First Got Together On Climate, World Has Gotten Hotter, Weirder
In Decades Since Leaders First Got Together On Climate, World Has Gotten Hotter, Weirder. WASHINGTON (AP) — In the more than two decades since world leaders first got together to try to solve global warming, life on Earth has changed, not just the climate. It’s gotten hotter, more polluted with heat-trapping gases, more crowded and […]
Sydney storm sparks fires and blackouts, as flooding reported in Southern Highlands – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Sydney storm sparks fires and blackouts, as flooding reported in Southern Highlands – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). A storm has caused delays and brought down trees and powerlines across the Sydney metropolitan area, while lightning sparked a fire at an inner city substation. Heavy rain, flooding and power outages were also reported across much […]
Fracking Risks Compared to Asbestos and Other Environmental and Health Dangers
Fracking Risks Compared to Asbestos and Other Environmental and Health Dangers. While the title of the new British government report Innovation: Managing Risk, Not Avoiding It sounds cheery, the news it contained about fracking, among other environmentally dubious technologies, was anything but. The annual report of the government chief scientific advisor featured a lot of “better living through science”-type happy […]
2014 Goals for Ebola Treatment May Not Be Met, U.N. Health Officials Say – NYTimes.com
2014 Goals for Ebola Treatment May Not Be Met, U.N. Health Officials Say – NYTimes.com. GENEVA — The World Health Organizationexpressed doubt on Monday about achieving important United Nationsbenchmarks in battling Ebola, saying the year-end goals of isolating and treating all patients and safely burying all the dead would be major challenges. However, the W.H.O. said, significant progress […]
The Environment: Depleting Resources – Crash Course Chapter 23 | Peak Prosperity
The Environment: Depleting Resources – Crash Course Chapter 23 | Peak Prosperity. Chapter 23 of the Crash Course is now publicly available and ready for watching below. When we wander over to the third E in this story – the Environment – we note two things: both the increasing demand of exponentially more resources being […]
How We Made Our Own Solar Air Heater for Under $100 | David Dodge
How We Made Our Own Solar Air Heater for Under $100 | David Dodge. Solar energy is a popular subject on Green Energy Futures. We’ve done stories onsolar co-ops, passive solar design, solar start-ups, solar stocks, concentrated solar thermal and domestic solar hot water. And just when you think you’ve exhausted the well of solar stories we find another gem — solar air […]
What Will Weather Do in 2015? Forecasters Say El Nino Looms – Bloomberg
What Will Weather Do in 2015? Forecasters Say El Nino Looms – Bloomberg. Forecasters in Australia and New Zealand warned El Nino may soon be back, reviving concern that the weather pattern that can bring drought to parts of Asia and rains to South America may return for the first time since 2010. Tropical Pacific temperatures have […]
Eco-tourism on agenda in Tasmania as government accepts proposals for development in national parks, World Heritage Areas – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Eco-tourism on agenda in Tasmania as government accepts proposals for development in national parks, World Heritage Areas – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). A new environmental battle is looming in Tasmania as the state opens up untouched areas for eco-tourism. The Hodgman Government wants tourism operators to take advantage of development opportunities inside national parks […]
Abundance Thinking | The carbon pilgrim
Abundance Thinking | The carbon pilgrim. On a fine August day, I flew to New England in search of abundance. I was on the road to visit Dorn Cox, a young farmer who lives and works on his family’s 250-acre organic farm, called Tuckaway, near Lee, New Hampshire. Dorn calls himself a “carbon farmer,” meaning he […]
As world food demand rises, soil erosion poses growing threat — Transition Voice
As world food demand rises, soil erosion poses growing threat — Transition Voice. Outside the entrance of the glorious Hall of Western History are the marble lions, colorful banners, and huge stone columns. Step inside, and the popular exhibits include ancient Egypt, classical Greece, the Roman Empire, the Renaissance, Gutenberg, Magellan, Columbus, Galileo, and so […]
Alberta Pipeline Spills 60,000 Litres Of Crude Into Muskeg, Says Energy Regulator
Alberta Pipeline Spills 60,000 Litres Of Crude Into Muskeg, Says Energy Regulator. RED EARTH CREEK, Alta. – The Alberta Energy Regulator says close to 60,000 litres of crude oil have spilled into muskeg in the province’s north. An incident report by the regulator states that a mechanical failure was reported Thursday at a Canadian Natural […]
