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  • June 2008

    • Warming Will Kill 66% of Calif. Plants Within Century

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  Jun 25, 08 1:49 PM CDT

      Warming Will Kill 66% of Calif. Plants Within Century

      (Newser) - If California’s climate warms significantly in the next 100 years the consequences could be grave for the majority of the state’s native plants, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. A team of scientists from UC Berkeley and Duke found that up to 66% of the state’s plants wouldn’t have time to migrate to a higher, cooler elevation if carbon emissions continue at their current rate. More »

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      California  • global warming  • environment  • carbon emissions  • plants  • trees  • temperatures  • plant

    • US Weather Hell: You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

      Washington Post  |  Jun 20, 08 4:18 AM CDT

      US Weather Hell: You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

      (Newser) - The US will suffer a wide range of increasingly extreme weather events in the coming decades as a result of global warming—from drought and excessive heat to wildly destructive hurricanes and record floods triggered by intense rains, reports the Washington Post. The grim prognosis was revealed in the latest report by the US Climate Change Science Program, which called extreme weather "among the most serious challenges in coping with a changing climate." More »

    • Half of Amazon Could Be Gone in 20 Years

      Yale Environment 360  |  Jun 19, 08 6:58 PM CDT

      Half of Amazon Could Be Gone in 20 Years

      (Newser) - An "unprecedented" combination of ills is threatening the Amazon, and if nothing is done to ease the pressure on the world’s largest rainforest, more than half of it could be gone or withered in 20 years, Rhett Butler writes for Yale Environment 360 . After a three-year decline, forest clearing doubled in the latter part of 2007 to help feed the insatiable demand of the growing economies in China, India, Russia, and elsewhere. More »

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      global warming  • Brazil  • greenhouse gases  • agriculture  • deforestation  • Amazon rainforest  • logging  • cattle industry

    • EU Will Ban Incandescent Bulbs

      Der Spiegel  |  Jun 19, 08 2:07 PM CDT

      EU Will Ban Incandescent Bulbs

      (Newser) - The European Union is set to begin phasing out the incandescent light bulb in favor of compact fluorescent bulb, Der Spiegel reports. The highest-wattage bulbs will go next year; the transition to CFLs—using a fifth of the energy and lasting 10 times longer—should be complete in 2015.  More »

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      global warming  • European Union  • electricity  • compact fluorescent bulbs  • energy consumption  • incandescent bulbs  • bulbs

    • Where's All the Climate-Change Finger-Pointing?

      Treehugger  |  Jun 17, 08 4:48 PM CDT

      Where's All the Climate-Change Finger-Pointing?

      (Newser) - With the recent rash of severe and terrifying weather events, Treehugger notes a distinct lack of environmentalists pointing to the changes as evidence of global warming. The green site gives five reasons for the absence, starting with the fact that it's no fun to say "I told you so." The list in its entirety: More »

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      climate change  • global warming  • flooding  • severe weather  • global weather

    • Alaskan Salmon Sick of Climate Change

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 14, 08 7:24 PM CDT

      Alaskan Salmon Sick of Climate Change

      (Newser) - Alaskan king salmon are getting sick, and experts have named a culprit: global warming. Marine ecologists say that a rise in "white spot disease" is tied to a 3-decade trend of higher temperatures in the Yukon River, the Los Angeles Times reports. With cold-temperature barriers melting, parasites and bacteria are moving north—and threatening Alaska's prized salmon stock. More »

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      global warming  • Alaska  • disease  • fish  • fishing  • salmon  • parasite

    • Don't Be So Happy to See Bush Go, Europe

      Times (UK)  |  Jun 13, 08 5:00 PM CDT

      Don't Be So Happy to See Bush Go, Europe

      (Newser) - President Bush might be touring Europe to yawns and boos, but its citizens and pundits alike will miss their favorite political punching bag when he’s gone, Gerard Baker writes in the Times of London. “They'll miss, first, having a villain in the White House,” Baker explains. “It's a really convenient excuse to avoid doing anything yourself on pressing global concerns.” More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • George W. Bush  • Bush administration  • global warming  • European Union  • Europe  • scapegoat

    • To Fix US Energy Policy, Start Over

      Yale Environment 360  |  Jun 10, 08 6:28 PM CDT

      To Fix US Energy Policy, Start Over

      (Newser) - The US must overhaul its environmental strategy, alternative-energy advocate Denis Hayes writes in Yale Environment 360 , and here's how: Cap carbon at its source—coal mines, oil fields, pipelines—not where it leaves the atmosphere. Promote renewable energy and buy photovoltaic devices in bulk to drive prices down. More »

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      climate change  • environment  • global warming  • energy  • alternative fuels  • cap and trade

    • NZ Farmers Gas About Sheep Flatulence Pollution Law

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 8, 08 5:32 AM CDT

      NZ Farmers Gas About Sheep Flatulence Pollution Law

      (Newser) - In its quest to be the first carbon-neutral country, New Zealand is cracking down on methane emissions--and that means regulating the gas released by livestock, the Los Angeles Times reports. Farmers are worried a government proposal to fine them if their livestock exceed greenhouse-gas limits could leave many bankrupt—a particular problem as the world faces a food crisis. More »

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      climate change  • environment  • global warming  • greenhouse gases  • farmer  • New Zealand  • cattle  • livestock  • methane  • sheep

    • Two Daredevils Climb Times Tower

      New York Post  |  Jun 5, 08 7:14 PM CDT

      Two Daredevils Climb Times Tower

      (Newser) - Two men scaled the New York Times ' 52-story headquarters today within hours of each other, the New York Post reports. Police identified the first as Alain Robert, a French climber known as Spiderman for scaling skyscrapers with minimal equipment. He unfurled a banner reading, “Global warming kills more people than 9/11 every week.” A second man, unidentified, climbed the building hours later. Both were arrested. More »

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      environment  • global warming  • New York Times  •