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Sun, Nov 9, 2008 from London Daily Telegraph: Lemmings hit by climate change Lemming populations have been ravaged by climate change as their breeding habits are disrupted by the wrong type of snow. The rodents, who contrary to popular belief do not commit suicide, breed best when thick, fluffy snow forms a blanket under which they can shelter, reproduce and feed on moss. Now researchers at the University of Oslo have reported that a general warming of the earth has given rise to a cycle of freezing and thawing which has meant that snow melts and freezes at ground level depriving the creatures of food. ...	I would venture ALL us lemmings are being hit by climate change. ApocaDoc permalink
Sun, Nov 9, 2008 from Associated Press: Congo refugee camp hit by cholera outbreak Doctors struggled Sunday to contain an outbreak of cholera in a sprawling refugee camp near Congo's eastern provincial capital of Goma, as new fighting ignited fears that infected patients could scatter and launch an epidemic. At the Kibati camp and in Goma, thousands packed church services Sunday to pray for peace after rebels and pro-government militiamen executed civilians in two waves of terror that the top U.N. envoy to Congo has called war crimes. The killings highlighted the inability of U.N. peacekeepers to protect civilians or halt a 10-week-old rebel offensive that has convulsed eastern Congo and forced more than 250,000 people from their homes. ...	We need more peacekeepers and more healthkeepers, too! ApocaDoc permalink
Sun, Nov 9, 2008 from Yale University, via EurekAlert: Revised theory suggests carbon dioxide levels already in danger zone If climate disasters are to be averted, atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) must be reduced below the levels that already exist today, according to a study published in Open Atmospheric Science Journal by a group of 10 scientists from the United States, the United Kingdom and France. The authors, who include two Yale scientists, assert that to maintain a planet similar to that on which civilization developed, an optimum CO2 level would be less than 350 ppm -- a dramatic change from most previous studies, which suggested a danger level for CO2 is likely to be 450 ppm or higher. Atmospheric CO2 is currently 385 parts per million (ppm) and is increasing by about 2 ppm each year from the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas) and from the burning of forests. ...	Mom, the thermometer says 108. Is that a problem? ApocaDoc permalink
Sun, Nov 9, 2008 from Wired: Plastic Additives in Common Lab Gear Could Contaminate Critical Research Highly reactive chemicals can easily leak from plastic lab equipment used by scientists worldwide, interfering with results and potentially contaminating everything from basic biological research to drug development.... The best-known plastic additive is bisphenol A, a hard plastic ingredient that has drawn headlines for its hormone-disrupting effects in animals and, perhaps, humans.... Holt then tested his lab's pipette tips and microplates; once again, they found additives. When he told other researchers in his department, three of 20 teams reported evidence of interference, including a colleague working on the GABA neurotransmitter, key to the central nervous system and a target of tranquilizer drugs. ...	Not only are we disrupting the endocrine systems of animals, we're also disrupting the reality systems of science. ApocaDoc permalink
Sat, Nov 8, 2008 from Census of Marine Life via ScienceDaily: Overfishing Threatens European Bluefin Tuna Bluefin tuna disappeared from Danish waters in the 1960s. Now the species could become depleted throughout the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean, according to analyses by the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Aqua) and University of New Hampshire. The species is highly valued as sushi. ...	If I can't get my sushi, I'll sue! ApocaDoc permalink
Sat, Nov 8, 2008 from London Daily Mail: Park life: Why living in a green area improves your health Living near parks and forests improves your health and lengthens your life, according to new research published today. Scientists also found the health gap between rich and poor was narrower in greener areas. Lead author Richard Mitchell from Glasgow University said their findings showed the impact of green spaces was bigger than once thought. 'The size of the difference in the health gap is surprising and represented a much bigger effect than I had been expecting,' he said. ...	Great news as more and more people, out of work, will be living in parks & forests! ApocaDoc permalink
Sat, Nov 8, 2008 from Associated Press: Obama climate policy caught in Democratic tussle A fight within the Democratic Party over control of the House Energy and Commerce Committee could influence the outcome of President-elect Obama's efforts to limit the heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming. Obama has said he wants to act quickly on climate change. But crucial bipartisan support could be tested if liberal California Rep. Henry Waxman succeeds at unseating Chairman John Dingell of Michigan, the panel's top Democrat for 28 years and a key ally of automakers and electric utilities. ...	Waxman and Dingell vie over who will spew least amount of hot air. ApocaDoc permalink
Sat, Nov 8, 2008 from New York Times: U.S. to Open Public Land Near Parks for Drilling The Bureau of Land Management has expanded its oil and gas lease program in eastern Utah to include tens of thousands of acres on or near the boundaries of three national parks, according to revised maps published this week. National Park Service officials say that the decision to open lands close to Arches National Park and Dinosaur National Monument and within eyeshot of Canyonlands National Park was made without the kind of consultation that had previously been routine. ...	Better to ask for forgiveness than permission. ApocaDoc permalink
Fri, Nov 7, 2008 from Agence France-Presse: The rate of warming is 'unprecedented' Washington - Research on Arctic and North Atlantic ecosystems shows the recent warming trend counts as the most dramatic climate change since the onset of human civilisation 5000 years ago, according to studies published on Thursday. Researchers from Cornell University studied the increased introduction of fresh water from glacial melt, oceanic circulation, and the change in geographic range migration of oceanic plant and animal species. The team, led by oceanographer Charles Greene, described "major ecosystem reorganisation" -- or "regime shift" -- in the North Atlantic, a consequence of global warming on the largest scale in five millennia... "The rate of warming we are seeing (now) is unprecedented in human history," said Greene... ...	If only we could have changed some other regimes earlier. ApocaDoc permalink
Fri, Nov 7, 2008 from Canadian Press: Society spells out environmental links to cancer in online handbook The Canadian Cancer Society has launched an online handbook that details the environmental substances known to or suspected of causing cancer and what people can do to limit their exposure. Entitled The Environment, Cancer and You, the handbook discusses asbestos, radon gas, electromagnetic fields, flame retardants, labelling of consumer products, phthalates in plastics, teflon and non-stick cookware, and water chlorination by-products. ...	Sounds like we're merde out of luck to me! ApocaDoc permalink
Fri, Nov 7, 2008 from TIME Magazine: Is It Time to Kill Off the Flush Toilet? To flush or not to flush. That was the question that designers and ecologists were asking each other this week as hundreds of people who spend a lot of time thinking about these things convened for the annual World Toilet Summit and Expo in Macau... the flushing loo -- that human innovation that lifted the industrialized world out of its own dirt, cholera and dysentery -- is quickly becoming one of the more egregious instruments of waste in this time of acutely finite resources. ...	To da loo, loo! ApocaDoc permalink
Fri, Nov 7, 2008 from McClatchy Newspapers: Bush officials moving fast to cut environmental protections In the next few weeks, the Bush administration is expected to relax environmental-protection rules on power plants near national parks, uranium mining near the Grand Canyon and more mountaintop-removal coal mining in Appalachia. The administration is widely expected to try to get some of the rules into final form by the week before Thanksgiving because, in some cases, there's a 60-day delay before new regulations take effect. And once the rules are in place, undoing them generally would be a more time-consuming job for the next Congress and administration. ...	Probably part of their "Rescue the Environment" program. ApocaDoc permalink
Thu, Nov 6, 2008 from Times Online (UK): Recycling waste piles up as prices collapse Thousands of tonnes of rubbish collected from household recycling bins may have to be stored in warehouses and former military bases to save them from being dumped after a collapse in prices. Collection companies and councils are running out of space to store paper, plastic bottles and steel cans because prices are so low that the materials cannot be shifted. Collections of mixed plastics, mixed paper and steel reached record levels in the summer but the "bottom fell out of the market" and they are now worthless. The plunge in prices was caused by a sudden fall in demand for recycled materials, especially from China, as manufacturers reduced their output in line with the global economc downturn. ...	Supply and demand may require that we demand that we recycle. ApocaDoc permalink
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Thu, Nov 6, 2008 from The Earth Institute at Columbia University via ScienceDaily: Rocks Could Be Harnessed To Sponge Vast Amounts Of Carbon Dioxide From Air Scientists say that a type of rock found at or near the surface in the Mideast nation of Oman and other areas around the world could be harnessed to soak up huge quantities of globe-warming carbon dioxide. Their studies show that the rock, known as peridotite, reacts naturally at surprisingly high rates with CO2 to form solid minerals -- and that the process could be speeded a million times or more with simple drilling and injection methods. ...	Now I'm lamenting I threw my pet rock away! ApocaDoc permalink
Thu, Nov 6, 2008 from SciDev.net: China's GM ambition raises biosafety concerns China's recent roll-out of a a US$3.7 billion research programme to develop genetically modified (GM) crops, particularly rice, has been hailed by supporters as the means to feed the country's swelling population. But opposition remains strong due to concerns ranging from the health and environmental risks to regulation loopholes, writes Jane Qiu in Nature.... Others warn that GM technology safeguards could be undermined by the monoculture of rice and lack of adjacent refuges, which would encourage resistant pests; the absence of effective labelling of GM seeds; and the illegal release of GM varieties from laboratories. Worryingly, many stakeholders are being excluded from the agriculture ministry's biosafety evaluation process. ...	But look at how well their regulatory apparatus has worked over the last couple of years. What's to worry? ApocaDoc permalink
Thu, Nov 6, 2008 from TIME Magazine: Taking On King Coal The future of coal will dictate the future of the climate. Plants in the U.S. that burn this low-cost, high-carbon fuel account for about 40 percent of the country's greenhouse-gas emissions, not to mention other air pollutants. Right now there are about 600 coal power plants in the U.S., and an additional 110 are in various stages of development. Without ways to capture the carbon burned in coal and sequester it underground, new plants all but guarantee billions of tons of future carbon emissions and essentially negate efforts to reduce global warming. ...	Perhaps King Coal... needs a queen to straighten him out! ApocaDoc permalink
Thu, Nov 6, 2008 from Telegraph.co.uk: Lemmings hit by climate change Lemming populations have been ravaged by climate change as their breeding habits are disrupted by the wrong type of snow. The rodents, who contrary to popular belief do not commit suicide, breed best when thick, fluffy snow forms a blanket under which they can shelter, reproduce and feed on moss. Now researchers at the University of Oslo have reported that a general warming of the earth has given rise to a cycle of freezing and thawing which has meant that snow melts and freezes at ground level depriving the creatures of food.... This has meant that the regular explosions in lemming numbers have ceased over the past 15 years. ...	Good god, yet another metaphor becomes a canary in the coal mine. ApocaDoc permalink
Thu, Nov 6, 2008 from Harvard University, via EurekAlert: Global warming predicted to hasten carbon release from peat bogs Billions of tons of carbon sequestered in the world's peat bogs could be released into the atmosphere in the coming decades as a result of global warming, according to a new analysis of the interplay between peat bogs, water tables, and climate change. Such an atmospheric release of even a small percentage of the carbon locked away in the world's peat bogs would dwarf emissions of manmade carbon.... "Previous modeling has assumed that decomposition in peat bogs is like that in a conventional soil," Moorcroft says. "Ours is the first simulation to take a realistic look at the interaction between the dynamics of the water table, peat temperatures, and peat accumulation." ...	For peat's sake! ApocaDoc permalink
Thu, Nov 6, 2008 from Christian Science Monitor: Why frogs are croaking In the quest to find out why frog species have been declining so dramatically, various researchers have blamed climate change, disease, pollution, and increases in ultraviolet light from the sun reaching the surface. If two new studies are any indication, the answer increasingly appears to be: all of the above. ...	Damn. Now we have to fix everything. ApocaDoc permalink
Wed, Nov 5, 2008 from Toronto Globe and Mail: Superbug MRSA cases hit record level in Ontario Ontario has recorded its highest number of superbug MRSA cases - a troubling sign that the pernicious invader has made significant inroads in hospitals. Specifically, the number of cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus has increased by more than 50 per cent over a three-year period, with 16,498 patients infected or colonized with MRSA in 2007, according to figures provided by Ontario's Quality Management Program-Laboratory Services. By comparison, a total of 10,301 patients were infected or colonized with the superbug in 2004, according to Allison McGeer, director of infection control at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital, who analyzed the data for the laboratory services program. ...	Used to be just the bill was enough to kill you -- now it's MRSA, too! ApocaDoc permalink
Wed, Nov 5, 2008 from Dow Jones Newswires: Under Obama, Dark Days Seen Ahead For Fossil Fuels Under President-elect Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., the fossil fuels industry may face "dark days ahead," while alternative energy sectors are likely to flourish. Although it will take years to engineer and implement, an Obama administration energy and environment policy marks a tectonic shift for the nation. He would move the U.S. away from petroleum as its primary energy source and towards renewable energy, advanced biofuels, efficiency and low greenhouse-gas-emitting technologies. ...	The "dark days ahead" quote comes from an oil industry official. Let's throw them a pity party! ApocaDoc permalink
Wed, Nov 5, 2008 from Toronto Globe and Mail: Raccoons spread flu, study shows ...New research shows the pesky critters -- called the animal world's Typhoid Mary by one of the study's authors -- can catch and spread both human and avian strains of influenza. Lead author Jeffrey Hall isn't suggesting the raccoon you have to shoo away from your garbage can is likely to infect you with the flu. But his findings point to the possibility that raccoons play a role in the emergence of new strains of influenza, helping bird viruses adapt to be able to infect mammals. That process, which involves the swapping of genes among viruses, is called reassortment and is one of the ways a strain capable of causing a flu pandemic could arise. ...	Well, raccoons are already dressed for the part of wreaking havoc! ApocaDoc permalink
Wed, Nov 5, 2008 from Scientific American: Birds of a Feather: Commercial Producers Play Chicken with Avian Flu In the late 1980s thousands of chickens died from a cancer caused by a virus known as avian leukosis virus J because they were all descended from a few roosters susceptible to the disease. This is just one example of how a lack of genetic diversity can imperil livestock and agriculture. Similar instances abound from the Irish potato famine of the 19th century to cattle raised for meat�one bull named Ivanhoe passed on his genetic susceptibility to an immune system disorder to roughly 15 percent of all the Holstein bulls in the U.S. today. Now a new study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, shows that the world's 40 billion commercial chickens�those raised for their meat and eggs�have half the genetic diversity possible in the chicken genome, rendering them susceptible to other crippling disease outbreaks. ...	The world has 40 billion chickens? That's only 6 chickens per person! ApocaDoc permalink
Tue, Nov 4, 2008 from Portland Oregonian: Can rain + TV watching = autism? After his son's autism spectrum disorder was diagnosed, Michael Waldman began to wonder whether television viewing might play a triggering role. The question so obsessed the Cornell University economist that he enlisted several colleagues to pursue the answer by means of an unlikely strategy: studying rainfall records in Oregon, Washington and California. Kids cooped up indoors on rainy days, they figured, probably watch more television. To the surprise of autism experts, the economists found that the disorder indeed appears significantly more often among children living in counties with more rain and snow. ...	Maybe it's not the rain but what toxins are in the rain! ApocaDoc permalink
Tue, Nov 4, 2008 from Telegraph.co.uk: Palm oil agreement could lead to logging moratorium The view that the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) is merely a way of making companies appear politically correct without making difference to de-forestation could be about to change if agreement on an important new resolution is reached.... Each year the burning and degradation of Indonesian peat swamp forests releases a staggering 2 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. This accounts for nearly 4 per cent of global emissions from less than 0.1 per cent of the world's land surface.... There is a possibility that they could be awarded funds through carbon credits under the Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) scheme that is currently under discussion. Under the terms of this new resolution the RSPO will also start a programme to support the responsible development of suitable land. These would include land swaps where forest concessions could be exchanged for waste land concessions and the establishment of soft loan funds. ...	When bureaucrats march, the world trembles. ApocaDoc permalink
Tue, Nov 4, 2008 from Telegraph.co.uk: Ozone hole over Antarctica covered area size of North America The hole was the fifth biggest since satellite monitoring began in 1979.... Ozone loss was at its worst in 2006 when the hole covered more than 11.4m square miles at its peak but by last year the ozone hole had returned to average size and depth and was 30 per cent smaller than the record size. ...	Get out that sunscreen! It's a scorcher! ApocaDoc permalink
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Tue, Nov 4, 2008 from UIUC, via EurekAlert: Smaller mosquitoes are more likely to be infected with viruses causing human diseases The researchers painstakingly took into account the size of each mosquito by measuring the length of their wings. Smaller-sized mosquitoes had higher infection and potential to transmit dengue virus than larger individuals. However, Alto warns there are other components, such as adult longevity, host preference, and feeding frequency, that determine a mosquito's vectoring ability which still need to be taken into account in future studies. The Asian tiger and yellow fever mosquitoes are the two main transmitters of dengue virus, the mosquito-borne virus of greatest importance to human health. Both of these mosquitoes are found throughout the world including the U.S. The ferocious tiger mosquito invaded Illinois in the 1990s. Now researchers have shown that only slight differences in the body sizes of these mosquitoes drastically alter their potential to transmit viruses causing human disease. ...	Scary things come in small packages. ApocaDoc permalink
Tue, Nov 4, 2008 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, via EurekAlert: Solar power game-changer: 'Near perfect' absorption of sunlight, from all angles An untreated silicon solar cell only absorbs 67.4 percent of sunlight shone upon it -- meaning that nearly one-third of that sunlight is reflected away and thus unharvestable. From an economic and efficiency perspective, this unharvested light is wasted potential and a major barrier hampering the proliferation and widespread adoption of solar power. After a silicon surface was treated with Lin's new nanoengineered reflective coating, however, the material absorbed 96.21 percent of sunlight shone upon it -- meaning that only 3.79 percent of the sunlight was reflected and unharvested. This huge gain in absorption was consistent across the entire spectrum of sunlight, from UV to visible light and infrared, and moves solar power a significant step forward toward economic viability. ...	I see (and use all of) the light! ApocaDoc permalink
Tue, Nov 4, 2008 from Mongabay: True cost of China's coal: $250 billion in pollution, environmental damage, and social ills Every year China is spends $250 billion in hidden costs due to its reliance on coal, according to a report compiled over three years by top Chinese economists. These hidden costs are in the form of both environmental degradation and social ills.... According to the report, air pollution from coal has become so bad in China that chronic respiratory disease has become a leading cause of death. In addition to air, coal has also impacted China's water availability. For every ton of coal produced two-and-a-half tons of water become polluted; already 71 percent of the coal mines in China are facing water shortages. When rain falls it is often unusable. Acid rain, due largely to coal production, is now recorded in thirty percent of China. China's land is not left unaffected. Mercury from the coal has seeped into China's soil and landslides due to mining are not uncommon. Mining accidents leading to injury or death are common in China where little has been invested in miner safety; according to the BBC, 3,700 miners died in accidents in 2007 alone. ...	Something a little different from that balm, clean coal. ApocaDoc permalink
Tue, Nov 4, 2008 from Montana State University, via EurekAlert: New type of fuel found in Patagonia fungus A team led by a Montana State University professor has found a fungus that produces a new type of diesel fuel, which they say holds great promise. Calling the fungus' output "myco-diesel," Gary Strobel and his collaborators describe their initial observations in the November issue of Microbiology.... Strobel, who travels the world looking for exotic plants that may contain beneficial microbes, found the diesel-producing fungus in a Patagonia rainforest. Strobel visited the rainforest in 2002 and collected a variety of specimens, including the branches from an ancient family of trees known as "ulmo." When he and his collaborators examined the branches, they found fungus growing inside. They continued to investigate and discovered that the fungus, called "Gliocladium roseum," was producing gases. Further testing showed that the fungus -- under limited oxygen -- was producing a number of compounds normally associated with diesel fuel, which is obtained from crude oil. "These are the first organisms that have been found that make many of the ingredients of diesel," Strobel said. "This is a major discovery." ...	I dunno. I still think that mowing down the rainforests for palm oil plantations holds more promise. ApocaDoc permalink
Tue, Nov 4, 2008 from Bay Journal: NOAA takes stock of assessment scientists and comes up short Now, it turns out that there's a shortage of scientists to tell us that there's a shortage of fish. A new federal report warns that the nation is facing a critical shortage of stock assessment scientists, the specialists who crunch numbers from various surveys to estimate the abundance of various fish populations.... Miller noted that many important species that live entirely in the Chesapeake have never had stock assessments, including such species as oysters, soft clams, razer clams, horseshoe crabs, catfish and white perch, "All would be eminently suitable candidates for an assessment, but there simply are not the staff around to do it," he said. ...	That's the law of supply and demand. Unless we demand it, they won't be supplied. ApocaDoc permalink
Mon, Nov 3, 2008 from Bloomberg News: Coca-Cola agrees to cut water use and stabilize emissions SAN FRANCISCO - Coca-Cola Co., the world's largest soft-drink maker, vowed to more efficiently use water and stabilize its carbon-dioxide emissions linked to global warming under an agreement released last week with the World Wildlife Fund. Coca-Cola pledged to improve efficiency at bottling plants 20 percent by 2012 though overall water use will increase as business grows. The manufacturing changes will save about 50 billion litres (13 billion gallons) of water during the next four years, the Atlanta-based company said. Coca-Cola also will hold emissions at current levels, said spokeswoman Lisa Manley. ...	This is the cause that refreshes! ApocaDoc permalink
Mon, Nov 3, 2008 from San Francisco Chronicle: Neil Young on gas guzzlers: Long may you run Leave it to Neil Young to make green technology cool. The rock legend has created a company called Linc Volt Technology to promote the conversion of existing gas-guzzling cars into vehicles that run on alternative energy. But we're not talking about boxy little e-cars here. Young, who likes his cars old and big, is launching his effort by converting a 1959 Lincoln Continental to run on electricity and natural gas.... "All we're doing is showing that you can run a car like this at 100 miles per gallon or more," said Young... ...	Time has come for the next heart of gold rush to be harvesting these free world ideas. ApocaDoc permalink
Mon, Nov 3, 2008 from Associated Press: Mexico City's 'water monster' nears extinction MEXICO CITY-- Beneath the tourist gondolas in the remains of a great Aztec lake lives a creature that resembles a monster - and a Muppet - with its slimy tail, plumage-like gills and mouth that curls into an odd smile. The axolotl, also known as the "water monster" and the "Mexican walking fish," was a key part of Aztec legend and diet. Against all odds, it survived until now amid Mexico City's urban sprawl in the polluted canals of Lake Xochimilco, now a Venice-style destination for revelers poled along by Mexican gondoliers, or trajineros, in brightly painted party boats. But scientists are racing to save the foot-long salamander from extinction, a victim of the draining of its lake habitat and deteriorating water quality. In what may be the final blow, nonnative fish introduced into the canals are eating its lunch - and its babies. ...	Like an ax to the axolotl. ApocaDoc permalink
Mon, Nov 3, 2008 from Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Drought more menacing, but it gets less mention Drought? What drought? The rains still haven�t come. Lake Lanier drops ever lower. And Georgia�s water wars with Florida and Alabama slog along. Yet last fall's doomsday water scenarios have disappeared from newspaper front pages and state officials' lips. Instead, this fall, Georgians are consumed with the financial crisis, the presidential election and gas prices. Meanwhile, the new year promises Year Four of the drought that has fundamentally affected the way North Georgians live. ...	Our mouths are too dry to speak of it. ApocaDoc permalink
Mon, Nov 3, 2008 from USA Today: A bounty sprouts in the city with MyFarm enterprise Some might look across this city's rolling hills with its waves of roofs and see some of America's priciest real estate. Trevor Paque saw virgin farmland. He calls his enterprise, MyFarm, a "decentralized urban farm." His aim is to turn San Francisco's under-used, overgrown backyards into verdant plots of green that will provide organically grown food for the city's residents. ...	Sounds like a MyWinner to MyMe! ApocaDoc permalink