Category: RT Newswire

USE ME! Essentially, this is a catch all for everything. This is probably the ONLY category where things that are not directly related to Rising Tide affiliates/allies should go. For example if a coal company goes out of business (and we didn’t directly cause it) it should probably only go here.

Eco-Restoration Along U.S. Gulf Coast?

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Along Gulf Coast, Talk Of Restoring Wetlands
by Andrea Hsu

Andrea Hsu/NPR

Researchers want the Gulf Coast’s wetlands to look more like Louisiana’s Lafitte Cypress Swamp (pictured). It is thought the wetlands will serve as a speed bump

against major storms.

All Things Considered, August 5, 2008 · Researchers working along the Gulf Coast are proposing the restoration of the region’s wetlands, which act as a natural speed

bump for storms. The plan is part of discussions of how best to protect against another hurricane.

Students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison are studying a 430-acre triangle within New Orleans’ Bayou Bienvenue. Their work is part of a proposal aimed at

restoring a cypress swamp.

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Study: Logging Exacerbates Global Heating

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” …  the potential amount of avoided emissions is much larger,
and therefore there’s much more to be gained from protecting
them from logging. It means the risks of logging are bigger
than we thought.”
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Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
August 5, 2008

Logging bigger risk than realised: study
Ben Cubby, Environment Reporter
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/08/04/1217701950056.html

WILD eucalypt forests across south-eastern Australia store far more
carbon than previously thought, according to research that has
far-ranging implications for climate change policy.

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Sierra Nevada Heating Up; Muir’s Glacier Gone

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The Sacramento Bee is starting a major new series coodinated by
veteran writer Tom Knudson on the effects of global warming on the
Sierras.  They are putting very serious resources into this (and
getting a flood of naysayer comments, which sound more and more
pathetic but are a reminder of where a significant portion of the
public still are on the issue).  There is a multi-part series coming
out in print with today’s article as the first, plus a web log and other
useful resources online at http://www.sacbee.com/sierrawarming/

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http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/sierra_summit/2008/08/014259html

Sierra warming: Climate change puts heat on high country

By Tom Knudson – tknudson@sacbee.com

Published 12:00 am PDT Sunday, August 3, 2008

Standing atop Yosemite’s tallest peak in August 1950, Hal
Klieforth looked out across the Lyell glacier and marveled at how
solid and unyielding it appeared.

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Sketchy Rainfall Plagues Australia

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“Catchments around dams require a certain amount of dampening
before surplus run-off begins to enter storages….Spring rains this
year will need to contend with drier catchments.”
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The Age (Melbourne, Australia)
August 2, 2008 – 12:00AM

Some rain tumbled down in July,
but it’s not dam good enough
Peter Ker

THE grass may look green, but don’t be fooled into thinking July was
a wet month.

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