Category: Climate Change
Quicklinks: 2007.11.18
18 Nov 2007 @ 21:08 GMT | Permalink
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TAGGED: Bangladesh | Climate Change | Disaster | Equal Rights | Trafficking
Climate Change: 5 Minutes to Doomsday
20 Jan 2007 @ 15:19 GMT | Permalink
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Picturing climate change as a global catastrophe isn't easy until you look at the latest Doomsday Clock from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists [BAS]. Because of climate change, the hand moved two minutes closer to midnight, the figurative end of civilization.
Rising sea level and coastal erosion have been undeniable trends that will likely decimate South Pacific islands in the coming decades. We have already seen the first climate change refugees on Vanuatu, water wars in Spain, a 'Noah's Ark' for seeds, a water shortage in Colombia, and strange weather patterns last year.
In recent days, nasty weather and related incidents have been seen across the world.
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TAGGED: Australia | Climate Change | Germany | Global Warming | U.K. | U.S.
El Niño: Colombia Faces Water Shortage
02 Oct 2006 @ 15:44 GMT | Permalink
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Valle del Cauca Department, on Colombia's western coast, is likely to face a shortage of water as well as electricity, as the El Niño phenomenon intensifies in the coming months, the Independent Regional Corporation of the Cauca Valley [CVC] said.
In the U.S., NOAA has confirmed the start of a weak El Niño, which characterizes a shift in ocean-atmosphere system and starts with the warming of the ocean surface in the equatorial Pacific. El Niño can disrupt the weather worldwide and impact certain countries economically.
As for Colombia, the C.V.C. is warning that there could be critical supply shortage. Water is being rationed in some parts of the province, and further cuts are expected.
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TAGGED: Climate | Colombia | El Niño | Shortage | Water
Phulbari Coal: Wham! Bam! Thank You Ma'am
28 Aug 2006 @ 15:59 GMT | Permalink
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In Phulbari, Bangladesh, an international firm will develop an open-pit coal mine with the government's blessings. The development will force 40,000 residents to relocate -- the largest of its kind in country.
The company chalks it up as part of the "development cycle in any developing country." Is it?
Residents and some politicians are demanding the company to leave the country and asking the government to withdraw the permit for the coal mine.
Their efforts are unlikely to pay off because resistance will likely be futile.
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TAGGED: Bangladesh | Coal | Energy | Migration | Mining
Extreme Weather: Snow in South Africa
04 Aug 2006 @ 07:33 GMT | Permalink
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| A heat wave grips much of the eastern U.S. seaboard, while snow-covered homeless struggle in South Africa. |
South Africans are facing extreme conditions as the weather service is warning of more heavy snowfalls, flash floods and gale-force winds across much of the country.
Who decided to hold the 2010 World Cup during a South African winter?
Tens of millions across the world are suffering from weird weather phenomena. A deadly heat wave has turned much of the eastern U.S. seaboard into a sweltering jungle, while southern China is bracing for a typhoon to make landfall.
Here are more extreme weather conditions around the world.
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TAGGED: Climate Change | Extreme Weather | Global Warming | South Africa
Measuring Global Happiness …
20 Jul 2006 @ 12:22 GMT | Permalink
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| How do you measure global happiness? |
If you go by Marcellus, who tells Horatio "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark," then you would have never guessed that Danes are the happiest people on Earth. That's according to Professor Ruut Veenhoven at Erasmus University in Rotterdam.
He is not alone in trying to quantify "happiness." The New Economics Foundation, in Britain, has relied on the professor's "happy life years" variable among others to create the "Happy Planet Index." High levels of consumption appears to be inversely related to the index, while island life makes the planet happier.
It is odd that Vanuatu, which is about to disappear, ranked No. 1 on the index.
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TAGGED: Charts | Happiness | Stats
'Noah's Ark' for Seeds Launched
19 Jun 2006 @ 12:44 GMT | Permalink
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In case of extinction, a "doomsday vault" for three million seeds will be built on Svalbard, a very cold island about 966 kilometres (604 miles) south of the North Pole. The seed vault will be guarded by polar bears.
Five Nordic prime ministers attended the ground-breaking ceremony today, three decades after the idea was born. Far from wars and not a terrorist favorite, the underground vault is supposed to preserve our crop diversity for hundreds of years.
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Spain's Black Marketeers Stealing Water
30 May 2006 @ 10:54 GMT | Permalink
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| Black market water is a lucrative source of money in Spain, the WWF says. (Photo: NASA/Modis) |
Black market dealers in Spain are draining the drought-prone country's scarce water supply through more than 510,000 illegal boreholes, the WWF's Global Freshwater Program said in a report. The stolen water is being used to irrigate surplus crops, keep golf courses green and supply tourist areas.
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Vanuatu: First "Climate Change Refugees"
07 Dec 2005 @ 16:43 GMT | Permalink
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The tribal chief went first. And his people followed. They were the first "climate change refugees," who had to be relocated to a higher ground due to rising sea levels. The U.N. Environment Program said the move was the first of many relocations planned in the South Pacific where low-lying coastal areas are being devoured by soil erosion, higher sea levels and increasingly menacing storms.
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TAGGED: Climate Change | Global Warming | Vanuatu
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