AP – Cities around the world are facing the danger of rising seas and other disasters related to climate change.
Rising seas threaten 21 mega-cities (AP)
AFP – Malaysia faces the extinction of 45 bird species in the next five to 10 years if it fails to introduce protected areas and breeding programmes for endangered species, a report said Thursday.
45 bird species in Malaysia face extinction: report (AFP)
AFP – Water pollution may already have reached “alarming” levels in China following its industrialisation over the last three decades, the Asian Development Bank said Thursday.
Warning sounded over level of water pollution in China (AFP)
Reuters – The global economic boom has accelerated greenhouse gas emissions to a dangerous threshold not expected for a decade and could potentially cause irreversible climate change, said one of Australia’s leading scientists.
Greenhouse gas emissions hit danger mark
Apparently more and more, the government is putting a price tag on our environment.
AP – A big power company accused of spreading smog and acid rain across a dozen states agreed Tuesday to pay at least $4.6 billion to cut chemical emissions in what the government called the nation’s largest environmental settlement.
Acid rain case settled for $4.6 billion (AP)
AP – Thousands of walrus have appeared on Alaska’s northwest coast in what conservationists are calling a dramatic consequence of global warming melting the Arctic sea ice.
Receding ice displaces Alaska walrus (AP)
What a Dumbass! Another example of President Bush placing money ahead of life.
AFP – US President George W. Bush Friday renewed his opposition to mandatory caps on greenhouse gas emissions, insisting the fight against climate change should not block economic growth.
Bush rejects emissions caps at climate talks (AFP)
AFP – Global warming is believed to be softening the harsh Arctic environment, causing the algae population in Canada’s northernmost lake to spike over the past two centuries, researchers said Wednesday.
Warming linked to ‘unprecedented’ algae growth in Arctic lake (AFP)
