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[Resource Depletion]: from Standard-Freeholder, Thu Mar 11 2010:
Massive water crisis looming: Gwynne Dyer speaks in city
Dyer presented a multitude of "frightening scenarios" which could occur in the next 20-25 years and he did not spare Canada.
He said our country could be confronted with a "desperate" United States if the lower states -- vulnerable to severe droughts -- run short of water.
"Should we make a (water-supply) deal on our terms before (the U.S. is forced to divert Great Lakes water unilaterally)?" Dyer said... "You could see the methane gas bubbling up through the melt," Dyer said, recalling eye-witness accounts near Yellowknife, N.W.T. "The kids get kitchen matches, find the melt ponds and set them on fire -- they burn all summer."... "They're drawing up scenarios where armed forced have an enormous role in taking on emerging threats," Dyer said, explaining that water shortages will ignite international tensions.
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Just because he's been right most of the time doesn't mean he's right this time.
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[Resource Depletion]: from IRIN, Thu Mar 11 2010:
Niger: Southern villages emptying as drought bites
"Empty" increasingly describes villages around the southern Niger town of Tanout in Zinder Region: Water wells and pastures, fields and food banks - and slowly - entire villages, are emptying.... Insufficient rains nationwide led to a 31 percent slump in crop production compared to last year - 410,000 tons less - according to the government's latest estimates.... The government has estimated that poor rains have forced some two million people to finish off their food reserves seven months before the next harvest. Another five million may soon follow.
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What's new? Humans have been eating their seed banks for a hundred years.
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[Climate Chaos]: from CBC, Wed Mar 10 2010:
Seal pups beached -- lack of sea ice off Newfoundland
An exceptional lack of sea ice on the Gulf of St. Lawrence this winter has left seal mothers with few places to bear their young or to feed their pups.
The conditions have ...
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[Climate Chaos]: from Climatewire, Wed Mar 10 2010:
Health and Life Insurers Grapple With Climate Effects
Biting bugs are buzzing northward and asthma has spread like a dust cloud, but there are deep divisions about how concerned health and life insurers should be about disease ...
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[Climate Chaos]: from Inter Press Service, Wed Mar 10 2010:
"Famine Marriages" Just One Byproduct of Climate Change
The negative fallout from climate change is having a devastatingly lopsided impact on women compared to men, from higher death rates during natural disasters to heavier household ...
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[Climate Chaos]: from Christian Science Monitor, Tue Mar 9 2010:
Global warming doubts could hamper climate legislation
A recent poll suggests that high-profile controversies regarding climate science are weakening public confidence in the validity of global warming, And that could endanger ...
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[Recovery]: from Yale environment 360, Tue Mar 9 2010:
World's Pall of Black Carbon Can Be Eased With New Stoves
With a single, concerted initiative, says Lakshman Guruswami, the world could save millions of people in poor nations from respiratory ailments and early death, while dealing ...
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[Climate Chaos]: from CBC, Tue Mar 9 2010:
Pack ice scarce off Eastern Canada
A Canadian Coast Guard official said Monday that many parts of the ocean near Newfoundland and Labrador are devoid of pack ice -- a condition that hasn't been seen in at least ...
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[Resource Depletion]: from McClatchy, via Miami Herald, Tue Mar 9 2010:
Growing low-oxygen zones in oceans worry scientists
In some spots off Washington state and Oregon, the almost complete absence of oxygen has left piles of Dungeness crab carcasses littering the ocean floor, killed off 25-year-old ...
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[Biology Breach]: from AP, via PhysOrg.com, Tue Mar 9 2010:
GE: Limit PCB contamination during Hudson dredging
General Electric Co. on Monday proposed a halting further dredging of the Hudson River if PCBs churned up by the work spread too much pollution downriver during the second ...
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[Species Collapse]: from Orlando Sentinal, Tue Mar 9 2010:
Orcas have 2nd-biggest brains of all marine mammals
Neuroscientist Lori Marino and a team of researchers explored the brain of a dead killer whale with an MRI and found an astounding potential for intelligence.... It's not ...
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[Recovery]: from PhysOrg.com, Tue Mar 9 2010:
IBM, Stanford cite advance in plastic recycling
When you recycle a plastic bottle, it doesn't necessarily become another plastic bottle. Because of limitations in recycling technology, a common type of plastic used in ...
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[Recovery]: from The ApocaDocs, Mon Mar 8 2010:
The ApocaDocs Seek New Title for their Book
In response to a number of complaints, the ApocaDocs may be forced to retitle their short free book Converging Emergencies: 2010-2020. "I was planning for it to be a ...
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[Plague/Virus]: from IRIN, Mon Mar 8 2010:
Pakistan: Wheat rust threat rising
Experts say it is only a matter of time before wind carries a deadly wheat stem pathogen into Pakistan, the ninth largest wheat producing nation in the world. Known as Ug99, ...
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[Biology Breach]: from Otago Daily Times (NZ), Mon Mar 8 2010:
Tide of acid-ocean fear rolls over oyster industry
The collapse began rather unspectacularly.
In 2005, when most of the millions of Pacific oysters in this tree-lined estuary failed to reproduce, the shellfish growers of ...
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[Recovery]: from MIT, via EurekAlert, Mon Mar 8 2010:
MIT researchers discover new way of producing electricity
A team of scientists at MIT have discovered a previously unknown phenomenon that can cause powerful waves of energy to shoot through minuscule wires known as carbon nanotubes. ...
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[Climate Chaos]: from Indiana University, via New Scientist, Mon Mar 8 2010:
High-carbon ice age mystery solved
How come a big ice age happened when carbon dioxide levels were high? It's a question climate sceptics often ask. But sometimes the right answer is the simplest: it turns ...
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[Biology Breach]: from Charleston Gazette, Sun Mar 7 2010:
EPA delays action on mountaintop removal plan
The Obama administration has delayed action on a set of broad-ranging and specific measures to reduce the environmental impacts of mountaintop removal, after details of the ...
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[Species Collapse]: from Boston Post-Gazette, Sun Mar 7 2010:
Can bats be saved?
The bats appear to die of starvation during hibernation, but scientists still cannot confirm that the fungus is the primary cause of death. What they know: White-nose Syndrome ...
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[Climate Chaos]: from Bard College, via Reuters and DesdemonaDespair, Sun Mar 7 2010:
Arctic melt to cost up to $24 trillion by 2050: report
Arctic ice melting could cost global agriculture, real estate and insurance anywhere from $2.4 trillion to $24 trillion by 2050 in damage from rising sea levels, floods and ...
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[Climate Chaos]: from Living on Earth, Sat Mar 6 2010:
Climate Confusion
For climate scientists, now is the winter of their discontent. Their major work, the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, which won the ...
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[Recovery]: from Ceres, via BusinessGreen, Sat Mar 6 2010:
Climate change shareholder actions hit record high
The number of climate change-related shareholder actions has soared 40 per cent during the 2010 proxy season to a record 95 resolutions, according to new figures from sustainable ...
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