If you experience extreme weather, you’re more likely to be concerned about climate change and more likely to conserve energy (ScienceBlog)
- “Members of the British public are more prepared to take personal action and reduce their energy use when they perceive their local area has a greater vulnerability to flooding.”
Kitty does kill more small birds than wind turbines, but for big birds it’s a different story (TreeHugger)
- “If you are a baby bird in Takoma Park, Md., cats are possibly public enemy No. 1. But if your interest is in protecting several iconic American bird species … wind turbines are possibly the bigger problem.”
Coral reefs can predict the site of coming earthquakes (ScienceBlog)
- “Recently published in the journal Geo-Marine Letters, the research details a “mass wasting” of large detached blocks and collapsed walls of submarine canyons along the gulf region of the Red Sea. They believe the geological changes were triggered by earthquake activity.”
Another sign that it’s getting warmer: King crabs migrating into Antarctic waters (Yale e360)
- “U.S. and Swedish researchers say king crabs are moving south into the warming waters of the Antarctic, a habitat that until recent years had been too cold for them to survive.”
Pulp and paper firms urged to save 1.2M ha of forest slated for clearing in Indonesia (Mongabay)
- “Indonesian environmental groups launched a urgent plea urging the country’s two largest pulp and paper companies not to clear 800,000 hectares of forest and peatland in their concessions in Sumatra.”