Tracking Plan B - Lester Brown's
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 05:52 PM PDT
Nearly one in four people food insecure
CattleNetwork.com - 13 hours ago
The
authors project a percentage decline from 24 to 21 percent food
insecure, but the actual number of food-insecure people will increase by
37 million, reflecting growth in the global population. For this report, the agency defines food insecurity as ...
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 05:46 PM PDT
Global warming linked to shellfish eating risks
Straight.com -
3 hours ago
By Matthew Burrows, August 8, 2012. A local expert in pathogens has
conceded that warming of regional ocean waters because of climate change
“potentially” means more waterborne illnesses due to the Vibrio
parahaemolyticus bacterium. “I will admit to ...
PolicyMic
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 05:44 PM PDT
Oregon teens take global warming to Oregon Supreme Court
KPIC - 6 hours ago
Oregon teens take global warming
to Oregon Supreme Court. By Crystal Price KVAL News Published: Aug 8,
2012 at 10:44 AM PDT Last Updated: Aug 8, 2012 at 10:44 AM PDT.
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 05:42 PM PDT
Global warming: Diseased trees may be major methane source
Summit County Citizens Voice - 18 hours ago
It also has a global warming
potential equivalent to 18 percent of the carbon being sequestered by
these forests, reducing their climate benefit of carbon sequestration by
nearly one-fifth.
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 05:32 PM PDT
Hydroelectricity Production Is Vulnerable to Climate Change
CleanTechnica - 8 hours ago
“Climate change
is expected to affect the quantity and timing of water flow in the
state,” Madani said. “Under dry climate warming, the state will receive
less precipitation, with most of it as rain instead of snow, impacting
hydropower supply and ...
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 05:29 PM PDT
July is hottest month on record – human-caused climate change cited
Reno Gazette Journal (blog) - 6 hours ago
The record came on the heels of a study by NASA's James Hansen, linking
increased extreme weather events with climate change. He found that the
odds of hitting record temperatures from the 1950s to 1980s was about 1
in 300 but has now dropped to 1 in ...
July in US was
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 04:21 PM PDT
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 02:05 PM PDT
Nature | Seven Days
Nature.com - 3 hours ago
Deforestation down Deforestation
in the Brazilian Amazon fell by more than 20% between August 2011 and
July 2012, according to an early - and uncertain - analysis released on 2
August by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research.
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 02:02 PM PDT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sxc2-Do7BU&feature=youtu.be
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 08:46 AM PDT
Three UN Millennium Development Targets Reached and a Review of the ...
New Security Beat - 5 hours ago
They
conclude that huge changes must be made in technology and consumption
in order to combat the effects of climate change that are being caused
by a growing population and an increasingly affluent world. The United Nations' 2012 Millennium ...
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 08:27 AM PDT
Solar panels could conflict with urban trees, says expert at Portland ecology ...
OregonLive.com - Aug 6, 2012
View
full sizeBenjamin Brink/The OregonianSolar panel installations on homes
require careful placement of neighboring trees to avoid shading the
panels.
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 08:24 AM PDT
China hikes 2015 solar power target by 40 pct
Reuters - 6 hours ago
BEIJING, Aug 8 (Reuters) - China has hiked its 2015 target for solar power
capacity by 40 percent to 21 gigawatts (GW), a government agency said
on Wednesday, with falling costs and new regulations boosting growth in
the sector.
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 08:20 AM PDT
Romney's Ever-Changing Coal and Climate Policies
energybiz - 14 hours ago
Setting
aside the whole Romney-Care health package that he once ushered in with
great fanfare, there's also his apparent flip-flop on climate change
and on coal. Once an advocate of tighter controls, now he is not. “The
same policies that protect the ...
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 08:19 AM PDT
Oyster industry struggles to adapt to climate change
Mother Nature Network - 39 minutes ago
Oysters
on the half shell may be a delicacy, but oysters need their shells to
grow and thrive in the first place. Unfortunately, increasing levels of
ocean acidification caused by carbon-dioxide emissions and climate change threaten the integrity of
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 08:15 AM PDT
Climate change: What will it take to wake up the world?
The Hill (blog) - 20 minutes ago
The
oceans are still rising, bizarre weather patterns continue to plague
us, the polar ice caps are disappearing and most of us just ignore the
dangers of climate change. As the world's leaders return from Rio de Janeiro and the United Nations ...
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012 06:42 AM PDT
Politico
Reid: Time to Stop Acting Like Climate Change Deniers Have a Valid Point
of ...
Equities.com - 5 hours ago
Yet a quarter century later, too many elected officials in Washington
are still calling climate change a liberal hoax. They falsely claim
scientists are still debating whether carbon pollution is warming the
planet.
Bill Clinton On Clean Energy Policy
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