Bloomberg Announces Development, Remediation Plan For Willets Point In Queens

Sixty two acres of rough and tumble small businesses, auto repair shops and iron works in the shadow of Citi Field will be wiped off the map and replaced by a 1 million square-foot mall, hotel, market rate and affordable apartments and office space, CBS 2’s Tony Aiello reported Thursday.  http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/06/14/bloomberg-announces-development-remediation-plan-for-willets-point-in-queens/

Article courtesy of  CBS NYC by Stan Brooks

Sea level could rise 5.5 feet in California

Sea levels along the California coast are expected to rise up to 1 foot in 20 years, 2 feet by 2050 and as much as 5 1/2 feet by the end of the century, climbing slightly more than the global average and increasing the risk of flooding and storm damage, a new study says.  http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-adv-sea-level-20120625,0,7840116.story

Article courtesy of The Los Angeles Times by Tony Barboza

Rising sea level threatens Boston, entire East Coast

As temperatures are projected to climb, polar ice to melt, and oceans to swell over the coming decades, Boston is likely to bear a disproportionate impact of rising sea levels, government scientists report in a new study.  http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012/06/25/sea_level_rising_3_4_times_faster_along_east_coast_than_globally_government_report_finds/?p1=News_links  Article courtesy of The Boston Globe by David Abel

Study predicts more hot spells in Southern California

By the middle of the century, the number of days with temperatures above 95 degrees each year will triple in downtown Los Angeles, quadruple in portions of the San Fernando Valley and even jump five-fold in a portion of the High Desert in L.A. County, according to a new UCLA climate change study. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-heat-20120621,0,1178174.story

Article courtesy of The Los Angeles Times by Louis Sahagun

Searing questions on massive solar experiment in Mojave Desert

IVANPAH VALLEY, Calif. — At what temperature might a songbird vaporize?

Will the glare from five square miles of mirrors create a distraction for highway drivers?

Can plumes of superheated air create enough turbulence to flip a small airplane?

What happens if one of the Air Force's heat-seeking missiles confuses a solar power plant with a military training target?  http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-solar-heat-plume-20120621,0,917543.story

Article courtesy of The Los Angeles Time by Julie Cart

Earth may be near tipping point, scientists warn

A group of international scientists is sounding a global alarm, warning that population growth, climate change and environmental destruction are pushing Earth toward calamitous — and irreversible — biological changes.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0607-global-tipping-20120607,0,4125302.story

Article courtesy of The Los Angeles Times by Bettina Boxall

Underground carbon dioxide storage likely would cause earthquakes

The notion of mitigating harmful carbon dioxide emissions by storing the gas underground is not practical because the process is likely to cause earthquakes that would release the gas anyway, according to a commentary published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-carbon-storage-may-cause-earthquakes-20120618,0,5073255.story?track=rss

Article courtesy of The Los Angeles Times-Science Now by Jon Bardin, Los Angles Times /For the Science Now blog