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IREC and ECA Announce First Energy Efficiency Instructor Certifications
Interstate Renewable Energy Council | 21 May 2013
IREC and the Energy Coordinating Agency of Philadelphia, Inc. (ECA) announce today that three instructors at ECA are the first energy efficiency instructors to be awarded IREC certifications. Dawn Moody and Paul Ricker were awarded Affiliated Master Trainer Certification and David Dennis was...
Må utrede miljøkonsekvenser ved flere utbyggingsalternativer
Klima- og forurensningsdirektoratet | 21 May 2013
Klif forventer at Statoil i konsekvensutredningen for utbygging av Johan Castberg-feltet i Barentshavet (tidligere Skrugard) vurderer miljøvirkninger av alternative utbyggingsløsninger. Vi mener det er uheldig at beslutning om utbyggingsløsning tilsynelatende er tatt før konsekvensutredningen foreligger og er behandlet.
Bli med på miljøets dag 5. juni
Klima- og forurensningsdirektoratet | 21 May 2013
På verdens miljøverndag onsdag 5. juni tar vi temperaturen på miljøets tilstand, i Norge og globalt. Miljøvernforvaltningen inviterer til diskusjon om grønne veivalg på Litteraturhuset i Oslo klokka 13-15.
Flightless penguin puzzle 'solved'
BBC | 21 May 2013
The underwater prowess of the penguin may have cost the bird its ability to fly, scientists believe.
VERGE Accelerate: A hopeful future in two and a half minutes
ClimateBiz | 21 May 2013
How 15 entrepreneurs fared in Boston in front of two VCs and thousands of viewers.
Ambassador to West Africa
Sea Around Us | 21 May 2013
“Our driftnets don't produce discards." "We don’t have illegal fishing - it’s illegal.” “Your methods are correct, but your results don’t make sense.” “Don’t tell them we fish in their waters, they will deny us access.” These were some of the amazing comments I heard during my short visit to seven West African countries earlier this year as part of the “Sea Around Us Project and PRCM: Marine Conservation Research, Collaboration and Support in West Africa.”
Blue whale protection may need to increase
New Zealand Herald | 20 May 2013
The protection afforded to blue whales in New Zealand waters may need to be increased, now a study has found they may be more regular visitors to the South Taranaki Bight than previously thought.
Fishermen angry at call to extend set-net ban
New Zealand Herald | 20 May 2013
Otago commercial fishermen have reacted with anger to a proposal to extend a ban on set-net fishing around the Otago Peninsula to help preserve yellow-eyed penguin colonies.
Scientists explore roots of future tropical rainfall
EurekAlert | 20 May 2013
(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) How will rainfall patterns across the tropical Indian and Pacific regions change in a future warming world? Climate models generally suggest that the tropics as a whole will get wetter, but the models don't always agree on where rainfall patterns will shift in particular regions within the tropics.
Sea level influenced tropical climate during the last ice age
EurekAlert | 20 May 2013
The Indo-Pacific warm pool was much dryer during the last ice age than today, because lower sea level exposed the Sunda Shelf. The large landmass, in place of the warm ocean, altered the atmospheric circulation, shifting convection further west into the Indian Ocean.