"White House Takes a More Modest Plan B to Cancun Climate Talks"
"This is what the 2010 midterm elections will change about U.S. climate policy: Cap-and-trade was dead. Now it will be deader."
Source: Wash Post, 11/22/2010
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"Feds Understate the Cost of Climate Disruption, Critics Contend"
"The Obama Administration has ignored wrenching climate impacts such as ocean acidification in its effort to estimate the cost of carbon emissions, making emissions limits disproportionately expensive, economists say."
Source: Daily Climate, 11/17/2010
"Troposphere Is Warming Too, Decades Of Data Show"
"Not only is Earth's surface warming, but the troposphere -- the lowest level of the atmosphere, where weather occurs -- is heating up too, U.S. and British meteorologists reported on Monday." The findings may put to rest a 20-year-old controversy over differences between satellite and surface measurements of warming.
Source: Reuters, 11/16/2010
"Clinton Facing Heat on Oil Sands Pipeline"
"Battle lines have been hardening over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline over the last couple of weeks. The pipeline, which will stretch from Alberta in Canada to refineries on the Gulf Coast, would nearly double the United States' capacity to import oil made from Canadian oil sands. Canadian oil sands are a plentiful and secure source of oil, but the extraction process is high in carbon dioxide emissions and takes a toll on pristine Canadian forest ecosystems."
Source: Green (NYT), 11/02/2010
Coal Heat Puts Navajos at Risk, but Many Families See Few Options
Many Navajo families face a choice between burning coal, which can threaten the safety of their homes and their respiratory health -- or burning propane, which they may not be able to afford.
Source: Farmington Daily Times, 11/01/2010
"Satellite Data Sheds New Light on Solar Cycle"
"The sun may warm the Earth more during waning solar cycles, new satellite data has shown, turning scientific understanding on its head and helping to explain extreme local weather patterns, scientists said on Wednesday."
Source: Reuters, 10/07/2010
"Malaria Threatens 2 Million in Pakistan as Floodwaters Turn Stagnant"
"More than 2 million cases of malaria are expected in Pakistan in the coming months in the wake of the country's devastating floods, aid workers have warned."
Source: Guardian, 10/04/2010
"Fighting Prop. 23 One Phone Call at a Time"
"An activist with the Communities for a Better Environment takes on Big Oil over delaying the state's global warming law."
Source: LA Times, 09/27/2010
"Ancient Seeds In Mexico Help Fight Warming Effects"
"More than 500 years after Spanish priests brought wheat seeds to Mexico to make wafers for the Catholic Mass, those seeds may bring a new kind of salvation to farmers hit by global warming. Scientists working in the farming hills outside Mexico City found the ancient wheat varieties have particular drought- and heat-resistant traits, like longer roots that suck up water and a capacity to store more nutrients in their stalks."
Source: Reuters, 09/20/2010
"Taming the Wild Tuna"
The Atlantic bluefin tuna, one of the wildest of wild fish, is in decline. Paradoxically, aquaculture scientists say a recent breakthrough in captive breeding of the fish may help save it.
Source: NYTimes, 09/10/2010
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