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Dot Earth Blog: Global Warming and Our Inconvenient Minds	18.6.2013	NY Times: Science
Dot Earth Blog: Global Warming and Our Inconvenient Minds
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Why does the government encourage people to build homes in wildfire zones?	17.6.2013	Ezra Klein
Why does the government encourage people to build homes in wildfire zones?
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Beyond NYC: Other places adapting to climate, too	16.6.2013	AP Business
BONN, Germany (AP) -- From Bangkok to Miami, cities and coastal areas across the globe are already building or planning defenses to protect millions of people and key infrastructure from more powerful storm surges and other effects of global warming....
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Beyond NYC: Other places adapting to climate, too	16.6.2013	Seattle Times: Top stories
From Bangkok to Miami, cities and coastal areas across the globe are already building or planning defenses to protect millions of people and key infrastructure from more powerful storm surges and other effects of global warming.
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Green diary rescue: Wolves under the gun, eyeballing damselflies & mapping the polar cyclone	16.6.2013	Daily Kos
Every week Daily Kos diarists write dozens of environmentally related posts. Many don't get the readership they deserve. Helping improve the odds is the motivation behind the Green Diary Rescue. In the past seven years, there have been 230 of these spotlighting more than 12,964 eco-diaries. Below are categorized links and excerpts to 50 more that appeared in the past seven days. That makes for lots of good reading during the spare moments of your weekend. [ Disclaimer: Inclusion of a diary in the rescue does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it.] Green Diary of the Week Wolves: "Mission Accomplished" —by Agathena : "The original mission was wolf recovery begun in 1994 because of expiration (local extinction) of the grey wolf in many areas. Recovery goals of an equitably distributed wolf population containing at least 300 wolves and 30 breeding pairs in 3 recovery areas within Montana (MT), Idaho (ID), and Wyoming (WY) for at least 3 consecutive years were ...
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Dot Earth Blog: Why Colorado’s Fire Losses, Even with Global Warming, Need Not Be the ‘New Normal’	15.6.2013	NYT > Environment
Dot Earth Blog: Why Colorado’s Fire Losses, Even with Global Warming, Need Not Be the ‘New Normal’
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Acidifying seawater sees oysters in race to grow shells	14.6.2013	New Scientist: Opinion
Acidifying seawater sees oysters in race to grow shells
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Today on New Scientist	14.6.2013	New Scientist: Opinion
Today on New Scientist
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Report: Forests on Indian reservations underfunded	14.6.2013	Seattle Times: Top stories
A panel of experts says forests held in trust for Indian tribes across the nation are woefully underfunded by the federal government.
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Report: Forests on Indian reservations underfunded	14.6.2013	AP Washington
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- A panel of experts says forests held in trust for Indian tribes across the nation are woefully underfunded by the federal government....
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How Climate Change Makes Wildfires Worse	13.6.2013	Mother Jones
Last year, Colorado suffered from a record-breaking wildfire season : More than 4000 fires resulted in six deaths, the destruction of 648 buildings, and a half a billion dollars in property damage. Still reeling, Coloradans are once again fleeing in their thousands from a string of drought-fueled fires. El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa said on Wednesday that the Black Forest Fire, northeast of Colorado Springs, had already destroyed between 80 and 100 homes. Three other fires, including one in neighboring Fremont County fire, also broke out this week. So what role is climate change playing in the worsening wildfires? Here's what we've learned: Is climate change making wildfires worse? Big wildfires like Colorado's thrive in dry air, low humidity, and high winds; climate change is going to make those conditions more frequent over the next century. We know because it's already happening: A University of Arizona report from 2006 found that large forest fires have occurred more often in the ...
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Why Greenland's darkening ice has become a hot topic in climate science	12.6.2013	Guardian: Environment
Darkening causes the snow to absorb more sunlight which in turn increases melting Last July, a record melting occurred on the Greenland ice sheet. Even in some of the highest and coldest areas, field parties observed rainfall with air temperatures several degrees above the freezing point. A month before, it was as though Greenland expert Jason Box had a crystal ball; he predicted this complete surface melting in a scientific publication . Box's research then got broader public visibility after climate activist and writer Bill McKibben covered it in Rolling Stone magazine . The basic premise of Box's study was that observations reveal a progressive darkening of Greenland ice. Darkening causes the white snow surface to absorb more sunlight which in turn increases melting. Given that this process is likely to continue, the impact on Greenland melt, and subsequent sea level rise, will be profound. There are several mechanisms that are known to darken arctic ice, including desert dust, pollen, ...
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Sierra Club leaders visit Utah to unveil national campaign	12.6.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Brian Maffly The Salt Lake Tribune Published Jun 11, 2013 03:26PM MDT Using Utah canyon country as a backdrop, senior Sierra Club executives on Tuesday unveiled a renewed effort to protect the nation’s scenic treasures, highlighting environmentalists’ hopes to establish a Greater Canyonlands National Monument and shut the door on tar sands development. The “Our Wild America” campaign also steps up the environmental group’s commitment to connect kids with nature, restore forest health and reduce the nation’s reliance on the fossil fuels behind climate change. “Poll... ...
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Disease Outbreak Threatens the Future of Good Coffee	11.6.2013	Wired Top Stories
Disease Outbreak Threatens the Future of Good Coffee
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Climate change is happening but we can meet the challenge \| Sarah van Gelder	8.6.2013	Guardian: Environment
As carbon emissions rise inexorably, it's easy to feel powerless as catastrophe looms. But activism is a chance to take control "The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere just hit 400ppm," I told Alex, my 23-year-old son, as we were catching up on news. "So that's it, huh?" he asked. I couldn't think what to say. Alex had just returned from college, a new graduate, ready to start his life as an adult. Like many members of his age group, Alex knows that 350ppm is the threshold for safe levels of carbon in the atmosphere. Pass that level and, climate scientists tell us, things get dicey: soils dry out, damaging food production. There is more frequent and more intense flooding, coastlines get inundated, species go extinct. Farming, which relies on predictable weather patterns, is disrupted, and dry land farming areas turn to desert. Forests die from new infestations and drought, and become more prone to monster fires. Young people like Alex are coming of age in a world that's changing ...
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Vilsack: Farmers Must Respond To Rising Temperatures	6.6.2013	NPR News
Farmers, foresters, and ranchers need to respond now to the impact of climate change on their businesses, says Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. "You're going to see crops produced in one area no longer able to be produced, unless we mitigate and adapt now," he says.
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Vilsack: Farmers Must Respond to Rising Temperatures	6.6.2013	NPR Health Science
Farmers, foresters, and ranchers need to respond now to the impact of climate change on their businesses, says Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. "You're going to see crops produced in one area no longer able to be produced, unless we mitigate and adapt now," he says.
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Carbon emissions helping to make Earth greener	6.6.2013	New Scientist: Sex and Cloning
Carbon emissions helping to make Earth greener
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Music's over for Morrison-dubbed lizard	5.6.2013	CNN: Top Stories
When Jason Head happened upon one of the biggest lizards that ever walked on land, he found it fitting to name it after The Doors frontman, Jim Morrison -- the original Lizard King.
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Drought, climate change, forest practices elevate Utah’s wildfire risk	5.6.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune Published Jun 4, 2013 04:47PM MDT Drought could make this summer especially busy with wildfires and probably coming years too, warn forest and climate researchers at Utah State University. A changing climate is one significant factor in the forecast. So is the hazard created by modern forest management, said Michael Jenkins, associate professor in USU’s Quinney College of Natural Resources. Aggressive management has been “essentially eliminated,” and dry forest undergrowth has built up, turning parts of Utah into tinderboxes, he... ...
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