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Another Item for Climate Panel's To-Do List
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change would do well to cultivate contacts between its authors and reporters in poor countries.
Cold blamed for Bolivia's mass fish deaths
Extreme weather wreaks havoc in the rivers.
Russia gains ground on wildfires
MOSCOW, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Emergency responders in Russia managed to stave off a national disaster from raging forest fires, the emergency minister declared. ...
Obama, in New Orleans, promises to 'fight alongside' Gulf Coast
In New Orleans, the president talks Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill, pointing up post-Katrina aid improvements and work on shoring up levees.Five years after Hurricane Katrina, President Obama...
Video: Rebuilding New Orleans Infrastructure
Hurricane Katrina's storm surge puteighty percent of New Orleans under water. Don Teague reports on the challenge of rebuilding the city's infrastructure to prevent this from ever happening again.
Petermann Ice Island Revisited
Petermann Ice Island Revisited Petermann Ice Island (2010) Calved on August 05 2010. The calving had been anticipated for some time and had been predicted to occur in summer 2010 by...
Rescue and relief the current priority for WWF-Pakistan
Rescue and relief is the current priority for WWF-Pakistan in the numerous communities it works with in the flood ravaged Indus basin...
Video: Harvesting Hope in New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina changed the New Orleans landscape forever, leveling 320 million trees in its wake. Monique Pilie felt despair in the face of so much destruction and set out re-plant...
Feds to Remove Temporary Cap from Gulf Well
Engineers Removing Cap that Stopped Oil from Gushing out of BP's Well in Order to Raise Failed Blowout Preventer from Seabed
The Bay Citizen: A Green Idea That Sounded Good Until the Trees Went to Work
The New Zealand Christmas tree thrives in San Francisco, but is destructive as well. Nonetheless, it is not easy for a homeowner to gain city permission to remove one.
Drought strikes Mali nomads hard
TALATAYE, Mali, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Nomadic tribes in the desert regions of northern Mali are facing one of the worst droughts in 20 years, authorities in that African...
Pacific Hot Spells Shifting as Predicted in Human-Heated World
Federal researchers find evidence that global warming may be shifting big, consequential Pacific Ocean temperature patterns.
A Sticky Climate Protest
Climate change protest is becoming a sticky business in Great Britain.Last Thursday, hundreds of activists with Climate Camp, a grassroots protest group, descended on the headquarters of the Royal Bank...
ORNL graphite foam technology licensed to LED North America
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., August 27, 2010 -- Technology developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory that extends the life of light-emitting diode lamps has been licensed to...
Aquatic invaders can topple plant and fish populations in Northeast
(PhysOrg.com) -- The introduction of species like "Frankenfish" or "Rock Snot" into Pennsylvania waters doesn't sound pretty, and it's not. These are just two of the more colorful nicknames for...
Salvage operation could offer up clues to US oil spill
Efforts this weekend to salvage BP's blowout preventer could bring to the surface a key piece of evidence in the inquiry into the largest maritime oil spill in history.
Hurricane-Hunting Tech: A Brief History
Sensor-laden planes called "Hurricane Hunters" pierce and prod hurricanes in the Gulf Coast.
Feingold calls for Great Lakes funding
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Failure to invest in the health of the Great Lakes will have dramatic impacts that extend beyond the environment, a Wisconsin senator said. ...
Mass displacement under way in Pakistan
KARACHI, Pakistan, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Authorities in the historic city of Thatta in Pakistan's province of Sindh said residents were ordered to leave the area because of rising...
Students Design Unmanned Drone to Take Action Against Terrorist Activity
In less than two years, an unmanned aircraft search and rescue competition will be happening in a remote area in Australia. Kevin Kochersberger, director of the Unmanned System Lab (USL)...
Syrian wheat supplies safe for two years
DAMASCUS, Syria, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Syria has produced enough wheat in 2010 to satisfy the domestic demand for the next two years, the country's agriculture minister said. ...
Another Ice Island Breaks Off Arctic Glacier
Break-off follows another glacier breakup earlier this summer.
New protected Arctic marine area: PM
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Thursday that the federal government is creating the first marine protected area in the Arctic.
China builds base to tap deep-sea energy: state media
China will build a multi-million-dollar research base on its east coast as it steps up its efforts to search for energy sources and rare earths on the ocean floor, state...
Feds: Don't tip off miners on surprise inspections
By SAM HANANEL 2010-08-26T20:47:53Z WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some mine companies are tipping off their underground workers before federal officials...
A poor appetite for gulf seafood
In Louisiana, where the fishing industry is as much a part of the state as Mardi Gras, even locals won't eat the catch.President Obama served plates of barbecued gulf shrimp...
El Niño has grown more intense and shifted westward in last three decades, data show
More research is necessary to determine if the cause is global warming or natural variability, an author of the report says.The weather pattern known as El Niño, which...
Peak Uncertainty, When Will We Run Out Of Fossil Fuels?
A couple of weeks ago I read somewhere that we have got enough coal left for over 200 years. So despite the greenhouse gas emissions that it entails, we needn't worry about...