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Wilkins Shelf Ice Bridge Disintegrates
Posted on April 20, 2009Montabay.com reported: As though commenting on world leader's lack of progress in combating climate change at the G20 conference last week, an ice bridge connecting the Wilkins Ice Shelf to the Antarctic continent broke off over the weekend. Long expected...
Watershed Management
Posted on April 17, 2009Cool new site: US EPA Watershed Central gives you one-stop shopping for anything related to watershed management: Watershed Central link
EPA releases endangerment finding
Posted on April 17, 2009Here it is: EPA GHG Endangerment Proposal -- Prepublication Copy EPA Finds Greenhouse Gases Pose Threat to Public Health, Welfare / Proposed Finding Comes in Response to 2007 Supreme Court Ruling Release date: 04/17/2009 Contact Information: Cathy Milbourn, 202-564-4355 /...
Call for Entries - 4th International Water Film Festival
Posted on April 17, 2009If you're traveling this summer, you might want to film something about water and submit your masterpiece to the 4th International Water Film Festival. Entries are due July 31st. For more info, visit Drink Water for Life blog - water...
EPA to issue endangerment finding
Posted on April 17, 2009The NY Times reported that U.S. EPA will issue a formal endangerment finding today, declaring carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases to be pollutants that threaten public health and welfare. This will cause EPA to begin the process of regulating...
E.O. Wilson seeks to create networked encyclopedia of life
Posted on April 13, 2009E.O. Wilson's TED talk pleads for a networked encyclopedia of life, because of the dimensions of the unknown regarding life on earth. E.O. Wilson is, of course, the sage advocate for biodiversity protection and the most famous voice associated with...
Refuge regulations limiting commercial fishing operations are not a taking
Posted on April 11, 2009Palmyra Pacific Seafoods, L.L.C. v. U.S., No. 08-5058 (Fed. Cir. April 09, 2009) PDF Yesterday, the Federal Circuit decided a takings case where the U.S. created a wildlife refuge around an island on which the plaintiff had acquired contractual rights...
Add State of the World 2009 to the Climate Change Syllabus
Posted on April 11, 2009Here's a free copy of Robert Engelman's chapter on Sealing the Deal to Save the Climate. State of the World Chapter 6 I'd suggest adding SOW2009, which is devoted to climate change, or perhaps Worldwatch's Climate Change Reference Guide (table...
65% see current economic crisis as opportunity for sustainability
Posted on April 11, 2009I was browsing at Worldwatch Institute and saw these results from their poll. By the way, I voted for reengineering the energy system: What opportunities for sustainability may emerge in 2009 because of the current economic crisis? The world could...
Foreign Affairs "syllabus" on Climate Change
Posted on April 11, 2009This is Foreign Affairs "syllabus" on climate change compiled by David Victor of Stanford. If you ever wondered whether the Council on Foreign Affairs is hopelessly mainstream and slightly behind-the-times, this provides a good basis for analysis. Geo-engineering is prominently...
Elizabeth Royte's new blog -- more on bottled water than you'd ever want to know
Posted on April 11, 2009Go visit Elizabeth Royte's new blog: Water. waste. and whatever She's got more information on bottled water than anyone else in the world -- remember, she's the author of Bottlemania.
Pacific Northwest Climate Change
Posted on April 11, 2009Phillip Mote, head of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, recently spoke about likely effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest. WaterWired recapped his comments. For those of us who live on either side of the Cascades, he didn't...
Early Spring by Amy Seidl - the everyday impacts of climate change
Posted on April 11, 2009RealClimate has posted a fittingly poetic book review of Early Spring by Amy Seidl, entitled "Breaking the Silence about Spring." Real Climate The excerpts below make the case for reading the review and reading the book: Did you know that...
Spotted Owl Taking a Dive
Posted on April 10, 2009The Justice Department has signaled that the US Fish and Wildlife Service plans to revisit the northern spotted owl recovery plan and the reduced critical habitat designation issued last year at the end of the Bush administration. The Bush administration's...
Wildfire Future
Posted on April 10, 2009ScienceNOW Daily News reported today on the paper by Moritz, et al. analyzing global fire activity published on PLos ONE, which reports on the variability of probable wildfire impacts from climate change over the next 30 years. About 20% of...
Global Warming Reduces Capacity of Ocean to Store Carbon
Posted on April 10, 2009An article by Wohlers, et al. published yesterday on-line in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) indicates that increasing ocean temperatures associated with global warming reduce the ocean's capacity to serve as a carbon sink. This establishes...
Arctic Sea Ice Melting Fast
Posted on April 03, 2009According to a new report by Wang and Overland in Geophysical Research Letters, the arctic sea ice is melting fast enough that it will be largely gone within 30 years. The ice is melting so fast because arctic temperatures in...
U.S. Babies Drinking Formula are Exposed to Unsafe Levels of Perchlorate
Posted on April 03, 2009One of the joys of blogging is all the good news that various organizations share with bloggers. However, here's a story that isn't such good news, but needs to be told. Joaquin Sapien of Propublica, which does public interest journalism,...
Waxman-Markey Discussion Draft on Energy and Global Warming: the AMERICAN CLEAN ENERGY and SECURITY ACT
Posted on April 02, 2009Reps. Waxman and Markeyhave released a discussion draft bill on clean energy and global warming. Here is a Summary of the Discussion Draft and here is a copy of the Bill The global warming title establishes a cap and trade...
ALI-ABA April 15th Conference Call on Adaptation
Posted on April 02, 2009ALI-ABA Forum on Strategic Adaptation to Climate Change Offers Opportunities for Environmental Community Philadelphia, PA??The American Law Institute-American Bar Association is jointly sponsoring a 90-minute audio webcast addressing strategic adaptation to climate change on April 15, 2009 from 1:00 pm...
Science - Scientists Track Changes in Oceanic Biological Productivity Caused by Climate Change
Posted on April 02, 2009What a tangled web we weave..... everything really is connected to everything. Over the past several decades, the climate of the western shelf of the Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) has been changing from a cold, dry polar climate to a warmer,...
Science - Scientists Develop Evidence on CO2 Concentrations During Post-Glacial Warming Periods
Posted on April 02, 2009Scientists have long sought to unravel the combination of physical and biogeochemical processes responsible for the tight coupling between atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and Earth?s climate. Researchers suspect that the Southern Ocean may have provided a reservoir for atmospheric carbon...
Interesting History Question
Posted on April 02, 2009The Environmental History List has an interesting question -- what is the origin of "green" as denoting environmentally friendly. My answer was Charles Reich, Greening of America, circa 1970. If one had a copy, I'm sure he must reference some...
Harvard University Center for the Environment - Events List
Posted on April 02, 2009As always, Harvard and MIT have an enviable set of environmental, energy, and resources events. The list provides food for thought about speakers and materials that may be available. Highlights: Tuesday, April 7: Harvard faculty John Briscoe (SEAS, HSPH) and...
Water News from Water Advocates
Posted on April 02, 2009New Congressional Legislation: Strong support for drinking water and sanitation continues on Capitol Hill, where legislation introduced in the Senate would put the U.S. in the lead among governments in responding to the Millennium Development Goals for water and sanitation...
World Seeks Major Changes in International and National Economic Systems
Posted on March 31, 2009The G-20 group of industrialized and developing country leaders meets April 2 to address the global economic crisis. One thing is clear, we're ready for some change! Major reform of the international economic system is needed in order to solve...
World Water Forum Ministerial Declaration Refuses to Acknowledge Human Right to Water
Posted on March 28, 2009With US encouragement, the Ministerial Declaration adopted at the World Water Forum declined to recognize a human right to water: Its time for US policy to change. ENS reported today: Twenty countries have officially challenged the Ministerial Declaration released Sunday...
Just How Many Deaths Are Attributable to Lack of Clean Water and Sanitation?
Posted on March 27, 2009I've been having a hard time pinning down how many people die each year from lack of clean drinking water and sanitation. The figure I had used for the last three years was 2 million deaths annually. I read a...
BNA Environmental Case Summaries
Posted on March 27, 2009TABLE OF CASES Central Valley Chrysler-Jeep Inc. v. CARB (E.D. Cal., 6/24/08) ... More » Oregon Natural Desert Ass'n v. U.S. Forest Service (9th Cir., 12/11/08) ... More » Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine v. EPA (9th Cir., 9/5/08) ......
Where has all our money gone?
Posted on March 27, 2009Remember that old folk song Where Have All the Flowers Gone? If you don't, go listen:it was a classic back in its day. Well, I've got a new version: Where has all our money gone, Long time passing, Where has...
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