By Tia Ghose | Wired Science | February 15, 2010
The California coast has seen fewer foggy days in the last century, threatening the health of the region’s majestic redwood trees.
Over the last century, new research suggests the average daily fog has decreased more than three hours, causing the coast redwoods to lose more water [...]
Feb
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2010
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Fog Decline Threatens California’s Towering Redwoods
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Consumers really can affect global warming — particularly if they live in the US
by Robert McClure in Dateline Earth/InvestigateWEST | February 8, 2010
I’ve always been just a hair skeptical about all those admonitions to consumers to save the world — you know, the “Live simply, that others may simply live”-type instructions. They felt a little too much like guilt-tripping to me, with perhaps not enough corresponding actual environmental [...]
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Forgive me, Planet, for I have flown. Frequently.
Carbon offsets reflect the tendency of environmentalism to act like a new religion. Remember European history about the buying and selling of indulgences? But there can be good sense in donating to atone for our offenses against the environment.
By Anthony B. Robinson | Crosscut.com | February 5, 2010
The other day I, half-joking, told a Canadian [...]
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This Satellite Could Help Save Humanity
But DSCOVR remains grounded. That fact is key to interpreting the so-called ‘climategate’ emails.
by Mitchell Anderson | TheTyee.ca | January 20, 2010
The media missed the real story about the so-called “climategate” scandal.
After thousands of emails were mysteriously stolen from the University of East Anglia and distributed just before the climate conference in Copenhagen, many news outlets seemed [...]
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Turtles Are Casualties of Warming in Costa Rica
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL | The New York Times | November 13, 2009
PLAYA GRANDE, Costa Rica — This resort town was long known forLeatherback Sea Turtle National Park, nightly turtle beach tours and even a sea turtle museum. So Kaja Michelson, a Swedish tourist, arrived with high expectations. “Of course we’re hoping to see turtles — that [...]
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Acid oceans: the ‘evil twin’ of climate change
By JOHN HEILPRIN | ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER | SEATTLE PI | DECEMBER 18, 2009
MONTEREY BAY NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY, Calif. — Far from Copenhagen’s turbulent climate talks, the sea lions, harbor seals and sea otters reposing along the shoreline and kelp forests of this protected marine area stand to gain from any global deal to cut [...]
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B.C.’s old-growth forests being systematically destroyed: report
BY JUDITH LAVOIE | VICTORIA TIMES COLONIST | DECEMBER 13, 2009
VICTORIA — The old-growth forests of Vancouver Island and the British Columbia coast are Canada’s most valuable weapon in the battle against climate change, but they are being systematically destroyed, says a new report from Sierra Club B.C., to be released Sunday.
Read on: http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/growth+forests+being+systematically+destroyed+report/2336368/story.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+canwest/F229+(Vancouver+Sun+-+News)&utm_content=Google+Reader
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Solar conference: Here comes the sun and renewable energy
‘Community solar park’: State hopes Ellensburg idea takes off
LEAH BETH WARD | YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC | December 13, 2009
ELLENSBURG – Gary Nystedt was brainstorming with a group of colleagues at a solar energy conference a few years ago when the idea hit him.
What if Ellensburg put up solar panels in a park and invited residents to [...]
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2009
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Why Is Mainstream Media Faking a Climate Scandal When There’s Real Reporting to Be Done?
By Faiz Shakir, The Progress Report. Posted December 10, 2009.
This story was written by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Zaid Jilani, and Alex Seitz-Wald.
As delegates from countries across the globe gather at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, the world is waiting to see if international leaders will commit to [...]