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Dengue fever: Coming To A Neighborhood Near You?

June 13, 2011 by Marc Gunther
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  Meet the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Actually, you don’t want to meet this little lady, who bites for blood that she needs to mature her eggs. The Aedes aegypti spreads dengue fever, which affects about 100 million people a year. Most are in tropical and subtropical regions–South and Central America, southeast Asia and Africa. Dengue... [read more]

Six Ways to Cool the Planet

April 11, 2011 by This Big City
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1. Capturing CO2 from ambient air Humanity has proven remarkably adept at building machines that release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, so might we be able to reverse this and build machines that remove it? If we could develop a cheap, clean and sustainable method of scrubbing carbon dioxide directly from the air, and storing it... [read more]

Data Soliloquies : Clouds

May 10, 2010 by Fabian Neuhaus
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In their role as climate change canaries, clouds are both more prevalent and closer to home than Arctic ice-caps or polar bears. Cloud patterns have long been read as short-range weather indicators, but more recently they have begun to be seen as longer term climatic signals. Their messages are far from clear, however, and so far little... [read more]

Will the Iceland Volcano Impact Global Warming?

April 20, 2010 by Danielle Brigida
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Global warming & the erupting volcano in Iceland could be related -- but not in the ways that you might first think. Will its ash cloud cool the planet? So far at least, the cloud's probably not big enough or high enough to make an impact. According to Reuters, a 2008 report predicted global warming might actually trigger eruptions... [read more]

Glacier National Park Loses Two More Glaciers

April 8, 2010 by Danielle Brigida
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Global warming continues to wipe out Glacier National Park's namesake: Warmer temperatures have reduced the number of named glaciers in the northwestern Montana park to 25, said Dan Fagre, an ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. He warned the rest of the glaciers may be gone by the end of the decade. And it's not just an... [read more]

Melting Glaciers Releasing Trapped Pollutants

December 4, 2009 by Ceri Margerison
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New research shows that concentrations of pollutants in the environment and atmosphere may increase with global warming, as melting glaciers release pollutants which became trapped in their ice at the end of the twentieth century. A team of researchers working in Switzerland has found that the concentration of pollutants, including DDT... [read more]

An Inconvenient Truth In The Classroom: Free High School Curriculum

October 26, 2009 by Danielle Brigida
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Many Americans have seen the Oscar-winning film documentary, An inconvenient Truth. It is based on a powerful visual and factual presentation on the realities of global warming that was developed through many years of hard work by former U.S. Vice President, Al Gore.  The National Wildlife Federation has,... [read more]

New Momentum for Clean Energy & Climate Action

October 1, 2009 by Danielle Brigida
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Just got back from the big event on the East Lawn of the Capitol to unveil the Senate's Clean Energy Jobs & American Power Act! Here's what Joe Mendelson, NWF's global warming policy director, had to say about the bill:This legislation combines strong emission reduction goals with economic safeguards to protect all regions of the... [read more]

Reno 911! Global Warming Threatens Biggest Little City in the World

August 7, 2009 by Danielle Brigida
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Could the short-shorts so infamously worn by a character on Comedy Central's Reno 911! ever be appropriate? What if average temperatures rise 11 degrees in the lifetime of a child born today? In the real-life Reno, residents are considering the potential impacts if we don't act now to curb our global warming pollution:A recent study by... [read more]

Chestnuts to Stop Planet from Roasting?

July 6, 2009 by Danielle Brigida
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A revitalized American chestnut tree could be a factor in slowing global warming, according to a new study. But there's a big "if":If scientists can develop a fungus-resistant version of the tree, the chestnut could play a key role in the battle against climate change, Purdue University scientists say. "Maintaining or increasing forest... [read more]

Burger King says Global Warming is Baloney

June 1, 2009 by Adam Shake
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Taking its “Flame Broiled” concept to new heights, two Memphis Burger King locations read: “Global Warming is Baloney.” Chris Davis from the Memphis Flyer, spoke to a female BK employee who didn’t identify herself. Chris: Hi, I’m calling from the Flyer about your sign. Does Burger King really think global warming is baloney? BK: [... [read more]

More info on Dense Urban Neighborhoods.

June 1, 2009 by Robert Stockham
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One of the blogs that I follow is the Green City Blue Lake blog. The info here is all local and the writing is top notch. I read this article on Cleveland and its suburbs. Take a minute to read it. It shows great insight as to how suburbs are contributing to global warming more than cities, when it comes to households and... [read more]