Topic – Climate Change
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Livable Houston Initiative: Adapting to Climate Change in Houston
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Hate mail aims to intimidate climate scientist
Unfortunately, nothing new
A Texas Tech professor has received a barrage of bitter emails since taking flak from talking heads
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Drought threatens Texas rice production
"A huge, huge deal"
Without replenished reservoirs, water managers will have to withhold water from farmers, meaning severe cuts to Texas' million-dollar rice production industry
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Carbon dioxide damaging fish
Serious consequences evident
Rising human carbon dioxide emissions may be affecting the brains and central nervous system of sea fishes
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Kaid Benfield
City water scarcity
Many American cities are in the wrong places for long-term water sustainability. What to do?
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China getting serious about climate change
“City design matters a lot.”
With more than one billion people living in its cities by 2030, China is taking action against climate change.
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Texas drought forecast to extend into 2012
Following worst year ever
Various entities are forecasting that the 2011 worst drought on record across Texas is going to continue at least into the late spring of 2012.
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Oceans appear to be undergoing fundamental changes
Many of them for the worse
The earth's oceans are undergoing fundamental changes that science does not fully understand under multiple threats of climate change, overfishing, & pollution.
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Texas drought killed up to half a billion trees in 2011
10% of the state's trees
The record drought in Texas during 2011 killed between 100 & 500 million trees - up to 10% of the state's 4.9 billion trees - according to Texas Forest Service.
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Climate change to hit urban areas
Could cause migration
A new report says that global warming has significantly increased the number of people at risk globally and could cause migration to urban areas.
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