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Snowstorm hits north-central U.S., heads to mid-Atlantic
Reuters: A blizzard dumped heavy snow on the midwestern United States, disrupting highway and air travel on Tuesday as it moved east toward the Ohio Valley and the mid-Atlantic states. More than 1,000 flights were canceled in and out of Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway airports and nearly 100 more were canceled in and out of Minneapolis-St.Paul International Airport, according to the FlightAware.com flight tracking service. Heavy snow and patches of ice made driving difficult along the highways in parts… Continue reading
New England to bear brunt of powerful blizzard
Reuters: New England braced on Thursday for a possibly record-setting winter storm, with forecasts of up to 2 feet of snow already causing airlines to cancel thousands of flights and utilities to prepare for power outages. The storm was blowing in from the Midwest where it began dropping snow on the Chicago area on Thursday afternoon. It was due to bring light snow to the Northeastern United States on Friday morning before ramping up to blizzard conditions by afternoon. Continue reading
Study: Ice sheets can change quickly with climate shift
LiveScience: Arctic glaciers grew rapidly in response to sudden climate change 8,200 years ago, a new study finds. Only on NBCNews.com Bush administration received many pre-9/11 warnings Birdwatcher, 73, says she was raped in Central Park NBC News Despite dark past, Israelis seek new lives in Berlin NBC News After climbing ladder, family falling backward Study: Immigrant students do better than US-born kids Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Modern medicine: Lab-grown genitals, spray-on skin Chicago parents… Continue reading
Heat wave bakes the West and high plains, moves east
Climate Central: A prolonged and historic heat wave is baking the West and migrating eastward, with temperatures from Texas to Chicago expected to approach or exceed 100°F during the next few days. Already, several all-time high temperature records have been set. On June 25 and 26, Denver tied its all-time record high temperature for any month of the year when the thermometer at Denver International Airport hit 105°F Continue reading
Conservationists around Great Lakes plan for climate change
Chicago Tribune: Stuart Goldman, a Nature Conservancy restoration ecologist, sprays herbicide to kill tall goldenrod, an invasive species at the Gensburg-Markham Prairie in Markham this month. Continue reading
Climate change analysis predicts increased heat wave fatalities
JHU Gazette: Global climate change is anticipated to bring more extreme weather phenomena such as heat waves that could impact human health in the coming decades. An analysis led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, using three different climate change scenarios for the final decades of the 21st century, calculated that the city of Chicago could experience between 166 and 2,217 excess deaths per year attributable to heat waves. The study was published in the May 1 edition of… Continue reading
United States: Gov. Pat Quinn vetoes coal-to-gas plants
Chicago Tribune: In vetoing two bills Monday that would have paved the way for two coal-to-gas plants to be built in the state, Gov. Continue reading
United States: Gov. Pat Quinn vetoes coal-to-gas plants
Chicago Tribune: In vetoing two bills Monday that would have paved the way for two coal-to-gas plants to be built in the state, Gov. Pat Quinn signaled his support for cleaner uses of Illinois coal but said he would not support the technology at the expense of consumers. The bills would have forced state utilities to buy synthetic natural gas, which was expected to be more expensive than natural gas for the next two decades, from a $3 billion plant on Chicago’s Southeast Side proposed by New York-based Leucadia… Continue reading
