Cyprus Rainfall Has Fallen by about 20 percent over the past 35 years.
Drought-hit Cyprus to ship water from Greece NICOSIA, April 21 (Reuters) – Cyprus, facing its worst drought in a decade, …
Category Archives: Environment
Death Valley, April 2008
Death Valley in the morning, at least in early April, is cool. Enough for a second shirt or jacket. The …
Hot Politics
Good stuff in a PBS Frontline report, from timelines, to interviews and more readings. See particularly part 2 “Politics” at …
Ocean Acidification: One Tiny Good Sign
There’s not much good to report on these days and truth be told this story isn’t all that good, but …
Salmon Season Nonexistent
The SF Chronicle has had a couple of front page, full color treatments of the salmon season disaster. Even the …
Antarctic Ice Breaking Off
Antarctic shelf ‘hangs by thread’ A chunk of ice the size of the Isle of Man has started to break …
Glaciers and Harvests
Lester Brown writes: The world is now facing a climate-driven shrinkage of river-based irrigation water supplies. Mountain glaciers in the …
Sea Level Rise Threatens
This is the kind of climate change impact statement we haven’t seen enough of.[And the article in the NY Times …
Southern Baptists (Some) Join the Fold
“44 Southern Baptist leaders have decided to back a declaration calling for more action on climate change, saying its previous …
Zero Emissions
“Using advanced computer models to factor in deep-sea warming and other aspects of the carbon cycle that naturally creates and …
Antarctic Ice
My eye was caught this weekend by the colorful earthmap and short blurbs of planetary events put out by Earthweek.com. …
Global Warming and Winter Chilling
From Andrew Revkin at the NY Times: “The world has seen some extraordinary winter conditions in both hemispheres over the …