Tuesday, November 08, 2011

We Found Oil! Is That Good? - Hunting for Oil Is an Outmoded Strategy - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com

You can grow tobacco in lots of places, but smoking still causes cancer.

'Extremely dangerous and life-threatening' Bering Sea storm takes aim at Alaska | Duluth News Tribune

"Gusts to 70 mph can be expected along the (Russia's) Chukotsk Peninsula and in areas near Kotzebue," the Weather Service said.

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Blizzard conditions and heavy snow are forecast throughout the region, with as much as 14 inches possible along the southern Seward Peninsula, the Weather Service said.

Health Tab for Climate Change: $14 Billion | Mother Jones

Climate change-related disasters caused $14 billion in health costs in first decade of the 2000s

Twitter / @NatureCanada: Beavers as allies in copin ...

Beavers as allies in coping with the effects of climate change: Long live the beaver!

Agriculture In Central Siberia Would Likely Benefit From Climate Warming

From 50 to 85% of central Siberia is predicted to be climatically suitable for agriculture by the end of the century, and only soil potential would limit crop advance and expansion to the north. Crop production could increase twofold. Future Siberian climatic resources could provide the potential for a great variety of crops to grow that previously did not exist on these lands. Traditional Siberian crops could gradually shift as far as 500 km northwards (about 50–70 km/decade) within suitable soil conditions, and new crops nonexistent today may be introduced in the dry south that would necessitate irrigation.

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