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$50 Billion Environmental Business Initiative

admin — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:12:40 +0000

Bank of America today announced a new 10-year, $50 billion environmental business goal to help address climate change, reduce demands on natural resources and advance lower-carbon economic solutions. The company also introduced significant new goals to reduce the environmental impact of its own operations. The new goal, effective Jan. 1, 2013, follows the anticipated completion [...]

Smoke from California’s Springs Fire

admin — Tue, 07 May 2013 20:04:54 +0000

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 [...]

National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate Change

admin — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:10:23 +0000

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 [...]

Climate Adaptation Strategy

admin — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:36:56 +0000

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 [...]

Sea Shephered, Japan And Whales

admin — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:49:53 +0000

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 [...]

Declining Vegetation

admin — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:05:22 +0000

Part of the study “Foliage Spoilage and the Trees’ Canopy Collapse” February 26, 2013 By Ruth Dasso Marlaire, Ames Research Center NASA scientists report that warmer temperatures and changes in precipitation locally and regionally have altered the growth of large forest areas in the eastern United States over the past 10 years. Using NASA’s Terra [...]

The World Bank and UN Security Council on Global Warming Threat

admin — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:04:48 +0000

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 [...]

Arctic Sea Ice Volume Losses

admin — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:38:56 +0000

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 [...]

1/5 Of Reptile Species Endangered

admin — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:06:25 +0000

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 [...]

One of the Most Extreme Years on Record

admin — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:34:10 +0000

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 [...]