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</span>The World Wildlife Fund reports that biodiversity worldwide has dropped 30% since 1970, partly due to climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The overall figure has not changed since the last report 2 years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>In the past 40 years temperate ecosystems have become healthier, offset by a severe decline in the tropics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18060323"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18060323</font></a></p>
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</span>A report from the Demand Institute, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">
The Shifting Nature of US Housing Demand</i>, anticipates that “resilient, walkable” communities will lead the recovery of housing prices, with rises of 3% by 2013 and 5% a year 2014-17.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://demandinstitute.org/sites/default/files/blog-uploads/tdihousingdemand.pdf"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://demandinstitute.org/sites/default/files/blog-uploads/tdihousingdemand.pdf</font></a></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A team from the U of Alaska at Fairbanks has identified about 150,000 methane seeps in Arctic waters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18120093"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18120093</font></a></p>
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</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Kivalina: A Climate Change Story</i> describes the efforts of the citizens of Kivalina, Alaska, to sue multiple fossil fuel interests for damages to their town and for deceiving the public concerning global warming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The suit has been dismissed as “a political question,” and is under appeal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/2187-kivalina-a-climate-change-story"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://truth-out.org/news/item/2187-kivalina-a-climate-change-story</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Christine Shearer describes how she came to write the book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-shearer/my-journey-into-kivalina-_b_790427.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-shearer/my-journey-into-kivalina-_b_790427.html</font></a></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The oceans are a sink for about 94% of the atmospheric carbon produced by humans (as I recall).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>10% of that is stored in sea grasses, which store more carbon per unit area than do forests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/65452"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/65452</font></a></p>
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</span>The boreal forests of Northern Minnesota are undergoing what one forester calls “savannification.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(So is my area of North Florida, according to a conference paper I heard delivered by a UF forestry prof.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2012/05/21/1"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2012/05/21/1</font></a></p>
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</span>Japanese scientists have accounted for a missing .7 mm/year of sea level rise, which they trace to unreplaced withdrawals from aquifers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.chinapost.com.tw/life/environment/2012/05/22/341793/Japanese-scientists.htm"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.chinapost.com.tw/life/environment/2012/05/22/341793/Japanese-scientists.htm</font></a></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri">8.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The natural gas industry is working through the US House to block implementation of a Bush-era mandate that federal buildings reduce energy from fossil fuels 100% by 2030.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(I am including the story even though it concerns pending legislation because it presents so clearly the regulatory situation and the energy conservation effort now underway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>I have hope that the Obama administration will block any such legislation.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>“</font><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #231f20; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">A
<a href="http://www.insideclimatenews.org/news/20120201/green-buildings-architecture-2030-department-of-energy-eia-efficiency-greenhouse-gas-emissions-savings" target="_blank">
<font color="#0000ff">February report</font></a> by Architecture 2030 found the U.S. green building movement is on track to help deliver $3.7 trillion in energy savings by 2030.”</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
</font></span><a href="http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20120517/natural-gas-industry-green-buildings-energy-efficiency-federal-obama-2030-carbon-neutral-section-433-eisa-fracking"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20120517/natural-gas-industry-green-buildings-energy-efficiency-federal-obama-2030-carbon-neutral-section-433-eisa-fracking</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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