USM National Green Campus
News Archive
Week
of December 9, 2013
News
from Across the USM Campuses
Dec. 11th
- Dr. Deborah Steinberg, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, "Zooplankton
and biogeochemical cycling in the changing ecosystem of the West Antarctic
Peninsula." This event is a part of the Chesapeake Biological
Laboratory Distinguished Scholar Seminar Series.
Dec. 10th
- SESYNC Seminar:
New Dynamics of Mining, Oil & Gas - This event will be held from 12:20
- 1:30pm at The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), located
at 1 Park Place, Suite 300, Annapolis, MD 21401.
Dec. 10th
- Jinjun Kan
(Stroud Water Research Center), "Molecular tools to
understand bacterial population dynamics in the Chesapeake Bay" host,
M. Kemp. Seminar will be held the Horn Point Laboratory auditorium (Coastal
Science Bldg.) at 11:00 am on Wednesday. The seminar is open to the public.
State
of Maryland News
Board
of Public Works Approves Funding for Clean Water and the Chesapeake Bay
(Maryland Department of the Environment, News Release, 12/4/13)
Talking
trash: Baltimore students speak out against waste-burning power plant (By
Brentin Mock, Grist.org, 12/3/13)
Maryland
Department of the Environment highlights best stormwater management practices
at Quiet Waters Park in Annapolis (Maryland Department of the Environment,
Social Media Release, 12/3/13)
National
and International News
Spill
by Daniel Beltrá - in pictures: It was one of the world's
most destructive environmental disasters in human history: in April 2010 an
explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig killed 11 men and sent 210m
gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, causing a black tide covering 68,000
square miles of ocean and spreading along 16,000 miles of coastline. Spill is the first book
from photographer Daniel Beltrá, who
documented the spill from a Cessna floatplane, 3,000ft above the Louisiana
coastline. It includes 27 of his award-winning aerial photographs that have
gone on show around the world, and an essay by Barbara Bloemink
that gives context to Spill as an artistic response to the environment and
nature (The [UK] Guardian - Environment Blog, 12/9/13)
US
Navy predicts summer ice free Arctic by 2016: Is conventional modelling out of
pace with speed and abruptness of global warming? (By Nafeez Ahmed, The
[UK] Guardian - Earth Insight Blog, 12/9/13)
Summer
heat waves blamed on a melting Arctic: A new study links extreme weather in the
U.S. and Europe to the loss of sea ice (By Lindsay Abrams, Salon.com, 12/9/13)
My year without a
car: I'm an unlikely biker, but when I finally broke my driving habit, I
discovered the joys (and pain) of cycling (By Wayne Scott, Salon.com,
12/8/13)
How
The Long, Strange 'Witch Hunt' Of An Arctic Whistleblower Came To An End
(By Kate Sheppard, The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 12/6/13)
Schoolchildren
ordered indoors as air pollution cloaks Shanghai: Eastern China's dangerous
levels of air pollution blamed on coal burning, car exhaust, factories and
weather patterns (By The Associated Press as reported by The [UK] Guardian
- Environment Blog, 12/6/13)
Wikileaks
reveals failed plans to suppress anti-Keystone activists: A 2010 presentation
laid out strategies for dealing with environmentalists (By Lindsay Abrams,
Salon.com, 12/6/13)
Exposed: The Rightwing's
National Plan To Crush Green Energy: From supporting Keystone XL to opposing
home solar panels, ALEC planning assault on the environment (Sarah Lazare,
CommonDreams.org, 12/5/13)
Large
Companies Prepared to Pay Price on Carbon (By Coral Davenport, The New York
Times - Energy & Environment, 12/5/13)
The
World's Top 7 Bike-Share Systems (By Sarah Goodyear, The Atlantic Cities
Blog, 12/5/13)
Bicycle Sales Outpace
Cars as European 'Bike Revolution' Gains Speed: Continent sees surge in fossil
fuel-free transport as green lanes and other policies encourage people to ditch
automobiles (By Jacob Chamberlain, CommonDreams.org, 12/4/13)
Madrid
is getting rid of car lanes and putting pedestrians first (By Sarah Laskow,
Grist.org, 12/4/13)
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