Categories Tone Reach America's first climate refugees: "It's happening now The village is sinking" | Grist ...... he said He said he was planning to move his own belongings to the new village site this summer and that villagers should start doing the same But Tom , despite his lobbying missions to Juneau and strong reputation with government officials , has failed to inject federal and state officials with that same sense of urgency Melting permafrost , sea-level rise , erosion these are some of ......
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Impossible Choice Faces America's First 'Climate Refugees' : NPR ...... in limbo , Goldenberg says Some villagers are hoping the move to the new site can begin this summer the US Army Corps Of Engineers says there is no possible way to protect the village of Newtok where it now stands ......
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5 Articles Climate Change News: Tundra Carbon Impact? ...... does initially accelerates decomposition increasing nitrogen availability , productivity and woody-plant dominance In , ecologists set up greenhouses on plots of tundra in northern Alaska Air temperature inside the greenhouses was on average degrees Celsius warmer than outside the results of a two-decade summer warming experiment in an Alaska n tundra ecosystem were reported by ......
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Hitting 400 ppm in CO2 marks a milestone for the millions. What is our response? | Juneau Empire - Alaska's Capital City Online Newspaper ...... follow the revenue neutral carbon tax example set by our neighbor British Columbia Kate Troll served on Governor Palin Mitigation Advisory Group For Climate Change and was the only Alaskan invited to participate in Governor Schwarzenegger Global Climate Summit ......
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Ag Weekly Online: Twin Falls, Idaho ...... of trillion tons of coal undersea off Norway , and recent successes in bringing up natural gas from massive deposits of methane hydrates underneath the Pacific Japan and tundra Alaska , Steyer final hurdle , of course , is the lack of warming , the satellite readings show no warming trend since There has been only a modest warming since even with the official ......
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Unity College graduates charged with stewardship of Earth, communities | The Morning Sentinel, Waterville, ME ...... that uses tools , so they're really smart , she said They use rocks to break open shells They eat mostly sea urchins and mussels and clams They're mostly in southern California and Alaska They are threatened lot of them have issues with the oil spills and disappearing kelp beds They like to live and breed in kelp beds They tie themselves to the kelp to keep from floating ......
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CO2: A national health and security issue | PostIndependent.com ...... USGS , NASA and TIME magazine has resulted in the first multi-decade , interactive time-lapse of the Earth showing how its surface has changed over nearly years the melting of Alaska Columbia Glacier is especially revealing the data and interpretation seem to be pretty straightforward However , the National Academy Of Sciences Of America has found the following anomaly in ......
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Climate refugees? Where's the dignity in that? | Environment | guardian.co.uk ...... This week the Guardian has been running a major series on climate refugees about the village of Newtok in Alaska , which faces an imminent threat to its existence from erosion the term is problematic for a number of reasons the first being that people who are facing movement do not like the term the word refugee brings to mind a number of not always accurate images tented ......
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Obama's Arctic strategy sets off a climate time bomb | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment | guardian.co.uk ...... the region indigenous communities already facing direct threats to their existence due to climate change strategy for global catastrophe But the strategy is not just bad new for so many Alaskan natives It also bad news for the rest of us America new Arctic strategy , if implemented , will dramatically accelerate the very processes of fossil fuel consumption that have already led to ......
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Fiji's villagers move uphill to escape global warming's rising seas Telegraph Blogs ...... , according to some estimates , , of their people will have been forced to flee their homes as a result of climate change Diagonally across the Pacific , the villagers of Newtok , Alaska are also preparing to leave for higher ground , becoming the first US community to be forced to relocate , though in their case the problem is as much the instability of the ground beneath ......
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Elliott Negin: Unreliable Sources 3: How the Media Help the Kochs & ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation ...... agenda again until July when a coalition of a dozen groups launched the Exxpose Exxon campaign to protest the company attacks on climate science and its support for drilling in Alaska Arctic National Wildlife Reserve Two years later , a January report by an Exxpose Exxon coalition member , the Union Of Concerned Scientists UCS , pushed the company further into the ......
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America's first climate refugees: Can a baked Alaska deny climate change? | Grist ...... , was also threatened the migration habits of the animals and fish on which the John family and others depend have changed over time Some of the animals are scarce now on the Bering Coast Seals of all variety are still plentiful off the Bering Sea Outside one house in Newtok , the bodies of seven seals are stacked up behind a snowmobile like frozen firewood But walrus have grown ......
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Freeport Gas Export Project Gets U.S. Energy Department Nod (1) - Businessweek ...... release , the department cited an Energy Information Administration forecast projecting production to reach a record billion cubic feet a day in senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska , the top Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee , said in a statement she hoped the Energy Department decision was the first of many projects that will be approved in the ......
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2 Articles White House Arctic Strategy Is Clear in Drilling Goals but Not Conservation Goals | Frances Beinecke's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC ...... international market True energy security means beating our oil addiction and investing in renewable energy and efficiency measures Shell drill rig , the Kulluk , ran aground near Alaska Kodiak Island On New Year Eve Instead of looking to the Arctic for more oil , the administration should freeze drilling approvals and undertake a thorough , clear-eyed review of whether ......
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Lng: DOE approves second export license -- Friday, May 17, 2013 -- www.eenews.net ...... silence on remaining applications It my hope that Freeport is the first of many projects that will be approved in the coming weeks and months , not years , Sen Lisa Murkowski of Alaska , the Energy Committee ranking Republican , said in a statement the shale gas revolution offers great economic and geopolitical benefits and we can't afford to let special interest groups ......
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Climate-change researchers surprised by Arctic's carbon resiliency | Alaska Newsreader | ADN.com ...... the US Arctic Long-Term Ecological Research Site greenhouse at the Toolik Lake research site on Alaska North Slope in peak autumn and early winter Sadie Iverson autumn Josh Schimel winter mdash University Of California Santa Barbara for almost a quarter-century , a greenhouse in the Alaska Arctic has been the setting of an experiment in trying to speed up the effects of global ......
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LETTER: Pooh-Poohs Global Warming - Courant.com ...... As far as the Arctic is concerned , there is more ice today than at any time since In Nenana , Alaska , where there is a lottery about when the ice will break up on the Tanana River , the ice is still solid the latest breakup on record is May Cooling anyone the Courant is using Facebook comments on stories To comment on courant com articles , sign into Facebook and ......
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Navy Captain Guns Down Biofuels » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names ...... Like biodiesel better Kiefer calculates that relying on soy biodiesel to replace domestic oil needs would require billion acresone billion more than all US territory including Alaska Kiefer -page paper includes more than footnotes and a half dozen charts or tables That effort makes the Obama administration response to Kiefer report look all the more , well , ......
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Could Supreme Court stall climate change regulations?- The New Haven Register - Serving New Haven, Connecticut ...... are working closely together the petition filed by Texas , for example , was joined by states the US Chamber of Commerce brief was joined by the American Farm Bureau Federation and Alaska Other business-oriented groups either filed their own briefs or joined another organization brief COMPLAINTS OVER ECONOMIC BURDEN Those challenging the rules all cite the economic burden of ......
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Ag Weekly Online: Twin Falls, Idaho ...... of trillion tons of coal undersea off Norway , and recent successes in bringing up natural gas from massive deposits of methane hydrates underneath the Pacific Japan and tundra Alaska , Steyer final hurdle , of course , is the lack of warming , the satellite readings show no warming trend since There has been only a modest warming since even with the official ......
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Carbon Stores In Arctic Soil Surprisingly Unchanged By Warming Climate, Study Says : Environment : Nature World News ...... of the Arctic ecosystem When Seeta Sistla , a doctoral student at University Of California , Irvine , went to the US Arctic Long-Term Ecological Research site at Toolik Lake in northern Alaska , which has been in operation since , she initially observed signs typical of warming climates , such as low-lying , shallow-rooted vegetation giving way to taller plants with deeper roots ......
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Arctic oil boom sets stage for environmental and political battles of the century | The Verge ...... Complicating matters is the fact that the Arctic territorial claims of each of these countries , which oil companies need to lease , are disputed Russia tried to assert a claim over the North Pole in , but Denmark and Norway also say they own a part of it , and there are numerous rival claims to Arctic waters While small diplomatic skirmishes have broken out and been resolved , there ......
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climate change - shrinking glaciers behind a third of sea-level rise united kingdom - topics ...... University In Worcester , Massachusetts These smaller ice bodies are currently losing about as much mass as the ice sheets the most significant ice losses occurred in Arctic Canada , Alaska , coastal Greenland , the southern Andes and the Himalayas , the study found the glaciers outside of the Greenland and Antarctic sheets lost an average of roughly billion metric tons of ice ......
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As the ice melts, the Arctic Council is very cool | Opinion Northwest | Seattle Times ...... are all modified with the words like expected , predicted and likely , but the potential payoffs are huge , and nations far afield want in on the action An online source , Alaska Dispatch News and voices from the Last Frontier offers a link-rich tutorial dubbed Arctic Council Expect the council virtually no one knew about to make headlines as the ice melts ......
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Alaska Science Forum: Using climate data to predict snow in Alaska - The Bristol Bay Times ...... temperature and geographic information such as elevation , aspect and proximity to a coast or large body of water-all factors that influence snow formation big cell covering the Kenai Peninsula , for instance , gives an average temperature for the whole box Yet Kenai contains mountains and icefields , which would be colder than the rest of the peninsula Having those elevational ......
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Obama Greenhouse Gas Regulations Could Face U.S. Supreme Court Challenge ...... are working closely together the petition filed by Texas , for example , was joined by states the US Chamber of Commerce brief was joined by the American Farm Bureau Federation and Alaska Other business-oriented groups either filed their own briefs or joined another organization brief COMPLAINTS OVER ECONOMIC BURDEN Those challenging the rules all cite the economic burden of ......
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11 Articles Melting Glaciers Cause One-Third of Sea-Level Rise - Yahoo! News South Africa ...... glaciers lost the least ice overall , the researchers found , because spots on the continent melting rapidly were offset by other regions gaining ice Glaciers in the Canadian Arctic , Alaska , coastal Greenland , the southern Andes and high-mountain Asia were vanishing rapidly , however Glaciers alone were responsible for about inches millimeters of sea-level rise per ......
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3 Articles Agency to consider listing Alaska seals as threatened; decision could affect proposed mine - Yahoo! News Canada ...... seal research to the agency the petition authors , he said , clearly had Pebble in mind by filing the petition but the company is hearing concerns from residents of Kakhonak , Pedro Bay , Igiugig and other villages about how a listing could affect lake travel A lot of locals are pretty concerned about what impact it could have on their subsistence activities , he said Acceptance of ......
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3 Articles Melting Glaciers Cause One-Third of Sea-Level Rise : Discovery News ...... glaciers lost the least ice overall , the researchers found , because spots on the continent melting rapidly were offset by other regions gaining ice Glaciers in the Canadian Arctic , Alaska , coastal Greenland , the southern Andes and high-mountain Asia were vanishing rapidly , however Glaciers alone were responsible for about inches millimeters of sea-level rise per ......
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First Gray Whale Recorded in Southern Hemisphere : Discovery News ...... typically do More likely is that it arrived off Namibia the same way that the whale was speculated to have shown up in the Mediterranean by swimming east along the north coast of Alaska , through the Northwest Passage across the top of Canada , and out into the Atlantic Once there , it presumably sought to guide itself by keeping the coastline to its left , as it would do on its ......
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