Links to articles in today's press about environmental health. Many more links available today at www.EnvironmentalHealthNews.org
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Bug outbreaks mostly not due to warming.
The connection between global warming and increasingly prevalent insect infestations is tenuous, say experts, although climate is driving certain insect population changes.
Categories: Climate
Krill crisis feared in the Antarctic.
Ecologists are warning that the rapid growth in krill fishing is adding to the pressure of environmental changes threatening the creatures. Researchers suspect that Antarctic krill are also feeling the effect of climate change.
Categories: Climate
Researchers study link between climate, wildfire.
Scientists from universities in Montana, Colorado and Idaho announced today the start of a 5-year, $3.85 million research project into how a changing climate will influence wildfires.
Categories: Climate
Can nuclear waste spark an energy solution?
A new generation of nuclear power technology seeks to transform one of the industry’s most enduring problems - its radioactive waste - into an energy solution.
Categories: Climate
Emissions impossible?
The UN emissions trading scheme scheme is meant to be a virtuous circle, allowing rich countries to meet their climate targets at the lowest possible cost, while energy-hungry developing economies get an injection of capital to go green. But multiple failures have been pointed out by its critics.
Categories: Climate
Will Texas oil firms succeed in undoing California greenhouse gas law?
Texas oil firms are backing a ballot initiative that would repeal the state's landmark 2006 greenhouse-gas reduction law. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is rallying Hispanic groups against the initiative.
Categories: Climate
Report: Climate change could wipe historic Jamestown off the map.
Jamestown, Va., the site of the first permanent English colony in what became the United States, could be wiped off the map by climate change, researchers warned today.
Categories: Climate
Overhaul of UN climate change body 'could lead to more mistakes.'
A major overhaul of how the UN advises the world on climate change could lead to more mistakes on the impacts of global warming, an Oxford academic has warned.
Categories: Climate
Climate change gets wet.
One of the most important gases affecting the global climate is both incredibly familiar and persistently mysterious—water vapor.
Categories: Climate
Salt Palace solar array paying off before it's built.
A Salt Palace solar array that would outshine any other rooftop grid in the nation is brightening the Beehive State’s bottom line — even before the first panel is in place. Although the installation is months away, word of it helped Salt Lake County win a National Association of Home Builders convention.
Categories: Climate
Hazy outlook for Shenandoah National Park.
Hotter summers, fewer brook trout and duller fall colors will impact Shenandoah National Park over the next century because of climate change, states a report released Wednesday by two non-profit environmental organizations.
Categories: Climate
Burger King drops palm oil supplier linked to Borneo rainforest destruction.
Burger King announced it would no longer source palm oil from Sinar Mas, an Indonesian conglomerate, after an independent audit showed one of the company's subsidiaries had destroyed rainforests and carbon-dense peatlands.
Categories: Climate
Financing said vital for world climate change deal.
A global fund to help poorer countries switch to green industrial technology is vital in any new international pact to battle global warming, Switzerland's top climate change negotiator said on Wednesday.
Categories: Climate
You're getting warmer.
It’s pretty overwhelming to think about reducing humanity’s carbon footprint when all most of us really want is to get to work on time and make it home with a few groceries for dinner.
Categories: Climate
'Go home, Texas oil companies!' LA mayor rebukes.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Tuesday rebuked Valero Energy Corp. and Tesoro Corp., which operate refineries in Wilmington, for bankrolling a measure that would effectively scuttle the state's efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
Categories: Climate
Julia Gillard's high-risk embrace.
A promise of action on climate change in return for support from Greens to govern.
Categories: Climate
North Carolina on the Hudson next?
For this summer, the Capital Region will register 14 days where highs hit 90 or greater, compared to the average of 9.6 days, according to the National Weather Service. If climate models are right, such weather could become more common in the Northeast in the coming years.
Categories: Climate
Report confirms rapid glacier melting.
The United States Geological Survey, in its report published in collaboration with 39 international scientists, says that glaciers throughout the Asia region are retreating.
Categories: Climate
Charleston has hottest summer in 67 years.
Think it's been awfully hot in Charleston this summer? You're right. West Virginia's capital city has recorded what appears to be the hottest summer in 67 years, according to preliminary data released Wednesday by the National Weather Service.
Categories: Climate
Ancient coral reef uncovered in South Pacific.
New light on what may happen to coral when sea temperatures rise.
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