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Global Emissions Targets Will Lead to 4C Temperature Rise |
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by Juleitte Jowitt and Christine Ottery -- July 5, 2010 -- The world is heading for an average temperature rise of nearly 4C (7F), according to analysis of national pledges from around the globe. Such a rise would bring a high risk of major extinctions, threats to supplies and the near-total collapse of the huge Greenland ice sheet. More than 100 heads of state agreed in Copenhagen last December to limit the rise in global temperatures to 1.5C-2C (2.7-3.6F) above the long-term average before the industrial revolution. (Full Article ) |
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It's Not Just BP's Oil in the Gulf that Threatens World's Oceans |
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by Les Blumenthal -- July 4, 2010 -- A sobering new report warns that the oceans face a "fundamental and irreversible ecological transformation" not seen in millions of years as greenhouse gases and climate change already have affected temperature, acidity, sea and oxygen levels, the food chain and possibly major currents that could alter global weather. (Full Article) |
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The Anthropocene Debate: Marking Humanity's Impact |
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by Elizabeth Kolbert -- May 17, 2010 -- Is human activity altering the planet on a scale comparable to major geological events of the past? Scientists are now considering whether to officially designate a new geological epoch to reflect the changes that homo sapiens have wrought: the Anthropocene. (Full Article) |
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Oil Sands Riskier than Gulf Spill, Say Investor Groups |
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by Matthew O. Berger -- May 17, 2010 - The dramatic impact of oil sands expansion should give the companies involved and their investors pause, cautions a new report commissioned by Ceres. Oil sands development is "kind of like the gulf spill but playing out in slow motion", said report co-author Doug Cogan, director of climate risk management at RiskMetrics. He called it a "land-based" version of the gulf disaster. (Full Article) |
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Fears for Crops as Shock Figures from America Show Scale of Bee Catastrophe |
by Alison Benjamin -- May 2, 2010 -- The decline of the country's estimated 2.4 million beehives began in 2006, when a phenomenon dubbed colony collapse disorder (CCD) led to the disappearance of hundreds of thousands of colonies. Since then more than three million colonies in the US and billions of honeybees worldwide have died and scientists are no nearer to knowing what is causing the catastrophic fall in numbers. (Full Article)
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International Failure to Meet Target to Reduce Biodiversity Decline |
by Juliette Jowit -- April 29, 2010 --The world has failed to meet the target set by international leaders to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by this year, experts will announce next month. Instead, a coalition of 40 conservation organisations claims there have been "alarming biodiversity declines", and that pressures on the natural world from development, over-use and pollution have risen since the ambition was set in the 2002 Convention on Biological Diversity. (Full Article)
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by Johann Hari -- March 22, 2010 -- Groups like Conservation International are among the most trusted "brands" in America, pledged to protect and defend nature. Yet as we confront the biggest ecological crisis in human history, many of the green organizations meant to be leading the fight are busy shoveling up hard cash from the world's worst polluters--and burying science-based environmentalism in return. (Full Article)
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What's Killing the Great Forests of the American West? |
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by Jim Robbins -- March 15, 2010 -- Across western North America, huge tracts of forest are dying off at an extraordinary rate, mostly because of outbreaks of insects. Scientists are now seeing such forest die-offs around the world and are linking them to changes in climate. (Full Article) |
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“When humanity consciously recognizes itself as a single community with responsibilities to the rest of life, both present and future, we will cross the threshold to a new level of maturity and a new culture and consciousness will begin to grow in the world. ” Duane Elgin
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