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Japanese government to take over Fukushima nuclear reactor – ‘The urgency of the situation is very high. From here on, the government will take charge... 27 Aug 2013 | 07:10 pm
By Julian Ryall, Tokyo 26 August 2013 TOKYO (Telegraph) – Toshimitsu Motegi, the minister of trade and industry visited the plant on Monday to determine progress to date on decommissioning the three ...
First fire, then floods besiege forests in U.S. West – ‘It’s like concrete soup coming down’ 27 Aug 2013 | 06:50 pm
By Dan Elliott, with contributions from Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque, N.M., and Bob Christie in Phoenix 27 August 2013 MANITOU SPRINGS, Colorado (AP) – Drenching rain in the wildfire-blackened ...
Record flooding prompts emergency in Russia’s Far East – ‘We have never seen such a large-scale flood in our country’s history’ 27 Aug 2013 | 08:36 am
By Ilya Arkhipov and Marina Sysoyeva 17 August 2013 (Bloomberg) – Five regions in Russia’s Far East declared a state of emergency amid flooding assessed by the national weather center as the worst in...
Sudan’s worst floods for 25 years leave 500,000 facing destruction and disease 27 Aug 2013 | 06:52 am
By Mark Tran 23 August 2013 (The Guardian) – Forty-eight people have been killed and more than 500,000 affected by the worst floods in Sudan in quarter of a century. The region around the capital...
Firefighters to protect Yosemite ‘no matter what it takes’ – ‘This is kind of a little paradise up here for us. To think this would all be gone would ... 26 Aug 2013 | 08:56 pm
From Nick Valencia, Catherine E. Shoichet, and Phil Gast 25 August 2013 Yosemite National Park, California (CNN) – Susan Loesch and Curtis Evans just started settling into their second home in Califo...
Graph of the Day: Sacramento River runoff, 1906-2011 26 Aug 2013 | 07:24 pm
8 August 2013 (CalEPA) – Since 1906, the fraction of annual unimpaired runoff into the Sacramento River that occurs from April through July (represented as a percentage of total water year runoff) fro...
Rising ocean acidity will exacerbate global warming 26 Aug 2013 | 07:22 pm
By Eliot Barford 25 August 2013 (Nature) – The slow and inexorable increase in the oceans’ acidity as they soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere could itself have an effect on climate and amplif...
The day the Earth ran out: The causes and consequences of Earth Overshoot Day 26 Aug 2013 | 06:47 pm
By Carter Roberts 20 August 2013 (Foreign Affairs) – Many readers will be familiar with the worrisome, white-knuckle wait that comes when you drain your checking account long before payday, the anxie...
Krill face greater risks in warming Antarctic waters 26 Aug 2013 | 06:40 pm
By Alex Kirby 24 August 2013 LONDON (Climate News Network) – They may not look very appetizing, but they are what sustains much of the marine life in the southern ocean. Antarctic krill, usually less...
Where sand is gold, the reserves are running dry – ‘What happens in 50 years when all that sand is gone?’ 25 Aug 2013 | 10:16 pm
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ 24 August 2013 FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (The New York Times) – With inviting beaches that run for miles along South Florida’s shores, it is easy to put sand into the same category ...
