Extreme weather events in 2011 have been numerous and diverse, prompting some analysts to link the natural disasters to climate change. Most recently, many states are under exceptional-drought and extreme-heat advisories.
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Montana Oil Spill Only a small fraction of the oil spilled from an ExxonMobil pipeline into the Yellowstone River in Montana is likely to be recovered, according to an Environmental Protection Agency staff member, speaking with the Associated Press. In the last year, several pipeline breaks have fouled waterways in the U.S, most notably the [...]
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Launching in June, the Aquarius satellite mission will improve scientific understanding of the global water cycle.
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Food has quickly become the hidden driver of world politics, Foreign Policy writes, and the world is losing its ability to soften the effect of its resource shortages. How do food, energy, population and water policies fit the big puzzle? Saudi Arabia, one of the countries most at risk of water and grain shortages, has [...]
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Authorities anticipate approval for new western line to tap energy reserves. Sparks and the blue flare of arc welders, like hot stars in the night sky, illuminate the interior of a massive water tunnel that crosses underneath the Yellow River.
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Think you know all there is to know about the intersection between water and energy? Take the Choke Point: US quiz to find out.
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In some northern regions, lake temperatures are increasing more than air temperatures.
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Researchers explain the correlation between environmental interactions and human health, as reported infections climb to 10,000 cases.
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China attempts to move forward with its clean energy ambitions.
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Relationship between Australia’s drought and Antarctica’s increased snowfall offers clues to human contribution to global warming. Scientists have linked a severe, decades-old drought in Australia to increased snowfall in East Antarctica.
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The close of economic journalist Steven Solomon’s book is a reflection on the new meaning of water given today’s scarcity crisis. Solomon connects freshwater’s past and present to paint a future, and potentially very unstable picture of human civilization. By redefining facets of this precious resource, however, he presents the foundation of finding global solutions.
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Copenhagen, host of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, claims to be one of the world’s greenest cities. It has extensive public transportation, a strong bicycle culture and plans to be carbon neutral by 2025 through progressive blueprints that reduce carbon emissions 20 percent by 2015 compared to 2005.
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China’s chief meteorologist recommends adjusting to global warming over fighting it.
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In the third installment of Climate Change Coping Strategies excerpts from James G. Workman’s Heart of Dryness we reveal the struggle to develop effective infrastructure in the face of climate change.
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Rare event may or may not be linked to climate change, expert says
More than 100 icebergs are drifting toward New Zealand’s southern coast in a rare phenomenon that has only been recorded once before since 1931.
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Injecting water, chemicals, and sand to “frack” the gas from shale rock formations.
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Madagascar’s government has ended a water export deal with Saudi Arabia because it was opposed by environmental, civil society groups in the country.
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The second installment Climate Change Coping Strategies of excerpts from James G. Workman’s Heart of Dryness
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A new IEA study reveals the costly consequences of increasing current energy consumption patterns and calls for swifter policy action.
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Posted on Friday, January 14, 2011
Climate change is worsening, fast. The National Climate Data Center of the National Oceanic