TOP 100 CAMPING SITES
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| Climate Change Hits Poor Hardest in U.S. Climate change is disproportionately affecting the poor and minorities in the United States - a "climate gap" that will grow in coming decades unless policymakers intervene, according to a University of California study.Everyone, the researchers say, is already starting to feel the effects of a warming planet, via heat waves, increased air pollution, drought, or more intense storms. But the impacts - on health, economics, and overall quality of life - are far more acute on society's disadvantaged, the researchers found. [More] rss.sciam.com |
El Nino Has Arrived [Below is the original script. But a few changes may have been made during the recording of this audio podcast.]El Nino has arrived. With a 1 degree Celsius increase in a band of the eastern Pacific Ocean, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association made the announcement yesterday. The climate phenomenon, El Nino-Southern Oscillation or ENSO, that warms the eastern Pacific waters, decreases trade winds, and shows up every three to seven years, last came in 2006. [More] rss.sciam.com |
MIND Reviews: Finding Our Tongues , by Dean Falk Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants and the Origins of Language by Dean Falk. Basic Books, 2009 [More] rss.sciam.com |
How much are coral ecosystems worth? Try $172 billion--A year Coral ecosystems are worth an amazing $172 billion a year to the world economy, according to research presented last week at the DIVERSITAS biodiversity conference in Cape Town, South Africa. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Combating climate change by observing the Earth As part of the U.S. charm offensive at the recent Copenhagen summit on climate change , a roughly one meter-diameter orb helped display a decade's worth of climate data collected by NASA satellites. "This is the golden age," NASA's Jack Kaye told me. As associate research director for the agency's Earth Science Division, he's "reaping the benefits of the 1990s." [More] rss.sciam.com |