"Thousands of environment experts were set to gather in China on Monday in a bid to kick-start stalled UN talks on climate change, amid warnings that time was running out to broker a deal."
The Inughuit people, who hunt marine mammals with kayaks and harpoons from the world's northernmost permanently inhabited settlements, are seeing their way of life vanish as the ice melts beneath them.
Federal investigators will be looking for key information about pressure tests, decision making and BP's safety culture when the next round of hearings begins Monday to determine the cause of the Gulf of Mexico rig explosion and oil spill."
"In a move that seems to fly in the face of its moniker -- the Garden State -- New Jersey is getting ready to put the pinch on fertilizer."
"Across the northern Rocky Mountains, bighorn sheep are dying by the hundreds from pneumonia and alarmed wildlife officials are hunting and killing the majestic animals to halt the spread of the disease."
"The world's oceans may be vast and deep, but a decade-long count of marine animals finds sea life so interconnected that it seems to shrink the watery world."
"ARLINGTON, Texas — Mayor Robert Cluck wants to test the air near every new gas well in Arlington and a neighboring city has started its own air quality study."
"With button-brown eyes, striped cheeks and a bushy orange-black tail, the Inyo chipmunk has darted among the gnarled pines of the Sierra Nevada for centuries. But it has apparently vanished."
The American Chemical Society offers a collection of resources related to climate change, including presentations from its August 2010 forum on the science of climate change featuring four world-class experts who discussed the state of the science and the importance of dealing with this issue in a scientifically informed manner.
Please enter speaker names, photo IDs, session descriptions, photos and MP3 files here. Questions or problems, check with Cindy MacDonald [19].
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/stalled-un-climate-talks-resume-china
[2] http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Stalled_UN_climate_talks_to_resume_in_China_999.html
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/disappearing-world-last-arctic-hunters
[4] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/03/last-of-the-arctic-hunters
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-investigative-panel-meets-5th-time-spill
[6] http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GULF_OIL_SPILL_INVESTIGATION?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/nj-looks-restrict-fertilizer-save-barnegat-bay
[8] http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_top_stories/20101004_N_J__looks_to_restrict_fertilizer_to_save_Barnegat_Bay.html
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/rocky-mountain-bighorn-sheep-ravaged-disease
[10] http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6911U820101002
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/census-shows-connectedness-worlds-marine-life
[12] http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iqsRWMuLchqIXTI-a9pOQdjhS0LgD9IKQVIG0?docId=D9IKQVIG0
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/arlington-mayor-gas-drilling-needs-testing
[14] http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Arlington-mayor-seeks--104252374.html
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/disappearance-inyo-chipmunks-sierra-nevadas-alarms-researchers
[16] http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/10/04/101530/disappearance-of-inyo-chipmunks.html
[17] https://www.sej.org/library/chemicals/acs-collection-climate-change-resources
[18] https://www.sej.org/annual-conference-session-files-upload
[19] mailto:cmac@sej.org
[20] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4355
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4352
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4353
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4354
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4357
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4358
[28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4359
[29] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4360
[30] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4883