2007 Weather: Earth Uncomfortable
Maps posted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) show that 2007 will almost certainly be among the top ten warmest years on record (when the last few days of December are...
View ArticleNOAA Report: Climate Change Causes Wacky Weather
By Barbara Kessler It may not be news to riverside residents of flooded Iowa and Missouri, or to many climate scientists, but the government made it official this week: Climate change means wilder...
View ArticlePesticides in combination shown to be toxic to salmon
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now What happens when salmon are given a pesticide cocktail? The effects can be more pronounced than the damage done from exposure a single pesticide, according to a...
View ArticleBring on the passion, we’ll need it
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Environmentalists are fretting that climate change solutions and green jobs will not be adequately folded into the discussion at the economic discussion of the G20...
View ArticleMy Green Job: Claire Fackler, marine life educator
Claire Fackler, 36, Santa Barbara, California What I do: I have been working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA), National Ocean Service since 1999. Currently as the...
View ArticleThe mysterious case of the errant tarballs
From Green Right Now Reports Government experts reported today that those tarballs found on beaches in the Florida Keys earlier this week are NOT from the BP Oil Spill. Coast Guard experts tested...
View ArticleSpilled oil boards the Loop Current toward Florida
From Green Right Now Reports It’s happening. A “small portion” or “light sheen” of the BP oil slick has reached the Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico, which could very likely carry it toward Florida,...
View ArticleFrom great minds to silly solutions: Searching for oil spill answers
By Melissa Segrest Green Right Now Goodness knows everyone wants to help. Take the thousands of people who swept up more than 400,000 pounds of human hair and animal fur (dogs, cats, even alpacas) to...
View ArticleHow to — and how not to — help dolphins during the oil spill
From Green Right Now Reports You’ve probably encountered those “Don’t Feed the Bears” signs in national parks. Well, it’s true of dolphins also. NOAA has put out notice that the public should not...
View ArticleState of the Climate in 2010: Hot
From Green Right Now Reports Congress debates it. Nations argue about how to address it. But its existence is “unmistakable” according to the 2009 State of the Climate report released Wednesday. Global...
View ArticleJuly 2010 was the second hottest since satellite records began
From Green Right Now Reports July 2010 was the second hottest July in the 32-year history of charting temperatures by satellite, according to preliminary records kept by the Earth System Science Center...
View ArticleMarch was warmest on record in US; 15,000 temperature records broken
Green Right Now Reports Now it’s official: March 2012 was warmest on record in the continental US. Unseasonably hot temperatures slammed into the Midwest, Eastern and Southern states, creating a sudden...
View ArticleHottest U.S. states for the first half of 2012
From Green Right Now The first half of 2012 was the hottest Jan-June period in the contiguous US states since record-keeping began 118 years ago, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
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