Climate-Friendly Rice: End of the Paddy Field?
hanging the way rice is grown, from planting it in flooded paddy fields to drier soil cultivation, is dramatically increasing yields and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The results of trials in eleven countries show that yields increased by an average of 60%, although they varied sharply between states, from an 11% increase to 220%. A paper … Read More
With Keystone In Limbo, Alberta Launches Carbon Contest
Best known as the home to Canada's oil sands and Keystone pipeline, Alberta is calling for climate change solutions.… Read More
Halve Meat Consumption, Scientists Urge Rich World
People in the rich world should become "demitarians" – eating half as much meat as usual, while stopping short of giving it up – in order to avoid severe environmental damage, scientists have urged, in the clearest picture yet of how farming practices are destroying the natural world. They said the horsemeat scandal had uncovered the dark side of … Read More
Making Malaria Easier to Track Using Temp Data
Their work has potentially far-reaching implications because it will improve scientists‘ ability to map where malaria is likely to occur. Knowing this could help to improve malaria control and mitigation strategies in tropical and sub-tropical regions. This could save many lives as climate change develops. The study, published in Nature Scientific… Read More
Two-Thirds of Americans Want Obama to Act on Climate
Two-thirds of Americans want President Barack Obama to act now on climate change, adding momentum to his State of the Union promise to take up the challenge with or without Congress. Two new polls commissioned by environmental groups and released on Wednesday showed clear majorities of Americans supporting Obama taking significant action on climat… Read More
NOAA Head: Weather Forecasts at Risk Over Budget Cuts
Automatic budget cuts set to take effect March 1 could add to the woes of the federal government’s troubled weather satellite programs, jeopardizing future forecasts, a top official said yesterday. “It’s not going to be pretty,” outgoing National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Jane Lubchenco said of the package of across-the-board … Read More
Obama: Will Act on Climate, With or Without Congress
President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he will use his executive powers to enact new policies to fight climate change if Congress does not address the issue. In his fourth State of the Union address to Congress, Obama linked climate change to recent extreme weather events to make his case. “For the sake of our children and our future, we… Read More
Science Groups Push Obama for Climate Change Summit
Six scientific and environmental societies asked the White House to hold a national summit on climate change. “We would like to offer the support and assistance of the thousands of scientists and other professionals who are members of our organizations,” the groups said in a letter Monday to President Barack Obama. “We respectfully request … Read More
