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Mercury levels of whale-eating town's residents 10 times average

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 14 February 2010 in Human Health

Friday 22nd January, 06:40 AM JST, TOKYO — Levels of mercury in hair samples of residents of Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, which is known for customarily eating small whales caught by coastal whaling, are about 10 times the average in Japan, possibly due to consumption of whale meat with high concentr...

California Delta Faces a Salty Future

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 13 February 2010 in Clean Water

If you've never heard of the Sacramento Delta, you're not alone. Even people who live in California aren't too sure where it is. But the Sacramento Delta is crucial to the health of the state, and climate change is threatening the delta's very existence. The Sacramento Delta is a small triangle of ...

10 Things You Can Do to Help Save the Earth

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 09 February 2010 in Human Health

Introduction to 10 Things You Can Do to Help Save the Earth Going green is easier than you think. There are little things you can do every day to help reduce greenhouse gases and make a less harmful impact on the environment. Taking care of the Earth is not just a responsibility -- it's a privilege...

Charting the Future: Young People Act on Climate Change

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 08 February 2010 in Climate Change

Welcome to "Charting the Future: Young People Act on Climate Change." This is the US project associated with the upcoming International Children and Youth Conference on the Environment, which will take place in Brasilia from 5-10 June 2010. The International Conference is hosted by the Brazilia...

No-Kill Whale research sets sail

Posted by davebishop on Saturday, 06 February 2010 in Animals

No-kill researchers sail to study Antarctic whales Researchers set sail from New Zealand on Tuesday to study whales off Antarctica without killing them - an open challenge to Japan's killing of up to 1,000 whales a year in the name of science. By RAY LILLEYAssociated Press WriterWELLINGTON, New Ze...

World Wetlands Day

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 01 February 2010 in Lakes/Rivers/Wetlands

Feb 2, 2010 - Today is World Wetlands DayPlan a visit to a wetland soon, you may be surprised at how beautiful they are! For more than 25 years, February 2nd has been designated as World Wetlands Day. Wetlands are under-appreciated in many areas. First we have to drain the swamps, is still a common...

Concern About Global Warming Continues to Drop in the U.S.

Posted by ekeith on Wednesday, 27 January 2010 in Climate Change

27 JAN 2010: Concern about global warming among U.S. adults has dropped significantly, a new poll says, with fewer than 50 percent of Americans saying they are “somewhat” or “very worried” — a 13 percent decrease from a poll taken in October 2008. The percentage of Americans who believe global warm...

Scientists' Breakthrough in Production of Biofuels

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 11 January 2010 in Biofuels

A team of scientists from the University of Sheffield have developed an innovative device which will make the production of alternative biofuels more energy efficient. The research team has adapted a unique bioreactor for use in the production of alternative renewable fuels, to replace fossil fuels...

Is the Earth even more sensitive to CO2 levels than we thought?

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 08 January 2010 in Climate Change

One of the more common arguments from skeptics of anthropogenic climate change is that the Earth has experienced periods during which atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were much much higher than they are today -- as much as 10 times higher. Why worry about a mere 30% increase over pre-industrial lev...

Global Warming Equals Stronger Hurricanes

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 08 January 2010 in Climate Change

Meteorologists Find That Increased Ocean Temperatures Cause Increasingly Intense Hurricanes Climate change experts studying hurricanes documented a 35-year warming trend in ocean surface temperature and linked it to larger hurricanes. The increase has been 1 degree Fahrenheit, resulting in four per...

Global Warming Equals Stronger Hurricanes

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 08 January 2010 in Climate Change

Contrary to conventional belief, as the climate warms and growing seasons lengthen subalpine forests are likely to soak up less carbon dioxide, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study. As a result, more of the greenhouse gas will be left to concentrate in the atmosphere. "Our fi...

The Unfrozen North

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 28 December 2009 in Climate Change

There is increased evidence that the Arctic could face seasonally ice-free conditions and much warmer temperatures in the future. This has happened before. Scientists have documented evidence that the Arctic Ocean and Nordic Seas were too warm to support summer sea ice during the mid-Pliocene warm ...

EPA Updates Mobile Source Emissions Model

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 28 December 2009 in Air Quality

The US EPA is the source of most air quality impact assessment models used in the US for regulatory purposes, such as predicting the potential impacts from proposed stationary sources of air pollutants and mobile sources such as motor vehicles. Since motor vehicle emissions vary with regulatory chan...

Science vs politics at Copenhagen

Posted by davebishop on Sunday, 13 December 2009 in Climate Change

India, Dec. 11 -- At stake: WHY: Scientists from every nation have produced data that points towards a steady increase in the global temperatures. According to their estimates the global mean temperature has seen an increase in 0.6 to 1.0 degree centigrade. The reason for this rise is the way we are...

Copenhagen Talks Collapse, Developing Countries Walk Out?

Posted by davebishop on Sunday, 13 December 2009 in Climate Change

My sense of these things is that this will happen five or six times before what will be termed as an “historic agreement” is signed, but this one does sound fairly serious: Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director of Oxfam put out this statement: Africa has pulled the emergency cord to avoid a train crash...

COP 15: Wong says deal 'salvagable' despite African walkout

Posted by davebishop on Sunday, 13 December 2009 in Climate Change

A MAJOR group of developing nations, including China and most African nations, have walked out of working groups, triggering a major stalemate between developed and developing countries at the Copenhagen climate change negotiations. LUCY KNIGHT IN COPENHAGEN The stalemate comes as more than 120 wo...

What are the chances of a deal at Copenhagen?

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 13 December 2009 in Climate Change

'Get to work', urges climate head By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News, Copenhagen The president of the UN climate summit has urged delegates to "get to work" after protests from developing nations forced a suspension of several hours. Talks resumed late on Monday after the presi...

Is "Clean Coal" a Dead End?

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 08 December 2009 in Fossil Fuels

by Richard Heinberg Many energy experts, politicians on both sides of the aisle, and representatives of the coal industry agree on the need to spend billions to develop technologies to capture and store the carbon from burning coal, thus making coal "clean" from a climate standpoint. President Obam...

COP15 VIPs in violation

Posted by joeycello on Monday, 07 December 2009 in Earth Violators

I read a couple of articles this morning talking about the environmentally irresponsible behavior of the VIPs attending the conference in Copenhagen this week. - More private planes than the city's airport can handle. - Over a thousand limos needed, hundreds of which had to be driven hundreds of m...

Copenhagen climate summit: Blindfolds are hiding the crucial issues at Copenhagen

Posted by davebishop on Monday, 07 December 2009 in Climate Change

As we are engulfed from all sides by suffocatingly one-sided coverage of the Copenhagen conference on climate change, three hugely important issues have been largely stuffed away from sight. The first of these is the matter of cost: the scarcely believable bill our politicians wish to land us with ...