Karen Mason posted an article on The Passionate Writer - Sep 18, 2011, 3:37 pm
If you’re a Canadian writer and you haven’t yet published, this contest offered by the Writer’s Union of Canada might be for you! It offers a substantial prize of $2,500. Check it out, details below: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for the 19th Annual Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers $2,50...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Aug 11, 2011, 11:38 am
иконографияПравославни икониClimate of Our Future has decided to move to a site that will help us to conserve costs in this time of economic uncertainty. Please follow this link to Climate of Our Future‘s  new site.  You will find the same dedication determined to brin...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Aug 10, 2011, 6:44 pm
Lives and health of millions at stake, groups say August 8, 2011 Washington, D.C. — Earthjustice today is asking a federal appeals court to set an immediate deadline for the Obama Administration to decide whether to strengthen clean air standards for ozone, the main component of urban smog. The...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Aug 9, 2011, 11:35 am
Here is Wallace J. Nichols, PhD incredible “BlueMind: Your Brain On Ocean”  the event was June 2, 2011, but I feel this is a must read.  Thank you J, for your undying love for our planet and mostly our oceans. THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2011 BLUEMIND: Your Brain On Ocean -Wallace J. Nichols, PhD “We ...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Aug 7, 2011, 3:16 pm
This was reported in the Latin American Herald today… MEXICO – Mexican environmental authorities have found waste from at least 45 countries washed up by the ocean onto the Sian Ka’an nature reserve, located on the Mexican Caribbean and declared a World Natural Heritage Site by Unesco in 1987,...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Aug 7, 2011, 3:05 pm

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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Aug 5, 2011, 1:28 pm
икони – Engaging consumers in recycling creates necessary momentum to support recycling infrastructure and economy – STAMFORD, Conn. (Aug. 5, 2011) — National nonprofit Keep America Beautiful (KAB) today announced its strong support of Senate Resolution 251, which was introduced Monday b...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Aug 4, 2011, 7:33 pm
From time to time I like to acknowledge those who work tirelessly behind the scenes so that Climate of Our Future will be a constant in your lives.  Francis Scudellari and I met when I first began Climate of Our Future blog, at that time hosted with MyBlogLog.  He has a style of writing that
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Aug 4, 2011, 12:20 pm
ScienceDaily (Aug. 3, 2011) — Rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels can reverse the drying effects of predicted higher temperatures on semi-arid rangelands, according to a study published in the journal Nature by a team of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and university scientists.  Warmer t...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Aug 2, 2011, 1:54 pm
 Video: Burpee’s Garden Open » About Burpee Media Day 2011:  Burpee’s media day occurs each year in August and provides a one-of-a-kind opportunity for members of the media to experience Burpee’s celebrated new vegetable and flower introductions first-hand.  For the first time, our 2011 ...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Jul 31, 2011, 7:48 am
 EARTHJUSTICE.org House Expands and Votes on Extreme Anti-Environment Spending Bill; Riders tally soars, 192 amendments filed as of this morning, more expected July 30, 2011 Washington, D.C. — The voting on environmentally destructive amendments to the House of Representatives 2012 Interior and ...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Jul 28, 2011, 1:33 pm
Renewable energy supplied an estimated 16% of global final energy consumption; Emerging and developing economies show rising share of renewables policies, investment, supply, and use Washington, D.C.—-The newly released REN21 Renewables 2011 Global Status Report shows that the renewable energy ...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Jul 13, 2011, 10:05 pm
ScienceDaily (July 12, 2011) — One in 10 species could face extinction by the year 2100 if current climate change impacts continue. This is the result of University of Exeter research, examining studies on the effects of recent climate change on plant and animal species and comparing this with pr...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Jul 11, 2011, 10:47 pm
Earthjustice.org Coalition sends letter urging cleanup of slimed rivers and polluted drinking water July 7, 2011 Tallahassee, FL  — The Florida Water Coalition today sent letters to Florida’s Congressional delegation, urging the state’s representatives and senators to support water pollution...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Jul 10, 2011, 1:41 pm
ScienceDaily (July 8, 2011) — An international team of scientists has discovered that the female ancestor of all living polar bears was a brown bear that lived in the vicinity of present-day Britain and Ireland just prior to the peak of the last ice age — 20,000 to 50,000 years ago. Beth Shapir...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Jul 8, 2011, 5:57 pm
July 7, 2011 Washington, D.C.  — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized new limits on interstate air pollution from power plants in the eastern half of the United States. The limits on soot and smog-forming pollutants are intended to make the air safer to breathe by curbing emi...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Jul 4, 2011, 11:23 pm
EarthJustice.org Tuesday, June 28, 2011 California Energy Commission delays permit to study cumulative effect of greenhouse gas emissions July 1, 2011 Oakland, CA — At a hearing in Sacramento on Thursday afternoon, the California Energy Commission withheld final approval of a new gas-fired power ...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Jul 2, 2011, 12:39 am
Climate of Our Future receives numerous requests to have a guest post published.  I look at all requests and try to accept all who genuinely care about our planet.  When I was contacted by Jocelyn Kelley of Kelley & Hall Publicists about a book they were promoting by Caroline Fairless, The Space ...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Jun 28, 2011, 10:55 pm
EarthJustice.org Clean air advocates petition over agency’s free pass for Avenal facility June 28, 2011 Oakland, CA  — Environmental groups are challenging a recent decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to exempt a proposed power plant in central California from pollution laws th...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Jun 25, 2011, 7:17 pm
EarthJustice.org Health protections remain in effect June 24, 2011 Washington, D.C. — Today, the D.C. Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals rejected an industry challenge to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule that cuts toxic air pollution from medical waste incinerators. In addition to the poten...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Jun 22, 2011, 6:08 pm
EarthJustice.org Effort to undo industrial boiler health standard is bad for the American public June 22, 2011 Washington, D.C. — Today, Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA) and 7 other members of the House of Representatives introduced a bill (H.R. 2250) that would give the U.S. Environmental Protection ...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Jun 20, 2011, 10:47 pm
EarthJustice.org Justices deny lawsuit against power plants by holding that EPA has authority to set limits June 20, 2011 Washington, D.C. — Today, in rejecting a climate change pollution lawsuit, the Supreme Court of the United States reaffirmed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s autho...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Jun 19, 2011, 9:23 pm
ScienceDaily (June 17, 2011) — It’s summer wildflower season in the Rocky Mountains, a time when high-peaks meadows are dotted with riotous color. But for how long? Once, wildflower season in montane meadow ecosystems extended throughout the summer months. But now scientists have found a fall-o...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Jun 16, 2011, 8:49 pm
National Geographic magazine’s July issue features  an article about the melting Arctic and its effects on the polar bear population. In the three decades since 1979, the extent of summer ice has declined by 30 percent. In “On Thin Ice,” author Susan McGrath discusses the fact that by 2050, ...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Jun 14, 2011, 10:55 pm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110614115044.htm ScienceDaily (June 14, 2011) — The Gulf of Mexico’s hypoxic zone is predicted to be larger than average this year, due to extreme flooding of the Mississippi River this spring, according to an annual forecast by a team of NOAA-suppor...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Jun 12, 2011, 9:13 pm
EarthJustice.org Judge rules that U.S. Fish and Wildlife acted “capriciously” in claiming threats were no longer present June 10, 2011 Denver, CO  — Yesterday, U.S. District Court judge Walker D. Miller sided with conservation groups and ordered the U.S. Interior Department to reconsider a d...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Jun 11, 2011, 3:17 pm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110609144155.htm ScienceDaily (June 10, 2011) — When NASA’s Aquarius mission launches, its radiometer instruments will take a “skin” reading of the oceans’ salt content at the surface. From these data of salinity in the top 0.4 inch (1 centimet...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Jun 9, 2011, 11:26 pm
EarthJustice.org June 9, 2011 Juneau, AK  — Alaskans concerned about the health and economic impacts of toxic cruise ship pollution are welcoming a ruling issued by the Alaska Superior Court this week. The court held the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation’s 2010 cruise ship wastew...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Jun 8, 2011, 11:40 am
ScienceDaily (June 8, 2011) — The present rate of greenhouse carbon dioxide emissions through fossil fuel burning is higher than that associated with an ancient episode of severe global warming, according to new research. The findings are published online this week by the journal Nature Geoscience...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Jun 4, 2011, 11:36 pm
ScienceDaily (June 3, 2011) — A new study has matched future climate change “hotspots” with regions already suffering chronic food problems to identify highly-vulnerable populations, chiefly in Africa and South Asia, but potentially in China and Latin America as well, where in fewer than 40 ye...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Jun 2, 2011, 10:36 pm
ScienceDaily (June 2, 2011) — Global warming over the next 40 years will cut through Arctic transportation networks like a double-edged sword, limiting access in certain areas and vastly increasing it in others, a new UCLA study predicts “As sea ice continues to melt, accessibility by sea will i...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Jun 1, 2011, 2:56 pm

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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - May 31, 2011, 8:16 pm
EarthJustice.org Waste water from TVA coal plant threatens public May 31, 2011 Nashville, TN  — Conservation groups today filed an appeal before the Tennessee Water Quality Control Board challenging the issuance of a water discharge permit to the Tennessee Valley Authority’s John Sevier Fossil ...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - May 29, 2011, 5:12 pm
EarthJustice.org Lead emissions from fuel continue to endanger public health May 26, 2011 New York, NY — Friends of the Earth, a leading advocate for a healthier environment, sent a notice of intent to sue today to the Environmental Protection Agency regarding its failure to respond to a 2006 peti...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - May 27, 2011, 2:49 pm
EarthJustice.org Groups call for thorough review of pipeline through Endless Mountains region of Pennsylvania May 27, 2011 Washington, D.C. — In an environmental assessment issued today by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the agency tried to make the case that a 39-mile pipeline project t...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - May 25, 2011, 1:52 pm
EarthJustice.org Oppose lawsuit brought by coal company that seeks to overturn EPA’s historic decision to protect West Virginia streams May 25, 2011 Washington, D.C. — Several Appalachian organizations filed a motion today to intervene in defense of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - May 23, 2011, 3:36 pm
Climate of Our Future would love to wish Rachel Carson a very happy Birthday on May 27th!!!  Readers please tweet this on May 27th!!    ”Happy birthday, conservation legend Rachel Carson! http://bit.ly/e1nPmQ“ Monday, April 11, 2011 Open Road Media announces the publication of Rachel Carson�...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - May 20, 2011, 11:07 pm
ScienceDaily (May 17, 2011) — The mass extinction of marine life in our oceans during prehistoric times is a warning that the same could happen again due to high levels of greenhouse gases, according to new research. Professor Martin Kennedy from the University of Adelaide (School of Earth & Envir...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - May 18, 2011, 2:32 pm
EarthJustice.org Continued sale of outdoor wood boilers endangers public health May 18, 2011 Albany, NY — Public health and environmental organizations have asked the Supreme Court of the State of New York to stop the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) from allowing the ...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - May 17, 2011, 10:24 pm

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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - May 17, 2011, 9:06 pm
EarthJustice.org Nearly a quarter of facilities assessed receive poor safety rating; coal ash protection still delayed May 17, 2011 Washington, D.C.  — Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released final assessment reports which detail the structural integrity of coal ash dams. The agen...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - May 15, 2011, 9:55 pm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110513204423.htm ScienceDaily (May 14, 2011) — Recent Landsat satellite data captured by the USGS and NASA on May 10 shows the major flooding of the Mississippi River around Memphis, Tenn. and along the state borders of Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, an...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - May 15, 2011, 12:40 am
ScienceDaily (May 12, 2011) — Climate change in the Arctic is occurring at a faster and more drastic rate than previously assumed, according to experts attending the AMAP conference in Copenhagen. The latest scientific data show that developments in the Arctic’s climate are closely related to de...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - May 13, 2011, 2:00 pm
ScienceDaily (May 12, 2011) — Warning that the risk of dangerous climate change impacts is growing with every ton of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere, a National Research Council committee has reiterated the pressing need for substantial action to limit the magnitude of climate change ...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - May 12, 2011, 3:03 pm
May 12, 2011 Washington, D.C. — By a vote of 243-179 the House of Representatives passed a third drilling bill that aims to increase oil production in the Outer Continental Shelf, leaving southern California, all of the Atlantic Coast, Bristol Bay in Alaska and the Arctic Ocean vulnerable to a BP ...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - May 11, 2011, 3:14 pm
Japan will scrap a plan to obtain half of its electricity from nuclear power and will instead promote renewable energy FULL STORY
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - May 9, 2011, 7:21 pm
EarthJustice.org Congress Tries to Undercut Clean Air Protections for Arctic Ocean Oil The ice and snow are melting. No place to bury our heads anymore. May 6, 2011 Oakland, CA — Who: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will join top government officials from...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - May 7, 2011, 10:25 am
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: Alex Viets, IGSD: +1.213.321.0911, aviets@igsd.org Dramatic Sea Level Rise Expected From Faster Melting of Arctic Snow and Ice Washington, DC, May 6, 2011 – Sea levels could rise up to 5 feet by the end of this century, driven by warming in the Arctic and the re...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - May 5, 2011, 1:03 pm
EarthJustice.org Join the “Blow a Bubble for Clean Air” campaign on Facebook May 3, 2011 Washington, D.C. — Earthjustice launched a Facebook campaign today encouraging Americans to declare their right to breathe clean air by blowing a bubblegum bubble and posting that image as their profile pi...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - May 3, 2011, 6:26 pm
EarthJustice.org Doctors, nurses, clergy and affected citizens travel from across the country to Washington D.C. demanding clean air May 3, 2011 Washington, D.C. — Doctors, nurses, faith and tribal leaders, social justice advocates and affected citizens from all 50 states are convening in Washingt...
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