Global Warming- Habitat Restoration Can Drive Economic RecoveryBy Ben Weber, National Wildlife Federation. This article was originally posted on the Vanishing Paradise blog. Vanishing Paradise's Ben Weber. After years of habitat loss and abuse, the story of the Mississippi River Delta is starting to look a bit different. Following the 2010 Gulf oil spill, a monumental piece of legislation called the RESTORE Act is […]
- A bipartisan path forward to reform U.S. chemical safety lawHard-fought compromise legislation would better protect American families Sens. Lautenberg and Vitter introduce the Chemical Safety Improvement Act to strengthen health protections for consumers Wed, 2013-05-22 Contact: Richard Denison, 202-572-3348, rdenison@edf.org Sharyn Stein, 202-572-3396, sstein@edf.org (Washington, D.C. – May 22, 2013) Environmental […]
- Analysis: Judge poses questions to better understand BP’s liability in Gulf oil disasterBy Whit Remer, Policy Analyst, Environmental Defense Fund The National Wildlife Federation's David Muth speaks at a press event and rally for the 3-year memorial of the BP oil disaster. Though Phase I of the BP trial may be complete, both parties have a mountain of follow-up work, analysis, and then preparation to do for Phase II, which starts in Septem […]
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- State Of The Climate
- April 2013 WildfiresFor April 2013, 4,754 fires (2nd most on record) burned 48,419 acres (the most on record) , which is 10.2 acres burned/fire (the most on record). For January-April, 11,673 fires (the most on record) burned 141,544 acres (the most on record) , which is 12.1 acres burned/fire (the most on record). […]
- April 2013 Global AnalysisThe combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for April 2013 was the 13th warmest on record, at 0.52°C (0.94°F) above the 20th century average of 13.7°C (56.7°F). The global land surface temperature was 0.71°C (1.28°F) above the 20th century average of 8.1°C (46.5°F), marking the 17th warmest April on record. For the ocean, the April g […]
- April 2013 TornadoesJanuary–April tornado counts According to data from the Storm Prediction Center, during April, there were 83 preliminary tornado reports. This is well below the 1991-2010 average of 155 for the month, and marked the slowest April in terms of tornadoes since 1992. The last April with fewer than 100 tornadoes was in 1993. April is typically one of the more act […]
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Smoke from California’s Springs Fire
NASA — The GOES infrared and visible imagery were combined to create an animation that showed the plume of smoke from the fire. The smoke plume is seen blowing west and out over the eastern Pacific Ocean. The animation runs 17 seconds and shows the smoke plume from May 3 at 1415 to 2000 UTC [...]
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National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate Change
The 2012 Highlights of Progress report provides a summary of the major climate change-related accomplishments of EPA’s national and regional water programs in 2012. This is the fourth climate change progress report for the National Water Program and the first progress report organized around the five long-term programmatic vision areas described in the National Water [...]
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Climate Adaptation Strategy
Part of the Human Induced Climate Change Experiment In partnership with State and Tribal agencies, the Obama Administration released the first nationwide strategy to help public and private decision makers address the impacts that climate change is having on natural resources and the people and economies that depend on them. Developed in response to a [...]
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Sea Shephered, Japan And Whales
In response to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion in a preliminary injunction hearing against Sea Shepherd Conservation Society U.S. as brought by Japan’s Institute for Cetacean Research (ICR) — a government-subsidized front for commercial whaling — the global marine conservation nonprofit calls the ruling a “bad decision,” but says the gavel hasn’t come [...]
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The World Bank and UN Security Council on Global Warming Threat
I had the honor of speaking to the UN Security Council about an increasingly dangerous threat facing cities and countries around the world, a threat that, more and more, is influencing everything that they and we do: climate change. World Bank President Jim Kim is in Russia right now talking with G20 finance ministers about [...]
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Arctic Sea Ice Volume Losses
By George Hale, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center New research using combined records of ice measurements from NASA’s Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), the European Space Agency’s CryoSat-2 satellite, airborne surveys and ocean-based sensors shows Arctic sea ice volume declined 36 percent in the autumn and nine percent in the winter over the [...]
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1/5 Of Reptile Species Endangered
Nineteen percent of the world’s reptiles are estimated to be threatened with extinction, states a paper published today by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) in conjunction with experts from the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC). The study, printed in the journal of Biological Conservation, is the first of its kind summarising the global conservation [...]
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One of the Most Extreme Years on Record
2012 National Events Map Click for more information Issued January 8, 2013: The data presented in this report are final through July and preliminary from August-December. Ranks, anomalies, and percent areas may change as more complete data are received and processed. National Temperature and Precipitation Analysis 2012 National Temperature Rank Map 2012 National [...]
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