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Climate & Environment: Daily News and Multi Media Resource Links
Many of these links are time sensitive and may only be active for a few days after posting
 
 
 

Horizon Deepwater Oil Spill!
Environmental Tragedy Before Our Eyes in Real Time.
NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration.

(OR&R) protects coastal and marine resources, mitigates threats, reduces harm, and restores ecological function. The Office provides comprehensive solutions to environmental hazards caused by oil, chemicals, and marine debris.

 
First report
April 20, 2010, first press release on incident.
 

NOAA's Office of Response & Restoration's daily information and action on spill.

Latest updates on scope of cleanup efforts and environmental impacts.
 
How does an ecosystem recover from a major
one-time insult such as an oil spill?
Example of the Exxon Valdez; the environmental damages and recovery over time. Includes great visuals and multi-media materials.
 
 
DATE
DAILY ENVIROMENTAL NEWS ITEMS
COMMENTS
 
 
5/10/2010
Jeremy Jackson: How we wrecked the ocean; TED television
Jeremy Jackson, Ritter Professor of Oceanography, Director of the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at the Scripps Institution Oceanography, lays out state of the ocean today: overfished, overheated, polluted,
 
 
5/7/2010
The Visionary Activist - All Oil is Spilled - Gulf Coast Cataclysm; KPFA radio
Carolin Casey hosts: Dune Lankard, Atabaskan Eyak from Copper River Delta in Alaska, conservation economies derived from long-term unresolved impacts of Exxon Valdez disaster. Followed by Darryl Hannah, actress-environmental advocate, David Blume, reverent fuel advocate author "Alcohol Can Be a Gas"
5/7/2010
Gulf Oil Spill: Human Health May Be Endangered; AP @ Huffington Post
The list of potential threats runs from temporary, runny noses & headaches, to long-term such as cancer if contaminated seafood ends up in the marketplace.
 
 
5/6/2010
NOAA update on sea turtle stranding in the Gulf of Mexico; NOAA
There have been 38 sea turtle standings reported from Alabama through the Louisiana delta since April 30. Not necessarily connected to the oil spill.
5/6/2010
US Cut Its CO2 Emissions by 7 Percent Last Year; Environmental News Network
Energy Information Administration (EIA), an independent federal statistics and analysis agency. They reported that the US achieved a record setting seven percent decline in CO2 emissions in 2009.
 
 
5/5/2010
Amount of Spill Could Escalate, Company Admits; New York Times
Interactive map showing daily spread of the spill.
5/5/2010
BP Oil Safety Record, the Worst of Any Oil Company in America; Democracy Now
“BP is a London-based oil company with one of the worst safety records of any oil company operating in America,” says Public Citizen.
 
BP Funnels Millions into Lobbying to Influence Regulation: Democracy Now
“The entire oil industry, will continue to use its vast wealth – unequaled by any global industry – to escape regulation, restriction, oversight and enforcement,” Antonia Juhasz, author of The Tyranny of Oil.
4/1/2010
Environmental Groups Decry Obama Plan to Lift Moratorium on Offshore Drilling; Democracynow
Video report on reactions of environmental groups to the announcement ending the drilling moratorium, Amy Goodman and Jaun Gonzalez.
     
3/29/2010
Pacific Marine Mammals: Thank You Ocean
This report focuses on the impact of an El Nino on marine mammals. Thank You Oceans has periodic reports on ocean issues. Video and audio media. Some good links.
     
3/28/2010
The National Geographic Magazine April issue titled "Water, Our Thirsty World."
Sign into "Zino."
Through April 2, 2010, you can download a copy of this free interactive edition of National Geographic Magazine. Has extra photo galleries, rollover graphics that animate maps and time lines.
 
 
3/26/2010
No Slowdown of Global Warming, Agency Says: New York Times
World Meteorological Organization, news release today "2000-2009, The Warmest Decade":
 
 
3/25/2010
Disputed Bay of Bengal island 'vanishes' say scientist
Demonstrates the threat of sea level rise due to global warming. The catastrophe in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina is another indicator in this trend.
 
 
12/31/09
The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Climate Science Report
This report serves as an interim evaluation of the evolving science midway through an IPCC cycle - IPCC AR5 is not due for completion until 2013.
 
 
12/27/09
Scientific American, Planning for Plan B, controlling the climate with technology
A discussing of geoengineering as a component of climate control.
"there's an urgent need for global governance of geoengineering"
"any nation .... even an individual .... could start to interfere with the climate."
 
 
12/24/09

Time Magazine: Climate Change: How Fast Is the Earth Shifting?

Discussion of velocity of climate change, or more specifically, the speed of Earth's shifting climatic zones. Largely based on "Nature Magazine" article 12/22/09.
 
 
12/23/09
Science Daily: African Leaf-Eating Primates 'Likely to Be Wiped Out' by Climate Change
The threat to primates from global warming.
 
 
12/22/09
Democracy Now! Interview with James Hansen
James Hansen on Why He’s Pleased the Copenhagen Summit Failed, "Cap & Fade"
 
 
12/17/09
Democracy Now! report from Copenhagen, Video Stream
“A Naked Form Of Blackmail”: Naomi Klein On Secretary of State
Clinton’s $100 Billion Climate Aid Fund For Developing Countries
 
 
12/16/09
New York Times "A Fish Oil Story" By PAUL GREENBERG
The threat of Fish Oil supplements to oceans
 
 
12/16/09
The Story of Cap And Trade, by Annis Leonard
Fine animation reviewing the concept on "Cap and Trade" of Carbon
 
 
12/15/2009
John Vidal in Copenhagen guardian.co.uk
Key Copenhagen policy on forest
 
 
12/16/09
Exploration with Dr. Michio Kaku, Dr. Robert Callum, Unnatural History of the Oceans

Dr. Robert Callum, argues that the oceans are dying. Download MP3
An historical perspective on ocean exploitation vs modern ocean abundance.

 
 
12/14/2009
New York Times multi media presentation on the melting glaciers & water crisis in Bolivia
Excellent, visually engaging short piece. (4 min.)
 
 
12/14/2009
John Vidal and Suzanne Goldenberg in Copenhagen, The Guardian.co.uk,
News on the Copenhagen Conference
 
 
12/14/2009
Democracy Now report from Copenhagen
Streaming audio visual reports.