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Volcanic eruption begins under Iceland’s largest glacier

Via: larry-crehore • Environment/Climate • 4 Comments • 9 years ago

Earthquake location 23 Aug 20:30 GMT Time and magnitude of earthquake 23 Aug 20:30 GMT Small eruption under Dyngjujkull A small lava-eruption has been detected under the...

Mystery solved: 'Sailing stones' of Death Valley seen in action for the first time

Via: larry-crehore • Environment/Climate • 20 Comments • 9 years ago

Rarely formed sheets of ice push rocks across a dry lake in Death Valley. View from the source hill on the south shore of Racetrack Playa. View is looking north on December 20, 2013 at 3:15 pm....

Oceans Hid the Heat and Slowed Pace of Global Warming

Via: larry-crehore • Environment/Climate • 1 Comments • 9 years ago

The Atlantic and Southern oceans may be responsible for the slowdown in the acceleration of global warmingbut not for long. Researchers use Argo floats (pictured) to help collect data....

Yew think this will take long?

Via: larry-crehore • Environment/Climate • 16 Comments • 9 years ago

Gardeners begin annual trimming of 300-year-old giant yew tree that's 46ft tall Gardeners have to use cherry pickers to reach the top of the trees Yews have grown so big that visitors can...

Robotic falcons and eagles mimic predators to keep pests away from airports and farms

Via: larry-crehore • Environment/Climate • 3 Comments • 9 years ago

A company in the Netherlands has designed robotic birds of prey for pests Called Robirds they mimic real falcons and eagles to scare other birds They are remote controlled by an...

GAO: More coal power plants to close than expected

Via: nona62 • Environment/Climate • 1 Comments • 9 years ago

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Part of the Aral Sea Dries Up: Biggest Environmental Disaster in Human History

Via: kavika • Environment/Climate • 28 Comments • 9 years ago

NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, from satellite data The Aral Sea, once the fourth-largest lake on the planet, is just about dry, thanks to human...

Millions of Americans will die of thirst when the Great Lakes dry up

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Environment/Climate • 20 Comments • 9 years ago

Millions of Americans will die of thirst when the Great Lakes dry up It could happen as soon as a million years from now. Be prepared

Climate change could damage NASA's space program...

Via: one-miscreant • Environment/Climate • 17 Comments • 9 years ago

RT ~ Question More. Climate change could damage NASA's space program... Published time: December 06, 2014 05:05 The effects of climate change are already showing up along...

BP fails in US Supreme Court gulf appeal

Via: larry-crehore • Environment/Climate • 5 Comments • 9 years ago

BP s hopes of limiting the cost of compensation for its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have been dealt a severe blow by the US Supreme Court , which has refused to hear the case over...

California cleans up as major storm slams Southwest

Via: nona62 • Environment/Climate • 15 Comments • 9 years ago

California cleans up as major storm slams SouthwestClean-up begins after heavy rains move through CaliforniaCAMARILLO, Calif. Californians cleaned up Saturday from a major storm that soaked the...

Obama Declares Bristol Bay Off Limits to New Oil and Gas Drilling Leases

Via: kavika • Environment/Climate • 20 Comments • 9 years ago

via the White House A victory in the fight to preserve the vast, pristine watershed region known as Bristol Bay in Alaska. ICTMN Staff 12/17/14 President Barack...

Signatures submitted to fight California plastic bag ban

Via: nona62 • Environment/Climate • 1 Comments • 9 years ago

Signatures submitted to fight California plastic bag banBusiness groups trying to overturn a new California law that bans single-use plastic bags said Monday that they've collected more than enough...

Environmental Hall of Fame/Shame Poll

Via: jerry-verlinger • Environment/Climate • 3 Comments • 9 years ago

J.C. Moore, environmental activist [ 1 ] and a member of The NewsTalkers Climate Change & Environment group, has been taking a poll every year since 2009 to find those most...

Winter Safety: Four Dangerous Driving Myths Debunked

Via: jerry-verlinger • Environment/Climate • 5 Comments • 9 years ago

Drivers should prepare to battle with snowy, icy and slippery conditions when out on the road. As motorists rush to get to their destinations, hazardous conditions are often ignored....

Chernobyl's giant shield takes shape

Via: hal-a-lujah • Environment/Climate • 8 Comments • 9 years ago

Source As this stunning time-lapse video shows, engineers have made huge progress on the construction of Chernobyls New Safe Confinement, an immense shield that will replace the infamous...

The Warming Scare : it's real cause

Via: petey-coober • Environment/Climate • 36 Comments • 9 years ago

LINK : http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/021015-738779-climate-change-scare-tool-to-destroy-capitalism.htm U.N. Official Reveals Real Reason Behind Warming Scare 300 Comments...

The Siberian crater saga is more widespread — and scarier — than anyone thought

Via: hal-a-lujah • Environment/Climate • 5 Comments • 9 years ago

Source In the middle of last summer came news of a bizarre occurrence no one could explain. Seemingly out of nowhere, a massive crater appeared in one of the planets most inhospitable...

A Bad River Win; Gogebic Taconite Putting Wisconsin Mine on Hold

Via: kavika • Environment/Climate • 7 Comments • 9 years ago

Penokee Hills A Bad River Win; Gogebic Taconite Putting Wisc. Mine on Hold Mary Annette Pember 3/3/15 Gogebic Taconite announced last week that it is closing...

Climate Change During The Medieval Warm Period

Via: petey-coober • Environment/Climate • 31 Comments • 9 years ago

LINK : http://cpluhna.nau.edu/People/paleoenvironmental_change.htm Paleoenvironmental Change Long-term climate change causes shifts in plant, animal and human populations, but the patterns...

America Less Polluted Every Year, Thanks To U.S. Wealth

Via: xxjefferson51 • Environment/Climate • 2 Comments • 9 years ago

Capital HillPolitical & Economic AnalysisAmerica Less Polluted Every Year, Thanks To U.S. Wealth3 CommentsBY KERRY JACKSON03/12/2015 06:58 PM ETView Enlarged ImageTo hear the constant shrieking...

Fracking Saved U.S. Economy

Via: xxjefferson51 • Environment/Climate • 4 Comments • 9 years ago

The fracking revolution has been a major boon for the U.S. economy and the switch from coal to natural gas has dramatically reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Hydraulic fracking over the last...

California Tightens Drought Rules as Water Supply Dwindles to One Year

Via: kavika • Environment/Climate • 162 Comments • 9 years ago

California Tightens Drought Rules as Water Supply Dwindles to One Year ICTMN Staff 3/18/15 Faced with a fourth year of drought, California officials on March 17...

Study: Global warming skeptics know more about climate science

Via: xxjefferson51 • Environment/Climate • 18 Comments • 9 years ago

Are global warming skeptics simply ignorant about climate science? Not so, says a forthcoming paper in the journal Advances in Political Psychology by Yale Professor Dan Kahan. He finds that...

Climate-change defectors having to weather Democrat-led storm