Climate agency pegs 2013 as state’s 14th hottest
2013 warmer than average in Delaware Federal climate scientists today confirmed that Delaware, the Northeast and the nation as a whole notched another warmer than average year in 2013, with Delaware...
View ArticleYou call this cold? Here’s a recollection from 1934.
Even the soon-to-return Polar Vortex is having a tough time beating down the region's (and planet's) generally rising temperature. Northern Delaware's current monthly average temperature as of this...
View ArticleIt’s a bird, alright . . . but which type?
Uncertain bird watchers with iPhones have a new helper. To the rescue is the free, new Cornell Lab of Ornithology iPhone app created with help from the National Science Foundation and several birding...
View ArticleGas-guzzler Guilt Trip? Not so Fast
If folks with alternative energy vehicles look down on your conventional car, consider this: researchers at North Carolina State University have found that even if many more people start buying and...
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service photo (enhanced) It's hard to believe that a bird with so noble a sounding name and appearance as the Snow Goose could over-reproduce itself into the avian equivalent...
View ArticleComment Period Extended for Marine Noise
Federal officials, in the midst of developing guidelines to regulate the impacts of underwater sound on marine mammals, have extended the public comment period on proposed acoustic threshold levels....
View ArticleGreenhouse gas emissions fall; tougher road ahead
CO2 emissions trend, outlook under Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative cap-and-trade program The Energy Information Administration released a striking chart today to highlight reductions in carbon...
View ArticleJanuary cold for Delaware, far from deepest freeze
Tentative Average January temperature for Delaware.Adapted from NOAA report Coldest January ever in Delaware? Not even close. Frigid and mean and snowy as it was at (seemingly endless) times, the first...
View ArticleRecycling and remembering
Navy Photo, 2010 A big, gray part of my life and that of many more floated down the Delaware River early Tuesday on its way to one of the Navy's bigger recycling ventures. Tugs working for Texas-based...
View ArticleGetting Outside, Even in Weather Like This
There's been a lot of buzz over the last few years about unplugging kids and getting them outdoors. But when it's really cold and there's snow and ice it can be hard to motivate anyone to get up off...
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