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Acid Oceans: A New Twist To Report When Covering Climate Change [1]

 

 By CHERYL HOGUE 
The increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere due to human activities, such as burning fossil fuels and deforestation, is well known. Scientists – with the exception of some skeptics – predict changes in the Earth's climate from rising levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

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Sea Levels Threaten Coastal Towns [5]

Scientists are pretty certain climate change is going to cause the sea level to rise. It's happening already, actually. In communities around the Chesapeake Bay, people are getting a sneak preview.
Climate Change [2]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [3]
Source: Environment Report [6], 06/19/2009

"UN Warns of 'Megadisasters' Linked To Climate Change" [7]

"The United Nations on Tuesday raised the prospect of 'megadisasters' affecting millions of people in some of the world's biggest cities unless more is done to heed the threat of climate change."
Climate Change [2]
Public [4]
International [8]
Source: AFP [9], 06/18/2009

"Enviro Groups Fault Scaled-Back FutureGen Carbon Goal" [10]

"The Energy Department's scaled-back goal for capturing carbon at the proposed FutureGen coal-fired power project is getting poor reviews from environmentalists."
Climate Change [2]
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Source: NYTimes [11], 06/17/2009

"Report on Warming Offers New Details" [12]

"Man-made climate change could bring parching droughts to the Southwest and pounding rainstorms to Washington, put Vermont maple sugar farms out of business and Key West underwater over the next century, according to a federal report released yesterday."
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Source: Wash Post [13], 06/17/2009

"Making the Case for Climate as a Migration Driver" [14]

A new report says that climate change is already causing widespread human migration.
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International [8]
Source: NYTimes [15], 06/16/2009

US Report: Climate Impacts Require Quick Action [16]

"The Obama administration's top climate change scientists will unveil a report on Tuesday that details the impact of global warming on the United States and argues for fast action against it."
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Source: Reuters [17], 06/16/2009
November 1, 2009 to November 5, 2009

American Society of Agronomy - Crop Science Society of America - Soil Science Society of America Annual Meeting [18]

2009 ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meeting, Nov. 1-5 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA
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Health [25]
Natural Resources [26]
Pollution [27]
Waste [28]
Biodiversity [29]
Policy [30]
Environmental Politics [31]
Science [32]
Technology [33]
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Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [34]

"Agriculture Offsets -- a Savior or a Boondoggle?" [35]

"A dispute is heating up over the role of farms and forests in climate legislation."
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Source: ClimateWire [36], 06/15/2009

FEMA Measures Climate Impact on Flood Insurance [37]

"Federal officials are struggling to calculate the fiscal impact that climate change could have on the nation's troubled public flood insurance program, amid predictions of intensifying downpours and more potent hurricanes."
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Source: ClimateWire [38], 06/12/2009

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