Friday, March 01, 2013

Bangladesh tackles climate change by fusing rice paddies with fish farms | guardian.co.uk
Nazrul Islam, former director of information at the ministry of agriculture, told SciDev.Net: "Combining rice and fish farming is the answer to climate change problems, particularly in the coastal areas where saline water intrusion has been phenomenal."
South Carolina Climate Change - Piranha in South Carolina? - Esquire
One of the overlooked elements of the climate crisis is the multitude of little ways it is changing the ecosystem without or really noticing it. The earth is going to burn, or die of thirst, or slip into a new ice age, or we're all going to be eaten by South American attack fish, and those politicians will still be "concerned about new regulations for industry." Those guys go into the farm pond first, I'm thinking.
Green-Jobs Survey Dies as U.S. Readies Sequestration Cuts - Bloomberg
A program tracking U.S. green jobs, faulted by Republican lawmakers, will be scrapped by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as part of automatic budget cuts set to take effect today, according to a person familiar with the decision.
ArcelorMittal, Gold Fields Win Carbon Tax Delay · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader
After objections from heavy polluters, including metal companies ArcelorMittal and Gold Fields, South Africa has delayed implementing a carbon tax until 2015.
Heavy snow on roof forces evacuations at Kansas City day care - KCTV5
More than 100 children were forced to evacuate a Kansas City metro day care Thursday morning after concerns of a possible roof collapse.
Japan's record snowfall still not the deepest ever | World news | The Guardian
This has also been a record year for snow in parts of Russia – a couple of weeks ago snowpiles of more than five metres caused gridlock in Moscow – and Switzerland, too, has been experiencing dramatic snowfalls, with depths of up to three metres.

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