Reuters – A thin winter green carpets Australia’s southeast hills and plains, camouflaging the onset of a drought catastrophe in the nation’s food bowl.
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Cappuccino Coast: The day the Pacific was whipped up into an ocean of froth
It stretched for 30 miles out into the Pacific in a phenomenon not seen at the beach for more than three decades.
Scientists explain that the foam is created by impurities in the ocean, such as salts, chemicals, dead plants, decomposed fish and excretions from seaweed.
AFP – Natural disasters are far more destructive than wars, and the damage will only worsen unless drastic change is taken to address global climate change, a former UN humanitarian chief said Tuesday.
LiveScience.com – Scientists had predicted that global warming ought to increase rainfall in the tropics. Now NASA researchers say it has.
As Predicted, Global Warming Fuels More Tropical Rainfall (LiveScience.com)
Seems like the Bush Administration and their “LOVE” of Oil is getting in the way of progress once again. Way to f-ck up other countries, our country and our environment President MonkeyFace…
The EPA ? seemingly defying both common sense and safety concerns ? recently issued an analysis concluding that the risks to human health and the environment posed by oil refinery emissions were low enough to warrant no further regulations…
AFP – Global warming is set to cut China’s annual grain harvest by up to 10 percent by 2030, placing extra burden on its shrinking farmland, state press reported Thursday.
Seriously? Who put this man in charge?
The Bush administration is set to issue a regulation that would enshrine a coal mining that involves blasting off the tops of mountains and dumping the debris in valleys.
Way to kill us all President Shmuckface!
Uh oh, it looks like the Bush administration has some ‘splainin to do. The U.S. government has violated federal law by failing to produce a study on the impact on global warming, now nearly two years overdue, a federal judge ruled. Judge Saundra B. Armstrong of Federal District Court in Oakland Calif., said the administration has “unlawfully withheld action” required under the Global Change Research Act of 1990 to update a research plan and scientific assessment of climate change and its effects on the environment, including land, water, air, plant and animal life, and human health….
President Bush Ordered to Release Overdue Global-Warming Plan
