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Global Study Shows Large Lakes Are Warming [1]

NASA researchers have found the 104 selected lakes are warming by an average of 0.81 degrees Fahrenheit each decade (with some lakes increasing by up to 1.8 degrees F), and the temperature increase tends to be larger as you work toward the North Pole.
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TipSheet [2]
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Water & Oceans [3]
Environmental Studies [4]
Climate Change [5]
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Public [6]
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Study: Fish Are Getting Whipsawed by People, Climate Change [7]

Arizona State University researchers find a major shift in top fish predators in 36 North American waterways, resulting in reduced availability of fish caught for food or sport, and long-term changes in riparian ecology that affect both people and the rest of the environment, sometimes in unpredictable ways.
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TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [3]
Food [8]
Climate Change [5]
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Public [6]
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Gulf Oil Leak Shrouds Climate Change But Still Holds Key Issues [9]

For journalists covering major energy- and environment-related stories and natural disasters, the visually gushing BP Gulf of Mexico oil leak easily supplanted climate change and other national stories in the steadily shrinking news hole. Yet there are striking parallels between the sudden and in-your-face Gulf BP spill and the incremental and nonlinear climate change issue.

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Backgrounders [10]
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Climate Change [5]
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National (U.S.) [11]
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Canada Quashing Climate Science: Critics [12]

The press policy documents, obtained by Margaret Munro of Postmedia News, reveal scientists must get permission to talk to the press — and climate science and oil sands are off limits. Any statements on those topics must be approved by political appointees at the ministerial level.
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WatchDog TipSheet [13]
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Science [14]
Government [15]
Climate Change [5]
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Canada [16]
International [17]
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Public [6]
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Calif. Climate Ballot Fight: National Ripple Effects Either Way [18]

If Proposition 23 passes, it could disrupt plans for many green companies and their suppliers in CA and around the US — not to mention weakening political will in other states, or at the federal level, for tougher green energy policy.
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TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
People & Population [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Economy & Business [22]
Climate Change [5]
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California [23]
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Public [6]
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Cities Attack Climate Change, One Kilowatt at a Time [24]

The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Canada, US, and Mexico) issued a report on Sept. 17, 2010, illustrating the steps 13 North American cities are taking, from small, planned efforts to reduce building energy use, to comprehensive, multi-sector adopted plans for reducing energy use.
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TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [25]
People & Population [19]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Economy & Business [22]
Climate Change [5]
Region:
Mexico [26]
Canada [16]
International [17]
National (U.S.) [11]
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Public [6]
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Studies: Lighten Up on Roof and Pavement Color [27]

While not a stand-alone climate change-fighting measure, converting roofs and pavements in tropical and temperate cities of one million or more people to light-colored materials would provide the equivalent one-time benefit of eliminating two years' worth of global CO2 emissions, or eliminating the emissions of 300 million vehicles for 20 years.
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TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [5]
Planning & Growth [25]
Environmental Studies [4]
People & Population [19]
Science [14]
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National (U.S.) [11]
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Public [6]
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2 Reports Call Water Shortages Serious, Widespread Threat [28]

Sandia National Laboratories and the Natural Resources Defense Council independently publish similar conclusions based on a range of scenarios developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fourth Assessment Report, in conjunction with various economic models.
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TipSheet [2]
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Climate Change [5]
Economy & Business [22]
Water & Oceans [3]
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National (U.S.) [11]
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Public [6]
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Can Geoengineering Technology Somehow Stave Off This Climate Mess? [29]

SEJ has long called climate change the story of the century. Geoengineering is the new twist in this story and will be a key element — for good or bad — in decades to come.

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Backgrounders [10]
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Climate Change [5]
Science [14]
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National (U.S.) [11]
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Public [6]
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New Federal Web Site Pulls Together Coastal Info [30]

NOAA's "State of the Coast" contains both quick facts and detailed information regarding this 95,000-mile-long zone and all the players involved. It generally addresses longer-term issues, such as environmental degradation, climate, hazards, economics, and demographics.
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TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [5]
Economy & Business [22]
Planning & Growth [25]
Water & Oceans [3]
Government [15]
People & Population [19]
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National (U.S.) [11]
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Public [6]
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