tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23582065535849630472024-02-19T00:09:24.264-08:00THE GREEN PLANET BLOG - Our World and Environment...All about conservation, ecology, the environment, climate change, global warming, earth- watch, and new technologies etc.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05952914908453937218noreply@blogger.comBlogger495125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358206553584963047.post-21214383968418557902014-09-10T02:25:00.000-07:002014-09-10T02:29:04.035-07:00NZ's war on predators commemorated this week...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The start of a war will be commemorated this week -- one waged not on foreign battlefields, but across our own offshore islands.</div>
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A day-long symposium to be staged in Auckland today will look back on the sprawling, decades-long struggle to clear introduced predators from our island and save our cherished native species.</div>
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Auckland University ecologist Dr James Russell, helping organise the event, said Kiwis could be proud of the progress made.</div>
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In 1964, when the late Don Merton and fellow conservationists declared Maria Island in the Hauraki Gulf free of troublesome Norway rats, the area of our islands clear of mammalian predators stood at about 0.5 per cent.</div>
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Today, the rate is 10 per cent.</div>
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The potentially devastating Kauri dieback disease appears not to be spreading rapidly on the Coromandel Peninsula.</div>
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Minister of Conservation Nick Smith said the Government was seriously worried about the discovery of the disease in the Whangapoua Forest in March, and how widespread it could be.</div>
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“Kauri trees are hugely important for New Zealand and we need to do everything possible to contain the kauri dieback or PTA disease.</div>
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“The part that makes it so important is that if you’ve got a similar disease, like Psa with kiwifruit, you can grow new vines in three years. But when you’ve got a thousand-year-old kauri tree, if you lose it, you lose it for 30 or 40 generations.”</div>
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During a surveillance programme the disease has been found only at two sites: the Whangapoua Forest and on private land.</div>
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It is believed to have been spread by the Forest Service during the establishment of the commercial pine forest at Whangapoua.</div>
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Kauri dieback is caused by a microscopic, fungus-like organism that damages the tree’s tissues and effectively starves it to death.</div>
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Glacial melt ponding on steep ice faces. Above freezing temperatures for an extended period. Storms delivering rainfall to the glacier surface.</div>
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These three events are a bad combination and one that, until recently, we’ve never seen before for Greenland. It is a set of circumstances directly arising from a human-driven warming of the great ice sheet. And it is one that risks a highly violent and energetic event in which melt ponds over-top and glaciers are flushed and ripped apart by surges of water rushing for scores of miles over and through the ice sheet. Major melt pulse events called glacier outburst floods that can result in catastrophically large volumes of water and broken ice chunks issuing from the towering, melting glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica.</div>
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It’s a risk we face now, as the circumstances driving the risk of such an event are present today.</div>
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Over the past four days a high amplitude wave in the Jet Stream and coordinate domes of high pressure over Greenland have delivered well above average temperatures for the great Northern Hemisphere ice sheet. Near and just to the east of the Jakobshavn glacier on the West Coast of Greenland, temperatures have ranged between 5 and 10 degrees Celsius above average.</div>
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<a href="https://robertscribbler.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/greenland-temperatures-august-21.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #b91313; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Greenland Temperatures August 21" class="alignnone wp-image-8795" height="389" src="http://robertscribbler.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/greenland-temperatures-august-21.jpg?w=283&h=389" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="283" /></a><a href="https://robertscribbler.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/rain-over-greenland-melt-ponds-on-august-21-2014.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #b91313; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Rain over Greenland Melt Ponds on August 21, 2014" class="alignnone wp-image-8796" height="392" src="http://robertscribbler.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/rain-over-greenland-melt-ponds-on-august-21-2014.jpg?w=294&h=392" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="294" /></a></div>
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(GFS temperature and rainfall analysis for Greenland on August 21, 2014. Note the above freezing temperatures and rainfall over the region of the Jacobshavn Glacier for today. Image source: <a href="http://cci-reanalyzer.org/About/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #b91313; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="http://cci-reanalyzer.org/About/">University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer</a>.)</div>
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What this means is a persistence of average temperatures in the range of 34-40 degrees (F) over large sections of Greenland’s Jakobshavn glacier. Melt level readings over a region that has now experienced ongoing surface ponding for more than 60 days.</div>
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But these warm temperatures, providing yet more heat forcing to melt the ice, aren’t the only extreme weather factor for the Jakobshavn glacier today. For today has brought with it a warm, wet over-riding airmass emerging from Baffin Bay and the Atlantic Ocean to the south. The warm air, coming into contact with the cooler glacier air is condensing and disgorging a series of rainstorms, dumping above-freezing water into the Jakobshavn’s already swelling pools.</div>
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Some of these effects are directly visible in the LANCE MODIS satellite imagery provided by NASA.</div>
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Glacial melt ponds are indicated in the satellite shot below by light-to-dark blue splotches on the glacier surface. Shallow surface melt ponding and pooling is indicated by a thin skein of light blue. In the left frame below, you can see the extensive and large melt ponds in the region of the Jakobshavn Glacier on August 18, 2014. For reference, the largest of these ponds are between 2 and 4 kilometers across. Also note the pale blue color of the ice near the larger ponds, indicating extensive smaller ponds in the region.</div>
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In the right frame, we have today’s LANCE-MODIS satellite shot. You will note that the entire frame is covered by cloud but that you can still see the blue undertone of the melting glacier below the rain-bearing clouds.</div>
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(LANCE MODIS satellite shot of the Jakobshavn Glacier on August 18 [left frame] and August 20 [right frame]. Note the widespread melt ponds and blue ice indicating smaller ponds over the glacier structure. Image source: <a href="http://lance-modis.eosdis.nasa.gov/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #b91313; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="http://lance-modis.eosdis.nasa.gov/">LANCE MODIS</a>.)</div>
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<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessing Glacial Outburst Flood Risk</strong></em></div>
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Some day, as Greenland continues to warm under the human heat forcing and as more hot air invasions ride up over the ice sheet, a period of warmth followed by rainstorms may well set off a major outburst flood event. The water content in melt ponds over the glacier may well be far greater than what we see now and a series of over topping events, starting higher on the ice sheet and magnifying toward the ice sheet base, would set of a chain of events leading to such a flood.</div>
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Risks for this kind of event today may well be moderate to low. The glaciers at this point are craggy and much of the flood waters shunt through holes in the ice to water pockets or to the glacier base. But eventually, as the glacier contains more water through subsequent years of melt, flooding and damming will be more prevalent throughout the ice sheet. And so risks will likely be on the rise.</div>
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Other than similar events occurring in the Himilayas, we don’t really have much of a context by which to judge risk for large Greenland outburst flood events. We do know that melt ponding is now quite extensive in this region and we do know that the glacier itself is rather unstable — moving with rapid speed toward the ocean and containing pockets of melted water from past melt pond formation over the last two decades.</div>
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For today, I’m pointing out the current rainfall over ice and melt ponding event as part of a larger and dangerous trend, one that is likely to play a primary role in the pace and violence of Greenland melt going forward.</div>
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<a href="https://robertscribbler.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/zodiac-on-greenland-melt-pond.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #b91313; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="zodiac on greenland melt pond" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8799" src="http://robertscribbler.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/zodiac-on-greenland-melt-pond.jpg?w=600" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a></div>
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(Photograph of a zodiac on the surface of one of Greenland’s very large melt ponds. Image source: <a href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Greenland/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #b91313; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Greenland/">Earth Observatory</a>.)</div>
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Nikola Tesla, or just “Tesla” as he was more commonly known, was a revolutionary man. He was amazing because he had electrical ideas for a new world. But who was he really and most importantly, how did affect today’s society with his work? <span id="more-1483" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div>
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Nikola Tesla was born 1856 in Smiljan,Croatia. His father was a priest of the Orthodox church and his mother did not go to school but was extremely intelligent. Tesla’s brother Dane, died in a horse accident at only twelve in 1861. Later that year Tesla started primary school at Smiljan where his subjects included German and Maths. In 1870 Tesla graduated from “high school” where he learnt Physics and Maths. In 1873 Tesla caught Cholera and almost died. Two years later Nikola Tesla aspired to be an engineer and so enrolled in the Polytechnic University of Graz on a scholarship. In his first year at the University of Graz,(1875) he obtained the highest grades possible. However in his second year he started gambling and lost his scholarship. Not surprisingly in his forth year he dropped out.</div>
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1879 was the year Tesla’s dad died and it was also the year that he started teaching at a school in Gospić. Three years later Tesla created his design for an A.C ( Alternating Current) motor in a “Eureka moment”. He also started working for soon to be rival, Thomas Edison in Paris. Tesla quit working for Edison after he would not hear about his A.C motor design because he thought his D.C (Direct Current) electric motor was better. D.C electricity uses a lot of copper so Edison tried to push people to use D.C because he owned large shares in a copper company.Tesla had hundreds of patents that included lots of free energy designs. If you want view some of his patents, check out this website: <a href="http://www.teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla-patents" style="border: 0px; color: #ec8500; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla-patents</a></div>
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In my opinion, Tesla was an amazing man but despite that fact, he died a broker in New York, 1943, of a heart failure. I hope I have given you an insight into the life of a man thinking for a new world, a man that without him, electricity wouldn’t be as we know it today.</div>
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Check Out: <a href="http://justspititoutalreadyenterinform.com/2013/12/25/teslas-plight/" style="border: 0px; color: #ec8500; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://justspititoutalreadyenterinform.com/2013/12/25/teslas-plight/</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.neuronet.pitt.edu/~bogdan/tesla/bio.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #ec8500; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.neuronet.pitt.edu/~bogdan/tesla/bio.htm</a></div>
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The pest-free “halo” around the Zealandia sanctuary is being extended to Crofton Downs, thanks to a $5000 gift from the Morgan Foundation.</div>
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The Enhancing the Halo project focuses mainly on Zealandia, but also has the long-term goal of making Wellington the first predator-free capital in the world.</div>
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A competition run by Gareth and Jo Morgan’s foundation saw four community groups vie for prizemoney by hatching a tangible plan to increase the number of households with predator-free backyards.</div>
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The competition was won by the 45-strong Crofton Downs predator-free community group. It will use the prize to buy more predator traps for households.</div>
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Group co-ordinator Kelvin Hastie said: “It’s an awesome project. People don’t understand what they can do, but by putting a trap on their property they can do a lot.</div>
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“Each person who volunteers has a trap on their property and will monitor if they get catches. Halo has a website where you upload catches and, over years, hopefully there will be less and less.”</div>
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The Morgan Foundation runs Enhancing the Halo alongside the Department of Conservation, Wellington City Council and Greater Wellington Regional Council.</div>
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The foundation named Crofton Downs as the winner last week, but has since decided to give $5000 to competitors from Glenside as well. Foundation spokesman Nick Tansley said this would allow for a “real competition of urban spaces to become New Zealand’s first predator-free community”.</div>
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“Now we have two great groups going at it to [create] predator-free households.”</div>
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The groups were “trying to increase native wildlife for the future generations – their children, grandchildren and great- grandchildren – and I think that’s great.</div>
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“They want to get an entire suburb into a haven for native birds – this is getting into the bigger picture: a pest-free New Zealand.”</div>
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Gareth Morgan said it would not be an easy task. “Becoming New Zealand’s first predator-free community . . . will take a real commitment. All the partners involved with this project are excited and keen to get killing some predators. It will take us one step closer to making Wellington the ‘natural </div>
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The Abbott government’s chief business adviser, Maurice Newman, has warned that Australia is ill prepared for global cooling owing to widespread “warming propaganda” in his latest critique of mainstream climate science. </div>
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Newman, who chairs the prime minister’s Business Advisory Council, said there is evidence that the world is set for a period of cooling, rather than warming, leading to significant geopolitical problems because of a lack of preparedness.</div>
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Adam Bandt, deputy leader of the Greens, said Newman’s comments were an “embarrassment to the government”.</div>
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“Tony Abbott needs to repudiate these views and dump Mr Newman from his Business Advisory Council,” Bandt said. “Someone with these flat-earth views has no place helping set policy for 21st century Australia.”</div>
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Mark Butler, Labor’s environment spokesman, said of Newman’s article: “These kinds of comments would be laughable if he didn’t have the prime minister’s ear.</div>
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“As it is, it’s terrifying that Maurice Newman continues to advise the prime minister at the same time as he campaigns against clean energy for Australians, and peddles myths unsupported by any credible scientist in the world.”</div>
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In an <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/were-illprepared-if-the-iceman-cometh/story-e6frg6zo-1227023489894" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">opinion piece</a> for the Australian, the latest in a number of articles for the newspaper on climate change, Newman says: “What if the warmth the world has enjoyed for the past 50 years is the result of solar activity, not man-made CO2?</div>
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“The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and its acolytes pay scant attention to any science, however strong the empirical evidence, that may relegate human causes to a lesser status.”</div>
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Newman says money spent on studying climate change has been “to largely preordain scientific conclusions”. Governments “like primitive civilisations offering up sacrifices to appease the gods” have used the “biased research to pursue gesture politics”.</div>
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The former ABC chairman says this has caused “serious damage on economies and diminished the west’s standing and effectiveness in world affairs”.</div>
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Newman claims scientists have discovered a rapid drop in solar activity, with a “global warming pause” having occurred in the past 18 years.</div>
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“But the political establishment is deaf to this,” he says. “Having put all our eggs in one basket and having made science a religion, it bravely persists with its global warming narrative, ignoring at its peril and ours, the clear warnings being given by mother nature<br />
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Advocates for <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=20.8,-156.333333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=20.8,-156.333333333%20(Maui)&t=h" rel="geolocation" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #1abc9c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_parent" title="Maui">Maui</a>‘s <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin" rel="wikipedia" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #1abc9c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_parent" title="Dolphin">dolphins</a> will march in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-41.2888888889,174.777222222&spn=0.1,0.1&q=-41.2888888889,174.777222222%20(Wellington)&t=h" rel="geolocation" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #1abc9c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_parent" title="Wellington">Wellington</a>today.</div>
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The group will begin in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-41.28884,174.777138&spn=0.01,0.01&q=-41.28884,174.777138%20(Civic%20Square%2C%20Wellington)&t=h" rel="geolocation" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #1abc9c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_parent" title="Civic Square, Wellington">Civic Square</a> at midday, and make its way to the Department of Conservation office to deliver a letter to <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_of_Conservation_%28Manitoba%29" rel="wikipedia" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #1abc9c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_parent" title="Minister of Conservation (Manitoba)">Conservation Minister</a> <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.nick4nelson.co.nz/" rel="homepage" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #1abc9c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_parent" title="Nick Smith (New Zealand politician)">Nick Smith</a>.</div>
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Chair of Maui’s and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%27s_dolphin" rel="wikipedia" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #1abc9c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_parent" title="Hector's dolphin">Hector’s Dolphin</a> Education Action Christine Rose says the Government needs to do much more to protect the last 55 Maui’s dolphins.</div>
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“We’re saying the only way of saving these dolphins, according to the best science available, is to get those human threats out of the dolphin’s habitat, and make sure no new threats are introduced.”</div>
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A disease damaging banana crops in Southeast Asia has spread to the Middle East and Africa, posing risks to world supply and trade totalling $8.9 billion, according to the United Nations' Food & Agriculture Organisation.<br />
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The TR4 strain of Panama disease, a soil-born fungus that attacks plant roots, is deadly for the Cavendish banana that makes up about 95 per cent of supplies to importers, including North America and Europe, Fazil Dusunceli, an agriculture officer at the FAO, said by phone this week from Rome. While the disease hasn't reached top Latin America exporters such as Ecuador, Costa Rica or Colombia, TR4 was discovered in Jordan and Mozambique, indicating it moved beyond Asia, he said.</div>
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"The export market is dominated by the Cavendish, and it is unfortunately susceptible to this particular race of the disease," Dusunceli said.</div>
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Almost one-quarter of European crops’ vital pollinators – bumblebees – could die out in the coming years, as half of the species are declining, a new study says. Citing human factor and climate change, it warns of “serious implications” for agriculture.</div>
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A preview of the recent European Commission-funded study, published on the website of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on Wednesday, says it has some <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“bad news”</em> for Europe’s bumblebees.<br />
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As much as 46 percent of the 68 bumblebee species living in Europe have a declining population and just 13 percent are increasing in numbers, the study shows. According to IUCN, 24 percent of those species are <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“threatened with extinction.”</em><br />
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The study, which contributes to the European Red List of pollinators and is part of the Status and Trends of European Pollinators (STEP) project, stresses that three of the five <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“most important insect pollinators of European crops”</em> are bumblebee species.</div>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em;">Bumblebees have for thousands of years played a</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em;"> </span><em style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“critical role”</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em;">in agriculture as they help crops reproduce by transferring pollen from plant to plant. However, as agriculture and urban development have intensified in recent years and cultivated land has been changed, bumblebees have been hit by the loss of habitat and the loss of their preferred forage, as well as pollution and insecticides.</span><br />
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<b>THE POLLUTION OF OUR WATERWAYS IS THE WORST PROBLEM TO AFFECT THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY – IT DIRECTLY AFFECTS THE PURITY OF OUR FRESHWATER SUPPLIES:</b></h1>
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Worldwide, just under 900 million people lack reliable access to safe water that is free from disease and industrial waste. And forty percent do not have access to adequate sanitation facilities. The result is one of the world’s greatest public health crises: 4,500 children die every day from waterborne diseases, more than from HIV-AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined.</div>
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A robust economy depends on water. So does a thriving ecosystem. Enter politics, fulcrum of the water issue, weighing the fate of economies against the health of individuals and of the environment as a whole. Balance has been elusive. One fifth of the world’s population lives in areas where water is physically scarce, and a quarter of the population faces shortages due to lack of infrastructure.”</div>
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Test results have shown the presence of Phytophthora taxon Agathis (PTA) or Kauri dieback disease in the Whangapoua Forest, just north of Whitianga - the first confirmed case in Kauri-rich Coromandel.</div>
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The giant kauri is a treasured feature of Coromandel, and its own Kauri 2000 movement has seen volunteers plant more than 40,000 kauri across the peninsula since 1999 in an effort to replenish numbers.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">NaturalNews: Plants may not be able to move, but they have evolved a staggering array of techniques for affecting their surroundings. These adaptations allow plants to do everything from incapacitating predators and deterring rivals to colonizing new lands and even changing the behavior of the plants and animals in their vicinity.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Some of the most striking ways in which plants manipulate their surroundings involve defending themselves from predation. In addition to "passive" defenses such as bark or spines, many plants are also filled with toxic chemicals capable of delivering anything from an irritating rash to fatal poisoning. But this is not the only way that plants can affect their predators -- plants produce a wide variety of chemicals that can act like the hormones or neurotransmitters produced by animals' own bodies (this is where drugs like heroin and cocaine come from).</span><br />
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Adam Mahler with Able Energy Co. of River Falls secures a panel on a 6 kW solar electric system Friday on a barn in Stillwater. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin)<br />
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A large-scale solar field -- maybe the first in the metro area -- could be selling solar power to Washington County residents as soon as next summer.<br />
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According to the developer, the 5-acre field would give people their first opportunity to buy solar power without buying solar panels. The solar garden of 4,000 panels would generate a maximum flow of 1 megawatt of electricity, enough to power 140 typical homes.<br />
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"We feel it's important to be close to the community that is buying the power," said Ben Ganje, a spokesman for Able Energy Co. of River Falls, which is planning up to four solar gardens.<br />
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Ganje said the company is negotiating to buy 5-acre sites in Woodbury and Lake Elmo and is considering additional sites in Afton and other locations.<br />
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The proposal marks the local launch of a new industry -- the generation of power by solar entrepreneurs.<br />
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Under a program authorized by the Legislature last year, independent businesses and groups may set up arrays of solar panels and then sell the power to local customers.<br />
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"It's another option for customers who may not want to participate in rooftop solar," said Lee Gabler, director of demand-side management and renewable programs for Xcel Energy.<br />
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Xcel predicts success for the new program based on its experience in Colorado. There, Xcel launched a similar program in 2006. In 2012 and 2013, Gabler said, 25 new solar gardens were approved, for a total output of 18 megawatts.<br />
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The largest of the Colorado solar gardens is twice the size of the fields Able is planning for Washington County, and the smallest are about half the size.<br />
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Besides the Minnesota solar garden program, Xcel has its own plans to build large-scale solar fields. The company is requesting bids for proposals to generate 150 solar megawatts -- 150 as much as each of the gardens planned for Washington County.<br />
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Every year on this day since 1993, the community of nations has focused on the importance of fresh water and advocated for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. Severe droughts experienced recently in places like the American West, the Horn of Africa, Russia, China, and Australia have highlighted the fact that humans are rapidly using up the world’s freshwater supplies—and when they’re gone, they’re gone. We are spending one of our most vital resources in greater volumes every day.</div>
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Mountain climbers head to the top of Mount Stanley at the Rwenzori mountain range on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo on March 8, 2014. Photo - AFP<br />
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In swirling snow, John Medenge prods a thin ice bridge over a crevasse with an iron-tipped spear, guiding climbers scaling the steep glacial wall using crampons and axes.<br />
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"We are the last few who will climb on the ice, it is going so fast," said Medenge, after scaling the treacherous ridge up Mount Stanley, part of the dramatic Rwenzori mountain range straddling the border between Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo.<br />
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At 5,109 metres (16,763 feet), Stanley's jagged peak is the third highest mountain in Africa, topped only by Mount Kenya and Tanzania's iconic Kilimanjaro.<br />
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But experts warn the ice is melting at "disturbing" rates, and that within two decades Africa's equatorial peaks will be bare rock, impacting agriculture and tourism.<br />
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"Every year the ice grows smaller," 54-year old Medenge added, who has been climbing the range since a teenager.<br />
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Ancient Greek geographer Ptolemy in Alexandria wrote of the snow-capped Rwenzoris around the second century AD, dubbing the mysterious peaks the "Mountains of the Moon", and identifying them as a source of the mighty White Nile.<br />
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But after centuries of wonder at the spectacle of snow on the equator, the ice is vanishing, bringing with it multiple challenges.<br />
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"The melting glaciers are another warning sign, a 'canary in the mine' of mankind's inability to contain climate change and its negative consequences," said Luc Hardy of Pax Arctica, an organisation that promotes awareness of the impact of climate change, and who led an expedition in January to the mountains.<br />
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