July 2012
A BEAUTIFUL LIE: Help Save Endangered Belugas! →
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There are a mere 284 beluga whales remaining in Alaska’s Cook Inlet. But right now, the very existence of these rare white whales is in jeopardy. The Apache Alaska Corporation has launched a deafening airgun assault as it explores for oil and gas in the belugas’ only home in the world. At…
Interactive: Track The Spread Of AIDS Across The... →
Clean Water: The Next Act →
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The world is closer to a food crisis than most...
Unless we move quickly to adopt new population, energy, and water policies, the goal of eradicating hunger will remain just that
Lester R. Brown
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 24 July 2012 12.21 BST
Food riots in Algeria in 2008. Photograph: Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images
In the early spring this year, US farmers were on their way to planting some 96m acres in corn, the most in 75 years....
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Gulf Oil Spill: BP Focused On Too Many Details,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — BP focused too much on the little details of personal worker safety instead of the big systemic hazards that led to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill and wasn’t as strict on overall safety when drilling rigs involved other companies that they hired, a government safety panel concludes.
Eleven workers were killed in the April 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig and...
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Rio revisited: Glass half-full?
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff attended a very successful summit
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‘ClimateGate’: Case closed?
Fukushima’s disease risk: A major fallout?
Whaling moves beyond the harpoon
Whales snared in ocean debris
A couple of weeks back I chaired a debate at Chatham House, the London-based think tank, on a question that I’d been asking myself for a while.
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This is What the Beginning of the End of the...
This summer 34,500 people were forced to evacuate their homes in my home state of Colorado. I watched as a dozen wildfires raged through the state with some contained in days or weeks, while others are still not extinguished.
The extremely hot weather, dry climate and dramatically reduced water supply that all led to the wildfires are part of a pattern that has been unfolding for more than a...
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Climate feedback faster than thought
Scientists have shed new light on one of the most important questions in climate science: the time lag between changes in temperature and changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels in the past.
The Australian ice core drilling camp after a week-long blizzard.
Image: Joel Pedro
Their findings suggest that feedbacks in the climate system – in which warming is linked to natural carbon dioxide...
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Polar Bear Evolution Tracked Climate Change
ScienceDaily (July 23, 2012) — An analysis of newly sequenced polar bear genomes is providing important clues about the species’ evolution, suggesting that climate change and genetic exchange with brown bears helped create the polar bear as we know it today.
The international study, led by the Pennsylvania State University and the University at Buffalo, found evidence that the size of the...
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Saving 'Avatar Grove': the battle to preserve...
This has become Watt’s most popular and widely viewed photo to date. It was taken on a foggy February day in a haunting clearcut near the Avatar Grove. It has since been printed in multiple books, magazines, and museums and was recently awarded second place in the International Conservation Photography Awards ‘Natural Environment at Risk’ category. Photo by: T.J. Watt.
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