AFP – The chaotic cavalcade of blueish ice tumbling into the sea from the world’s fastest-moving glacier is sounding a daily climate change alarm, say scientists ahead of International Polar Day on Friday.
Greenland’s Jakobshavn glacier sounds climate change alarm (AFP)
The Guatemalan beaded lizard is rumored to be evil, but its venom now used as an effective treatment for diabetes. Too bad there’s only 200 of these mythic lizards left in the wild. Is there still time to save this endangered species so that it can help save us?
Nearly extinct lizard’s venom safely treats diabetes
AFP – President Shimon Peres touted Israel as a future think thank for solutions to global warming, quipping that the sun was a more reliable resource than oil from Saudi Arabia.
Peres says Israel to focus on green energy (AFP)
The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize could go to a climate campaigner such as ex-U.S. Vice-President Al Gore or Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier, reinforcing a view that global warming is a threat to world security, experts say.
Nobel Peace Prize could go to climate campaigner (Reuters)
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Isn’t she great. Apparently there’s also a Levi’s Eco Jean line coming out…
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AFP – Some water restrictions introduced in Australia’s most populous state because of a long-running drought will become permanent because of the threat of global warming, officials said Sunday.
Australia says some water cuts permanent (AFP)
Reuters – The Arctic’s Northwest Passage has opened up fully because of melting sea ice, clearing a long-sought but historically impassable route between Europe and Asia, the European Space Agency said.
