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GM's recalls of 20 million cars signals "sea change;" will it last?
2014-06-18 10:39:38| Automakers - Topix.net
But the big carmakers are only likely to persist in a sudden outpouring of safety defect mea culpas if they're threatened with penalties such as the $1.2 billion in criminal fines that the Justice Department slapped on Toyota Motor Corp. this spring over its concealment of deadly acceleration problems, said Clarence Ditlow, executive director of ... (more)
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Plastics Don't Disappear, But They Do End Up In Sea Birds' Bellies
2014-06-18 00:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The vast majority of debris in the ocean - about 75 percent of it - is made of plastic. It can consist of anything from plastic bottles to packaging materials, but whatever form it takes, it doesn't go away easily. While plastic may break down into smaller and smaller pieces, some as small as grains of sand, these pieces are never truly biodegradable. The plastic bits, some small enough that they're called microplastics, threaten marine life like fish and birds, explains Richard Thompson, a professor...
'Under water': Bay Area Latinos, minorities most vulnerable to sea rise
2014-06-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New America Media: Intro: Did you know that as a result of global warming in the last century sea level has risen over 20 centimeters(7 inches)? That process is now accelerating and threatens to cause severe flooding that could affect neighborhoods with high Latino populations here in the Bay Area, as Pilar Nino reports in her special series "Under Water.' This is the first of a two-part series. To read Part 2, click here. Pilar Nino:There's no doubt that our proximity to the ocean is one of the major attractions...
Newly Discovered Frozen Underworld Beneath Greenland Speeding its Flow to the Sea
2014-06-16 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Beneath the barren whiteness of Greenland, there lies a mysterious frozen underworld, which through its melting and refreezing process, may be speeding its ice flow to the sea. Using ice-penetrating radar, researchers have discovered ragged blocks of ice as tall as city skyscrapers and as wide as the island of Manhattan at the very bottom of the ice sheet. Scientists said the findings, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, could deepen their understanding of how the ice sheets of Greenland...
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Sea Rise Will Bring Severe Floods to Silicon Valley
2014-06-16 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Thirty-year-old Gustavo Leal remembers the floodwaters reaching the doorstep of his family home in East Palo Alto. "It was bad enough that you couldn't get out of your driveway,' he said. Next time the floodwaters could swamp the entire house. That's the findings of a new study released today by Climate Central, a research and journalism organization. In February 1998, an El Nio storm brought high-speed winds combined with abnormally high sea levels that wreaked havoc in the Bay Area. El Nio...
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