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Fish Spawning Earlier Off California Coasts

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Fish Spawning Earlier Off California Coasts

Photo by evilthomthai via Flickr Creative Commons Fish living in waters off California’s coasts are changing the timing of their reproductive cycles, new studies show. Eighteen of the area’s most common species are spawning 15 to 62 days earlier than what was common in the 1950s, while eight other species are spawning between 15 and 38 days later. While experts aren’t sure why the trends are occurring, they’re eyeballing changes in water temperature as a culprit. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Here’s the London Underground After Nine More Decades of Climate Change. Don’t Forget Your Goggles

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Here’s the London Underground After Nine More Decades of Climate Change. Don’t Forget Your Goggles

Image courtesy of Practical Action Ninety years from now, your London-going grandchildren may be jealous that you didn’t have to strap on a snorkel to visit Big Ben, Parliament, London Bridge, and Canary Wharf. That’s the forecast from Practical Action , the development charity behind the London Underground Map 2100 . Any area in blue is predicted to be underwater by the end of the century…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Climate Change to Kill 5 Million People Globally by 2020 & It Just Goes Up Each Year After That

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Climate Change to Kill 5 Million People Globally by 2020 & It Just Goes Up Each Year After That

From sea level rise, to extreme weather, to desertification, the US has among the highest risk for damages. Photo: US Army / Creative Commons . Each year there are 350,000 people dying due to climate change, with a total death toll by 2020 of five million; each year after that deaths from climate change are likely to be as high as one million people annually–that is unless we take action to soften the blow with immediate and rapid greenhouse gas emission reductions. Tha… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Eight Reasons Distributed Power Generation Is Superior To Central Power Station Expansion

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Eight Reasons Distributed Power Generation Is Superior To Central Power Station Expansion

Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia installed three Capstone C65 ICHP MicroTurbines® – a form of distributed power generation. Image credit: Capstone Turbine Now that I have succeeded in disturbing a number of engineers and environmentalists, while admitting the difficulty of even defining distributed power (see What Is Distributed Power Generation? for details), it is time to lay out what makes distributed power generation (DP) superior to expanding central power ge… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Boycott Bluefin Tuna & Let the Critically Endangered Fish Off the Hook

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Boycott Bluefin Tuna & Let the Critically Endangered Fish Off the Hook

International efforts to reduce fishing quotas for Icritically endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna , or better yet ban the trade outright, may have failed (again…), but that doesn’t mean you can’t help take action to reduce demand. The Center for Biological Diversity has just launched a boycott campaign urging chefs, restauranteurs and consumers to not buy or serve the bluefin… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Climate-Related Deaths Doubled in 2010

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Climate-Related Deaths Doubled in 2010

Photo: DVIDSHUB , Flickr, CC In the first nine months of this year, more than 21,000 people perished around the world due to climate-related events, a new report from Oxfam finds. That’s more than twice as many died in all of 2009. This news should hardly be surprising to anyone who follows international news — the flooding in Pakistan , heat waves in Russia , and sea level rise in island nations like T… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Google Earth Tour Illustrates How Our Oceans Are Acidifying (Video)

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Google Earth Tour Illustrates How Our Oceans Are Acidifying (Video)

Image via Oceana The process of ocean acidification can be a confusing one. Exactly how does the carbon dioxide in our atmosphere change the pH balance in the oceans, and what kinds of issues does it cause? Oceana has created an excellent tour via Google Earth that illustrates the process. It manages to sum up in just a couple minutes the chemistry that is changing the balance of life in our oceans right now. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Royal Society Paints Grim Picture of 4°C Temperature Rise

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Royal Society Paints Grim Picture of 4°C Temperature Rise

Drought and desertification could be widespread within 50 years. Photo: John Brawley / Creative Commons . With no doubt intentional perfect timing as the COP16 climate talks open in Mexico, the Royal Society has released a special issue on the future impacts of climate change and, as you might imagine if you’ve been following the climate research to date, the … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Miami Catches First Case of Dengue Fever in 50 Years

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Miami Catches First Case of Dengue Fever in 50 Years

photo: Wikipedia For the first time in half a century a person in Miami-Dade County, Florida has been diagnosed (and recovered from…) a case of dengue fever that had been acquired locally ( Palm Beach Post ). This follows 24 cases of locally-caught dengue being discovered in Key West over the summer. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Norway to Ship Iron Ore Across Arctic to China – First Non-Russian Carrier to Use Northeast Passage

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Nordic Bulk Carriers With both the northwest and northeast passages open thanks to Arctic ice melting due to climate change, it was only a matter of time before this happened: For the first time a non-Russian flagged commercial bulk carrier will use the Northern Sea Route (the northeast passage), a Norwegian vessel shipping iron ore to China through Arctic and Rus… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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