| Threat Down Below: Polluted Caves Endanger Water Supplies, Wildlife The Bluestone River that straddles the Virginia-West Virginia border has long been a popular trout-fishing spot, as well as a source of drinking water for nearby towns. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Hope for Copenhagen: Campaign inspires public to call for climate action Politicians and journalists tend to be jaded about international agreements aimed at improving society. And already too many of them are saying the global climate summit that begins December 7 in Copenhagen will not produce tangible instruments that limit greenhouse gas emissions. Disgusted by the pessimism, the global advertising industry has started a grassroots campaign to encourage citizens worldwide to sound out a message of hope...in hopes of pressuring each country's leaders and delegates to the U.N Climate Change Conference to enact change. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Majority of world's countries miss Copenhagen Accord deadline The bulk of the world's nations ignored a January 31 deadline to submit action plans to combat climate change under the terms of the Copenhagen Accord (pdf). But the majority of the world's greenhouse gas emissions will be affected by commitments that were submitted to the United Nations in recent days, in keeping with the last-minute, non-binding accord hammered out in December. [More] rss.sciam.com |
From New York Harbor’s Depths, Muck to Restore Islands in Jamaica Bay The life of the bay, a 26-square-mile wildlife sanctuary, is rebounding thanks to the leftovers from a giant dredging project in the harbor. nytimes.com |
How Should San Francisco Plan for Sea-Level Rise? REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--A 1,400-acre swath of salt flats along the western edge of San Francisco Bay has become the latest site for a development dispute that promises to become increasingly common in coastal U.S. cities: Whether new waterside growth makes sense when sea levels are rising.Agribusiness giant Cargill, which owns the Redwood City site, has made salt in San Francisco Bay for decades. Cargill has downsized in recent years, selling 16,500 acres of salt ponds in the area–60 percent of its local operations–to the state and federal government in 2002 for $243 million in cash and tax credits. But it held on to the 1,400-acre site near Redwood City that the company believes is suitable for building. [More] Cargill - San Francisco Bay - California - United States - Redwood City California rss.sciam.com |