"Billionaire Steyer calls Kochs 'Chickens'"
"Environmentalist Tom Steyer isn't happy that the conservative Koch brothers turned down his offer to debate climate change and the Keystone XL pipeline."
Source: The Hill, 05/26/2014
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Wash Post Fact Checkers Give Coal Industry Ad 4 Pinocchios
"This is a case study of how a trade group takes a snippet of congressional testimony and twists it out of proportion for political purposes."
Source: Wash Post, 05/26/2014
"U.S. May Adjust 2014 Corn Ethanol Target After Outcry: Sources"
"Biofuel groups expect the Environmental Protection Agency to send the final proposed targets to the White House as soon as Friday."
Source: Reuters, 05/26/2014
"China Opens First Environmental Court"
"The court established in the southern province of Fujian has appointed 12 specialist consultants who will assist litigators on technical issues, Xinhua news agency reported."
Source: Reuters, 05/26/2014
"Climate Change To Boost Health Problems"
"Climate change: Now it's personal. There will be more itching, sneezing, swelling and gasping for breath as Pennsylvania's climate shifts and residents are exposed to more poison ivy, stinging insects, pollen allergies and lyme-disease-bearing ticks, and experience increased asthma, respiratory disease and heat-related deaths."
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 05/26/2014
"Arctic Sea Ice Littered With Tiny Bits of 'Microplastic' Pollution"
"Dartmouth scientist Rachel Obbard was looking at samples of Arctic sea ice for small organisms when something else caught her eye: Tiny, bright-colored bits and pieces and miniature string-like objects that did not seem to belong."
Source: Alaska Dispatch, 05/26/2014
"Shore Communities Altered Forever By Sandy"
"Glenn Wilson needed a favor on Saturday, and he knew he didn’t have to ask. He wanted to take his son surf fishing, so he drove from his house by the bay in Point Pleasant and parked in his mother-in-law’s driveway in Ocean Beach, two blocks from the sea."
Source: Bergen Record, 05/26/2014
"Tree Disease Sweeps Through Florida Everglades"
"FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A plant disease blazing through South Florida is killing off swamp bay trees, an important part of the architecture of the Everglades that provides food for a vast range of wildlife and traditional medicine for the Seminole Tribe."
Source: Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, 05/26/2014
"Pope: Destroying the Earth Is a Sin"
"Pope Francis made the biblical case for mitigating the effects of climate change, speaking to a massive crowd in Rome."
Source: MSNBC, 05/26/2014
Climate Science Connections: Water in the West
This free interactive and self-paced course is built around panel discussions with hydrologists, policy makers, engineers, and science educators. In the course we explore challenges for water management in the Western US both at a large scale — using the Colorado River Basin Watershed as an example — and at small scale – using the Boulder Creek watershed as an example where flooding occurred on the heels of drought and wildfire damage.
