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January 8 News: Commission Urges New York City To Better Prepare For Climate Change
First published on ClimateProgress.org, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, which was recently named one of Time magazine’s Top 25 blogs of 2010.
A new commission formed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, charged with figuring out how New York should adapt in the long term to cope with worsening storms amid climate change and population growth, has recommended an extensive menu of programs. [New York Times]
The development of Alberta’s oil sands has increased levels of cancer-causing compounds in surrounding lakes well beyond natural levels, Canadian researchers reported in a study released on Monday. And they said the contamination covered a wider area than had previously been believed. [New York Times]
Two recent studies have shed some light on how climate change is helping fuel the assault of bark beetles, and what’s likely to happen in a world that continues to warm. [Climate Central]
Now that President Obama has proposed new national security Cabinet members, the White House may be able to move to the Energy Department and Environmental Protection Agency. [The Hill]
Natural gas companies have yet to flock to Otsego County, New York, located at the foot of the Catskills. But the debate between supporters and critics is so caustic it is as if rigs were already sinking pipe into every farm and backyard. [New York Times]
The intense drought that crippled much of the growing season for numerous states in the nation’s mid-section in 2012 is showing little sign of easing early in the new year, weather officials say. [Wichita Eagle]
Barge operators on the Mississippi River say the worst drought in 80 years may put at risk the emergency dredging and rock removal aimed at keeping the nation’s busiest waterway open at least for this month. [Bloomberg]
Australia is baking in a record-breaking “dome of heat”, threatening to unleash the worst firestorms since those that claimed hundreds of lives in 2009. Temperatures reached almost 48 °C on Monday at the Oodnadatta airport in South Australia, and 43 °C on Tuesday in Sydney. [New Scientist]
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