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Northeast US to Suffer Most From Future Sea Rise
Environment  (tags: globalwarming, climate-change, climate, habitat, oceans, weather, research )

Cal
- 261 days ago - enn.com
The northeastern U.S. coast is likely to see the world's biggest sea level rise from man-made global warming, a new study predicts.
Greenland Thaw Among Feared Climate Shifts By 2200
Environment  (tags: globalwarming, research, ClimateChange, climate, weather )

Cal
- 261 days ago - reuters.com
A drastic climate shift such as a thaw of Greenland's ice or death of the Amazon forest is more than 50 percent likely by the year 2200 in cases of strong global warming, according to a survey of experts.
GET A GLIMPSE OF CUBA'S UNDERWATER TREASURE TROVE
Environment  (tags: environment, animals, GoodNews, oceans, nature, water, ecosystems, conservation, science )

Cal
- 260 days ago - worldblog.msnbc.msn.com
The real underwater treasure lies in the beauty of the seascapes. Hidden in the shallow reefs, tunnels and caverns are schools of colorful Atlantic stingrays, spadefish, jacks, tuna, barracudas and dozens more species, visible only a few feet below the su
How Warming Affects Storming
Environment  (tags: climate, climate-change, CO2emissions, ecosystems, destruction, globalwarming, habitatdestruction, greenhousegases, suffering, politics, pollution )

Marty
- 476 days ago - livescience.com
Scientists who predicted a connection between global warming and rainstorm strength finally have some evidence to hang their hat on.
Freak Weather Is Becoming the Norm
Environment  (tags: climate-change, conservation, CO2emissions, environment, ecosystems, endangered, globalwarming, habitat, habitatdestruction, government, nature, politics, oceans, pollution, protection, weather )

Marty
- 476 days ago - irishtimes.com
What had been viewed as freak weather events are now rapidly becoming the new climate norms. Computer models for Ireland in the decades ahead show greater seasonal extremes, with autumns and winters becoming as much as 25 per cent wetter with drier...
Two Large Solar Plants Planned in California
Environment  (tags: Solar Power, energy, environment, conservation, GoodNews )

NO FORWAR
- 476 days ago - nytimes.com
The plants will cover 12.5 square miles of central California with solar panels, and in the middle of a sunny day will generate about 800 megawatts of power, roughly equal to the size of a large coal-burning power plant or a small nuclear plant.
Global Oxygen Level Falling, Warn Scientists
Environment  (tags: climate-change, CO2emissions, ecosystems, globalwarming, forests, environment, pollution, politics, protection, weather )

Marty
- 476 days ago - news.google.com
The world has realized the danger of rising carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. It has, in its own way, been fighting global warming. But what about the long-term fall in oxygen levels and its knock-on effects?
Pacific "Toilet Bowl That Never Flushes"
Environment  (tags: Abomination! )

Dan
- 476 days ago - scitech.blogs.cnn.com
Huge floating mass of garbage in the Pacific Ocean--getting Bigger. An enormous, amorphous, nasty soup that some say as large as the Continental USA. Dr David Kagan, Sunstroke author, exposes the travesty in Doomwatch Legacy. A product of US and Orient.
We Are Killing Our Great Salt Mother
Environment  (tags: oceans, oceanic dead zones, fish kills, nitrogen, algae blooms, fertilizer )

RC
- 476 days ago - nytimes.com
Alarming article about the rise of world-wide coastal oceanic dead zones, exacerbated by human activity, especially fertilizer run-off. The number of oxygen-starved oceanic areas has doubled every 10 years since the 1960s. We cannot kill our oceans!
Amazon Fund Seen as "Paradigm Shift" for Forest
Environment  (tags: environment, protection, habitat, ecosystems, trees, wildlife )

Cal
- 476 days ago - reuters.com
An international fund to protect the Amazon forest launched by Brazil this month marks an important step in harnessing the forest's wealth in less destructive ways, a leading Amazon expert said
 
 
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