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.

Major Flooding in Chile

  By

Floods displace 15,000 in Chile
Fri May 23, 2008 6:16pm EDT By Antonio de la Jara

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Heavy rains and flooding that killed five people and displaced thousands in south-central Chile have collapsed road and rail bridges, closed the world’s largest underground copper mine and left many in the capital without drinking water, the government said on Friday.

Many schools remained closed in Santiago and elsewhere after floodwaters churned up sediment at water treatment plants, while several rivers burst their banks farther south, deluging thousands of homes.

Continue reading

Rise in Atmospheric Methane Points to Arctic Wetlands

  By

Methane rise points to wetlands
By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website

Higher atmospheric levels of the greenhouse gas
methane noted last year are probably related to
emissions from wetlands, especially around the Arctic.

Scientists have found indications that extra amounts
of the gas in the Arctic region are of biological
origin.

Global levels of methane had been roughly stable for
almost a decade.

Continue reading

Earth May Lose Up To Half Its Plant Species

  By

SCIENCE
23 MAY 2008 VOL 320

The Threat to the World’s Plants

A day after polar bears made headlines last week, the world’s leading
botanical gardens issued a call to remember threatened plants, too.
Their new report, Plants and Climate Change: Which Future? makes the
case for protecting the botanical foundations of terrestrial life.
“If you read any report about the impact of climate change, it’s
almost always about polar bears or tigers,” said Suzanne Sharrock,
director of Global Programmes for Botanic Gardens Conservation
International (BGCI) in London and a co-author of the report.

Continue reading

More on Upcoming Atlantic Hurricane Season

  By

U.S. government sees active Atlantic hurricane season
Thu May 22, 2008 2:27pm EDT   By Christopher Doering

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season will be active with 12 to 16 named storms, six to nine of which are expected to become hurricanes, the U.S. government’s top climate agency predicted on Thursday.

Of the six to nine hurricanes forecast for the season starting June 1, two to five will be major ones of Category 3 or higher with winds above 110 miles per hour, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in its annual preseason forecast.

Continue reading