plantedcity:

Climate Change in Action: Montana’s Famous Glaciers are Melting

From Al Jazeera:

In the US state of Montana, the Glacier National Park – an area sometimes called the “Crown of the Continent” – is famous for its snow-capped mountains.

But it could soon lose its glaciers due to global warming.

Scientists warn if the ice keeps melting at this rate, the park’s 25 remaining glaciers could all melt away by the year 2030.

The US Geological Survey covers the science of Montana’s melting glaciers here. CNN has previously called them, “The poster child for climate change.”

jnomics:

The Tevatron was the world’s most powerful particle accelerator and the site of many of the biggest discoveries in the field for more than two decades. It symbolized the United States’ scientific dominance and was the center of the international physics world until it was eclipsed by Europe’s Large Hadron Collider last year.

Scientific discovery moves to the EU. Economic development.

J N O M I C S

plantedcity:

From Reuters:

Global concern about climate change has risen only very slightly over the past two years, as consumers have focused on more immediate economic worries, according to an opinion poll published on Sunday.

Nielsen’s latest global online environment and sustainability survey showed that 69 percent of 25,000 Internet users in 51 countries were concerned about climate change in 2011, slightly up from 66 percent in a similar poll in 2009, but down from 72 percent in 2007.

“Focus on immediate worries such as job security, local school quality and economic wellbeing have all diminished media attention for climate stories in the past two years,” said Maxwell Boykoff, who was an adviser to the survey and is senior visiting research associate at the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute.

Hopes for a global climate treaty have faded over the past couple of years as successive United Nations meetings have failed to clinch a binding deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions, which are widely blamed for stoking global warming.

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In China, the world’s top greenhouse gas emitter, climate change concern has dropped to 64 percent from 77 percent in the last two years.

In the United States, the second biggest emitter and the only industrialized nation not signed up to the U.N.’s Kyoto Protocol for curbing emissions, the number of those concerned has fallen steadily to 48 percent, from 51 percent in 2009 and 62 percent in 2007.

The regions with the highest levels of concern were Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, and Asia-Pacific.

Check out the rest of the article here.

(Image credit: Neilsen Wire)

thedailyfeed:

As financial woes send consumer confidence into a nosedive, many Americans are one paycheck or unexpected bill away from financial disaster.

Survey data released yesterday showed that consumer confidence plummeted in August to the lowest levels since May 1980, and there may be good reason for people to feel glum. Another recent survey by the National Foundation for Credit Counseling showed that nearly two-thirds of respondents don’t have enough money saved to cover an emergency expense of $1,000 or more.

Now one of the top 5 matches I have ever seen in life.

peterwknox:

Kate Hasler Steilen, Jenna Pel, and Chris Ryan on the FIFA Women’s World Cup – Grantland

Awesome.

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- designboom.com

Whatever. This totally looks like somebody got vaporized during a nap. Which is great. Two, please.