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El Nino develops; what this may mean for Mississippi

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced the arrival of El Nino, a climate phenomenon with a significant... more

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The End of the Line

Just watched the trailer and the background info. Feels like one of most important under reported issues out there.

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Climbing Mount Rushmore, Wind Farm Fail, and Bye-Bye Water Bottles

FYI: If you click on any of the links below while the video is playing...the video page will be replaced by your search. Now that... more

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H2-WHOA! Australian town bans bottled water

Residents of a rural Australian town hoping to protect the earth and their wallets have voted to ban the sale of bottled water,... more

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Web site for unwanted goods seeks to raise funds for schools, environment & charities for free

A bake and yard sale veteran, Falmouth, Maine, resident Carolyn Gillis decided to take school fundraising to a higher level. She... more

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Greenpeace activists arrested for banner on Mount Rushmore

Will they be seen as 'terrorists' too? I stand with them and their message 100%. Especially since they did not hurt the... more

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Australia town bans bottled water

A rural town in Australia has voted overwhelmingly to ban the sale of bottled water over concerns about its environmental impact.... more

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Is There a Link Between Climate Change and Poverty?

Oxfam International released an interesting report yesterday called, “Suffering the Science: Climate Change, People and... more

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Al Gore speaks on soil carbon sequestration

I'm posting this video of Al Gore speaking recently at Oxford because he mentions soil carbon and its importance in... more

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G8 Nations Fail to Agree on Plan to Fight Climate Change

L’AQUILA, Italy — The world’s major industrial nations and newly emerging powers failed to agree Wednesday on specific cuts in heat-trapping gases by 2050, undercutting an effort to build a global consensus to fight climate change, according to people following the talks.

As President Obama arrived for three days of meetings, negotiators for the world’s 17 leading polluters dropped a proposal to cut global greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by midcentury, and emissions from the most advanced economies by 80 percent. But both the G-8 and the developing countries agreed to set a goal of stopping world temperatures from rising by more than 2 degrees Celsius from preindustrial levels.

The discussion of climate change was among the top priorities of world leaders as they gathered here for the annual summit meeting of the Group of 8 powers. Mr. Obama invited counterparts from China, India, Brazil, South Africa, Mexico and others to join the G-8 here on Thursday for a parallel “Major Economies Forum” representing the producers of 80 percent of the world’s greenhouse gases. But since President Hu Jintao of China abruptly left Italy to deal with unrest at home, the chances of making further progress seemed to evaporate.

The G-8 leaders were also grappling with the sagging global economy, development in Africa, turmoil in Iran, nuclear nonproliferation and other challenging issues. On Friday, Mr. Obama planned to unveil a $15 billion food security initiative by the G-8 to provide emergency and development aid to poor nations.

The failure to establish specific targets on climate change underscored the difficulty in bridging longstanding divisions between the most developed countries like the United States and developing nations like China and India. In the end, people close to the talks said, the emerging powers refused to agree to the specific emissions limits because they wanted industrial countries to commit to midterm goals in 2020, and to follow through on promises of financial and technological help.

“They’re saying, ‘We just don’t trust you guys,’ ” said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists, an advocacy group based in the United States. “It’s the same gridlock we had last year when Bush was president.”

American officials said they still had made an important breakthrough because the G-8 countries within the negotiations agreed to adopt the 2050 reduction goals, even though the developing countries would not.

And they said a final agreement with developing countries, including China and India, to be sealed on Thursday would include important conceptual commitments by the emerging powers to begin reducing emissions and to set a target date. Now negotiators will have to try to quantifying those commitments in coming months.L’AQUILA, Italy — The world’s major industrial nations and newly emerging powers failed to agree Wednesday on... more

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Stricter labelling urged for bottled water

Consumers know less about the water they pay dearly for in bottles than what they can drink almost for free from the tap because... more

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America Honors Leaders

July 08, 2009 United States — Three Greenpeace climbers have hung a banner on the face of Mount Rushmore to issue a... more

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Nasa satellites reveal extent of Arctic sea ice loss

Study - based on satellite measurements - among first to estimate the thickness of the Arctic ice, rather than surface area.

The Earth is going thin on top. A new study has revealed that the Arctic Ocean's permanent blanket of ice around the North Pole has thinned by more than 40% since 2004.

Scientists said the rapid loss was "remarkable" and could force experts to reassess how quickly the Arctic ice in the summer may disappear completely. They blame the loss on global warming, which has driven temperatures in the Arctic to record highs and summer ice extent to recent lows.

The study, based on satellite measurements, is among the first to estimate the thickness of the Arctic ice, rather than just its surface area.

Ron Kwok, senior research scientist at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, said: "Even in years when the overall extent of sea ice remains stable or grows slightly, the thickness and volume of the ice cover is continuing to decline, making the ice more vulnerable to continued shrinkage."

The study looked at measurements taken of the Arctic region by the Icesat satellite, launched in 2003.

Overall, the experts found that the ice, typically up to about 3m thick, thinned by 67cm over the last four winters.

Converting to ice volume, the scientists worked out the amount of so-called multiyear ice, which persists through Arctic summers, had decreased in the winter by up to 6,300 cubic kilometres since 2005 – a decline of more than 40%. The research is published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.

The Arctic ice cap fluctuates with the seasons, growing in the freezing winter and shrinking over the summer. An important finding of the study is that the majority of Arctic ice no longer survives the summer. In 2003, this multiyear ice made up 62% of the region's total ice volume. By 2008, this was down to 32%. The remaining 68% was "first-year" seasonal ice, which was open water during the summer, so is thinner and more likely to melt away.Study - based on satellite measurements - among first to estimate the thickness of the Arctic ice, rather than surface area.... more