Tag: News
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Could This Winter’s Harsh Weather Wipe Out Invasive Insects?
As a frigid winter takes a toll on the U.S. and Canada, invasive insect populations are also taking a hit. The U.S. Forest Service estimates that up to 80 percent of emerald ash borers, which have been decimating ash tree populations, were killed by long stretches of bitter cold in the the upper Midwest this year. [caption…
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Lifting U.S. Crude Oil Export Ban Would Cook the Planet
A new analysis published today by Oil Change International entitled, Lifting the Ban, Cooking the Climate, shows that eliminating existing regulations on crude oil exports could result in additional greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 42 coal fired power plants. The analysis shows that allowing crude oil exports would eliminate a current price gap between the U.S. oil price…
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Lifting U.S. Crude Oil Export Ban Would Cook the Planet
A new analysis published today by Oil Change International entitled, Lifting the Ban, Cooking the Climate, shows that eliminating existing regulations on crude oil exports could result in additional greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 42 coal fired power plants. The analysis shows that allowing crude oil exports would eliminate a current price gap between the U.S. oil price…
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Climate Change Effects Antarctica’s Ocean Salinity, Traping Heat in Deep Water
In the mid-1970s, the first available satellite images of Antarctica during the polar winter revealed a huge ice-free region within the ice pack of the Weddell Sea. This ice-free region—or polynya—stayed open for three full winters before it closed. Subsequent research showed that the opening was maintained as relatively warm waters churned upward from kilometers…
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Flood Risk in Europe Expected to Double by 2050
By Tim Radford The catastrophic floods that soaked Europe last summer and the United Kingdom this winter are part of the pattern of things to come. According to a new study of flood risk in Nature Climate Change annual average losses from extreme floods in Europe could increase fivefold by 2050. And the frequency of destructive…