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United States: Climate Change to Claim San Francisco Marshes
2013-01-08 23:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: More than 80 percent of critical salt marsh habitat around San Francisco Bay will disappear in 100 years due to rising sea levels, according to a detailed, decade-long survey of the area by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The marshes are the bay's natural buffer against rising seas. Many of the Bay Area's cities and important services, including highways, airports and power lines, lie only a few inches to a few feet above sea level. As long as a marsh accumulates enough sediment to keep pace...
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United States: Gregoire emerges as top contender to boss EPA
2013-01-08 02:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: President Obama is about to nominate outgoing Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire as the new head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to a very private prediction from a very senior source in Washingtons congressional delegation. Gregoire was director of Washingtons Department of Ecology before being elected Attorney General in 1992. The future governor made her reputation by negotiating a Hanford nuclear waste cleanup agreement with the first Bush administration, which has held...
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United States: Gas Drilling Far From Imminent, but Debate Roils Otsego County
2013-01-07 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: If Otsego County were Hollywood, then its debate over hydraulic fracturing, the contentious method of drilling for natural gas, would be resolved as it is in the movie Promised Land, which opened here over the weekend at the Southside Mall. That is, a good-looking representative of a villainous gas company would dupe the townspeople into selling him their mineral rights, only to repent after deciding that his employer was bad and fracking, as it is known, potentially worse. And this would win him...
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United States: Gulf swallowing Galveston faster than thought
2013-01-05 23:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Rising sea levels are likely to cover the coastal highway on the unprotected west end of Galveston sooner than previously predicted. A 2007 study underwritten by the city of Galveston that anticipated rising sea levels would cover the highway within 60 years appears to have been overly optimistic. The $50,000 geological hazard report was prepared for the city by geologists from the University of Texas, Rice University and Texas A&M University but then shelved. The report based its calculation on...
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United States: Climate-change assemblies this week at area schools
2013-01-05 21:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press-Republican: Following its North Country premier at the Adirondack Youth Climate Summit last November, the Alliance for Climate Education will return to the area for a "blitz week." Monday through Friday this week, the Alliance for Climate Education will hold school-wide assemblies at 14 high schools, reaching more than 4,000 students. The Alliance for Climate Education is a national nonprofit dedicated to educating America's high-school students about the science behind climate change and inspiring them...
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