Climate trouble may be bubbling up in Arctic

Experts are testing Arctic soil and seafloors to see how methane is being released by thawing permafrost.

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No safe harbor: The shipping industry’s pollution problem. The shipping industry is an invisible and nearly unregulated environmental disaster, and if you haven’t heard much about its poor record, you’re not alone. [News Source]

The water wars. San Francisco Bay and the delta are dying. Salmon runs are collapsing. Droughts are getting worse. And big agriculture still wants more water. [News Source]

U.N. reports on developing nations’ energy needs. It will cost between $500 billion and $600 billion every year for the next 10 years to allow developing nations to grow using renewable energy resources, instead of relying on dirty fuels, according to a United Nations report released Tuesday. [News Source]

Climate camp targets BP oil plan. Outside a smart London office building is the last place you might expect to find an indigenous Canadian singing a traditional sundance ceremony song. "When I say 'BP', you say 'criminal'," he implores the 200 or so onlookers, who duly oblige. [News Source]

Desperate measures? A desalination plant in San Francisco Bay has pit environmentalists, who see the plant as too energy intensive, against business and development interests, which fear the district is going to run out of water. [News Source]

No safe harbor: The shipping industry’s pollution problem. The shipping industry is an invisible and nearly unregulated environmental disaster, and if you haven’t heard much about its poor record, you’re not alone. [News Source]

Investment in geo-engineering needed immediately, says Royal Society. Experiments on giant sunshades for the Earth and vast forests of artificial trees must begin immediately, according to the Royal Society, the UK's top scientific panel, in case global talks to combat climate change fail. [News Source]

U.N. reports on developing nations’ energy needs. It will cost between $500 billion and $600 billion every year for the next 10 years to allow developing nations to grow using renewable energy resources, instead of relying on dirty fuels, according to a United Nations report released Tuesday. [News Source]

Climate camp targets BP oil plan. Outside a smart London office building is the last place you might expect to find an indigenous Canadian singing a traditional sundance ceremony song. "When I say 'BP', you say 'criminal'," he implores the 200 or so onlookers, who duly oblige. [News Source]

Vast shift in bird species expected from warming. Birds of a feather will no longer flock together, and some California species will face extinction as a result of global warming, according to a study released Tuesday by PRBO Conservation Science. [News Source]