Disaster Accident

Bring Your Camera

3 May, 2013 - 06:01
Source: 
Earthzine
URL: 
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81035&src=eorss-iotd

Originally Published by NASA Earth Observatory

– Scientists on NASA’s P-3B research plane get eye-popping views of rarely seen or photographed ice. The latest round of Operation IceBridge flights concluded on May 2, 2013.

Dot Earth Blog: An Earth Scientist Explores the Biggest Climate Threat: Fear

28 April, 2013 - 06:01
Source: 
Earthzine
URL: 
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/an-earth-scientist-explores-the-big...

Originally Published by The NY Times

– A veteran earth scientist pushes back against dystopian depictions of global warming and the human response.    

Drought in New Zealand

26 April, 2013 - 06:01
Source: 
Earthzine
URL: 
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80990&src=eorss-iotd

Originally Published by NASA Earth Observatory

– Lush green landscapes in New Zealand’s North Island took on a browner hue in summer 2013, as the area contended with one of the worst droughts in decades.

Climate change influence on typhoons uncertain

24 April, 2013 - 11:30
Source: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97466/Climate-change-influence-on-typhoons-uncert...
JOHANNESBURG 13 February 2013 (IRIN) - When Typhoon Bopha, one of the strongest storms to hit the western Pacific in recent memory, slammed into the Philippine island of Mindanao last year, there was much speculation in the media about the growing influence of climate change.

Flood-proofing Mozambique

24 April, 2013 - 11:30
Source: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97464/Flood-proofing-Mozambique
MAPUTO 13 February 2013 (IRIN) - Mozambique has dealt with years of recurrent floods and set up an effective early warning system, yet the intensity of this year’s rains came as a surprise.

Reef Decline as a Result of Climate Change?

24 April, 2013 - 06:01
Source: 
Earthzine
URL: 
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Earthzine/~3/BOIW9MVcs2g/

* This project was conducted by high school-aged students at St. George’s School in Bogotá, Colombia, as part of a 2013 literature review project on ecosystems.

Research question: How will the increasing sea surface temperature in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia affect the symbiotic relation between the zooxanthallae algae and the coral?

Mexican Gulf Oil Spill Ecocide

24 April, 2013 - 06:01
Source: 
Earthzine
URL: 
http://www.earthzine.org/2013/04/24/mexican-gulf-oil-spill-ecocide/

* This project was conducted by high school-aged students at St. George’s School in Bogotá, Colombia, as part of a 2013 literature review project on ecosystems.

Earthquake hits China’s Sichuan province, killing at least 179 and injuring thousands

23 April, 2013 - 06:01
Source: 
Earthzine
URL: 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/earthquake-hits-chinas-sichuan-...

Originally Published by The Washington Post

– A 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked a mountainous area of China’s western Sichuan province Saturday less than 100 miles from the provincial capital of Chengdu, killing at least 179 people, injuring thousands and leaving tens of thousands of others homeless.

Mississippi Suing BP Over Gulf Oil Spill

20 April, 2013 - 06:01
Source: 
Earthzine
URL: 
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/business/energy-environment/mississippi-suing-...

Originally Published by The NY Times

– Mississippi has become the third state to sue BP over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Research Recanted in Oil Pollution Case in Ecuador

13 April, 2013 - 06:01
Source: 
Earthzine
URL: 
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Earthzine/~3/x3r2WypU_ac/research-recanted-in-oil...

Originally Published by NYT > Environment

– Stratus Consulting said it was misled by a lawyer for Ecuadorean villagers who have been battling Chevron for decades over environmental damage.    

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