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Mon, Nov 17, 2008 from Telegraph.co.uk: The animals and plants we cannot live without -- five experts Nearly 17,000 species are now considered to be threatened with extinction and 869 species are classed as extinct or extinct in the wild on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List. In the last year alone 183 species became more endangered. Now, in the face of the growing threat posed by environmental changes around the globe, five leading scientists are to argue whether there is a single type of plant or animal which the planet really cannot afford to lose. The debate, titled Irreplaceable -- The World's Most Invaluable Species, will see five experts present the case for the world's most important animals and plants from a shortlist of five: primates, bats, bees, fungi and plankton. ...	We have to choose? ApocaDoc permalink
Sun, Nov 16, 2008 from New York Times: At Exxon, Making the Case for Oil While other oil companies try to paint themselves greener, Exxon's executives believe their venerable model has been battle-tested. The company's mantra is unwavering: brutal honesty about the need for oil and gas to power economies for decades to come. "Over the years, there have been many predictions that our industry was in its twilight years, only to be proven wrong," says Mr. Tillerson. "As Mark Twain said, the news of our demise has been greatly exaggerated." ...	Dammit! ApocaDoc permalink
Sun, Nov 16, 2008 from Khaleej Times Online: Dead Fish Raise a Stink on Beaches in Fujairah Dibba-Al Fujairah and Dibba Al Hesn municipalities have stepped up their efforts to remove the huge collection of dead fish from their shores due to the red tide phenomenon. The residents of Dibba-Fujairah and Dibba-Al Hesn have been complaining of the stench arising out of the situation. The red tide phenomenon occurs when there is higher than normal concentration of microscopic algae Karenia brevis in an area. The organism produces a toxin that affects the central nervous system of fish. ...	A redding tide floats all fish. ApocaDoc permalink
Sun, Nov 16, 2008 from WJZ (Baltimore): Scientists Fear Bat-Killing Disease May Spread Something is killing bats by the thousands. Whole colonies have been wiped out in the northeast, and there is worry it could spread to Maryland.... "High numbers of deaths. They're moving in the day time, they're roosting in unusual locations. It's all very unusual behavior for bats," said Aimee Haskem, UM Center for Environmental Science.... So far, there's no sign of white nose syndrome in Maryland. ...	The batting average is not looking good. ApocaDoc permalink
Sun, Nov 16, 2008 from Fredericton Times and Transcript: Hazardous chemical spill forces residents, nearby businesses not to use water for anything but flushing toilet An estimated 2,700 litres of chromium trioxide acid spilled from a location occupied by Custom Machine and Hardchrome Inc. on Melissa Street in the industrial park just outside Fredericton's city limits. The well on site has been contaminated with high levels of chromium. One of four monitoring wells drilled around the contaminated well has also shown higher levels of chromium, but consultants believe contaminated groundwater is being carried away from homes in the area.... Officials have said the incident was caused by human error. ...	ummm... well, yeah, "human error". ApocaDoc permalink
Sat, Nov 15, 2008 from North Bay Nugget: David Suzuki keeps his optimism David Suzuki, scientist and environmentalist icon, is ever the realist. The reality is that we're in deep trouble and we've been sleepwalking into the future," he says. But in spite of the almost daily revelations about global warming, pollution and climate change, Suzuki is also an optimist. With children and grandchildren I can't give up and say it's too late. It's very, very late, but you have to have hope." ...	Hope vs. reality: the cage match. ApocaDoc permalink
Sat, Nov 15, 2008 from Toronto Sun: Got a spare Earth anywhere? If the world continues to pillage and plunder Earth's natural resources at the rate we are now, by 2030 we will need two planets to support us. If everyone on Earth consumed the equivalent resources of Canadians, it would take three Earths to meet the demand. Since the late 1980s, we have been in overshoot -- meaning our ecological footprint has exceeded Earth's biocapacity to sustain our rate of consumption -- by about 30 percent.... Deforestation and land conversions in the tropics, dams, diversions, climate change, pollution and over-fishing are killing species off, the reverberations of which are felt along the food chain. ...	I don't think NASA is ready to terraform Mars just yet. ApocaDoc permalink
Sat, Nov 15, 2008 from Guardian (UK): Campaigner wins seven-year battle to force rethink on use of pesticides An environmental campaigner yesterday won a landmark victory against the government in a long-running legal battle over the use of pesticides. The high court ruled that Georgina Downs, who runs the UK Pesticides Campaign, had produced "solid evidence" that people exposed to chemicals used to spray crops had suffered harm. The court said the government had failed to comply with a European directive designed to protect rural communities from exposure to the toxins. It said the environment department, Defra, must reassess its policy and investigate the risks to people who are exposed. Defra had argued that its approach to the regulation and control of pesticides was "reasonable, logical and lawful". ...	We return to the quaint notion that governments exist to protect its citizens. ApocaDoc permalink
Sat, Nov 15, 2008 from Times Online (UK): Nasa fights global warming with bathtime favourite After years of research -- and with the fate of planet Earth hanging in the balance -- the Nasa scientist who helped to put a robot on Mars has finally completed work on a device that can measure how fast Greenland's ice-cap is melting.... When glaciers surge, they move at up to 100 times their usual speed. Scientists believe that surging could be caused by water from melting ice on the top of a glacier flowing into tubular holes and eventually reaching the base, where it acts as a lubricant, speeding the movement of the glacier towards the coast. Cue the rubber ducks. In August, Dr Behar flew to the Jakobshavn Glacier and landed near one of the tubular holes, known as "moulins". Into one of the moulins he dropped 90 ducks, each labelled with the words "Science Experiment" and "Reward" in three languages along with an e-mail address. ...	you're the one/you make melt-time/so much fun... ApocaDoc permalink
Sat, Nov 15, 2008 from NSF, via EurekAlert: Mysterious microbe plays important role in ocean ecology An unusual microorganism discovered in the open ocean may force scientists to rethink their understanding of how carbon and nitrogen cycle through ocean ecosystems.... Unlike all other known free-living cyanobacteria, this one lacks some of the genes needed to carry out photosynthesis, the process by which plants use light energy to make sugars out of carbon dioxide and water. The mysterious microbe can do something very important, though: It provides natural fertilizer to the oceans by "fixing" nitrogen from the atmosphere into a form useable by other organisms. ...	I wonder if it can "fix" nitrogen fast enough to "fix" the atmospheric overabundance. ApocaDoc permalink
Sat, Nov 15, 2008 from New Scientist: Dumb eco-questions you were afraid to ask If I switch the light on and off every time I enter and leave a room, does this use more energy than leaving it on all evening?... How clean does the pizza box have to be for it to be recyclable? Likewise cans and bottles... What's the most fuel-efficient way to drive? ...	These are more smart eco-questions. ApocaDoc permalink
Sat, Nov 15, 2008 from Bloomberg News: Wrinkle Fillers Linked to 'Serious' Side Effects Some people who received wrinkle-fillers suffered "serious and unexpected" side effects such as the inability to control facial muscles, disfigurement and rare life-threatening allergic reactions, U.S. regulators said.... Non-surgical cosmetic procedures increased more than eightfold between 1997 and 2007, according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. About 1.36 million women and 84,000 men received wrinkle-fillers last year, according to the plastic surgery group. ...	But I want to look like Joan Rivers! ApocaDoc permalink
Fri, Nov 14, 2008 from Mongabay: Caspian seal numbers plummet 90 percent A team from the University of Leeds performed a series of surveys in 2007 and 2008 which revealed that the birth rate has decreased from around 17,000 pups born per year to only between 6,000 and 7,000 -- a drop of 60 percent. The team's census further showed that the current number of breeding females was only 17,000, a number barely large enough to maintain the genetic viability of the species. ...	That seals it. ApocaDoc permalink
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Fri, Nov 14, 2008 from Greater Good Magazine: Are Human Beings Hard-Wired to Ignore the Threat of Catastrophic Climate Change? ...a growing number of social scientists are offering their expertise in behavioral decision making, risk analysis, and evolutionary influences on human behavior to explain our limited responses to global warming. Among the most significant factors they point to: The way we're psychologically wired and socially conditioned to respond to crises makes us ill-suited to react to the abstract and seemingly remote threat posed by global warming. Their insights are also leading to some intriguing recommendations about how to get people to take action-including the potentially dangerous prospect of playing on people's fears. ...	You mean we evolved to this state? ApocaDoc permalink
Fri, Nov 14, 2008 from Chicago Tribune: U.S. undercuts clean-air rule Looking to bolster the fight against childhood lead poisoning, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last month approved a tough new rule aimed at clearing the nation's air of the toxic metal. A key part of the initiative is a new network of monitors that will track lead emissions from factories. But the Bush administration quietly weakened that provision at the last minute by exempting dozens of polluters from scrutiny, federal documents show. ...	Apparently, the Bush administration doesn't have lungs! ApocaDoc permalink
Fri, Nov 14, 2008 from Charlotte Business Leader: Demand for organic products driving growth of local farms The exact number of farms in the region focusing on organic products isn't known. The N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services doesn't count organic farms. But Daryl Bowman, director of the N.C. Crop Improvement Association -- a membership-based organization that certifies farms, ranches and other things as organic -- says about 500 N.C. farms are using natural methods. "That number is growing by 25 percent a year," he says. The growers have few problems finding buyers. ...	In this case, 25 percent growth per annum is sustainable. ApocaDoc permalink
Thu, Nov 13, 2008 from National Geographic: Giant, Prehistoric Fish Rebounding in Canada Once plentiful in the river, the sturgeon population had dropped below 40,000, and scientists were unable to explain the die-offs of mostly female fish. That's when an alliance of government agencies, environmentalists, aboriginal groups, and commercial and recreational fishers came together to save the sturgeon, spurring a robust recovery of the lower Fraser River population. Recent estimates show the population has increased to about 50,000 fish. ...	Good thing that sturgeon are so ugly. ApocaDoc permalink
Thu, Nov 13, 2008 from The Economist: The population of bluefin tuna is crashing Yet Raul Romeva, a green MEP from Spain, says this summary is a "sanitised" version. He believes the full report has been suppressed by the commission at the request of national governments because its contents are so embarrassing. The full report is said to contain details about the scale of infringements, including which countries are responsible. One-third of inspections, says Mr Romeva, led to an apparent infringement, such as inadequate catch documentation. The commission, he says, is covering this up. ...	That pink in the sushi? That's from embarrassment. ApocaDoc permalink
Thu, Nov 13, 2008 from Mongabay: Limiting global warming to 2-degree rise will require $180/t carbon price says energy think tank In a report released Wednesday the International Energy Agency warned that a business-as-usual approach to energy use would result in a 6-degree rise in temperatures putting hundreds of millions at risk from reduced water supplies and diminished agricultural production. But the energy think tank said that limiting temperature rise to 2-3-degree-rise by the end of the century would be "possible, but very hard."... "Current trends in energy supply and consumption are patently unsustainable -- environmentally, economically and socially -- they can and must be altered," said Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA). ...	Can't I at least pretend that I can live as I've been trained to live? ApocaDoc permalink
Thu, Nov 13, 2008 from American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene via ScienceDaily: Airport Malaria: Cause For Concern In U.S. In a global world, significant factors affect the spread of infectious diseases, including international trade, air travel and globalized food production. "Airport malaria" is a term coined by researchers to explain the more recent spread of malaria to areas such as the United States and Europe, which some scientists credit to warmer climate changes... It begins with a mosquito that is transported during an international flight from a malaria-endemic region. ...	Creepy little stowaways! ApocaDoc permalink
Thu, Nov 13, 2008 from San Francisco Chronicle: Lawmaker says action on warming will take time Congress will not act until 2010 on a bill to limit the heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming despite President-elect Barack Obama's declaration that he will move quickly to address climate change, the chairman of the Senate Energy Committee predicted Wednesday. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., said that while every effort should be made to cap greenhouse gases, the economic crisis, the transition to a new administration and the complexity of setting up a nationwide market for carbon pollution permits preclude acting in 2009. ...	A whole lotta little Neros are doing a whole lotta fiddlin'... ApocaDoc permalink
Thu, Nov 13, 2008 from Kansas City Star: Climate change brings Kansans dire prediction Over the next century, eastern Kansas will get warmer and drier. Western Kansas will get warmer and a lot drier. The first in-depth analysis of climate change in Kansas, released Tuesday, offers a bundle of future worries as well as a bleak outlook for agriculture in the state. ...	What's the matter with Kansas? Now we know! ApocaDoc permalink
Thu, Nov 13, 2008 from GhanaWeb Online: "Mad Cow" outbreak claims 10 lives Ten persons have been confirmed dead following an epidemic of Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis (CSM) at Yaw Bronya, a farming community near Ofoase in Asante Akim-South District. Nine of the deceased, all of whom died in a spate of two weeks, have been buried, while three others are on admission at the Juaso District Hospital. ...	That's a whole herd of deaths! ApocaDoc permalink
Thu, Nov 13, 2008 from London Daily Telegraph: Victoria's Secret sued after bra 'made women ill' Several women have claimed that underwear from the leading lingerie firm, which uses supermodels including Giselle Bundchen and Heidi Klum, made them ill. One woman even claims to have been left permanently scarred after wearing the Angels Secret Embrace bra...A US medical Web site was flooded with complaints against the underwear company. ...	Could Victoria's Secret be... formaldehyde? ApocaDoc permalink
Thu, Nov 13, 2008 from Reuters: Giant Asian smog cloud masks global warming impact-UN A three-kilometre thick cloud of brown soot and other pollutants hanging over Asia is darkening cities, killing thousands and damaging crops but may be holding off the worst effects of global warming, the UN said on Thursday. The vast plume of contamination from factories, fires, cars and deforestation contains some particles that reflect sunlight away from the earth, cutting its ability to heat the earth... The amount of sunlight reaching earth through the murk has fallen by up to a quarter in the worst-affected areas and if the brown cloud disperses, global temperatures could rise by up to 2 degrees Celsius. ...	So... let's keep on polluting! ApocaDoc permalink
Thu, Nov 13, 2008 from Nature: Modified genes spread to local maize Transgenes from genetically modified (GM) maize (corn) crops have been found in traditional 'landrace' maize in the Mexican heartland, a study says. The work largely confirms a similar, controversial result published in Nature in 2001 and may reignite the debate in Mexico over GM crops. ...	GM nows stands for goin' mobile! ApocaDoc permalink
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Thu, Nov 13, 2008 from LA Times: California economy loses $28 billion yearly to health effects of pollution The California economy loses about $28 billion annually due to premature deaths and illnesses linked to ozone and particulates spewed from hundreds of locations in the South Coast and San Joaquin air basins, according to findings released Wednesday by a Cal State Fullerton research team. Most of those costs, about $25 billion, are connected to roughly 3,000 smog-related deaths each year, but additional factors include work and school absences, emergency room visits, and asthma attacks and other respiratory illnesses, said team leader Jane Hall, a professor of economics and co-director of the university's Institute for Economics and Environment Studies. ...	This is normally considered acceptable collateral damage. ApocaDoc permalink
Wed, Nov 12, 2008 from Purdue University via ScienceDaily: Commercial Poultry Lack Genetic Diversity, Are Vulnerable To Avian Flu And Other Threats As concerns such as avian flu, animal welfare and consumer preferences impact the poultry industry, the reduced genetic diversity of commercial bird breeds increases their vulnerability and the industry's ability to adapt, according to a genetics expert... Researchers found that commercial birds are missing more than half of the genetic diversity native to the species, possibly leaving them vulnerable to new diseases and raising questions about their long-term sustainability. ...	The sky ain't the only thing falling! ApocaDoc permalink
Wed, Nov 12, 2008 from Euractiv.com: Existing climate actions 'not good enough', EU warned Global warming is driving major environmental changes more quickly than expected, with the Earth's average temperature racing towards dangerous levels and the transition to a low-carbon economy stalling, leading climate experts say. The world is in even "more dire straits" than the worst predictions set out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Johan Rockstrom, executive director of the Stockholm Environment Institute, told a climate change conference in Brussels yesterday... ...	Mister Rockstrom could use a chill pill! ApocaDoc permalink
Wed, Nov 12, 2008 from MSNBC: Nasty intestinal bug spikes in U.S. hospitals A virulent, drug-resistant gut infection that causes potentially deadly diarrhea, especially among the old and sick, is up to 20 times more common than previously thought, a large survey of U.S. hospitals and health care centers finds. Thirteen in every 1,000 patients were infected or colonized with Clostridium difficile, known as C. diff, according to surveys by nearly 650 U.S. acute care and other centers, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, or APIC, reported Tuesday. That's between 6.5 and 20 times higher than previous estimates of the nasty bacterial infection tied to overuse of antibiotics and improperly cleaned hospital rooms... ...	What's the diff? Oh, it's tres difficile... ApocaDoc permalink
Wed, Nov 12, 2008 from London Daily Telegraph: Submarine in worst nuclear leak since 80s The Royal Navy is facing serious questions about why it kept quiet for four days about one of the worst radioactive spillages in recent years. More than 61 gallons (280 litres) of toxic coolant poured into a river from a burst hose as it was being pumped from the nuclear submarine HMS Trafalgar on November 7. But the Navy has only now admitted to the spill of the liquid, which contained tritium, a substance which can cause burns, cancer and DNA mutations as it breaks down. ...	That little baby took a big leak! ApocaDoc permalink
Tue, Nov 11, 2008 from Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: Alaska permafrost study reveals larger global warming problem Alaskans should watch where they step. University of Alaska professor Chien-Lu Ping and a team of researchers have dug more than 100 holes around the state, taking permafrost samples for a paper published in the October issue of the journal Nature Geoscience. In the paper, Ping concluded frozen Arctic soil contains nearly twice as much organic material and greenhouse gases as previously thought. He based his conclusions on the information collected in Alaska and more than 10 years of research. ...	This story gives me a permachill! ApocaDoc permalink
Tue, Nov 11, 2008 from Bloomberg News: Radioactive Beer Kegs Menace Public, Boost Costs for Recyclers French authorities made headlines last month when they said as many as 500 sets of radioactive buttons had been installed in elevators around the country. It wasn't an isolated case. Improper disposal of industrial equipment and medical scanners containing radioactive materials is letting nuclear waste trickle into scrap smelters, contaminating consumer goods, threatening the $140 billion trade in recycled metal and spurring the United Nations to call for increased screening. ...	Going down? ApocaDoc permalink
Tue, Nov 11, 2008 from BBC: Bolivia holds key to electric car future Lithium carries a great promise. It could help power the fuel efficient electric or petrol-electric hybrid vehicles of the future. But, as is the case with fossil fuels, it is a limited resource... demand for lithium will outstrip supply in less than 10 years unless new sources are found. ...	The more we run out of the chemical element Lithium the more we'll need the pharmaceutical kind! ApocaDoc permalink
Tue, Nov 11, 2008 from The Daily Climate: The ocean's acid test ...according to a new report issued today by Oceana ... today�s ocean chemistry is already hostile for many creatures fundamental to the marine food web. The world�s oceans � for so long a neat and invisible sink for humanity�s carbon dioxide emissions � are about to extract a price for all that waste. The effects are not local: Entire ecosystems threaten to literally crumble away as critters relying on calcium carbonate for a home � from corals to mollusks to the sea snail � have a harder time manufacturing their shells. Corals shelter millions of species worldwide, while sea snails account for upwards of 45 percent of the diet of pink salmon. ...	For Whom the Shell Tolls....? it tolls for us all! ApocaDoc permalink
Tue, Nov 11, 2008 from Census of Marine Life, via EurekAlert: Marine invasive species advance 50km per decade, World Conference on Marine Biodiversity told A rapid, climate change-induced northern migration of invasive marine is one of many research results announced Tues. Nov. 11 during opening day presentations at the First World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, in Valencia. Investigators report that invasive species of marine macroalgae spread at 50 km per decade, a distance far greater than that covered by invasive terrestrial plants. The difference may be due to the rapid dispersion of macroalgae propagules in the ocean, according to Nova Mieszkovska, from the Marine Biological Association of the U.K. ... "The impacts of the pressure of climate change are particularly dramatic, according to results presented at the Conference, in the abrupt deterioration of the Arctic and coral reefs" Duarte asserts. ...	Y'know, that's only 31 miles. Pfft. ApocaDoc permalink
Mon, Nov 10, 2008 from Science Daily (US): XDR-TB: Deadlier And More Mysterious Than Ever New research has found that XDR-TB is increasingly common and more deadly than previously known. Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is a growing public health threat that is only just beginning to be understood by medical and public health officials.... Over the three to seven years that the study's patient population was monitored, approximately 50 percent of those identified with XDR-TB died, which was a mortality rate similar to untreated TB patients in South India, and one that becomes even worse with HIV co-infection. ...	eXtremely Dire Results. ApocaDoc permalink
Mon, Nov 10, 2008 from Guardian (UK): European fishing fleets may have catches cut by one-quarter European fishing fleets could see their catches cut by up to a quarter next year if EU ministers sign up to recommendations aiming to protect overfished species such as cod and haddock. The European Commission today proposed deep cuts in 2009 catches for almost 30 species and a ban on fishing for several others across the northeastern Atlantic.... "I know this will be hard on the fleets affected," he said. "But there is no other choice if we want to restore the ecological basis for a truly viable European fishing industry," he added. ...	Cut catches now, or we'll be having phytoplankton-'n'-chips later. ApocaDoc permalink
Mon, Nov 10, 2008 from Mondaq (AK): Infrastructure Stakeholders May Soon Find Themselves Liable For The Effects Of Climate Change Climate change may be to blame for buckling roads and flooding, but failure to adapt to a changing climate could soon have its own set of consequences. A variety of legal actions charging different types of actors for alleged actions or omissions have occurred (or are now underway) -- all related in some way to greenhouse gas emissions. Our law, therefore, is evolving as our knowledge of climate change and its effects evolve. Very little attention has been paid to potential legal liability for failing to adapt infrastructure to climate change-related risk. Amendments to laws, building codes and standards that would take into account the potential impact of climate change on infrastructure assets are still some time away. ...	Is there an organization called "Lawyers for Social Responsibility"? ApocaDoc permalink
Mon, Nov 10, 2008 from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Symptoms of global warming overrun Greenland Although millions of people across the world still aren't convinced global warming is as big a problem as scientists claim, symptoms of the planet's warming pop up everywhere in Greenland. The island's summer fishing season is longer. Crops are being grown in areas never thought possible for cultivation. Tourism is booming.... [But] a lack of sea ice has made winter passage between settlements more difficult, if not impossible. That's a huge problem because there are no roads between villages.... Full-sized halibut that used to be available at depths of about 1,000 feet now swim at depths of about 2,600 feet. ...	But man, the Greenland beaches are rocking! ApocaDoc permalink
Mon, Nov 10, 2008 from Guardian (UK): Quarter of Atlantic sharks and rays face extinction More than a quarter of sharks and rays in the north-east Atlantic face extinction from overfishing, conservationists warned today. A "red list" report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) found that 26 percent of all sharks, rays and related species in the regional waters are threatened with extinction. Seven per cent are classed as critically endangered, while a fifth are regarded as "near-threatened". ...	So "jump the shark" is no longer just a metaphor. ApocaDoc permalink