This is a video about sea level rises on the East Coast of the USA.
Sea level rises are one of the indicators of a warming world.
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Bangladesh – the great climate change exodus
Thousands of rural families in Bangladesh are being pushed into Dhaka and other crowded cities as their land and houses have been washed away, the New Internationalist reports. But by 2070, Dhaka itself will be one of the most climate-stressed cities on earth, according to the UN. Heat stress, river and coastal floods are likely if climate change continues unabated.
Bangladesh is calling for a new UN refugee convention to recognise climate refugees. In the meantime, Bangladeshis attempting to flee across the border to India face a fence-building programme along the border and gun-toting border guards who have shot a estimated 10,000 people trying to cross the border without papers in the last 10 years.
Environment
Welcome to Environment news and information.
In this section, you can find out about a range of environment news and information, and post your own as well.
The Environment section includes:
Upper Calder Valley environmental groups, organisations and businesses – Who’s who?
- Local environment groups news
- Incredible Edible Mytholm
- Ban the Burn news
- Blackshaw Environmental Action Team
- Hebden Royd Town Council news
Calderdale Energy Future Panel & Green Deal (this section will soon migrate to the Energy section – I’m in the process of revising the site plan, so that readers can find things more easily )
- Calderdale Energy Future – news
- Green Deal – a public-private partnership too far
- Calderdale’s Energy Future – not looking great
- Environmental & social justice news
- Public right to environmental justice
- Environmental information regulations requests
Changing More Than Lightbulbs by Jenny Shepherd is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Sheffield Uni study shows Polar permafrosts could thaw and release stored carbon
Researchers at Sheffield University, working with other universities, have studied sudden climate warmings that occurred around 55 million years ago and concluded that they were triggered by the release of carbon that had been stored in Polar region permafrosts.
This research suggests that a similar risk exists today, since rises in the earth’s average temperature could cause Polar permafrosts to thaw and release the carbon that is currently stored in them as decayed, frozen vegetation.
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Cows fed linseed reduce their methane emissions by 40%
The Torygraph has an article about reductions in cows’ methane emissions (from farting and burping) when they’re fed on linseed.
30% of farm greenhouse gas emissions comes from methane from sheep and cattle, so if feeding them linseed reduced that amount by 40%, that means it would reduce overall farm greenhouse gas emissions by 12%. Given that the current target is an 11% reduction in farm greenhouse gases by 2020, based on the 1990 level, this sounds too good to be true?