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Rich-poor divide reopens at UN climate talks
The advances made in U.N. climate talks last year appeared at risk Thursday as a rift between rich and poor countries reopened in negotiations aimed at crafting a global pact to stop the planet from overheating. The session in Bonn was meant to build on a deal struck in Durban, ...
US forecasters prepare hurricane season outlook
Federal forecasters are getting ready to release their outlook for the Atlantic hurricane season. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will release its initial outlook for the six-month storm season Thursday at its Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami. Hurricane season officially begins June 1, but it started early ...
Official: Hurricane threat could affect convention
The Republican National Convention scheduled in Tampa for late August would be among the casualties if the area is threatened then by a hurricane, Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll said Wednesday. "Public safety — that's going to be the number one priority," Carroll said. "We can have the convention again." ...
Fictitious hurricane heads for Tampa Bay next week
A fictitious hurricane is heading for Tampa Bay. Hurricane Gispert next week will test Florida's ability to respond to a storm hitting the region during what state officials describe as "a special event with increased population." Tampa, in fact, is hosting such an event, the Republican National Convention, at the ...
New director named for National Hurricane Center
Richard Knabb, the tropical weather expert at The Weather Channel, will be the next chief of the U.S. government's hurricane forecasting hub in Florida, federal officials said Friday. The promotion to director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami fulfills a childhood dream for Knabb, who grew up in Coral ...
Storm conference views Hurricane Andrew's legacy
The ability to predict how bad a storm will be has eluded forecasters since Hurricane Andrew made a catastrophic landfall in South Florida two decades ago and it will remain a challenge for the next chief at the National Hurricane Center, the center's outgoing director said Wednesday. Forecasters have significantly ...
Florida Cabinet approves hurricane shelter plan
The construction of new public schools across Florida has contributed to a significant increase in the number of hurricane shelter spaces, according to a plan approved Tuesday by Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet. The Division of Emergency Management presented its updated statewide emergency plan to the cabinet at ...
Excuse me: Gassy dinosaurs helped warm Earth
Potty humor just got prehistoric. A new study suggests that dinosaurs may have helped keep an already overheated world warmer with their flatulence and burps 200 million years ago. The research published Monday in Current Biology suggests that large dinosaurs made a significant contribution to the greenhouse effect back then. ...
As Japan shuts down nuclear power, emissions rise
The Fukushima crisis is eroding years of Japanese efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming, as power plants running on oil and natural gas fill the electricity gap left by now-shuttered nuclear reactors. Before last year's devastating tsunami triggered meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, Japan had ...
Greenland losing ice fast, but not runaway pace
Greenland's glaciers are hemorrhaging ice at an increasingly faster rate but not at the breakneck pace that scientists once feared, a new study says. The loss of ice from the glaciers that cover the island is about 30 percent faster than it was a decade ago, researchers said. That means ...
Goodbye La Nina: Will drought, hurricanes also go?
The La Nina weather phenomenon is over. Forecasters say that's good news for the drought in the South and hurricane areas along the coasts. The National Weather Service pronounced the two-year La Nina (NEEN'-yah) finished on Thursday. La Nina is the flip side of El Nino (NEEN'-yoh) and is caused ...
Feds prepare for another busy US fire season
More than 100 large fires have swept across parts of the nation already this year, and the head of the U.S. Forest Service said Thursday the rest of the 2012 fire season is expected to be just as active as last year's, which saw historic wildfires on hundreds of square ...
Study: Antarctic ice melting from warm water below
Antarctica's massive ice shelves are shrinking because they are being eaten away from below by warm water, a new study finds. That suggests that future sea levels could rise faster than many scientists have been predicting. The western chunk of Antarctica is losing 23 feet of its floating ice sheet ...
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