GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE NEWS (from NATS 101 Intro to Global Change website)
EARTHWEEK
- A Diary of the Planet (home site)
Weekly global updates of natural and human-made
environmental hazards and disasters.
Link to: PDF version of Earthweek
CLIMATE NEWS STORIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD IN RECENT YEARS:
AFRICA:
Congo tornado kills 164; crops, homes destroyed -- AZ Daily Star 2-6-03
ASIA:
S. Asian poor hurt hardest by cold that's killed 1,600 -- AZ Daily Star 1-22-03
NEAR EAST:
Front That Brought Winds
and Dust Is Due to Lift -- New York Times 3-26-03
A Formidable Enemy: Dust
-- New York Times 4-1-03
ARCTIC/HIGH LATITUDES:
The Earth Moves: Patterns of Stone and
Soil -- New York Times 1-21-03
At the Bustling North Pole, Life Is a
Merry-Go-Round -- New York Times 4-28-03
NORTH AMERICA:
Flawed Snowfall Data Jeopardize Climate-Change Research -- New York Times 2-11-03
Arizona Starts to Feel Impact of Long Drought -- New York Times 1-24-03
CLIMATE NEWS STORIES FROM PREVIOUS YEARS:
Tucson's coughing over dust from Gobi -- Tucson Citizen 4-19-01
Dust storm from Mongolia reaches across Pacific with Chinese pollution -- AZ Daily Star 4-18-01
Don't blame Gobi Desert storms for dust that browned us out -- AZ Daily Star 4-19-01
Droughts might speed climate changes -- from The New York Times 1-11-01
El Nino less frequent in mid-1800s -- from Associated press -- reports on work by UA scientists
Hole in Ozone Layer Exposed a City from Associated Press in The Arizona Daily Star, 6-Oct-2000
See the following for the popular press's interpretation of the latest IPCC report. How will different regions of the world respond to climate changes??? We'll address this important question this semester.
Warming could cause drought, disease, political upheaval -- from U.S. News & World Report 2-5-01
U.N. Reports That Global Warming May Heap Disasters on Africa -- from The New York Times 1-24-01
Report Warns of Disaster from Global Warming -- from The New York Times 1-22-01