News Links

Selected Environmental News

MAY 2011

• Radiation leakage from Tsuruga nuclear plant in western Japan
• Chubu Electric to halt reactors in line with Kan request
• Tsunami, wildfires triggered by quake ravaged over 1,600 hectares of forest

• Maryland prepares lawsuit over PA gas drilling effect on water
• New U.S. nuclear reactors close to construction-S&P
• Environmental groups sue Chicago over its sewage
• US House votes to reopen oil drilling off Virgina coast 

Environment Links

Indigenous Environmental Network [+] The United Nations System-wide Earthwatch [+] National Geographic News [+] Earth (and moon) View [+] Earth Observatory [+] Ozone Hole Watch [+] Visible Earth [+] Environment News Service [+] Envirolink News [+] Nature.com [+] Independent UK [+] Society of Environmental Journalists

Global Warming

Global Warming [+] [Global Warming Portal [+] National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [+] Woods Hole Research Center

Ecosystems

Millennium Assessment Reports [+] The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

Health Safety

Public Citizen [+] Rachel’s Democracy and Health New

Others

Cold Weatherand Climate Tipping Points: The Threat to the Planet (PPT) by James Hansen

• Science News Blog
• NOAA News

2008 NESDIS News – 

• U.S. Temperature Above Normal in July … August 8, 2008
• Eighth Warmest June on Record for Globe … July 16, 2008
• Warm June for U.S. with Wet and Dry Extremes … July 9, 2008
• Scientific Assessment Captures Effects of a Changing Climate on Extreme Weather Events in North America… June 19, 2008
• Global Temperature Seventh Warmest for Spring, Eighth Warmest for May… June 13, 2008
• U.S. Has 36th Coolest Spring on Record… June 6, 2008
• NOAA Satellites Primed for Spike in Summer Distress Calls… June 4, 2008
• NOAA: U.S. Has Cool April, Global Temperature Ranked 13th Warmest on Record… May 15, 2008
• Key Climate Sensor Restored to NPOESS… May 2, 2008
• Remarks by VADM Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., US Navy (Ret.)
  to Maryland Space Business Roundtable (.pdf)… April 29, 2008
• NOAA Employing New Tools to Accurately Measure Climate Change… April 24, 2008
• NOAA: U.S. Temperatures Near Average in March as Global Land Temperature Sets Record… April 17, 2008
• NOAA Satellites Help Save 23 People in the North Atlantic… April 11, 2008
• NOAA Selects Contractor for Systems Engineering, Tech Support for Environmental Satellite Program… March 19, 2008
• NOAA Selects Contractor for Technical Support for NPOESS Sounder… March 19, 2008
• NOAA: Coolest Winter Since 2001 for U.S., Globe… March 13, 2008
• Texas A&M University Researcher Receives NOAA’s David Johnson Award… March 13, 2008
• NOAA Satellites Help Rescue 353 People in 2007… January 17, 2008
• 2007 was Tenth Warmest for U.S., Fifth Warmest Worldwide… January 15, 2008

Caution: All technical information and scientific data provided by US Government agencies (e.g., NASA, EPA…) are subject to sudden variation because of political expediency.

This caution also extends to the fidelity of the information provided by UN organizations (e.g., FAO, WHO…).