MADRID (AP) — While vacationers might enjoy the Mediterranean Sea's summer warmth, climate scientists are warning of dire consequences for its marine life as it burns up in a series of severe heat waves.From Barcelona to Tel Aviv, scientists say they are witnessing exceptional temperature hikes ranging from 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 Fahrenheit) to 5 degrees Celsius (9 Fahrenheit) above the norm for this time of year. Water temperatures have regularly exceeded 30 C (86 F) on some days.Extreme heat in Europe and other countries around the Mediterranean has grabbed headlines this summer, but the rising sea temperature is largely out of sight and out of mind. Marine heat waves are caused by ocean currents building up areas of warm water. Weather systems and heat in the atmosphere can also pile on...
Flash floods inundated Broomfield, Colorado, on Tuesday, August 16, as the National Weather Service (NWS) reported the city experienced 20 to 25 percent of its average annual precipitation in around two hours. According to the Broomfield Police Department, roads in the city were closed due to the flash floods. “Please use caution and avoid areas experiencing flash flooding. The water is deeper than you may think,” the department said on Twitter. The NWS forecast continuing showers across the Denver Metropolitan Area on Tuesday, August 16. Credit: Broomfield Police via Storyful
There are expected to be 3.7 billion air conditioners in operation by 2050. Using propane as the refrigerant could prevent a significant amount of climate warming by the end of the century
Blowing and suspended dust and sand affected Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Sunday, August 14, the UAE’s National Center of Meteorology reported. This video filmed by Felipe Nunes shows low visibility in the city. Dubai International Airport faced two days of disruption, with 44 flight cancellations and 12 diversions, due to a sandstorm, an airport representative said via local media. They said airport operations were returning to normal on Monday. The National Center of Meteorology warned poor weather conditions would continue in the country on Monday. Credit: Felipe Nunes via Storyful
[Greenpeace] The world has just celebrated indigenous communities who are the best guardians of the forest. This year, the celebration is titled 'the role of Indigenous Women in the preservation and transmission of Traditional Knowledge'. In reality, the living conditions of indigenous women are devastating due to deforestation, making it difficult for their mission to be achieved.
The new power-generating method is more efficient in using present elements for electrical grids.
The Environment Agency has warned that the country's infrastructure needs upgrading or Britain faces the prospect of water shortages in the next 25 years.
After temperatures reached 112 degrees in Seville, Spain, scientists for the first time have given a heat wave a name: Zoe.
Some types of mental health medication may make it difficult for the body to regulate temperature.
Despite worsening drought conditions, global warming has already doubled the odds that California will experience a catastrophic 'megaflood.'
Tesco joins the likes of Sainsbury's, Marks & Spencer and Ocado in temporarily banning the £2 grills, after fire chiefs and environmental campaigners condemned them for causing blazes
An extinct volcano’s underground reservoir in Mississippi has supplied CO2 to US beverage makers and food processing companies for decades. But natural contamination has exacerbated an ongoing CO2 shortage
Citing global warming, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has unveiled a new water strategy to conserve, capture, recycle and desalinate supplies.
The summer months bring warmer temperatures across the country, and you might keep cool by cranking up your air conditioning, drinking ice water or sitting in the shade. But some animals have their own way of handling the warm weather, and there's a name for it: splooting. New York City's Department of Parks & Recreation on Tuesday shared a photo of a squirrel stretching out on the ground, with the department warning city residents not to worry if they see other squirrels in a similar position. “On hot days, squirrels keep cool by splooting (stretching out) on cool surfaces to reduce body heat,” the department explained. "It is sometimes referred to as heat dumping." And New York City squirrels aren't alone in splooting. The Petrified Forest National Park, located in northeastern Arizona...
Around of a fifth of global methane emissions come from rotting landfills. Satellites have now spotted some particularly large emitters
Landfills are releasing more planet-warming methane into the atmosphere from the decomposition of waste than previously thought, a study suggests
Team say that if China can grow more of the crop it could help reduce deforestation in places like Brazil.
The mandatory initial permit granted by Brazil’s environmental authority for the repaving of the BR-319 highway, in the heart of the Amazon jungle, intensified the alarm over the possible irreversible destruction of the rainforest. The 885-kilometer highway is the only overland route to Manaus, the capital of the state of Amazonas with a population of […]
The mercury dipped up to eight degrees below the August average between southern Queensland to Tasmania while temperatures dropped below zero in South Australia on Monday.
Beijing’s disengagement, part of a response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, has cast doubt on whether China can follow through on its agenda to fight global warming.
The Met Office expects temperatures to reach the 'low or even mid 30Cs' next week, amid an area of high pressure building from the Atlantic into southern England.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2022, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D2EE01334G, Paper Yu Zhao, Xia-Guang Zhang, Bodappa Nataraju, Weimin Yang, Qian Liang, Petar Radjenovic, Yao-Hui Wang, Yue-Jiao Zhang, Jin-Chao Dong, Zhong-qun Tian, Jian-Feng Li Cupric materials are known to catalyze the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) and significantly improve the selectivity of multi-carbon products. Surface facet and structural effects play a critical role in... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Researchers say the water, enough to fill 58,000 swimming pools, may temporarily warm the climate and deplete stratospheric ozone
A fire spread to at least 15,000 square meters after explosions went off at a munitions disposal site in Berlin’s Grunewald forest on Thursday, August 4, the city’s fire department said. Video filmed by Twitter user @mrTtourist shows smoke rising from the fire. According to DW, firefighting efforts were being hampered due to “the threat of further explosions and flying debris.” DPA cited police as saying the site was used to dispose of ammunition in a controlled environment, and it was unclear how the explosion happened. The fire spread in the extremely dry conditions, as a city-wide heat warning was in place for a second day in a row. Credit: @mrTtourist via Storyful
The downpours did help firefighters battle Northern California's McKinney Fire. But hot, dry and windy weather could hamper continuing efforts, and California is primed for continuing intense wildfire activity.
Chunks of space debris were reportedly found on farmland in the Australia mountains, and on Wednesday NASA confirmed that at least one of the objects is "likely" a scrap of hardware from a SpaceX Dragon capsule that was intentionally jettisoned as the spacecraft reentered the Earth's atmosphere last May.
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia (EPA) through its National Ozone Unit over the weekend conducted a one-day training for 15 customs and law enforcement officers at Bo Waterside Border in Grand Cape Mount County.
The Egyptian Meteorological Authority (EMA) warned of hot weather on Tuesday and Wednesday, August 3, as the temperature in Cairo is expected to record 38C. Temperatures during August will witness fluctuating weather temperatures, so the country may be exposed to heat waves during the coming days, Manar Ghanem, Director of the Media Office of the … The post Meteorologists warn of higher weather temperatures in the coming days appeared first on Egypt Independent.
Researchers from the University of Cambridge claim that global heating could trigger nuclear war, financial crisis or an extinction-level pandemic as soon as 2070.
Excessive heat can strike at any time during the year, even if you live in places where temperatures over 100 degrees are considered the norm. Sometimes, the weather can become unbearable. It can feel as if you've stepped into an oven whenever you walk outside. In cases of extreme heat, your body can react in adverse ways, including experiencing dehydration or, worse, heat stroke, according to the Mayo Clinic. Throughout history, heat waves have struck various parts of the U.S. from coast-to-coast. The summer of 1936 is one of the hottest on record and impacted the country when air conditioning was not a staple in average homes, according to the National Weather Service. Around 5,000 Americans died from the extreme heat, said the NWS. But what is a heat wave, and what causes it? Just curious:...
Massive pile of trees uprooted during 2018’s Typhoon Mangkhut led to first recycling facility for such waste.
Penetron’s products can be used directly in the concrete mixture or applied to the surface of existing concrete infrastructures.
Taylor Swift has been named the 'biggest celebrity CO2 polluter of the year' by a new study that found her private jet has taken a whopping 170 flights since January.
Researchers concluded invasive species cost the world at least $17 billion over nearly 40 years, but that's probably only a drop in the bucket.
The Brazilian government has granted a preliminary environmental permit for paving a controversial highway that cuts through one of the Amazon’s most preserved areas
Venus is a hellish planet, and ESA's EnVision will have to endure first an intense 'aerobraking' before diving into Venus' atmosphere.
Bureau of Meteorology senior climatologist Dr Lynette Bettio warned of above average rainfall for most of the country between August and October, despite our very wet start to the year.
Called "forever chemicals" because they fail to break down fully in the environment, perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, better known as PFAS, have been used since the 1950s to make consumer products nonstick, oil- and water-repellent, and resistant to temperature change.
Debris from a Chinese rocket launched this week will reenter Earth's atmosphere and crash this weekend. Where? Experts say it's too early to know.
New aerial surveys show massive amounts of methane venting into the atmosphere from oil and gas operations across the Permian Basin. An AP investigation pieced together the companies most likely responsible. (July 28)
[Seychelles News Agency] Seychelles is seen as a model for other Indian Ocean Island states in the field of debt-for-environment swaps, the Speaker of the Parliament of Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, said after he met President Wavel Ramkalawan on Tuesday. Nasheed is also the former President of the Maldives.
With the 'de-printer' specially coated sheets of paper can be used 10 times over.
Experts fear that debris from a 21-ton Long March 5B rocket, which was launched to space from the province of Hainan on Sunday, may fail to fully burn up as it re-enters Earth's atmosphere.
(CNN) – An 18-year-old Kenyan amateur footballer wants Ronaldo, Messi and Neymar to put down the ball for a moment and pick up a shovel to combat deforestation. When Lesein Mutunkei scores a goal, he plants 11 trees — one to represent each player on his team. He’s tackling the nation’s daily loss of an … The post This teenager in Kenya is hoping to catch FIFA’s attention — but not for his football skills appeared first on Egypt Independent.
Not accounting for aviation’s non-CO2 effects such as contrails could ignore 90 per cent of future flights’ contribution to climate change
The Oak Fire burning near Yosemite National Park in California has been fed by drought, dry, hot weather and strong winds.
PARIS: Trade unions called Monday for the European Commission to impose maximum temperature limits for outdoor workers, after three people died while on shift in Madrid during last week's withering heatwave.
The extreme weather, which in addition to the Northeast is affecting the American Midwest, South, and Southwest, has forced officials in several states warning citizens to stay indoors and hydrated.
By contrast, figures provided by The Weather Company show that Laghouat, an Algerian town on the northern edge of the Sahara, has had 5mm of rain this month.
Environment minister Lord Goldsmith said disruptive protest groups such as Extinction Rebellion are 'absolutely right' and the pressure they exert 'does work'.
Championships could be moved to more "benign" environments because of global warming, says World Athletics president Lord Coe.
Burning coal caused the largest mass extinction in earth’s history — the Late Permian Mass Extinction, or the Great Dying.
Two thousand cruise ship passengers are stranded at sea in massive sells as wild weather batters Australia's east coast.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2022, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D2EE00878E, Communication Di Zhao, Ke Yu, Pengyu Song, Wuyi Feng, Botao Hu, Weng-Chon Cheong, Zewen Zhuang, Shoujie Liu, Kaian Sun, Jiatao Zhang, Chen Chen Atomically-precise preparation and atomic-level understanding on the single-atomic active sites with unique coordination structures in electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) remain a challenge. Here, we report a strategy of... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Research from the University of Sheffield suggests that birds are adapting to global warming by developing big beaks, that help regulate their body temperature, and losing distinctive features.
Grab app rolled out a heatwave surcharge in Vietnam to help riders, who often work long hours and have limited access to medical care, deal with extreme weather
The experts will examine international rail networks and see why other countries are more resilient than the UK in dealing with extreme heat and temperature changes.
Hong Kong can do a lot more to enhance its long-term sustainability by adopting nature-based decarbonisation practices and tightening regulations, an environmental conference was told.
Poland’s environment minister says samples are being sent to laboratories abroad in a bid to solve the mystery of a massive fish die-off in the Oder River, while the government is pledging tougher laws against environmental polluters
Insects are starting to make their way to our meals, and some are using them to lower their carbon footprint.
Hybridization isn’t as rare as you think, and it’s a tactic some animals can use to weather global warming
Nature, Published online: 15 August 2022; doi:10.1038/d41586-022-02192-yPhD student Gianluca Torta contributes to green recycling by extracting rare-earth metals from industrial landfill for reuse in electric motors.
Lake Vyrnwy in Powys, on the edge of Snowdonia National Park is so dry that old buildings from the village of Llanwddyn have been exposed for the first time since the drought of 1976.
An undersea earthquake shook part of eastern Indonesia on Sunday, but there were no immediate reports of serious damage or casualties. The Indonesian Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysical Agency, which put the quake at 5.9-magnitude and 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) depth, said the quake was unlikely to trigger a tsunami.
Megadrought may be the main weather concern across the West right now amid the constant threat of wildfires and earthquakes. But a new study warns another crisis is looming in California: "Megafloods."Climate change is increasing the risk of floods that could submerge cities and displace millions of people across the state, according to a study released Friday.It says that an extreme monthlong storm could bring feet of rain – in some places, more than 100 inches – to hundreds of miles of California. Similarly unrelenting storms have happened in the past, before the region became home to tens of millions of people.Now, each degree of global warming is dramatically increasing the odds and size of the next megaflood, the study says.CLIMATE CONSEQUENCES: Weather hazards linked to nearly 60% of...
"We are like Florida for Europeans ... "Summer is always hot," said José María Martín Olalla, who is an associate professor at Sevilla University.
The average low temperature for the lower 48 states in July was 63.6 F. It's not only the hottest nightly average for July, but for any month in 128 years of record keeping, a NOAA climatologist said.
Four major cities are releasing more methane emissions than previously thought.
Here's the latest for Friday August 12th: Trump calls for Mar-a-Lago warrant release; Suspect killed after attempt to breach Cincinnati FBI office; Gov. Newsom says California needs to invest in recycling, storing water; Wildfire on Hawaii's Big Island.
California should invest tens of billions of dollars in water recycling, storage and desalination over the next two decades to shore up its supply as the state gets drier and hotter, Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a proposal released Thursday. (Aug. 11)
Scientists and medical experts weigh in on how to recognize the signs of heat-related illness and avoid the worst health impacts from increasingly intense heat waves
A study builds on research that shows landfills are the third-largest source of methane emissions globally, after oil and gas systems and agriculture.
A new study suggests that the expelled mucus from sponges could support biodiversity in coral reefs and other seafloor ecosystems.
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s Cropped. We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection... The post Cropped, 10 August 2022: Food crisis progress; Irish emissions targets; Amazon deforestation investigation appeared first on Carbon Brief.
[Concord] The availability of abundant natural resources in a country is considered to be a blessing by many because of the potential to change the destiny of a country for the better if managed well. Sierra Leone as a country has a huge deposit of mineral resources; whether it has benefited the country is a debate for another day. However, the Environment Protection Agency is concerned about the method of extraction which in our view is environmental degradation at an alarming rate. The mining of minerals from vari
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats pushed their election-year economic package to Senate passage Sunday, a hard-fought compromise less ambitious than President Joe Biden’s original domestic vision but one that still meets deep-rooted party goals of slowing global warming, moderating pharmaceutical costs and taxing immense corporations.The estimated $740 billion package heads next to the House, where lawmakers are poised to deliver on Biden's priorities, a stunning turnaround of what had seemed a lost and doomed effort that suddenly roared back to political life. Democrats held united, 51-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote. “It's been a long, tough and winding road, but at last, at last we have arrived,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., ahead of final...
Experts are hoping that, for the sake of humanity, the cold spell between the world's two largest emitters is only temporary.
NASA scientists have found that the Tonga volacnic eruption of January 15 threw up so much water vapour it could cause a temporary warming event and weaken the ozone layer.
Paris ranks poorly among global cities for its green cover. According to data from the World Cities Culture Forum, only 10% of Paris is made up of green space such as parks and gardens. The searing temperatures in recent months underline the need to strengthen the capital's natural defences against global warming. Olivia Chan reports.
Trend set to continue as changing weather patterns affect environmental balance, official says.
Sky News host Paul Murray says the government believes the 43 per cent emissions target will be “enough to change the weather”. “Remember, floods, fires, rain, all of that business, remember Australia’s output when it comes to CO2, one per cent of the world’s problem,” he said.
Temperatures are soaring in eastern Kentucky where people are shoveling out the wreckage of massive flooding. Many are working without electricity. The National Weather Service expects a heat index of up to 100. (Aug. 3)
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. (CNN)One of the most powerful volcanic eruptions on the planet blasted such a massive amount of water vapor high into the atmosphere that it’s likely to temporarily warm the Earth’s surface, according to detections from a NASA satellite. … The post Tonga eruption blasted enough water to fill 58,000 Olympic pools into the Earth’s atmosphere, NASA says appeared first on Egypt Independent.
Defra have quietly announced that it will not be publishing all the metrics of biodiversity and environmental health it has available this year, while it reviews the current targets.
In a new report, the Seattle tech giant has revealed it emitted 71.54 million metric tons of carbon-dioxide equivalent last year.
Seven industrial sectors in China have been assigned targets to cut energy consumption and boost recycling to reach peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030.
Scientists from the Netherlands have unveiled their prototype of the world's first 'carbon neutral car', that removes and stores carbon dioxide from the air as it drives down the road.
How the International Space Station is helping to tackle deforestation
(CNN) – A wildfire raging in Northern California has been exacerbated by winds from thunderstorms on Friday evening, causing significant growth on Saturday, according to InciWeb. The fire has already burned 30,000-40,000 acres with potentially dangerous storms possible Saturday, according to an update from Klamath National Forest. “Cumulus clouds are developing in the fire area, … The post Northern California wildfire exacerbated by weather, causing significant growth appeared first on Egypt Independent.
Remnants of a massive Chinese rocket that was descending uncontrollably back to Earth reentered the atmosphere over the Indian Ocean at roughly 12:45 p.m. ET Saturday, the US Space Command said on Twitter.
Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero / The Daily Beast / GettyOn Aug. 22, 2016, a fireball streaked across the sky over South Australia. A low, bright meteor. It was one of hundreds of space rocks that plunge through Earth’s atmosphere every year—and are big enough to survive the fiery descent.Earth is mostly water, so most meteors splash down into the middle of the ocean without fanfare. The ones we notice that also land on dry ground are rare and, for astronomers, precious. They’re fragments of the mysterious environment in that vast dark space between the planets in our solar system… or even in the murky reaches beyond the solar system.The Desert Fireball Network, a loose organization of Australian scientists centered on Curtin University in Perth, went looking for the August 2016 meteorite...
Long considered trivial, the effects of rocket launches and reentering space debris on global warming and ozone loss could soon become too large to ignore
Meteorologists from the BBC and elsewhere faced abuse as they reported on the UK's record heat.
The all-time record high temperature in the United Kingdom, which was set earlier this month, was made 10 times more likely because of global warming.
The deal still falls short of what the United States needs to do to meet its global warming pledge by the end of the decade.
[The Point] Global warming is contributing to more and extended heat waves, a tripling of droughts, a quadrupling of storms, and a tenfold increase in flooding since the 1970s in Africa, exacerbating security threats on the continent.
Residents from Canterbury-Bankstown, in Sydney's inner west, shared shocking photos and videos of recycling and rubbish bins being tipped into the same truck on social media.
Up to $5 Billion Is Available for US Electric School Buses. Here Are 3 Things Bus Operators Should Know. ciara.regan@wri.org Wed, 07/27/2022 - 16:00 The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean School Bus Program is a game-changer in deploying zero-emission school buses across the U.S. In prior incentive programs — both federal and those from states like California and New York — electric school buses competed with electric or alternative fuel transit buses, trucks and other equipment for funding. Meanwhile, dedicated electric school bus funding was small in scope and primarily available only in specific states, such as California. The funding environment has changed, thanks to EPA’s Clean School Bus Program. School districts across the country now have...
Nature, Published online: 27 July 2022; doi:10.1038/d41586-022-02064-5Nature highlights three key graphics from the week in science and research.
Streets in Ocean City, Maryland, were flooded following heavy rainfall, as seen in footage from Tuesday, July 26. A special marine warning was issued for the area on Tuesday by the National Weather Service. The footage shows Tim Kline, who captured the footage, walking through an area with several inches of accumulated water as light rain continued to fall. Credit: Tim Kline via Storyful
Economic losses from flooding in China at 2C of global warming could be double those... The post Global warming of 2C could ‘double’ flooding costs in China compared to 1.5C appeared first on Carbon Brief.
The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to tour several poor communities in Puerto Rico as part of an environmental justice tour to learn how pollution has affected them
This aerial photo shows a tundra fire burning near the community of St. Mary's, Alaska, on June 10, 2022. (Ryan McPherson/Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service via AP)ASSOCIATED PRESSANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska is burning this year in ways rarely or ever seen, from the largest wildfire in a typically mainly fireproof southwest region to a pair of blazes that ripped through forests and produced smoke that blew hundreds of miles to the the Bering Sea community of Nome, where the normally crystal clear air was pushed into the extremely unhealthy category. Already more than 530 wildfires have burned an area the size of Connecticut and the usual worst of the fire season lays ahead. While little property has burned, some residents have been forced to evacuate and one person was killed...
California is embracing carbon capture and storage technology to fight global warming, but critics say it will only increase oil production.
[Daily Maverick] The first study to assess the economic impacts that individual countries have caused on other countries - through their contributions to global warming - shows that five national emitters of greenhouse gasses generated $6-trillion in global economic losses from 1990 to 2014. At a deeper level, the study now provides a solid scientific basis to show that anthropogenic warming constitutes a substantial international wealth transfer from the poor to the wealthy.
Saskatchewan now has its first confirmed case with a bat in Grasslands National Park, in the province's southwest, Saskatchewan Environment said in a Thursday Facebook post, "making it more important than ever to report any bats found dead or on the ground."
Drought, dry, hot weather, strong winds and low humidity are factors that have caused the Oak Fire to spread, according to Cal Fire.
The team found there is less haze in the atmosphere, which means the air is cleaner. They also uncovered less light is being reflected from Earth, which is adding to global warming.
The National Weather Service (NWS) said one of its cameras in south-central Maine was “struck and fried” by a lightning strike on Thursday evening, July 21, as strong storms moved through the US northeast. The NWS office in Gray released this footage from the camera, which is located Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport, which shows storm clouds passing by before the image turns deep pink, indicating the feed had been broken. “Here are its last frames before being struck and fried, with slo-mo,” NWS Gray wrote on Twitter. The lightning strike also impacted their on-site radar, the office said. A “severe thunderstorm warning”: had been in effect for parts of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont Thursday as the NWS warned of hail, wind, and lightning.https://twitter.com/NWSGray/status/1550142795431628801?s=20&t=iChJNwXOyc8kN2Wyj0oq9Q...
The U.S. Dust Bowl brought some of the hottest and driest weather ever observed in the Lower 48.
Most of the globe is currently experiencing a heatwave, with Britain recording its highest temperature at 104 degrees on Tuesday. However, the summer of 1936 was more deadly.
The 28 yearling wood bison are part of a group form Alberta’s Elk Island National Park that were trucked to Fairbanks in April.
Observatory records nine consecutive ‘very hot’ days this month, the sixth-longest streak for city since 1884.
An environmental researcher in the Red Sea, called for a service fee from the tourism and hotel sector in return for protecting the marine environment and beaches. Researcher, Osama al-Ghazaly, said the fee will be used to counter the negative impact of tourism activities on the marine environment and natural resources to preserve it for … The post Researcher calls for a service fee to be collected from hotels to protect the marine environment appeared first on Egypt Independent.
Enshrining a mere forecast or target into law without any real scientific or logistical due diligence is a recipe for disaster, Sky News host Chris Smith says. "This campaign promise, to enshrine into legislation Labor's overly ambitious 43 per cent emissions reduction target, by 2030, is ... a very dangerous forecast to transform into a law," Mr Smith said. "Because the law will force the government of the day in eight years time to cut off CO2 emissions to reach the target, under law, regardless." Mr Smith said writing it into legislation is a "suicide note" for Australia's economy. "It's a suicide note, which doesn't need to be made law. Governments need to have the flexibility to pivot, to amend and to adjust, depending on a wide raft of changing circumstances."
Lamplugh Glacier, Alaska in 2015 (before) and 2016 (after) landslide in Landsat images. The Landslide covered 17 km2 of the glacier, yellow dots. B=Brady, L=Lamplugh, R=Reid Glacier. Ice whether as permafrost, in a glacier, filling cracks or coating surfaces literally helps stabilize materials on mountain slopes. Climbers who ascend glaciated peaks have long practiced early starts to avoid the heat of the day. The goal to avoid falling, rock, ice … The post Glacier Landslides and Collapses Preconditioned by Warming appeared first on From a Glacier's Perspective.