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They’re icing out rats in Battery Park City. Local maintenance crews are dumping dry ice in the pesky rodents’ burrows in the trendy Lower Manhattan neighborhood so that when it melts, it leaves behind carbon dioxide, which suffocates them. “Here in Battery Park City, we’re no stranger to having rodents, and so we wanted to make sure that we were able to manage them while keeping everything chemical-free,” Ryan Torres, vice president of parks operations at the Battery Park City Authority, recently told The Post. In addition to effectively killing rats, dry ice is hailed as an environmentally sound way...

The US Atlantic coast has become a breeding ground for super-charged hurricanes which are likely to batter coastal communities even harder if the world remains hooked on fossil fuels, a new study found. Global heating caused by greenhouse gas emissions from burning oil, gas and coal is the main factor contributing to increasingly severe storms and flooding affecting the American east coast over the past four decades. Rapid intensification has led to storms gathering strength so quickly it has become increasingly difficult to provide timely warnings and evacuation orders to residents. “The nearshore environment has absolutely become more favorable for...

Scientists are worried the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a "critical aquatic conveyer belt" that drives currents in the Atlantic Ocean, is at risk of near-complete collapse due to climate change, The Washington Post reports.A shutdown of the crucial circulation system could "bring extreme cold to Europe and parts of North America, raise sea levels along the U.S. East Coast, and disrupt seasonal monsoons that provide water to much of the world," the Post reports. The effects, in short, would be devastating."The mere possibility that the AMOC tipping point is close should be enough for us to take countermeasures," warns...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IZSqXUSwHRI&search=gore%20and%20penguinWatch this spoof of an "inconvenient truth".If you loved "March of the Penguins"You'll cry! You'll laugh out loud as Al explains it all.

Crusaders split over how to confront, cope with Xanadu Friday, May 7, 2004 By ALEX NUSSBAUM STAFF WRITER TARIQ ZEHAWI / THE RECORDEnvironmentalists are split on Xanadu. Hackensack Riverkeeper "Captain Bill" Sheehan, above, supports the marshes for Xanadu trade-off. Left photo, the Sierra Club's Jeff Tittel, left, has questions. Fourteen months ago, environmentalists were popping champagne corks.The deal to build a $1.3 billion consumer playground around Continental Arena also meant that 600 acres of wetlands would be permanently preserved. After a decade of fighting, a developer would get to build, but local activists had also saved a marsh in the...