Monthly Archives: June 2007

United Kingdom: Warm spring takes fizz out of bubbly

By | Published: June 30, 2007
Telegraph (UK): Champagne producers fear that this year’s vintage is in danger of going flat. Following an unusually warm spring, this summer’s harvest in the Champagne region of France will be the earliest since records began. This has led to predictions of low yields and raised concern that, because early harvests tend to [...]
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South Africa: Q&A: “Species Are Moving Southwards”

By | Published: June 30, 2007
Inter Press Service: For South African author Leonie Joubert, global warming is a grass roots issue — literally. In her recently published book ‘Scorched: South Africa’s Changing Climate’, she tracks how bees, frogs and a multitude of other creatures and plants in the country are affected by climate shifts. The book was given an [...]
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United States: Federal judge stops logging in burned spotted owl habitat

By | Published: June 30, 2007
Associated Press: A federal judge has blocked the U.S. Forest Service from selling burned timber in spotted owl habitat in Oregon until she determines whether the project followed the law. U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken in Eugene granted a temporary restraining order Friday that stops the Deschutes National Forest from offering 190 acres [...]
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Kenya: Crisis looms as rivers around Mt Kenya dry up

By | Published: June 30, 2007
Standard: Joseph Manyara crouches over loose rocks and digs his hands into a muddy sludge seeping with water. Soon, his hands are filled with water, which he empties into a bucket. He repeats the procedure several times, surrounded by scores of impatient children also waiting to fill their buckets from Ngarenaro River on [...]
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United Kingdom: Agency’s flood maps fail to hold water

By | Published: June 30, 2007
Guardian: Thousands of homes across the country have been devastated by floods this week (and the forecasts are for worse to come, as climate change wreaks havoc). But homeowners wanting to check if their property is at risk will find little help from the Environment Agency. The agency’s website, environment-agency.gov.uk, promises anyone who inputs [...]
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United States: Air board official rips aides to Schwarzenegger

By | Published: June 30, 2007
LA Times: The top staffer at the California Air Resources Board said Friday that the state’s landmark Global Warming Solutions Act is being derailed – and that the board itself is in jeopardy – because of mismanagement and deceit by Gov. Schwarzenegger’s top aides and "squabbling" between the governor’s office and the Legislature. [...]
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Water mass in North Atlantic changing

By | Published: June 30, 2007
Science Daily: U.S. researchers say they are seeing a reversal of water mass trends in the North Atlantic. The American Geophysical Union said recent data showing an increase in the temperature of the upper levels of the ocean and a decrease in temperatures at intermediate depths is a reversal of a 20-year trend. [...]
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United Kingdom: Dismal June set to be wettest on record

By | Published: June 30, 2007
Independent (UK): It’s official: it was the wettest June on record in England, and the renewed downpours expected over much of Britain today will probably make it the wettest June recorded in the United Kingdom as a whole. The unprecedented rainfall of the past four weeks and the floods which have followed have [...]
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Live Earth battles for a life on Earth

By | Published: June 30, 2007
Daily Yomiuri: Al Gore has famously called it "an inconvenient truth." In his documentary of that name, the "former next president" of the United States stresses that scientists are actually in agreement that the climate is changing. And while it might be inconvenient for politicians and the general public to engage in steps to combat [...]
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Australia: Beautiful to barren, in fewer than 10 years

By | Published: June 30, 2007
Sydney Morning Herald: ‘I was amazed at the magnificent spectacle; there were egrets nesting in tall trees, birds by the hundreds of thousands," says George Boland, remembering one of the most famous breeding events in NSW, less than a decade ago, on the farm he managed with his son in the Gwydir Valley near Moree. [...]
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Chinese Tire Importer Heads to Bankruptcy

By | Published: June 29, 2007
Company faces state and federal probes into its sale of 450,000 recalled tires from China. Original post by miscellaneous
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July Gas Price Increase Expected

By | Published: June 29, 2007
Unexpected fall in inventories likely to push prices back up, analysts warn. Original post by miscellaneous
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Better Travel Insurance

By admin | Published: June 29, 2007
When I travel to Arizona from Canada, I always purchase additional medical travel insurance, because the medical insurance all us Canadians and Landed Immigrants get here(though the insurance plans — and fees, if any — differ among the different provinces), the Canadian government medical insurance, does not adequately cover the costs that would quickly mount [...]
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America’s Energy IQ

By | Published: June 29, 2007
I already knew that the general population has a poor understanding of energy issues. For that matter, politicians have a poor understanding as well, which is why we find ourselves burdened with… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Original post by miscellaneous
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Why the market cannot solve the environment crisis

By | Published: June 29, 2007
Green Left: The good news is that Australian politicians and corporations are finally recognising that there is an environmental crisis. The bad news is that the "solutions" being promoted by the establishment define what is realistic for capitalism, so the "need" for big business to remain profitable sets the parameters of what is "possible". [...]
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