Wednesday, October 30th, 2013
In mid-October 2013, cold air heralding the advent of winter swept down from Siberia into northern China. The timing of this cold wave was particularly bad for the air quality in the country, as it coincided with the season when many farms were burning agricultural wastes after harvesting. The cold conditions caused a significant increase
Monday, October 28th, 2013
Americans place high value on butterfly royalty. A recent study suggests they are willing to support monarch butterfly conservation at high levels, up to about 6 ½ billion dollars if extrapolated to all U.S. households.If even a small percentage of the population acted upon this reported willingness, the cumulative effort would likely translate into a
Friday, October 25th, 2013
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced $400,000 to help six communities expand their use of green infrastructure to reduce water pollution and boost resilience to the impacts of climate change. The funding is in support of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, which directs federal agencies to identify climate-resilient investments such as agency grants
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its third year of greenhouse gas data detailing carbon pollution emissions and trends broken down by industrial sector, greenhouse gas, geographic region, and individual facility. The data, required to be collected annually by Congress, highlight a decrease in greenhouse gas emissions as more utilities switch to cleaner
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013
In the past decade, approximately 200-300 million people have been seriously affected by natural disasters or technological accidents each year-a staggering figure that is bound to only increase in the coming decades. It is becoming clear that a failure to make political systems pay attention to climate challenges might lead to massive population displacements. In
Tuesday, October 15th, 2013
Around 90 % of city dwellers in the European Union (EU) are exposed to one of the most damaging air pollutants at levels deemed harmful to health by the World Health Organisation (WHO). This result comes from the latest assessment of air quality in Europe, published by the European Environment Agency (EEA).
Thursday, October 10th, 2013
European Union Member States are showing mixed progress towards three climate and energy targets for 2020, even though the EU as a whole could reduce greenhouse gases emissions by 21% in 2020 with the set of national measures already adopted. These findings come from new European Environment Agency (EEA) assessments.
Sunday, September 22nd, 2013
Analysis of the causes of massive flooding in the Far East should lead to a revision of the legislation in order to declassify topographic information and enable access of volunteers to work in emergency zones. Such an opinion was voiced up by the participants of the round table in the “Parliamentskaya gazeta”, which discussed the
Friday, September 20th, 2013
Though water levels on the South Platte River were receding, muddy brown waters were still out of the river’s banks near Greeley, Colorado, on September 17, 2013, when the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite acquired this image. At the time, the river was more than six feet above flood stage, down
Wednesday, September 11th, 2013
Offering new insights into our fragile polar regions, ESA’s CryoSat mission has provided three consecutive years of Arctic sea-ice thickness measurements, which show that the ice continues to thin. Although satellites have witnessed a downward trend in the extent of sea ice over the last two decades, it is essential to have accurate information on
