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 [TRAVLINROSE'S GYPSY JOURNAL] AMERICAN SOUTHWEST IN DANGER AS CLIMATE CHANGE DROUGHTS DRY UP ...: To add a comment, you must sign in with your Windows Live ID (a Microsoft account like Hotmail, Messenger, or MSN).

 [FEMA: National Situation Updates] Thursday, May 22, 2008: "This study adds more support to the consensus finding of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other reports that it is likely that hurricanes will gradually become more intense as the climate continues to warm," said Tom Knutson, research meteorologist and lead author of the report. The scientists performed hurricane simulations using a new regional model that offers both higher resolution and an improved ability to simulate past observed changes in Atlantic hurricane activity. 

[Master Landscaping] An inconvenient trip Here are 10 great destinations before it’s ...: The U.S. Geological Survey has been keeping a close eye on Glacier for a long time - the park is the site of one of the nation’s most important research programs on climate change. Photos from the early 1900s up to today show glaciers receding for decades - and the weather there is on a wild ride, with record droughts, near-record summer temperatures and near-record snowfall.

[Geology News] Future of the Colorado River: The once mighty Colorado River, a source of drinking and agricultural water for much of the Southwestern United States is severely threatened by the effects of climate change according to a report by the USGS. Researchers there say that .

[Phase I Environmental Site Assessment] May Science Picks - Technically Recoverable Oil in North Dakota ...: A new exhibit open at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, Calif., features a patented underwater microscope system developed by USGS scientists to collect and analyze electronic images of sediment grains on riverbeds or seafloors. Using a high-definition video camera housed in a custom-built case, both provided by the USGS, the museum has produced an interactive exhibit in which visitors lower the camera onto trays of different sand samples that include quartz, coral and volcanic sands.

 [OLYecology weblog] 314 - Earth's Tree News: "We have come to Alberta because we are concerned with Gordon Campbell's proposal for an energy corridor carrying tar sands oil to West Coast ports," says Carleen Pickard, BC organizer for the Council of Canadians. Despite having adopted California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard, the BC government is backing this initiative to have tankers ply through fragile coastal eco-systems to carry oil south to the United States and West to China." She was joined by BC based representatives from the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Greenpeace, Check Your Head, the Stop TILMA Coalition and accompanied by reporters from the Institute for Citizen Journalism, who visited Fort McMurray to hear the firsthand experiences of communities living around the tar sands.

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