How Hitler’s U-Boats Are Still Attacking Us
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has some fresh news ...
Amazon River exhales virtually all carbon taken up by rain forest
The mouth of the Amazon River has three main channels, with an island the size of Switzerland in the middle. Credit: NASA The Amazon rain forest, popularly known as the lungs of the ...
New NOAA report examines national oil pollution threat from shipwrecks
Report presented to U.S. Coast Guard for use in contingency plans Disabled T/B DBL 152 vessel discharges oil into the Gulf of Mexico in 2005. Credit: ENTRIX, Inc. NOAA presented to ...
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton & Harrison Ford Lead Provocative Conversation on Conservation
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Harrison Ford on stage for Conservation International. Credit: Conservation International Conservation International Board member Harrison ...
Weekly News Roundup- May 17, 2013
House Farm Bill Needs Critical Improvements for Soil, Water and Wildlife
May 16- Late last evening, the House Committee on Agriculture passed its version of the 2013 farm bill.
“We ...
Sea level: One-third of its rise comes from melting mountain glaciers
The Aletschglacier in Switzerland is a typical valley glacier and the largest one in the Alps. Its volume loss since the middle of the 19th century is well visible from the trimlines ...
House Farm Bill Needs Critical Improvements for Soil, Water and Wildlife
“Committee missed important opportunities to save taxpayer dollars
through commonsense conservation measures.”
Late last evening, the House Committee on Agriculture passed its ...
Which States Use the Most Green Energy?
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Florida and Texas might be leading the nation's rollout of solar and wind ...
Study reveals scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change
A comprehensive analysis of peer-reviewed articles on the topic of global warming and climate change has revealed an overwhelming consensus among scientists that recent warming is human-caused. ...
Fall warming on Antarctic Peninsula driven by tropically forced circulation
The German research vessel, Polarstern, is shown off the Rothera station on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Rothera is one of eight stations that provided temperature data ...
UCLA study shows warming in central China greater than most climate models indicated
China's Loess Plateau. Credit: Gaojun Li Temperatures in central China are 10 to 14 degrees Fahrenheit hotter today than they were 20,000 years ago, during the last ice age, UCLA researchers ...
Of Cow Dung, Cook Stoves and Sustainability in Practice
When the Environmental Defense Fund asked me to measure how biogas cook stoves were changing the lives of farmers in rural India, there wasn’t a word in that question with which I ...
John Kerry Updates His Climate Change Creds at the Arctic Council
Secretary of State John Kerry is headed to Kiruna, Sweden, tomorrow, 14 May, for a ministerial meeting of the Arctic Council, the only diplomatic forum focused exclusively on ...
Senate Farm Bill Protects Soil, Water, Wildlife
“Basic soil and wetland protection requirements were extended to apply to crop insurance premium subsidies.”
The National Wildlife Federation commends Senate Agriculture Committee ...
Sulfate aerosols cool climate less than assumed
Life span of cloud-forming sulfate particles in the air is shorter than assumed due to a sulfur dioxide oxidation pathway which has been neglected in climate models so far Measurement ...
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