Weekly news update: April 17

Journals

• Global warming-enhanced stratification and mass mortality events in the Mediterranean - PNAS - 4/14/09
• Elevated CO2 stimulates marsh elevation gain, counterbalancing sea-level rise - PNAS - 4/14/09
• NASA ponders 'carbon copy' of crashed mission - Nature - 4/15/09
• Little progress seen at climate talks: Money and targets separate developed and developing countries. - Nature - 4/15/09
• Argentina's dengue-fever outbreak reaches capital - Nature - 4/15/09
   

News

• Another Approach to Low-Carbon Coal – NYTimes  4/15/09
• Reviving the Energy-From-Trash Concept – NYTimes 4/15/09
• The Challenges of Sustainable Seafood – NYTimes 4/13/09
• To breed or not to breed - The Guardian 4/14/09
• World will not meet 2C warming target, climate change experts agree – The Guardian 4/14/09
• Study Finds Pattern of Severe Droughts in Africa – NYTimes 4/16/09
• Debate Over Climate Risks - Natural or Not – NYTimes 4/16/09
  Wind Power Drives Need For Grid Changes – NYTimes – 4/17/09
• Making the Most of Sun and Water in Rural India – NYTimes 4/6/09
   

Wire

• Agriculture: Changing climate could devastate southern Africa's food production - ClimateWire - 4/17/09
• Impacts: Climate change stretching bird migrations - ClimateWire - 4/16/09
• Market: World carbon trading expected to expand sharply, after current dip - ClimateWire - 4/16/09
• CCS: Is there a market for a synthetic tree that can move around? - ClimateWire - 4/13/09
• Public Opinion: Poll spotlights influence of religious groups in climate debate - ClimateWire - 4/17/09
• Impacts: Severe droughts are the norm in Africa, study finds - ClimateWire - 4/17/09
• Emissions: Deep emissions cuts could lessen climate change, study finds - ClimateWire - 4/15/09
• Innovation: Genetic engineering isn't increasing crop production or resistance to climate change -- report - ClimateWire - 4/15/09
• Impacts: Hot and dry piñon pines dying fast - ClimateWire - 4/14/09