11 Billion-Dollar Weather, Climate Disasters Hit U.S. in 2012 (via Environment News Service)
ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, December 31, 2012 (ENS) – In 2012, the United States experienced 11 extreme weather and climate events that cost more than $1 billion in losses, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climactic Data Center. NOAA counts seven severe weather…
Caribbean Coral Reefs Are Mostly Dead, IUCN Says (via Planetsave)
In the most comprehensive study yet of Caribbean coral reefs, scientists have discovered that the 50 to 60 percent coral cover present in the 1970s has plummeted to less than 10 percent. “I’m sad to tell you it’s a dire picture,” Carl Gustaf Lundin, director of IUCN’s Global Marine and Polar…
Global Climate Emissions ‘Gap’ Widens, Rescue Still Possible (via Environment News Service)
LONDON, UK, November 21, 2012 (ENS) – Actions to limit climate change must be immediately scaled up and accelerated if the world is to have any chance of keeping a global temperature rise below two degrees Celsius this century, finds a new scientific report released just before countries meet for…
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