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Staggering tree loss from 2005 Amazon storm

By Guest PostJuly 16, 2010Environmentamazon forest, amazon storm, amazon tree loss, tree loss, vertical winds

WASHINGTON — A single, huge, violent storm that swept across the whole Amazon forest in 2005 killed half a billion trees, a new study shows. (more…)

‘Sea Levels Rising in Parts of Indian Ocean’

By Guest PostJuly 15, 20102 commentsEnvironmentafrica, Antarctica, arabian sea, atmospheric, balaji rajagopalan, Bangladesh, bay of bengal, global climate, greenhouse gases, India, indian ocean, indo-pacific, Java, mascarenhas archipelago, naval research laboratory in Mississippi, ncar, sea levels, seychelles Islands, sri lanka, sumatra, Tanzania, university of colorado at boulder, weiqing han, Zanzibar

*Greenhouse gases are playing a role in changes, say scientists*

Newly detected rising sea levels in parts of the Indian Ocean, including the coastlines of the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea, Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Java, appear to be at least partly a result of human-induced increases of atmospheric greenhouse gases, says a study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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The Long-Term Fate of the Oil Spill in the Atlantic

By Guest PostJuly 13, 2010Environment, Scienceapril 20, axel timmermann, buoyant particles, chemical, computer simulations, deepwater horizon, fabian schloesser, florida, florida current, gulf of mexico, gulf stream, honolulu, jamstec, microbial degradation, ofes, oil spill, oliver elison timm, rig, soes, straits of florida, university of hawaii at manoa

Honolulu, HI – The possible spread of the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon rig over the course of one year was studied in a series of computer simulations by a team of researchers from the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

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World Market Nervous over BP’s Possible Collapse

By PravdaJuly 12, 20101 commentEconomy, Environmentarab sheikhs, azerbaijan, baku-tbilisi-ceyhan, bp, british ministers, british petroleum, ecological disaster, forties, gazprom, gulf of mexico, ivan tulyakov, libyan investment authority, north sea, oil giant, oil spill, persian gulf, pipeline, russia, shah-deniz, stock market, united arab emirates, ussr

The British Cabinet of Ministers gathered for a special meeting to discuss the future of one of the world’s largest oil companies in the world, British Petroleum, in connection with the liquidation of the consequences of the ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Technological Advances and the Dangers of Nuclear Energy

By PravdaJuly 11, 20101 commentEnvironment, Science1986, air france af 477, airbus 330-200, april 20, april 26, bp, brazil, british petroleum, Chernobyl, deepwater horizon oil exploration, eastern europe, environmental disasters, gulf of mexico, hector scalambrini costa, hiroshima bomb, human activities, nuclear power, nuclear waste, radioactivity, Scandinavia, soviet union, thyroid cancer, uk, zero risk

The successive and increasingly frequent occurrences of environmental disasters caused by human activities deserves our utmost attention. Leading us to necessarily suspect that we should have credible and foolproof trials before accepting assertions regarding existing technologies.

The most striking example is the disaster caused by the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil exploration platform by British Petroleum (BP) which happened last April 20, and which day after day has reached catastrophic proportions.

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‘Arctic Climate May be More Sensitive to Warming than Thought’

By Guest PostJuly 6, 2010Environmentanthropogenic greenhouse, Arctic, ashley ballantyne, atmospheric, beaver pond site, british columbia, canada, carbon dioxide, dara finney, ecosystem, ellesmere island, geology, natalia rybczynski, permineralization, pliocene, strathcona fiord, vancouver

A new study shows the Arctic climate system may be more sensitive to greenhouse warming than previously thought, and that current levels of Earth’s atmospheric carbon dioxide may be high enough to bring about significant, irreversible shifts in Arctic ecosystems.

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Man-made Global Warming Started With Ancient Hunters

By Guest PostJuly 2, 2010Environmentclimate simulation, global warming, man made, natural climate change

WASHINGTON — Even before the dawn of agriculture, people may have caused the planet to warm up, a new study suggests. (more…)

Reseachers Predict Larger-than-average Gulf ‘Dead Zone’; Impact of Oil Spill Unclear

By Guest PostJuly 2, 2010Environmentdeepwater horizon, farmland runoff, gulf dead zone, oil spill impact, summer hypoxia

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—University of Michigan aquatic ecologist Donald Scavia and his colleagues say this year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone” is expected to be larger than average, continuing a decades-long trend that threatens the health of a $659 million fishery. (more…)

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