Category Archives: Climate

Obama takes plunge, swims in Gulf

By doris | Published: August 15, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The one really big question hanging over President Obama’s weekend vacation to Panama City, Florida, now has an answer. Will he or won’t he dive into the water to send a message that the Gulf Coast is back? The answer: He will, and sooner than expected. “I think we’re [...]

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Investigators to work scene of deadly Alaska plane crash

By doris | Published: August 11, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Investigators will be on the scene Wednesday of a plane crash that killed former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens and four others. Also, autopsies are expected to be completed by the end of the day. Brutal terrain and bad weather on the remote Alaska mountain kept survivors waiting 12 hours [...]

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Third blaze ignites as fire crews gain ground on two more

By doris | Published: July 30, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Los Angeles, California (CNN) — Hundreds of firefighters battled a third wildfire in the Los Angeles area early Friday as two more raged within 60 miles of one another. The latest — known as the Crown Fire — has ignited more than 5,000 acres, fire officials said. About 500 firefighters were [...]

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Democrats abandon comprehensive energy bill

By doris | Published: July 23, 2010

Full Story msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats on Thursday gave up plans to attempt to pass an energy-global warming bill that caps greenhouse gases, abandoning a priority of President Barack Obama. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said no Republican was willing to back a comprehensive energy bill, a development he called “terribly disappointing.” Democrats have [...]

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Hurricane Alex drenches Mexico’s northern coast

By doris | Published: July 1, 2010

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com SAN FERNANDO, Mexico – Hurricane Alex ripped off roofs, flooded streets and forced thousands of people to flee coastal fishing villages as it pushed into northern Mexico. The Atlantic season’s first hurricane largely spared nearby Texas, which had prepared for a possible direct hit. While it spawned two tornadoes and caused [...]

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Death count after Tennessee floods rises to 23

By doris | Published: May 10, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Nashville, Tennessee (CNN) — Severe storms and massive flooding last weekend killed 23 people in Tennessee, state emergency management officials said. The federal government has declared 42 counties disaster areas. Flooding has caused more than $1.5 billion in property damage in the Nashville area alone, city officials said. Piles of debris [...]

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Oil taking toll on Gulf Coast property owners

By doris | Published: May 9, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com As floating globs of oil begin to come ashore on the barrier islands off the coast of Louisiana, real estate agents and homeowners along the Gulf Coast are bracing for a potential and perhaps devastating drop in property values. Already some owners are seeing cancellations stemming from the uncertainty around the [...]

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Air travel paralyzed as volcanic ash cloud lingers

By doris | Published: April 17, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com London, England (CNN) — European countries extended their airspace restrictions on Saturday, choking international air travel and stranding thousands of passengers, as an Icelandic volcano continued to spew ash into the atmosphere. Airspace over the United Kingdom and Belgium will be closed until Saturday night, according to the British air traffic [...]

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Volcano flight chaos to continue for 24 hours

By doris | Published: April 16, 2010

Full Story at  msnbc.com LONDON – The European air navigation agency says air traffic disruptions because the volcanic ash cloud will last at least another day. Eurocontrol said in a statement that it expected only about 11,000 flights in European airspace Friday, compared with about 28,000 normally. On Thursday, there were 20,334 flights, it said. [...]

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Severe storms, tornadoes lash Southeast

By doris | Published: March 29, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Emergency management officials will fan out across North Carolina on Monday to survey the damage from severe storms that lashed the state Sunday evening. Residents reported as many as eight tornadoes touching down –overturning mobile homes, ripping out trees and plunging neighborhoods into darkness.

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Snow-weary region expects second wallop

By doris | Published: February 9, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The mid-Atlantic region continued digging out Monday from the weekend’s record blizzard, but snow-weary residents learned of a new winter storm due in the area on Tuesday. The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning, with predictions of another 10 to 20 inches of snow, for northern Virginia [...]

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Indian tribe hopes to profit from solar energy

By doris | Published: January 13, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com JEMEZ PUEBLO, N.M. – A poverty-stricken Indian tribe that holds the sun and nature’s other gifts sacred sees a brighter future for itself in solar power. The 3,000 members of the Jemez Pueblo are on the verge of building the nation’s first utility-scale solar plant on tribal land, a project that [...]

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Pythons and citrus and iguanas, oh my! Frigid Florida copes

By doris | Published: January 12, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Ordinarily a sunny playground that mocks the rest of winter-suffering America, Miami, Florida, was in sore need of a giant Snuggie on Sunday. There wasn’t a scantily clad beautiful person at any of the outside tables at South Beach’s tony Balans restaurant. Everyone was crammed inside to assuage their [...]

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GE to supply world’s largest wind farm

By doris | Published: December 11, 2009

Full Story atmoney.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — General Electric said Thursday it has secured a $1.4 billion contract to supply wind turbines and provide services for what will be the world’s largest wind farm operation when completed in 2012. The conglomerate will supply 338 of its 2.5-megawatt turbines to New York-based Caithness Energy to be [...]

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China vows to slow carbon emissions growth

By doris | Published: November 27, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com BEIJING – China announced plans Thursday to cut its carbon emissions by up to 45 percent as measured against its economic output — a commitment from the world’s largest polluter that builds momentum ahead of a widely anticipated climate conference in Copenhagen next month. The announcement comes a day after President [...]

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Hurricane Ida moves into U.S. Gulf Coast

By doris | Published: November 9, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Hurricane Ida moved into the southern Gulf of Mexico Sunday, prompting a declaration of emergency in Louisiana and concern along the U.S. Gulf Coast. The storm regained hurricane intensity overnight Saturday, becoming a Category 2 hurricane, but forecasters said it is expected to weaken as it moves north. Ida [...]

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NASA finally sees plume from moon impact

By doris | Published: October 19, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com NASA scientists have finally seen in their data a debris plume created by the impact of a moon probe last week. The faint plume was seen in the data from the engineered crash one week after the impact of the LCROSS probe. Scientists are hoping that analysis of the plume will [...]

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Authorities search house in ‘balloon boy’ case

By doris | Published: October 18, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Heene is the storm-chasing father whose giant Mylar balloon ascended into the sky late last week, sparking fears that his 6-year-old son Falcon was aboard. A dispatcher with the Larimer County Sheriff’s Department declined to release any information about the search, but said the office will hold a news conference at [...]

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Telescope witnesses Milky Way starbirth

By doris | Published: October 3, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com The recently launched Herschel Space Telescope has just returned glowing pictures of our own Milky Way galaxy in infrared light. The European Space Agency mission (with contributions from NASA) lifted off in May on a quest to observe the universe in long-wavelength infrared light. The telescope used two instruments simultaneously to [...]

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India launches satellite for ocean study

By doris | Published: September 24, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com NEW DELHI, India (CNN) — India on Wednesday launched a second satellite to study oceans. The cube-shaped Oceansat-2 will monitor the interaction between oceans and the atmosphere, as part of climate studies, according to the country’s main space agency. The satellite, launched from India’s southeast coast, carried six nanosatellites from European [...]

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