USM National Green Campus
News Archive
Week
of July 29, 2013
News
from Across the USM Campuses
Scientists
Unveil New Projections for Sea Level Rise in Maryland (Maryland Sea Grant,
News Release, 7/26/13)
The
Economy of Scales: A Baltimore lab aims to take the science of growing clean,
healthy salt-water fish to the global marketplace (By Van Smith, The
[Baltimore] City Paper, 7/24/13) [Article cites work of Yonathan Zohar,
professor and chair of the Department of Marine Biotechnology at the University
of Maryland, Baltimore County's Institute of Marine and Environmental
Technology (IMET)]
It's
not too late to act on climate change: Maryland has taken a leadership role
with a comprehensive plan to address climate realities; now others must follow
our example
(By Donald
F. Boesch, The Baltimore Sun, 7/23/13) [Dr. Donald F. Boesch is President of
the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]
State
of Maryland News
Governor
Martin O'Malley Hosts Maryland Climate Change Summit, Releases Final Greenhouse
Gas Reduction Act Plan: Participants discuss actions Maryland is taking to
address the impacts of climate change (Maryland Department of the
Environment, Press Release, 7/25/13)
O'Malley
crafts stricter plan to fight climate change: Maryland must cut electricity
consumption, use more renewable energy to cut carbon emissions (By Erin Cox
and Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 7/24/13)
Eight
in 10 Marylanders believe climate change is happening, majority support taking
steps to counter potential harm: Survey looked at attitudes toward climate
change, energy and the environment (Maryland Department of the
Environment, Press Release, 7/23/13)
National
and International News
EPA Censored Key
Pennsylvania Fracking Water Contamination Study (By Steve Horn, DeSmog Blog
as reported by CommonDreams.org, 7/29/13)
Halliburton
pleading guilty to destroying evidence during BP spill: It could have shone a
spotlight on Halliburton's role in the spill (By Alex Halperin, Salon.com,
7/26/13)
Global Pollution and
Prevention News: Cost of economic growth have 'outweighed benefits' (By
Claudia Mazzeo, SciDevNet as reported by Environmental News Network, 7/26/13)
Fungicides Kill
Pollinators: Study Reveals Industrial Farming's Threat to Bees: Commercial
beekeepers are worried as bee die-offs linked to alarming chemical levels
(By Jacob Chamberlain, CommonDreams.org, 7/25/13)
Rig
owner eyes relief well to divert gas spewing in Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana's
coast (By The Associated Press, 7/25/13)
Vast
costs of Arctic change: Methane released by melting permafrost will have global
impacts that must be better modelled, say Gail Whiteman, Chris Hope and Peter
Wadhams. (By Gail Whiteman, Chris Hope and Peter Wadhams, Nature magazine -
Comment, 7/25/13) [PDF]
Arctic Methane
"Burp": A Climate Catastrophe with $60 Trillion Pricetag
New study looks at
planetary, social and economic impacts of increasingly perilous Arctic melting (By Jon Queally,
CommonDreams.org, 7/24/13)
Rush
Holt, New Jersey U.S. Senate Candidate: 'Millions Will Die' Due To Climate
Change (By Danielle Schlanger, The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 7/24/13)
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