Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Tap Water Dries Out In California. Could You Be Next?

'Severe... Pervasive... Irreversible": IPCC's Devastating Climate Change Conclusions

'Severe... Pervasive... Irreversible": IPCC's Devastating Climate Change Conclusions

"Climate change is here. Climate change is now. Climate change will be significantly more dangerous, deadly, and expensive if nothing is done to correct humanity's course, but aspects of future shifts are probably already irreversible."

How A New Group Is Helping Nonprofits In West Virginia Get Solar Panels For Just $1

www.thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/08/27/3476229/shepherdstown-church-solar-project/
"A church in West Virginia just got 60 panels installed on its roof for $1, thanks to a local group that’s making it easier and cheaper for nonprofits in the state to go solar."

The growing dangers of Keystone XL

Thyroid Cancer in Young People Surges in Fukushima Since Nuclear Meltdown

Thyroid Cancer in Young People Surges in Fukushima Since Nuclear Meltdown

"The impact of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear reactor meltdown on the region's young people is starting to add up."

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Secret Internal Document Urging Closure of California Nuclear Plant Revealed

Secret Internal Document Urging Closure of California Nuclear Plant Revealed

"In a report written last year but not made public until Monday, a former federal inspector expresses uncertainty over whether California's last operating nuclear plant, Diablo Canyon, could withstand strong shaking from nearby earthquake faults."

Saturday, August 23, 2014

“This is a war”: A conflict photographer takes on the rapidly escalating poaching crisis

“This is a war”: A conflict photographer takes on the rapidly escalating poaching crisis

"Organized, aggressive and hugely profitable poaching operations are on the rise"

Doctors Outraged By Claims That Health Officials Ignored Residents Sickened By Drilling

www.thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/08/20/3473769/pennsylvania-health-professionals-fracking-health/
"Pennsylvania doctors, nurses, and health policy experts are calling for a statewide investigation into claims that the state Department of Health has a policy of telling its employees never to talk to residents who complain of negative health effects from fracking, according to letter sent to state Gov. Tom Corbett and other elected officials on Tuesday."

Michigan Is Taking The Radioactive Fracking Waste That Other States Rejected

www.thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/08/20/3473535/michigan-radioactive-fracking-waste/
"Michigan is accepting the radioactive fracking waste that other states’ regulations prevent them from keeping."

Oklahoma Gets Hit With 20 Earthquakes In One Day

www.thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/08/20/3473502/oklahoma-hit-with-20-earthquakes/
"Oklahoma’s Geology Survey recorded an unprecedented 20 small earthquakes across the state on Tuesday, highlighting the dramatic increase of seismic activity that has occurred there as the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing — otherwise known as fracking — has spread across the state."

North Carolina Newspapers Keep Fracking Data in the Dark

North Carolina Newspapers Keep Fracking Data in the Dark

"If North Carolina's proposed regulations are implemented, some of the state's most visited areas will be industrialized and public health may be compromised."

Thanks To The Clean Air Act, We Breathe 3 Million Fewer Tons Of Toxins Each Year

www.thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/08/22/3474535/epa-report-cleaner-air/
"Actions taken by the Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act have caused U.S. toxic air emissions to drop “significantly” — in some cases by more than half — since the law was amended in 1990, the regulatory agency told Congress in a report Thursday."

Ecologists Just Saved Miles Of Texas Coastline Using BP Oil Spill Money

www.thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/08/22/3474439/conservation-land-texas-bp/
"Twenty-seven square miles of pristine coastal land along the central Texas coastline between Houston and Corpus Christi will now be preserved for future generations after a decades-long effort by environmental groups and $34.5 million from penalties paid by BP and Transocean after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster."

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Solar Power Gets Hot, Hot, Hot

Solar Power Gets Hot, Hot, Hot

"The solar industry now employs at least 142,000 people in the United States. Solar workers outnumber coal miners in this country. In Texas, solar supports more jobs than ranching and California has more solar workers than actors. Wind jobs are growing fast too. They hit a total of 80,000 last year.
Sorry, ALEC. Even the reddest states can’t ignore this rising tide of green jobs."

Saturday, August 9, 2014

How Biomimicry Can Save the Planet

Regenerative Agriculture: Sowing Health, Sustainability and Climate Stability

Regenerative Agriculture: Sowing Health, Sustainability and Climate Stability

"Consumers can, and must, play a role in pushing governments to make this transition. We have the power to reverse the trend toward chemically grown, biotech crops by creating demand for healthy foods produced using regenerative practices."

Feds to Phase Out GMO Farms and Neonicotinoid Pesticides at Wildlife Refuges

Feds to Phase Out GMO Farms and Neonicotinoid Pesticides at Wildlife Refuges

"After facing a series of legal challenges from environmental groups, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service will phase out the use of genetically modified (GMO) crops and controversial neonicotinoid pesticides at farming projects on national wildlife refuges."

Siberian Crater Mystery Solved

When the Ocean's Carbon Cycle Goes Out of Balance...

Humans Driving Planet's New Mass Extinction, Say Scientists

Humans Driving Planet's New Mass Extinction, Say Scientists

"The planet appears to be at the early stages of its sixth mass extinction, and humans are responsible, a new study finds.

Published last week in the journal Science, the study incorporates scientific literature review and data analysis by a team of international scientists, led by author Rodolfo Dirzo, a professor of biology at Stanford."

6 Horrible Things We Have to Face Because of Climate Change

www.alternet.org/environment/6-horrible-things-we-have-face-because-climate-change
"We are not talking about some distant future. These things will happen in your child’s lifetime unless we act."

America Has a Scary Sewage Problem: Let's Clean It Up and Jumpstart the Economy While We're At It

www.alternet.org/economy/america-has-scary-sewage-problem-lets-clean-it-and-jumpstart-economy-while-were-it
"The problem is simple, surprising, and quite honestly disgusting: Our nation’s older cities depend largely on sewage treatment systems that overflow when it rains, dumping 860 billion gallons of raw sewage a year into “fresh” water across the country—enough to cover the entire state of Pennsylvania an inch deep."

In One Month, The Chesapeake Bay’s ‘Most Critical’ Pollution Issue Could Be Unsolvable

www.thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/08/08/3467685/chesapeake-bay-pollution-conowingo-dam/
"Today, approximately 175 million tons of polluted sediment sits trapped behind the Conowingo hydroelectric power dam in northeastern Maryland, a product of nearly a century of build-up from clay, silt, fertilizer runoff, and sewage plant runoff from Pennsylvania and New York. The sediment — enough to fill about 80 football stadiums — contains phosphorus, nitrogen, and other harmful nutrients that can cloud waters, sprout toxic algae bacteria, harm ecosystems, kill aquatic life, and sully drinking water."

Ocean acidification poses imminent threat to Alaskan fishing communities

Ocean acidification poses imminent threat to Alaskan fishing communities

"Keeping Alaska’s fisheries wild and sustainable is going to be a serious challenge in the years ahead as our oceans become more acidic, and that in turn, is going put many Alaskans’ subsistence way of life at risk, says a new report."

Climate change evidence abounds

Friday, August 8, 2014

Will the Green Goop in Toledo's Water Be the End of GOP Anti-Environmentalism?

www.alternet.org/water/will-green-goop-toledos-water-be-end-gop-anti-environmentalism
"It’s easy to doubt the effects of climate change – especially if you’re a Republican or a dedicated Fox News watcher. It’s an abstract concept easily “disproven” by the first cold day, and Republican-driven policies (or the lack thereof) to address it reflect just that. But it’s more difficult to deny the causes of smelly green goop washing up on a lakeshore or sticking to your toes."

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

'Massive Environmental Disaster' in Canada as Toxic Tailing Pond Floods Waterways

'Massive Environmental Disaster' in Canada as Toxic Tailing Pond Floods Waterways

"A middle-of-the-night breach of the tailings pond for an open-pit copper and gold mine in British Columbia sent a massive volume of toxic waste into several nearby waterways on Monday, leading authorities to issue a water-use ban."

The Really Scary Thing About Those Jaw-Dropping Siberian Craters

www.thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/08/01/3466466/siberian-craters-permafrost-climate-change/
"Russian scientists sent to the site are now providing first-hand data showing that unusually high concentrations of methane of up to 9.6 percent were present at the bottom of the first large crater shortly after it was discovered on July 16."

Climate change implicated in Siberian craters