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August 3, 2008
Spain: From Spain to New York, to Australia, Japan and Hawaii, jellyfish are becoming more numerous and more widespread. They are showing up in places where they have rarely been seen before, scientists say. The explosion of jellyfish populations, scientists say, reflects a combination of severe overfishing of natural predators, such as tuna, sharks and swordfish; rising sea temperatures caused in part by global warming; and pollution that has depleted oxygen levels in coastal shallows.
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_10080759?source=rss

August 2, 2008
Arctic: In 2007 the sea ice at the North Pole was at its thinnest since records began. While the ice at the North Pole used to be thick "old" ice, much of it now is thinner first-year ice, which has had only a single winter to grow.
http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg19926673.400-arctic-ice-continues-to-thin.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news2_head_mg19926673.400

August 1, 2008
Arctic: Thawing permafrost, eroding lakeshores, a melting glacier and fears of flash floods at a national park on Baffin Island have forced the evacuation of 21 tourists and led officials to declare much of the wilderness reserve off-limits.
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=df4096b2-211f-4458-9387-93bd95729ff8

July 31, 2008
Grist: By century's end, extreme temperatures of up to 122°F would threaten most of the central, southern, and western U.S. Even worse, Houston and Washington, D.C. could experience temperatures exceeding 98°F for some 60 days a year.
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/7/31/12716/6312

July 30, 2008
California: Newly found mud pots and mud volcanoes now suggest that the San Andreas fault extends another 18 miles, going under the Salton Sea and beyond, in the desert southeast of Palm Springs.
http://news.aol.com/article/san-andreas-fault-longer-than-thought/108930

July 30, 2008
California: Despite shaking a large swath of Southern California, a magnitude-5.4 earthquake was not the "Big One" that scientists have long feared.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/07/29/state/n114525D55.DTL&feed=rss.news

July 29, 2008
Arctic: A chunk of ice spreading across seven square miles has broken off a Canadian ice shelf in the Arctic according to scientists - they were careful not to blame global warming, but said it the event was consistent with the theory that the current Arctic climate isn't rebuilding ice sheets.
http://news.aol.com/article/huge-ice-sheet-breaks-loose-in-arctic/107343

July 29, 2008
California: Visitors to Yosemite National Park weighed whether to cut their vacations short as a destructive wildfire raging miles from the famed wilderness threatened thousands of homes and left evacuees stranded. The blaze tearing through a steep, dry river canyon had destroyed 25 homes, and has forced the evacuation of about 300 homes in the nearby towns of Midpines and Coulterville and is endangering as many as 4,000 others.
http://news.aol.com/article/wildfire-threatens-thousands-of-homes/102378

July 28, 2008
SCIAM: A new study confirms that coral reefs could become yet another casualty of climate change if something is not done to cool the warming globe. The reason: marine cements that bind together reefs can't form in waters full of dissolved carbon dioxide (CO2).
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=coral-reefs-lose-grip-under-global-warming

July 26, 2008
U.K.: Numbers of puffins at England's largest colony, on the Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast, have mysteriously tumbled by a third in the past five years. Possible factors behind the decline are not yet properly understood but according to the trust, "this dramatic drop in numbers would suggest there is something happening at sea during the winter, for example, an intensification of storms as a result of our changing climate which could affect the ability of puffins to find food."
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/mystery-of-tumbling-puffin-population-877794.html

July 25, 2008
Washington: An EPA study concluded that "sea level rise will continue and exacerbate storm surge flooding and coastline erosion … in areas where heat waves already occur, they are expected to be more intense, more frequent, and longer-lasting." The EPA study also predicted that warming temperatures would lead to more wildfires in western US states and "additional strain" on already overtaxed water resources in the dry south-east and western regions.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jul/25/carbonemissions.climatechange?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews

July 24, 2008
Missouri: Rising temperatures and reduced water supply could cost Kansas more than $1 billion in agriculture losses by 2017, according to a new study from the University of Maryland's Center for Integrative Environmental Research.
http://www.kansas.com/news/updates/story/473457.html

July 23, 2008
Maryland: Climate change will carry a price tag of billions of dollars for a number of U.S. states, says a new series of reports from the University of Maryland's Center for Integrative Environmental Research (CIER). The researchers conclude that the costs have already begun to accrue and are likely to endure.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-07/uom-coc072308.php

July 23, 2008
Texas: Hurricane Dolly strengthened to a Category 2 as its leading edge lashed the Gulf Coast near the Texas-Mexico border with heavy rain and powerful winds. The hurricane is expected to dump up to 15 inches of rain, threatening flooding that could breach levees in the heavily populated Rio Grande valley.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/614606.html

July 21, 2008
CToday: The world's wetlands, threatened by development, dehydration and climate change, could release a planet-warming "carbon bomb" if they are destroyed, ecological scientists said on Sunday. Wetlands contain 771 billion tons of greenhouse gases, one-fifth of all the carbon on Earth and about the same amount of carbon as is now in the atmosphere, the scientists said before an international conference linking wetlands and global warming.
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/wetlands.could.unleash.carbon.bomb/20718.htm

July 21, 2008
San Francisco: California has been hit by 2,000 fires this year, and climate scientists are predicting that the situation will worsen as temperatures rise. The American West has been warming dramatically during the past 60 years at a rate surpassed only by Alaska. This year has been particularly dry for California, with less snowfall, earlier snowmelt and lower summer river flows.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/20/MNSC11Q7RD.DTL

July 21, 2008
ScienceDaily: The combined average global land and ocean surface temperatures for June 2008 ranked eighth warmest for June since worldwide records began in 1880, according to an analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. Also, globally it was the ninth warmest January – June period on record.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080720215335.htm

July 20, 2008
Australia: Up to a million people in Australia could face a shortage of drinking water if the country's drought continues, a report on the state of the nation's largest river system revealed.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080720/ts_afp/australiadroughtenvironment_080720093807

July 17, 2008
Antarctic: A new global warming threat to the fragile marine ecosystems of Antarctica has been identified, with the discovery that an increasing number of icebergs are tearing up the sea floor and destroying any life in their way.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4352962.ece

July 17, 2008
peopleandplanet: Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the burning of fossil fuels stood at a record 8.38 gigatons of carbon (GtC) in 2006, 20 per cent above the level in 2000.
http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=3339

July 17, 2008
Washington: The US Environmental Protection Agency said on Monday that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, a critical finding that has languished in bureaucratic limbo since last December. In a 149-page document, the agency's scientists said that "warming of the climate system is unequivocal" and that potential health risks include more heat waves, floods and droughts, insect outbreaks and and wildfires, along with crop failure and decline in livestock and fisheries productivity.
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/49370/story.htm

July 16, 2008
NewScientist: If atmospheric temperatures rise by 3 to 5 °C by the year 2100, most models predict spring snowmelt will start about a month earlier than today. Scientists at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, built an updated model that included detailed data about where snow lies. This showed that in some regions a two-month shift is more likely.
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/mg19926655.500-shifts-in-us-spring-melt-out-by-a-month.html?feedId=climate-change_rss20

July 16, 2008
Montana: As wildfires roar through tinder-dry forests in California, the mountain pine beetle is silently killing even more trees — hundreds of thousands of acres of towering trees, mostly lodgepole pine, according to Robert Mangold, director of Forest Health Protection for the U.S. Forest Service. An epidemic of this magnitude hasn't been seen in the Mountain West in 25 years, he said. In 2007, the beetles were blamed for killing 3.9 million acres of trees in Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Washington, Mangold said.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2008-07-15-beetle-threat_N.htm?csp=34

July 14, 2008
Worldwatch: The trend of more frequent global natural disasters continues, due to an onslaught of weather-related crises in the first half of 2008. The total number of disasters as of June 30, 2008 already exceeds the average number of disasters recorded at mid-year over the past decade. During the first half of each year between 1998 and 2007, the average number of disasters recorded was 380. So far in 2008, 400 disasters have been reported, according to data released last week by Munich Re, a German reinsurance group.
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/5825

July 14, 2008
BBC: Demand for land to grow food, fuel crops and wood is set to outstrip supply, leading to the probable destruction of forests, a report warns. The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) says only half of the extra land needed by 2030 is available without eating into tropical forested areas.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7503304.stm

July 13, 2008
Alaska: A volcano erupted with little warning on a remote island in Alaska, sending residents of a nearby ranch fleeing from falling ash and volcanic rock.
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/remote-volcano-in-alaska-erupts/20080713095609990001?icid=200100397x1205673113x1200274338

July 11, 2008
California: Officials have said this unprecedented fire season, plagued by drought and high temperatures, has seen the most fires burning at any one time in recorded California history. Most of the blazes began during a massive June 21 lightning storm that sparked 800 wildfires across Northern California.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,380921,00.html

July 11, 2008
EPA: Smog is most likely to get worse in the Northeast, lower Midwest, and mid-Atlantic regions of the country, where numerous counties and cities are already struggling to clean up the air, according to a draft analysis by the Environmental Protection Agency.
http://www.physorg.com/news134969903.html

July 10, 2008
Florida: Coastal communities will be seriously affected as the world's coral reefs gradually decline under climate change, scientists say. The reefs are already dying at an increasing rate because of global warming and acidification of the oceans, said researchers meeting this week at the International Coral Research Symposium (ICRS) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
http://news.theage.com.au/national/coral-reef-deaths-bring-bleak-outlook-20080710-3cvl.html

July 10, 2008
Arctic: The Wilkins Ice Shelf is experiencing further disintegration that is threatening the collapse of the ice bridge connecting the shelf to Charcot Island. The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) said: "Wilkins Ice Shelf is the most recent in a long, and growing, list of ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula that are responding to the rapid warming that has occurred in this area over the last fifty years."
http://www.physorg.com/news134908534.html

July 9, 2008
California: Authorities ordered more than 10,000 residents of Paradise, California, to leave their homes as a stubborn wildfire threatened to jump a river and spread into town where a blaze destroyed 74 homes.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N09359043.htm

July 8, 2008
Physorg: A new equation developed by a University of Michigan atmospheric and planetary scientist, could allow scientists to more accurately calculate the maximum expected intensity of a spiraling storm based on the depth of the troposphere and the temperature and humidity of the air in the storm's path. "This model allows us to relate changes in storms' intensity to environmental conditions. It shows us that climate change could lead to increases in how efficient convective vortices are and how much energy they transform into wind. Fueled by warmer and moister air, there will be stronger and deeper storms in the future that reach higher into the atmosphere."
http://www.physorg.com/news134752375.html

July 8, 2008
Argentina: A huge ice dam on Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier will break apart for the first time in the southern hemisphere winter, likely as a result of global warming, according to scientists and environmentalists.
http://www.physorg.com/news134708599.html

July 6, 2008
California: The current onslaught of wildfire “is what we’ve been projecting to happen, both in short-term fire forecasts and the longer term patterns that can be linked to global climate change,” said a professor at Oregon State University: “What I would tell people is that what they’re experiencing is very consistent with global warming.” Wildfires in the western U.S. now occur more frequently, last longer, and cover more ground than they did in the past. A 2006 study published in Science found that since 1986, the number of major wildfires has increased by 400 percent, and the amount of land these fires burned increased by 600 percent, compared to the period from 1970 to 1986.
http://www.independent.com/news/2008/jul/06/gap-fire-sign-global-warming/

July 6, 2008
ScienceDaily: A scientist at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology noted that the oceans have absorbed about 40% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted by humans over the past two centuries. This has slowed global warming, but at a serious cost: the extra carbon dioxide has caused the ocean's average surface pH (a measure of water's acidity) to shift by about 0.1 unit from pre-industrial levels. Depending on the rate and magnitude of future emissions, the ocean's pH could drop by as much as 0.35 units by the mid-21st century. This acidification can seriously damage marine organisms.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080703140716.htm

July 4, 2008
U.N.: Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), delivered the bleak warning at a gathering of European Union ministers - "we would have to stabilise the greenhouse-gas concentration at more or less the level at which we are today...But in order to do that, we have a window of opportunity of only seven years because emissions will have to peak by 2015 and reduce after that. We cannot permit a longer delay." Pachauri also sounded a note of caution about the 2 C (3.6 F) figure, as evidence was mounting that climate change was accelerating faster than thought. Heatwaves and floods were increasing, and higher temperatures were having a far-reaching effect on glaciers and snowfall.
http://www.physorg.com/news134398515.html

July 4, 2008
California: A total of 367 wildfires were burning across the state, most ignited by lightning, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and the U.S. Forest Service. That figure was down from a peak of roughly 1,500 fires just a few days ago. A ferocious wildfire burning through the Los Padres National Forest continued creeping closer to Big Sur, after jumping a fire line and claiming several more homes. Locals who feared for their homes and businesses also had to worry about lost revenue during peak season.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/west/view.bg?articleid=1104989&srvc=rss

July 3, 2008
Miami: Tropical Storm Bertha has formed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa, the second named storm of the season.
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/tropical-storm-bertha-forms-in-atlantic/20080703085809990001

July 2, 2008
Washington: Computer model shows that by the end of the century, high temperatures for once-in-a-generation heat waves will rise twice as fast as everyday average temperatures. Chicago, for example, would reach 115 degrees in such an event by 2100. Paris heat waves could near 109 with Lyon coming closer to 114. A scientist with the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, projects temperatures for rare heat waves around the world in a study soon to be published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
http://www.nbc5.com/weather/16772494/detail.htmlrss=chi&psp=nationalnews

July 2, 2008
Nature: An increasing number of species are migrating in response to global warming; some alpine organisms are climbing to higher altitudes, others animals are moving towards the poles. A new study suggests that as sea temperatures rise, many fish may be electing to move into deeper, cooler waters, rather than moving to higher latitudes as many theorists had previously predicted.
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080702/full/news.2008.929.html?s=news_rss

July 2, 2008
New Guinea: Using satellite images to reveal changes in forest cover between 1972 and 2002 ... Papua New Guinea lost more than 5 million hectares of forest over the past three decades ... Worse, deforestation rates may be accelerating, with the pace of forest clearing reaching 362,000 hectares (895,000 acres) per year in 2001. The study warns that at current rates 53 percent of the country's forests could be lost or seriously degraded by 2021.
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/7/1/132058/2810

July 1, 2008
Washington: The dwindling march of the penguins is signaling that the world's oceans are in trouble according to scientists.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25465332/

June 29, 2008
Missouri: Once the Mississippi River starts to recede from another great flood, the tiny river towns that dot its banks in Missouri and Illinois will once again face the question: return and rebuild, or relocate?
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=5270817

June 28, 2008
California: Hundreds of lightning-sparked wildfires have turned the air of Northern California into an unhealthy stew of smoke and ash, forcing the cancellation of athletic events and other outdoor activities.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080628.wwildfires0628/BNStory/International/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20080628.wwildfires0628

June 27, 2008
CNN: The North Pole may be briefly ice-free by September as global warming melts away Arctic sea ice, according to scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado. The ice retreated to a record level in September when the Northwest Passage -- the sea route through the Arctic Ocean -- opened up briefly for the first time in recorded history.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/weather/06/27/north.pole.melting/index.html?section=cnn_latest

June 27, 2008
Missouri: Another levee has been lost at the eastern Missouri town of Winfield, but emergency workers are still hoping to save about 100 homes.
http://www.wtol.com/global/story.asp?s=8565273

June 26, 2008
London: Rising temperatures have forced many plants to creep to higher elevations to survive, researchers reported. More than two-thirds of the plants studied along six West European mountain ranges climbed an average of 29 meters (95 feet) in altitude in each decade since 1905 to better conditions on higher ground, the researchers reported in the journal.
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL2680190120080626?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews

June 26, 2008
California: Flames from a huge wildfire burning through a national forest inched toward the scenic tourist town of Big Sur, where firefighters rushed to protect historic structures and hundreds of homes.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/06/24/state/n150800D07.DTL&feed=rss.news

June 26, 2008
Chicago: Extreme floods and droughts brought on by climate change can turn normally harmless infections into significant threats, international researchers said. Further, they said weather extremes can create conditions in which several fairly harmless diseases converge at once, creating a "one-two punch" that can devastate populations of wildlife or livestock.
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN2438313620080625?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews

June 25, 2008
Washington: Global warming is likely to increase illegal immigration, create humanitarian disasters and destabilize precarious governments in political hot spots, all of which could affect U.S. national security, according to an assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-06-25-warming-report_N.htm?csp=34

June 24, 2008
Washington: 'We're toast' without action on global warming, warns James Hanson from NASA. He said Earth's atmosphere can stay this loaded with man-made carbon dioxide for only a couple more decades without changes such as mass extinction, ecosystem collapse and dramatic sea level rises.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/06/24/globalwarming.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest

June 22, 2008
California: Wildfires were scattered around Northern California on Sunday in the heart of wine country and in remote forests, the latest in what has become an unusually destructive year. State officials said lightning started more than 500 fires.
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/california-battles-hundreds-of-blazes/20080621093409990001

June 21, 2008
Wisconsin: Sea level changes a driving force in mass extinctions according to an extensive study by a University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor published in the journal Nature. Changes in ocean environments related to sea level exert a driving influence on rates of extinction, which animals and plants survive or vanish, and the composition of life in the ocean.
http://www.madison.com/tct/news/stories/292715

June 21, 2008
NewScientist: Much of the north-western US wilderness is already a tinderbox, but thanks to global warming, wildfires will be scorching even more land every year by the end of the century.
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/mg19826615.500-global-warming-to-increase-us-wildfires.html?feedId=climate-change_rss20

June 21, 2008
Los Angeles: An extreme heat wave blanketing much of the California coast showed no signs of letting up as temperatures headed back toward triple digits.
http://www.syracuse.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/national-105/121407355116840.xml&storylist=topstories

June 21, 2008
San Francisco: A fast-moving fire erupted along the Northern California coast, burning homes, forcing hundreds of residents to flee.
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/hundreds-flee-california-wildfire/20080621093409990001

June 20, 2008
Missouri: Three Mississippi River levees broke Thursday in Lincoln County, sending a creeping wave of water toward Foley and causing more concern in nearby Winfield. The river was overflowing 90 percent of the levees in eastern Lincoln County, and at least four more breaches were expected to aggravate the flooding.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=5209696

June 20, 2008
Washington: Floodwaters loaded with farm runoff are heading down the Mississippi River, and scientists fear the deluge will dramatically increase this summer's dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, covering an area the size of Maryland.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080620/ap_on_sc/sci_midwest_flooding_dead_zone

June 20, 2008
Chicago: The sprawling network of levees — built over many years to protect the Upper Mississippi basin from the sort of disastrous flooding that has claimed homes, lives, and millions of acres of farmland — was never designed to withstand the magnitude of a 500-year flood. And so towns like Gulfport, Ill., and La Grange, Mo., have watched as waters spilled over the tops of levees that were supposed to keep them dry.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080620/ts_csm/alevees_1

June 20, 2008
Dallas: The first report to assess observed and projected changes in weather and climate extremes for the U.S. was released by the government's Climate Change Science Program. According to the report, significant changes in extreme weather events have been observed throughout the U.S., including unusually hot days and nights, fewer unusually cold days and nights, fewer frost days and more frequent and intense heavy downpours.
http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2008/06/16/daily44.html?ana=from_rss

June 19, 2008
AlterNet: Scientists acknowledge an uncomfortable fact: global warming is the real cause of extreme weather like the Midwest floods.
http://www.alternet.org/environment/88739/

June 18, 2008
Iowa: Storms and flooding across six states this month have killed 24 people, injured 148 and caused more than $1.5 billion in estimated damage in Iowa alone — a figure that's likely to increase as river levels climb in Missouri and Illinois.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=5189162

June 18, 2008
Paris: The dramatic proliferation of jellyfish in oceans around the world, driven by overfishing and climate change, is a sure sign of ecosystems out of kilter, warn experts.
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/story.html?id=df0dd5f7-2074-4ed7-8a1f-84b2499de430

June 18, 2008
PhysOrg: New research suggests that ocean temperature and associated sea level increases between 1961 and 2003 were 50 percent larger than estimated in the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. An international team of researchers compared climate models with improved observations that show sea levels rose by 1.5 millimeters per year in the period from 1961-2003. That equates to an approximately 2½-inch increase in ocean levels in a 42-year span.
http://www.physorg.com/news133019164.html

June 18, 2008
U.N.: The UNHCR says climate change is expected to drive increasing numbers of people from their homes as more conflicts are fuelled by water scarcity and a lack of food.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/080618/21/17bx6.html

June 18, 2008
Australia: New research compiled by an Australian scientist shows that global seismic activity on Earth is now five times more energetic than it was just 20 years ago. The research proves that destructive ability of earthquakes on Earth increases alarmingly fast and that this trend is set to continue, unless the problem of "global warming" is comprehensively and urgently addressed. The analysis of more than 386,000 earthquakes between 1973 and 2007 recorded on the US Geological Survey database proved that the global annual energy of earthquakes on Earth began increasing very fast since 1990.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/earthquakes-became-five-times-more,437288.shtml

June 17, 2008
Sydney: Beautiful coral reefs are increasingly under threat from climate change, and so are 4,000 species of fish, critically dependent on them for food, shelter or reproduction, warns a study.
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080053330&ch=6/19/2008%207:33:00%20AM

June 15, 2008
Manila: Indigenous peoples (IPs) are among the major victims of climate change. which threatens their very existence.
http://bulatlat.com/2008/06/ips-among-main-victims-climate-change-land-grabbing-environmental-destruction

June 14, 2008
NewScientist: Ocean changes may trigger US megadrought: The team found that the impact of these sea surface temperature changes differs by season. The effects of a change in the Pacific would hit mainly in winter: ocean cooling of 3 °C would reduce the occurrence of winter storms. Meanwhile, effects of changes in the Atlantic would strike mainly in summer: warming of 1 °C would reduce the transport of moisture to the Great Plains of the central US and western parts of the continent. When both these effects occur together, North America suffers a megadrought.
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg19826604.300-ocean-changes-may-trigger-us-megadrought.html?feedId=online-news_rss20

June 14, 2008
Iowa: Des Moines Levee Fails - Iowa's Cedar River slowly receding but Cedar Rapids will remain flooded for days.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=5104100

June 14, 2008
U.K.: The permafrost belt stretching across Siberia to Alaska and Canada could start melting three times faster than expected because of the speed at which Arctic Sea ice is disappearing.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/arctic-thaw-threatens-siberian-permafrost-846951.html

June 13, 2008
Washington: The National Climatic Data Center said the global land surface temperature for spring was 1.87 degrees F above the 20th century mean of 46.4 degrees F and tied with 2000 as third warmest. The global ocean surface temperature for spring was 0.59 degrees Fabove the 20th century mean of 61.0 degrees F and ranked 10th warmest.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/2008-06-13-seventh-warmest-spring-temperatures_N.htm?csp=34

June 13, 2008
California: Hundreds of firefighters struggled to gain control of a series of wildfires burning across Northern California, including a raging forest fire that forced hundreds to leave their homes in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
http://www.charlotte.com/nation/story/666817.html

June 12, 2008
Greenland: Another study adds weight to the conclusion that Greenland's ice sheet is melting faster than predicted by the United Nations, and that sea level could rise faster than predicted around the world. The International Polar Year study from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks showed a doubling of freshwater runoff, in the form of melting and iceberg calving, from Greenland by the end of this century. That level of melting would result in an annual rise of sea levels 45% greater than previously predicted – 1.6 millimeters a year, rather than 1.1. Another recent study predicted that sea levels would rise two times as fast as previously thought because of the rapid melting of Greenland.
http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/greenland-melting-47061204

June 12, 2008
Iowa: The Cedar River poured over its banks, forcing the evacuation of more than 3,000 homes, causing a railroad bridge to collapse and leaving cars underwater on downtown streets. Officials estimated that 100 blocks were underwater in Cedar Rapids, where several days of preparation could not hold back the rain-swollen river. "We are seeing a historic hydrological event taking place with unprecedented river levels occurring," said a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Davenport. "We're in uncharted territory - this is an event beyond what anybody could even imagine."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004473501_apmidwestflooding.html?syndication=rss

June 12, 2008
Chicago: A tornado hit a Boy Scout camp in western Iowa leaving four dead and about 40 others injured, according to Iowa Homeland Security officials.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/11/AR2008061103820.html

June 11, 2008
Stockholm: Europe could face an increase in outbreaks of diseases carried by insects and rodents as the climate on the continent becomes hotter and wetter, according to EU health experts.
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1213275732.57

June 11, 2008
New Jersey: Extreme thunderstorms swept through New Jersey, cutting the power to a few hundred thousand homes.
http://www.njherald.com/story/12OUTAGES-web

June 11, 2008
Wisconsin: The Cedar River had been expected to top the levee in Cedar Falls overnight, but the sandbags appeared to be holding. The river had fallen to 101.8 feet shortly before 5 a.m., down from 102 feet several hours earlier. The previous record was 99.2 feet in 1999.
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/soaked-midwest-braces-for-more-flooding/20080607171509990002

June 10, 208
NCAR: The rate of climate warming over northern Alaska, Canada, and Russia could more than triple during periods of rapid sea ice loss, according to a new study led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The findings raise concerns about the thawing of permafrost, or permanently frozen soil, and the potential consequences for sensitive ecosystems, human infrastructure, and the release of additional greenhouse gases.
http://www.physorg.com/news132322491.html

June 10, 2008
South Africa: The United Nations environment agency unveiled a new atlas Tuesday that shows what the agency says are the dramatic effects of climate change on Africa.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=5039687

June 10, 2008
California: A 2.5-square mile wildfire destroyed 21 homes and about 30 other structures in Palermo, a town of about 5,000 residents.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/sns-ap-wildfires,0,911895.story?track=rss

June 10, 2008
Scotland: Last month was the warmest May in Scotland since records began in 1914, according to Met Office data. The statistics showed May was also the fourth driest recorded, with just 34% of the usual rain for the month.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/7447016.stm

June 10, 2008
Wisconsin: Engineers and National Guard teams examined dams across this storm-deluged state Tuesday looking for signs of damage from the high water that led to the major collapse that nearly emptied Lake Delton.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/10/national/main4170700.shtml

June 9, 2008
Tokyo: Planet-warming carbon emissions will rise 130 percent and oil demand will rise 70 percent by 2050 under current government policies, the International Energy Agency warned in a report on Friday.
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/48692/story.htm

June 9, 2008
Wisconsin: Floodwater washed away four houses and threatened dams in Wisconsin today as military crews joined desperate sandbagging operations to hold back Indiana streams surging toward record levels. Ten deaths were blamed on stormy weekend weather, most in the Midwest.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/midwest/view.bg?articleid=1099653&srvc=rss

June 9, 2008
USDA: Elevated levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) could promote the growth of purple and yellow nutsedge—quick-growing invasive weeds that plague farmers and gardeners in many states, and in particular the south.
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2008/080609.htm

June 8, 2008
North Carolina: According to the National Weather Service temperatures set record highs in several locations across North Carolina as an early heat wave baked the east and southeast.
http://topsailweather.com/content/

June 7, 2008
California: 10,000 gigatons of methane - a greenhouse gas - is trapped under the ice cap in high latitudes at the top of the world. If the ice cap melts - as the Greenland ice sheet rapidly is - the methane will be released (and methane is 50 times more active than carbon as a greenhouse gas) causing a potential rapid tipping point, according to a respected scientist.
http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_9518593?source=rss

June 7, 2008
Indiana: Heavy rains — as much as 11 inches in a few communities– flooded central Indiana, testing levees and forcing many to find safety atop rooftops.
http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/07/heavy-rains-pound-central-indiana/

June 7, 2008
Chicago: Video of the Chicago area tornado on June 7, 2008.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=j2mRjGQZW3I&feature=user

June 6, 2008
U.K.: A catastrophic water shortage could prove an even bigger threat to mankind this century than soaring food prices and the relentless exhaustion of energy reserves, according to a panel of global experts at the Goldman Sachs "Top Five Risks" conference.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/06/05/ccwater105.xml

June 6, 2008
Minnesota: An extreme storm packing at least one tornado raked a half-mile-wide path of destruction in northwestern Minnesota, ripping up roofs and trees and pushing cars off the road Friday, the National Weather Service said.
http://real-us.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080606/ap_on_re_us/severe_weather

June 5, 2008
California: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a statewide drought after two years of below-average rainfall, low snow-melt runoff and a court-ordered restriction on water transfers.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/05/california.drought.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest

June 5, 2008
Wellington: The president of the low-lying Pacific atoll nation of Kiribati said Thursday his country may already be doomed because of climate change.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080605/sc_afp/nzealandclimateenvironment_080605091135

June 5, 2008
Rome: High food prices may add pressure for more fishing along coasts where the environment faces threats from pollution and climate change, according to a UN University report. "The decline is terminal, unless we introduce much more effective management immediately," said the study by the university's International Network on Water, Environment and Health (INWEH).
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/48635/story.htm

June 4, 2008
Spain: Warming seawater, melting sea ice and glaciers, sea level rise, storm intensification, changes in ocean currents, growing "dead zones", and ocean acidification are just some of the signs that the oceans that cover 71 percent of our watery planet are changing.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42662

June 2, 2008
Chicago: Surprising research suggests that childhood cancer is most common in the Northeast, results that even caught experts off guard. Environmental factors might play a role, including exposure to radiation, said lead author Dr. Jun Li of the CDC. Radiation has been linked with the most common types of childhood cancer - leukemia, lymphoma and brain cancers. Dr. Lindsay Frazier, a cancer specialist at Children's Hospital Boston and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, said pollution and housing stock that's older than anywhere else in the nation might help explain the Northeast's higher rates.
http://news.aol.com/health/story/ar/_a/childhood-cancer-highest-in-northeast/20080602094809990002

June 1, 2008
Time: The problem is that the sheer amount of greenhouse gases we've already pumped into the atmosphere has irreversibly bound us to a certain amount of warming over the next several decades — no matter what we do, we'll have to adapt to it. That means climate change isn't a problem for tomorrow; the effects are happening now. Already precipitation patterns seem to be changing, making some drier areas — like the arid American southwest — even drier, and rainy regions even wetter.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1811058,00.html?xid=rss-health

May 31, 2008
China: China is experiencing the warmest spring temperatures the country has felt in 57 years, weather experts say.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/05/31/China_has_warmest_spring_in_57_years/UPI-16501212254414/

May 31, 2008
Alternet: With 150 dead zones in our oceans, some the size of Ireland, author Taras Grescoe argues that there's been a massive die out of sea life.
http://www.alternet.org/environment/86789/

May 30, 2008
New York: Electric power production and transportation are the two largest sources of carbon emissions in the United States. But there are big differences in emissions between companies, and from state to state.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/05/30/business/20080601_ENERGY_GRAPHIC.html

May 30, 2008
Washington: President Bush's science advisors issued a comprehensive report that greenhouse gases from fossil fuel combustion "are very likely the single largest cause" of Earth's warming. The few positive effects of climate shifts are outweighed by negatives. For example, warming and higher levels of carbon dioxide are expected to speed up growth of forests and certain crops, but will also increase insect outbreaks and lead to more wildfires, which are likely to take a larger toll on crops, forests and property, the report predicts. Warmer, less-snowy winters will decrease winter road maintenance costs, but increased coastal and river-related flooding and landslides will cause more serious problems. Heat spells, the report says, "could cause railroad tracks to buckle or kink and could affect roads through softening and traffic-related rutting." The cost of heating is likely to fall, but the increased demand for air conditioning "would require the building of additional electricity production facilities (and probably transmission facilities) at an estimated cost of many billions of dollars."
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-warming30-2008may30,0,300051.story?track=rss

May 29, 2008
Iceland: The average temperature in Reykjavik Iceland in May has been 8.4ºC. It may be that May 2008 turns out to be the warmest since 1960, when the average temperature was 8.7 ºC.
http://icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=16539&ew_0_a_id=306837

May 29, 2008
ENN: An abrupt release of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, from ice sheets that extended to Earth's low latitudes some 635 million years ago caused a dramatic shift in climate, scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) report in this week's issue of the journal Nature. It's possible that very little warming could unleash trapped methane. Uncovering the planet's methane reservoir could potentially warm the Earth tens of degrees, and the mechanism could be very rapid. Such a fast uncovering of clathrates could have triggered a catastrophic climate and biogeochemical reorganization of the ocean and atmosphere around 635 million years ago.
http://www.enn.com/ecosystems/article/37021

May 28, 2008
Denver: Climate change is increasing the risk of U.S. crop failures, depleting the nation's water resources and contributing to outbreaks of invasive species and insects, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a new report.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/2008-05-28-usda_climate_report_N.htm?csp=34

May 27, 2008
Alaska: Wasps used to be an uncommon sight in Fairbanks until two years ago. Then huge numbers of them swarmed on the city, ten times more than normal. These are yet more worrying signs of climate change.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/weather/article4009658.ece

May 27, 2008
Discovery News: Antarctic Mega-Iceberg Suffocates Seals. Weeks after the controversial listing of polar bears as threatened species, new research graphically demonstrates how changes to polar ice from global warming can devastate local animals.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/05/27/antarctica-seal.html

May 26, 2008
Physorg: Scientists are raising the possibility that glacial melting is releasing large amounts of the banned pesticide DDT, which is contaminating the environment in Antarctica.
http://www.physorg.com/news131018482.html

May 26, 2008
Iowa: Extreme storms packing large hail, heavy rain and tornadoes made for a deadly Memorial Day weekend across the nation's midsection, killing at least seven people in Iowa and a 2-year-old child in Minnesota.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080526/ap_on_re_us/severe_weather

May 25, 2008
Paris: Climate change models predicting a dangerous warming of the world's atmosphere got a confirming boost from a study showing parallel trends at altitudes nearly twice as high as Mount Everest. The new research, published in Nature Geoscience, will help remove one of the remaining scientific uncertainties about the general thrust of global warming, the authors say. Over the last two decades, temperature readings from the upper troposphere -- 12 to 16 kilometres (7.5 and 10 miles) above Earth's surface -- based on data gathered by satellites and high-flying weather balloons showed little or no increase. There are approximately ten times fewer discontinuities in wind than in temperature records, making wind measurements a more reliable indicator of long-term trends, noted an author.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080525/sc_afp/scienceclimatewarmingtroposphere_080525173859

May 24, 2008
Arctic: Scientists travelling with the troops found major new fractures during an assessment of the state of giant ice shelves in Canada's far north. The team found a network of cracks that stretched for more than 10 miles (16km) on Ward Hunt, the area's largest shelf. The fate of the vast ice blocks is seen as a key indicator of climate change.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7417123.stm

May 24, 2008
Texas: Environmental experts predict catastrophic drought conditions for Texas and warmer temperatures in New Mexico unless something drastic is done to slow climate change. "In Texas, we're talking about a dust bowl that will be 20 times more intense and widespread than the one we had (in the United States) in the 1930s," said the outreach coordinator for Environment Texas, an advocacy organization in Austin.
http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_9365079

May 24, 2008
Kansas City: The city of Protection in Commanche County took a direct hit from a tornado, with the damage mostly limited to overturned trees and power lines. The worst destruction occurred at a manufacturing plant. At least two houses elsewhere in Kansas were destroyed, and several mobile homes in Lane County were ripped apart, some with people in them.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080524/ap_on_re_us/severe_weather

May 24, 2008
Baltimore: More than half the beaches on Maryland's Eastern Shore will be destroyed over this century by rising sea levels driven by global warming, according to a new report by the National Wildlife Federation: rising sea levels will likely mean that 415 square miles of open water will replace beaches and coastal land in the Chesapeake Bay area over the next century. Global warming has also meant that springtime in the Chesapeake region is starting three weeks earlier than a half century ago, and the summers are hotter.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bay_environment/bal-md.shore23may23,0,5992876.story?track=rss

May 23, 2008
Colorado: A monster tornado ripped through Colorado, with wind gusts up to 130 mph flattening hundreds of homes and businesses and killing at least one.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weather/story?id=4917262&page=1

May 22, 2008
Los Angeles: Modeling of the potential "Big One," as earthquake scientists imagine it in a detailed script, unzips California's mighty San Andreas Fault north of the Mexican border. In less than two minutes, Los Angeles and its sprawling suburbs are shaking like a bowl of jelly. The jolt from the 7.8-magnitude temblor lasts for three minutes — 15 times longer than the disastrous 1994 Northridge quake. Water and sewer pipes crack. Power fails. Part of major highways break. Some high-rise steel frame buildings and older concrete and brick structures collapse. Hospitals are swamped with 50,000 injured as all of Southern California reels from a blow on par with the Sept. 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina: $200 billion in damage to the economy, and 1,800 dead. Only about 700 of those people are victims of building collapses. Many others are lost to the 1,600 fires burning across the region.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/calif_quake_scenario

May 22, 2008
Spain: Coral reefs will be the first global ecosystem to collapse in our lifetimes. The one-two punch of climate change that is warming ocean temperatures and increasing acidification is making the oceans uninhabitable for corals and other marine species, researchers said at a scientific symposium in Spain. And now other regions are being affected. Acidic or corrosive waters have been detected for the first time on the continental shelf of the west coast of North America, posing a serious threat to fisheries according to an oceanographer with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42464

May 22, 2008
Tampa: Government forecasters expect between six and nine hurricanes to form in the Atlantic this year. They say two to five of those could be major hurricanes. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials said Thursday they expect the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season to be near or above normal. They say there is a 60 to 70 percent chance of their predictions happening.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/22/ap/national/main4118328.shtml

May 22, 2008
California: A wildfire burned several homes, forced evacuations and closed schools in the mountains of central California, where rugged terrain frustrated efforts to get a handle on a fast-moving blaze. Hundreds of people fled as the more than 4-square-mile fire continued to grow.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=4909960

May 22, 2008
New Orleans: Despite more than $22 million in repairs, a levee that broke with catastrophic effect during Hurricane Katrina is leaking again because of the mushy ground on which New Orleans was built, raising serious questions about the reliability of the city's flood defenses.
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/leaky-levee-stirs-doubts-in-new-orleans/20080522070509990001

May 21, 2008
Penn State: Plant-eating animals in highly seasonal environments, such as the Arctic, are struggling to locate nutritious food as a result of climate change, according to new research led by a Penn State Professor.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/ps-ccd051708.php

May 21, 2008
Brazil: Destruction of the Amazon rainforest - essential for cooling the world's temperature - is again on the upswing despite a recent crackdown on illegal logging, according to Brazil's new environment minister. The Brazilian Amazon, covers about 1.6 million square miles (4.1 million square kilometers) or nearly 60 percent of the country. About 20 percent of the forest has already been razed.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080521/ap_on_sc/brazil_amazon

May 20, 2008
Beijing: Scientists from across the world applied statistical models to published data on changes in 829 physical systems and around 28,800 plant and animal systems. Their analysis, published in Nature, looked at whether these changes were related to temperature increase, other factors such as land use change, or simply natural variability. Around 95 per cent of the physical systems studied responded to the world's warming trend. The analysis found that glaciers in every continent have been shrinking, permafrost is melting, the peak of river levels in spring is shifting, and lake and river temperatures are rising. And 90 per cent of the changes in plants and animals were consistent with responses to temperature rise, including earlier blooming and leaf unfolding.
http://www.enn.com/climate/article/36560

May 19, 2008
AlterNet: Western water reservoirs are being depleted by the increasingly obvious impacts of global climate change, suggesting water shortages in the future. Even this winter's abundant snowfall fails to overcome decades-long trends of increased temperatures and altered patterns of precipitation and spring runoff. The latest documentation of these impacts is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate Change.
http://www.alternet.org/water/85855/

May 16, 2008
Los Angeles: Southern California temperatures soared in May into the 90s, and near-record or record highs were posted in valley areas. National Weather Service forecasters said the heat wave was the product of strong high pressure over the West Coast combined with weak-to-moderate offshore flow.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-heat16-2008-may16,0,6561484.story?track=rss

May 16, 2008
U.K.: Between a quarter and a third of the world's wildlife has been lost since 1970, according to data compiled by the Zoological Society of London. Populations of land-based species fell by 25%, marine by 28% and freshwater by 29%, it says. Humans are wiping out about 1% of all other species every year, and one of the "great extinction episodes" in the Earth's history is under way, it says.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7403989.stm

May 15, 2008
Washington: While carbon dioxide has been getting lots of publicity in climate change, reactive forms of nitrogen are also building up in the environment, scientists warn. "The public does not yet know much about nitrogen, but in many ways it is as big an issue as carbon, and due to the interactions of nitrogen and carbon, makes the challenge of providing food and energy to the world's peoples without harming the global environment a tremendous challenge," University of Virginia environmental sciences.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GlobalWarming/wireStory?id=4864176

May 14, 2008
Washington: The Interior Department declared the polar bear a threatened species because of the loss of Arctic sea ice.
http://green.yahoo.com/news/ap/20080514/ap_on_sc/polar_bear.html

May 14, 2008
New York: Ancient air bubbles trapped in Antarctica's ice have revealed that levels of carbon dioxide and methane in the Earth's atmosphere are at their highest in 800,000 years, according to two studies in the journal Nature.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=ajiBydD5EHNs

May 14, 2008
Washington: Extreme temperatures throughout the midwest and south are making 2008 one of the deadliest years for US tornadoes in recent history. Through May 11, the United States has experienced between 650 and 700 separate tornadoes, figures Harold Brooks, a research meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Severe Storms Laboratory. That would put 2008 right up with 1999, which had 676 tornadoes between January and mid-May – the most on record. The northern half of the US has had a turbulent winter and early spring, and the Gulf of Mexico has been unusually warm, early. This has set the stage for a number of collisions between moist, warm fronts and colder, drier air – the classic condition for producing a tornado.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0514/p01s05-usgn.html

May 14, 2008
Paris: A wide-scale study just released has strengthened warnings, spelt out last year by UN scientists, that climate change is already on the march.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080514/sc_afp/climatewarmingscience_080514185907

May 13, 2008
Florida: Daytona Beach - Relentless wildfires burned across Florida's Atlantic coast, taxing firefighters and overwhelming residents trying to save their homes with garden hoses. Firefighters in the Brevard County town of Palm Bay have spent more than 48 hours battling the state's biggest blaze, which has damaged about 70 homes and scorched 3,500 acres, or about 5½ square miles.
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/wildfires-destroy-homes-in-florida/20080512153509990001

May 13, 2008
U.K.: Scientists at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii say that CO2 levels in the atmosphere now stand at 387 parts per million (ppm), up almost 40% since the industrial revolution and the highest for at least the last 650,000 years.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/13/carbonemissions.climatechange?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront

May 12, 2008
Idaho: US fire managers are forecasting a grim year for blazes in drought-plagued Western states, just weeks after a premature start to the Southwest's wildfire season. Climate models show a warming West where snowmelt from the mountains occurs earlier and dry conditions persist longer, setting the stage for blazes that reset measures for scale and intensity.
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/48301/story.htm

May 12, 2008
Delaware: An extreme storm struck mid-Atlantic states forcing evacuations and flooding roads. Tens of thousands of electricity customers in several states lost power as up to 5 inches of rain fell. Tidal flooding forced the closure of schools and roads in parts of coastal New Jersey. Wind gusts reached 50 mph in many parts of the state, and hurricane-strength gusts of 76 mph were recorded in Sea Isle City. The storm differs from a nor'easter because it is a combination of two weather systems, one from the Ohio Valley that contributed to recent tornadoes and a second from just south of the Delmarva region of Delaware.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/12/ap/national/main4090411.shtml

May 12, 2008
Charleston: Extreme storms with strong winds and lightning damaged homes and vehicles and knocked out power across West Virginia.
http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200805110293

May 11, 2008
Oklahoma: Crews hunted for survivors or bodies in piles of debris after tornadoes and storms rumbled across the region a day earlier and killed at least 23 people in Oklahoma, Georgia & Missouri. Seven people died in Pitcher, Oklahoma, once a bustling mining center of 20,000 that dwindled to about 800 people as families fled lead pollution.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_re_us/severe_weather

May 10, 2008
Florida: About 225 wild fires burned throughout Florida, where the winter dry season was the third-driest ever recorded. Much of the state was under water-use restrictions and blanketed with smoky haze from the fires. "Pray for rain," Gov. Charlie Crist said after a tour of the fires.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1041047120070510

May 9, 2008
North Carolina: A possible tornado touched down on the outskirts of Greensboro as severe storms swept across the Southeast, damaging homes and businesses in at least three other states.
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/tornado-kills-1-in-north-carolina/20080509074009990001

May 8, 2008
Wyoming: The pollution, largely from the region's booming natural gas industry, came in the form of ground-level ozone, which has exceeded healthy levels 11 times since January and caused Wyoming to issue its first ozone alerts. Now the ozone threatens to cost the industry and taxpayers millions of dollars to stay within federal clean-air laws.
http://www.charlotte.com/nation/story/615159.html

May 7, 2008
NewScientist: Using a global climate model on the Amazon rainforest developed by the Hadley Centre in Devon, UK, researchers ran the model with and without emissions of sulphate particles, or aerosols (air pollution). By cutting back on sulphate aerosols, the greenhouse effect adds extra heat to certain parts of the ocean, the model showed. It also revealed that when the tropical North Atlantic ocean warms up more than in the tropical South Atlantic, then the ocean's storm tracks shift northward. This shift extends the Amazon's dry season – and this effect will only grow stronger with rising greenhouse-gas levels and falling sulphate aerosols. In addition, most experts advise limiting CO2 in the atmosphere to 450 parts per million in order to avoid dangerous climate change. "The model shows a catastrophic dieback [of the Amazon] by about 500 or 550 parts per million".
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn13851-how-cleaning-up-america-dried-up-the-amazon.html?feedId=climate-change_rss20

May 6, 2008
Hawaii: In March, Kilauea volcano opened a new vent and began spewing double the usual amount of toxic gas. Big Island crops are shriveling as sulfur dioxide from Kilauea wafts over them and envelops them in "vog," or volcanic smog. People are wheezing, and schoolchildren are being kept indoors during recess. High gas levels led Hawaii Volcanoes National Park to close several days last month, forcing the evacuation of thousands of visitors.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/05/06/vog____volcanic_smog____kills_plants_casts_a_haze_over_hawaii/

May 6, 2008
U.K.: The aviation industry's failure to curb its soaring carbon emissions could lead to the "worst case scenario" for climate change, as envisaged by the United Nations. An unpublished study by the world's leading experts has revealed that airlines are pumping 20 per cent more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than estimates suggest, with total emissions set to reach between 1.2 billion and 1.5 billion tonnes annually by 2025. A spokesman for the Aviation Environment Federation said: "Growth of CO2 emissions on this scale will comfortably outstrip any gains made by improved technology and ensure aviation is an even larger contributor to global warming by 2025 than previously thought.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/airline-emissions-far-higher-than-previous-estimates-821598.html

May 5, 2008
Australia: The low-lying islands that dot the sparkling waters of this region are facing similar challenges to South Pacific nations such as Kiribati and Tuvalu - they are being submergered be sea-level-rise from climate change.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/sinking-without-trace-australias-climate-change-victims-821136.html

May 3, 2008
Alaska: The skies above the Arctic Circle work like a giant lint trap during late winter and early spring, catching all sorts of pollutants swirling around the globe. Scientists have been going up in government research planes and taking samples of the Arctic haze in hopes of solving a mystery: Are the floating particles accelerating the unprecedented warming going on in the far north?
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5751007.html

May 3, 2008
Arkansas: Residents of rural Arkansas cleaned up what was left of their homes after deadly tornadoes scoured a state that has been plagued by severe weather this year.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080503/ap_on_re_us/severe_weather

May 3, 2008
Washington: In the Arctic, warming spurred by human-generated carbon dioxide emissions has combined with natural climate variations to create a "perfect Arctic storm" that caused a dramatic disappearance of sea ice last year, a trend likely to continue.
http://in.news.yahoo.com/reuters_ids_new/20080503/r_t_rtrs_wl/twl-climate-change-warms-arctic-cools-an-2186892_1.html

May 2, 2008
Los Angeles: California communities face a strong possibility of water shortages and even mandatory rationing this summer because of record dry weather in March and April, a fast-shrinking snowpack and below-normal reservoir levels, state officials said: "I have not seen a more serious water situation in my career, and I've been doing this 30 years," according to the executive director of the Assn. of California Water Agencies.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-snowpack2-2008may02,0,6563964.story

May 2, 2008
Washington: What researchers have concluded is happening, is that in the North, global warming and natural variability of climate are reinforcing one another, sending the Arctic into a new state with much less sea ice than in the past.
http://www.physorg.com/news128960273.html

May 2, 2008
Kansas City: Extreme storms with hurricane-force winds, hail and heavy rain moved through Missouri leaving hundreds of homes and businesses damaged - a tornado likely touched down in central Arkansas - at least two tornadoes and large hail were reported in Oklahoma.
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/powerful-storms-pummel-kansas-city/20080502103609990001

May 2, 2008
Washington: Using computer model predictions, scientists have determined that oxygen-depleted zones in tropical oceans are expanding, possibly because of climate change. They discovered that oxygen-poor regions of tropical oceans are expanding as the oceans warm, limiting the areas in which predatory fishes and other marine organisms can live or enter in search of food. The researchers found through analysis of a database of ocean oxygen measurements that levels in tropical oceans at a depth of 300 to 700 meters (985 to 2,300 feet) have declined during the past 50 years.
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=55445

May 2, 2008
New Mexico: BLM criticized for not considering climate change in oil, gas lease sales in West.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080502/nm_climate_change_drilling.html?.v=1

May 1, 2008
California: Californians are being asked to water their lawns less, plant native shrubs and install more-efficient irrigation systems to stave off water shortages and mandatory rationing amid growing worries about a possible long-term drought. The increasingly urgent call to conserve water comes as state officials said Thursday that the Sierra Nevada snowpack, a key source of the state's water supply, has fallen about one-third below normal levels.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_9137984?source=rss

May 1, 2008
NewScientist: "Dead zones" containing too little oxygen for fish to breathe are growing as global temperatures increase. Warmer water dissolves less oxygen, so as temperatures rise, oxygen vanishes from oceans. Marine biologists are warning that if dead zones continue expanding, oceanic "deserts" could massively deplete marine life and fish stocks.
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn13818-growing-ocean-dead-zones-leave-fish-gasping.html?feedId=climate-change_rss20

May 1, 2008
Australia: Greenhouse-gas emissions will almost double by 2030, a rate much faster than previously predicted, according to a paper co-written by the Federal Government's top climate change adviser.
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21498,23628603-5005361,00.html?from=public_rss

May 1, 2008
U.K.: A British scientist suggests hurricanes and other storms are increasing in intensity and are limiting the growth of some corals.
http://www.physorg.com/news128860913.html

May 1, 2008
California: Pittsburgh surpasses Los Angeles as nation's sootiest city. The eight metropolitan areas considered to be the nation's most polluted by every measure were Los Angeles, Bakersfield, Fresno, Visalia-Porterfield and Hanford-Corcoran, all in California; Washington-Baltimore; St. Louis; and Birmingham, Ala.
http://green.yahoo.com/news/ap/20080501/ap_on_re_us/polluted_cities.html

May 1, 2008
Maine: The rain-swollen St. John River crested early Thursday after hitting a new record high, forcing residents to flee to higher ground as more than 100 homes flooded. Rain and melting snow raised the St. John to more than 30 feet - about 5 feet above flood stage - causing widespread flooding. But the community dodged a bullet because the water never topped a levee that protects downtown.
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/raging-river-floods-homes-in-maine/20080501061809990001

April 30, 2008
Alaska: Scientists say Alaska leads the rest of the United States in experiencing the effects of global warning. Researchers from the universities of New Hampshire and Maine said small Alaskan villages are slipping into the sea due to coastal erosion and soggy permafrost is cracking buildings and trapping trucks.
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Science/2008/04/30/alaska_hardest_hit_by_us_climate_change/3196/

April 30, 2008
Montreal: Arctic sea ice is melting "significantly faster" than predicted and is approaching a point of no return, conservation group the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) warned in a new study.
http://www.enn.com/ecosystems/article/35583

April 29, 2008
Texas: Studies conducted in Texas forecast a significant reduction in water under future climate-change scenarios. For instance, an analysis by Texas A&M agricultural economist Bruce McCarl found that warming could decrease the Edwards Aquifer's recharge by 20 percent or more in a few decades. In California, scientists found that the Sierras' snow pack, a major source of the state's water, would be tremendously impacted by climate change. Even under a low-emission scenario, warming would eat up 30 percent of the snow pack. Under a high-emission scenario, it would eat up as much as 90 percent.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA042908.gwarming.EN.38d3c1a.html?npc

April 29, 2008
Nature: Recovery of the ozone hole above Antarctica could warm the Antarctic and cause more ice to melt in coming decades, researchers say. As the ozone hole heals, wind patterns that shield the interior of the polar region from warm air may break down, causing warming in the Antarctica as well as warmer and drier conditions in Australia.
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080429/full/news.2008.787.html?s=news_rss

April 28, 2008
Virginia: Tornadoes swept across central and southeastern Virginia this afternoon, killing one person and injuring more than 200.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/04/possible-tornad.html?csp=34

April 28, 2008
California: A 400-acre wildfire forced the evacuation of at least 1,000 people from their homes in the foothills near Los Angeles, some areas of which have not burned in over 40 years.
http://www.charlotte.com/nation/story/600093.html

April 27, 2008
Reno, Nevada: Scientists urged Reno residents to prepare for a bigger event as the city kept rumbling Saturday after the largest earthquake in a two-month-long sequence of temblors. More than 100 aftershocks were recorded on the west edge of the city after a magnitude 4.7 quake hit at 11:40 p.m. Friday, the strongest quake around Reno since a 5.2 temblor in 1953, said researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno's seismological laboratory.
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/reno-urged-to-prepare-for-big-quake/20080426191309990001

April 26, 2008
Southwest: The U.S. Southwest's current drought could be the start of the Dust Bowl-like future that some scientists have already predicted will come from human-caused warming. One of the nation's leading climate scientists, the University of Arizona's Nobel Prize-sharing Jonathan Overpeck, says he's coming to believe there's "a real likelihood" the drought is caused by global warming.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/04/26/5398066-ap.html

April 26, 2008
U.K.: Eroding Cliffs A Sign Of Climate Change. Rising Sea Levels Contribute To Erosion Of British Coast - And Families' Livelihoods. Terms like "if" and "when" are often used to discuss the effects of climate change. Well here, there is no 'if'. And 'when' is now. So choices are being made. It's called managed retreat. Some areas of coastline deemed indefensible are being abandoned.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/26/eveningnews/main3971160.shtml

April 25, 2008
Washington: The polar bear has become an icon of global warming vulnerability, but a new study found an Arctic mammal that may be even more at risk to climate change: the narwhal.
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/arctic-warming-threatens-more-mammals/20080425182809990001

April 23, 2008
Singapore: The world risks wiping out a new generation of antibiotics and cures for diseases if it fails to reverse the climate change driven extinction of thousands of plant and animal species, experts warned.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080423/sc_afp/unenvironmentclimatehealth

April 22, 2008
Miami: Under conservative predictions of a three-foot rise in sea level, high tide would wash daily into downtown Miami, South Beach and Hollywood by century's end. At five feet, the sea would swallow much of the Everglades and cover pavement from Fort Lauderdale across to Naples. That's the startling future the Miami-Dade County Climate Change Task Force described.
http://www.miamiherald.com/519/story/504564.html

April 19, 2008
Brussels: The European commission is backing away from imposing a compulsory 10% quota of biofuels in all petrol and diesel by 2020 - a central plank of its programme to lead the world in combating climate change - amid a worsening global food crisis.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/19/biofuels.food?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront

April 18, 2008
Vienna: A team from the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science in Switzerland, has been monitoring changes in temperatures. As the smog of pollution has cleared from the skies, a true measurement of global warming can finally be made. The cleaner, clearer skies mean measurements of warming temperatures are not confused by smog. So the current measurements of a 0.04 °C warming per year can be taken as the true signal of man-made global warming.
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn13740-clearing-smog-reveals-true-extent-of-global-warming.html?feedId=climate-change_rss20

April 18, 2008
RealClimate: The net loss in volume and hence sea level contribution of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) has doubled in recent years from 90 to 220 cubic kilometers/year. Surface melting is a slow process for raising sea level, but as Greenland’s major outlet glaciers have recently shown, rapid acceleration can quickly deliver large volume of ice to the ocean.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/04/moulins-calving-fronts-and-greenland-outlet-glacier-acceleration/

April 18, 2008
Madrid: Spain is suffering from its most severe drought in 70 years with the nation's reservoirs on average just half full, according to Environment Ministry reports.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/04/18/spain.drought/index.html?section=cnn_latest

April 18, 2008
Illinois: A 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck southern Illinois, rocking skyscrapers in Chicago 230 miles north, but doing little damage. The quake is believed to have involved an extension of the New Madrid fault. The fault is at the center of the nation's most active seismic zone east of the Rockies - the last severe earthquake in the region was a 5.0 magnitude quake in 2002. In 1811 and 1812, the New Madrid fault produced a series of earthquakes estimated at magnitude 7.0 or greater. They were centered in the Missouri town of New Madrid (pronounced MAD'-rid), 140 miles southeast of St. Louis. Experts said that with the much higher population in the Midwest, another major quake along the New Madrid fault zone could destroy buildings, bridges, roads and other infrastructure, disrupt communications and isolate areas.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080418/ap_on_re_us/midwest_earthquake

April 18, 2008
Paris: An International Energy Agency (IEA) expert suggested that US emissions of greenhouse gases are poised to rise by nearly a quarter over a key UN benchmark by 2025, the date set by President George W. Bush for stabilising this pollution.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080418/sc_afp/climatewarmingemittersenergyusiea_080418172008

April 17, 2008
Vienna: According to scientists, wild fires are likely to be bigger, more frequent and burn for longer as the world gets hotter, in turn speeding up global warming to create a dangerous vicious circle.
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL16293419

April 17, 2008
Atlanta: According to the CDC, the 2007-2008 flu season has shaped up to be the worst in four years.
http://news.aol.com/health/story/ar/_a/us-says-flu-season-worst-in-years/20080417184209990001

April 17, 2008
U.K.: The Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has nearly doubled spending on flood and coastal erosion risk management from 10 years ago to an estimated £600m in 2007-08 and will invest £2.15bn in the next three years. But land is already being abandoned to the sea. The EA says it will not fund long-term defences of the Blyth estuary on the Suffolk coast.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/17/flooding.climatechange?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront

April 17, 2008
MIT: Latest MIT study sees stronger links between climate change and hurricanes: "It strongly confirms, independently, the results in the Nature paper," Emanuel said in a prepared statement. "This is a completely independent analysis and comes up with very consistent results."
http://www.news.com/8301-11128_3-9921670-54.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

April 16, 2008
Canada: Polar ice researchers who teamed up with Canadian Rangers on a patrol around Ellesmere Island this month say they've found that cracks in ice shelves are worse than they originally thought. Permanent ice shelves are breaking off or cracking at an alarming rate, due in part to climate change and global warming. The scientists found cracks up to 12 metres wide in some ice shelves.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2008/04/16/arctic-ice.html?ref=rss

April 16, 2008
PhysOrg: The Earth’s jet streams, the high-altitude bands of fast winds that strongly influence the paths of storms and other weather systems, are shifting—possibly in response to global warming. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution determined that over a 23-year span from 1979 to 2001 the jet streams in both hemispheres have risen in altitude and shifted toward the poles. Storm paths in North America are likely to shift northward as a result of the jet stream changes. Hurricanes, whose development tends to be inhibited by jet streams, may become more powerful and more frequent as the jet streams move away from the sub-tropical zones where hurricanes are born.
http://www.physorg.com/news127583460.html

April 16, 2008
Vienna: Global oceans are soaking up less carbon dioxide, a development that could speed up the greenhouse effect and have an impact for the next 1,500 years. Research from a five-year project funded by the European Union showed the North Atlantic, which along with the Antarctic is of the world's two vital ocean carbon sinks, is absorbing only half the amount of CO2 that it did in the mid-1990s.
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=d72260be-59a8-4708-9961-106dc2a862b3

April 16, 2008
Ordway, Colorado: Residents surveyed the smoldering ruins of their homes Wednesday after a fast-moving wildfire swept through parts of this farm town on Colorado's eastern plains, killing two volunteer firefighters, scorching grassland and forcing hundreds of people to flee.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080416/ap_on_re_us/wildfires

April 16, 2008
Oregon: Earthquakes began rumbling under the ocean off the Oregon coast two weeks ago. More than 600 have been recorded so far.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89675869

April 15, 2008
Vienna: Sea levels could rise by up to 1.5 metres (or 5 feet) by the end of this century, according to a new scientific analysis. This is substantially more than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) forecast in last year's landmark assessment of climate science.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7349236.stm

April 15, 2008
Los Angeles: California faces an almost certain risk of being hit by a strong earthquake by 2037 according to the first statewide temblor forecast. New calculations reveal there is a 99.7 percent chance a magnitude 6.7 quake or larger will strike in the next 30 years. The odds of such an event are higher in Southern California than Northern California, 97 percent versus 93 percent.
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/big-california-quake-likely-to-hit-by/20080415091509990001

April 15, 2008
Arizona: Wildfire threatens homes in San Pedro - about 30 to 40 firefighters from Southern Arizona worked throughout the day Sunday to fight the fire that spread across 16 acres and consumed a manufactured home that had been abandoned.
http://www.bensonnews-sun.com/articles/2008/04/18/news/news01.txt

April 15, 2008
Austria: Those areas most at risk from a lack of water for drinking and agriculture due to climate change include parts of the Middle East, southern Africa, the United States, South America and the Mediterranean.
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/47956/story.htm

April 14, 2008
BBC: China has probably already overtaken the US as the world's "biggest polluter" according to a University of California report.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7347638.stm

April 13, 2008
China: A drought in China's north-east Liaoning province has left nearly 700,000 people without drinking water after rainfall in the first three months of 2008 fell to one-fifth the levels of last year.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/13/2215594.htm

April 12, 2008
Oregon: Scientists listening to underwater microphones have detected an unusual swarm of earthquakes off central Oregon, something that often happens before a volcanic eruption — except there are no volcanoes in the area. There have been more than 600 quakes over the past 10 days in a basin 150 miles southwest of Newport. The biggest was magnitude 5.4, and two others were more than magnitude 5.0.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/04/11/national/a174309D00.DTL&feed=rss.news

April 11, 2008
Toronto: Ward Hunt Ice Shelf destined to disappear due to climate change.
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/413677

April 11, 2008
Time: Adding recent climate disasters such as drought and rice crop failures, you have food inflation spiraling so fast that even the U.N. agency created to feed people in emergencies is warning that it lacks the funds to fulfill its mandate.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1730107,00.html?xid=rss-topstories

April 11, 2008
Washington: Global warming could force elk and mule deer from much of the American West. Wild trout could disappear in lower Appalachian streams. Two-thirds of the country's ducks may disappear.
http://www.woodtv.com/global/story.asp?s=8145771

April 11, 2008
Canada: Canada's boreal forest is a ticking "carbon bomb", and its continued logging could trigger a massive release of greenhouse gases according to a new report.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2008/04/10/5242241-cp.html

April 11, 2008
Fresno: 2,000-year-old giant sequoias east of Fresno, Calif., have survived warm spells lasting centuries, but in just 100 years, global warming could snuff them out -- along with many Sierra Nevada species. Sierra trees, in general, already are suffering from rising temperatures and less precipitation, according to a study done by USGS ecologist Phillip van Mantgem and Stephenson. Fir and pine trees are dying at almost double the rate they did 20 years ago.
http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/32257

April 10, 2008
Texas: Extreme storms brought hail, heavy rain, and possible tornadoes to Texas and Oklahoma, causing power outages to over 180,000 homes and businesses, and at least one death.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080410-AP-severe-weat.html

April 10, 2008
Budapest: IPCC scientists warned that climate change in coming decades will cause more floods in the Northern Hemisphere and droughts in the south and in arid areas, which may lead to a global food crisis. In the U.S., "physically the changes will be pretty intense. There's a high likelihood of the west getting drier."
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/10/europe/EU-GEN-Hungary-Climate-Change.php

April 9, 2008
Washington: A CDC health official suggested that climate change is expected to have a significant impact on health in the next few decades, with certain regions of the country — and the elderly and children — most vulnerable to increased health problems.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/2008-04-09-climate-change-health_N.htm?csp=34

April 9,2008
Hanoi: According to a U.N. backed study, warming trends in a third of the world's large ocean regions are two to four times greater than previously reported averages, increasing the risk to marine life and fisheries.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HAN290742.htm

April 8, 2008
Purdue University: The Northeast pumps out a lot of carbon dioxide, but the Southeast, Midwest and Southern California are also responsible for voluminous pollution that billows out each day.
http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/carbon-sources-47040802?kw=ist

April 7, 2008
Texas A&M: Researchers at Texas A&M University find that for most people to be concerned about climate change, they need to know what the local impact is - validating the Climate Appraisal mission.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/2008-04-07-climate_N.htm?csp=34

April 7, 2008
Mississippi: Heavy rains have left the Mississippi River swollen, and turned all eyes to the levees in Louisiana, where flood waters are expected to crest over the next several days.
http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/mississippi-flooding-47040704?src=rss

April 7, 2008
WHO: More than half the annual estimated 150,000 deaths linked to climate change will come from the Asia-Pacific region according to officials at the World Health Organisation.
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/247057.asp

April 6, 2008
Miami: A Nobel Prize-winning scientist who rang the first alarm bells over the ozone hole has issued a warning about climate change, saying there could be "almost irreversible consequences" if the Earth warmed 2.5 degrees Celsius above what it ought to be.
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/1318360/1688375

April 6, 2008
NPR: Egypt's effects of climate change include salt water encroachment on the Nile River, the country's major source of fresh water.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89418351

April 5, 2008
WMO: The long-term trend of global warming is continuing, despite the current La Nina weather phenomenon that is bringing relatively cooler temperatures to parts of the Equatorial Pacific region according to the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
http://news.trend.az/index.shtml?show=news&newsid=1169615&lang=EN

April 5, 2008
ScienceDaily: Coral reefs could be dying out because of changes to the microbes that live in them just as much as from the direct rise in temperature caused by global warming, according to scientists speaking at the Society for General Microbiology's 162nd meeting.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080401200446.htm

April 4, 2008
Mississippi: Extreme thunderstorms toppled trees, knocked out power and damaged homes Friday in Mississippi and Alabama, while flooding in Kentucky forced evacuations and left a 2-year-old girl dead.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080404/ap_on_re_us/severe_weather

April 3, 2008
NewScientist: A consequence of melting ice caps – more volcanic eruptions as it relieves the pressure exerted on rocks deep under the ice sheet: "We are going to see a massive increase in volcanic activity globally," according to a scientist at the University of Leeds, UK.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13583-melting-ice-caps-may-trigger-more-volcanic-eruptions.html

April 3, 2008
Bangkok: The United States warned that a worsening economy could hit the funds it gives poor nations to fight global warming, as African activists appealed for major polluters to commit one percent of GDP.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080403/ts_afp/unclimatewarmingafrica_080403152835

April 3, 2008
Brazil: More than 55,000 people have been hit by dengue fever -- a sometimes deadly mosquito-borne virus -- around Rio de Janeiro in the last four months.
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/virus-outbreak-hits-thousands-in-brazil/20080403162709990001

April 1, 2008
Manila: Climate change will cause an increase in dengue fever and other infectious diseases in the Philippines, a World Health Organization (WHO) official warned Tuesday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080401/hl_afp/whohealthphilippinesdengue_080401121043

March 2008
Carnegie Mellon: A social scientist at Carnegie Mellon concludes that "we've spent 10 or 15 years defending the climate science to the exclusion of the human element," he said. "It's the bridge into people's lives that we're lacking now." - validating the Climate Appraisal mission to provide that potential climate change bridge to the home address.
http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/features/0308_fischhoff.htm

March 31, 2008
Australia: A scientist at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University in Canberra warned that changing climate patterns can lead to disastrous health impacts, especially in developing countries like India.
http://in.news.yahoo.com/indianexpress/20080331/r_t_ie_nl_general/tnl-climate-change-could-adversely-affec-aaaedd4_1.html

March 30, 2008
Austria: Austria's glaciers retreated more than 22 metres (24 yards) on average last year, in the biggest shrinking for five years, according to the country's Alpine Club.
http://www.physorg.com/news126078526.html

March 29, 2008
U.K: A proposal to deal with sea-rise would see Britain effectively admit defeat in the battle to maintain coastal defences and around 16,000 acres (25 square miles) of land in the Norfolk Broads would be allowed to flood.
http://harshpaul.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/29/1397696-plan-to-allow-sea-to-flood-norfolk-villages

March 27, 2008
Oslo: The coldest winter days in Russia and Canada have become up to 4 Celsius (7 Fahrenheit) milder since the 1950s in an extreme sign of climate change, according to the British Meteorological Office.
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/47667/story.htm

March 25, 2008
Washington: A chunk of Antarctic ice about seven times the size of Manhattan collapsed, putting an even greater portion of glacial ice at risk; satellite images show the disintegration of a 160-square-mile chunk in western Antarctica, which started Feb. 28. It was the edge of the Wilkins ice shelf and has been there for hundreds, maybe 1,500 years.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7313264.stm

March 24, 2008
Illinois: A University of Illinois Professor warned that “the impact of elevated carbon dioxide on crippling the capacity of the plant to respond to insect damage is exacerbated by the presence of invasive insect pests in soybean fields. The Japanese beetle, as the name suggests, is a relatively recent arrival in Illinois soybean fields. It is causing considerable damage now but this study suggests that its ability to inflict damage will only increase over time.”
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-03/uoia-ita031908.php

March 24, 2008
ScienceDaily: The Gulf Stream’s strength has changed markedly in the past as Earth has switched between warm periods and ice ages. Closely linked to these changes have been climate changes around the globe.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080320181838.htm

March 23, 2008
San Diego: Black carbon, a form of particulate air pollution most often produced from biomass burning, cooking with solid fuels and diesel exhaust, has a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times greater than prevailing estimates according to scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
http://www.physorg.com/news125500721.html

March 23, 2008
Oregon: Microbiologists at Oregon State University have discovered a new species of “myxozoan” parasite that has been found for the first time to infect a warm blooded animal - experts believe that parasites are going to become increasing problems associated with warmer climate conditions.
http://www.physorg.com/news125682094.html

March 23, 2008
Missouri: In Illinois, some areas are experiencing a once in 500-year flood event. Across Arkansas, some rivers hit their highest levels in 90 years. The Arkansas River crested in Little Rock and points upstream at 22 feet, about a foot below flood stage in the capital city.
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/midwestern-towns-fight-back-floods/20080319062709990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001

March 22, 2008
U.K.: The growth of developing economies in Africa, Asia and South America has accelerated global warming far beyond official predictions and it is developed nations that must act to halt the potentially catastrophic consequences, according to a new study from the world's leading temporary power supplier, Aggreko. The warning comes from Aggreko's chief executive, who said: 'The threat of global warming is far greater than people have previously thought. The consensus figure on the world's power consumption going forward to 2015 is simply wrong.'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/mar/23/climatechange.carbonemissions?gusrc=rss&feed=business

March 22, 2008
U.K.: Sea levels rising too fast for the U.K. Thames sea barrier - rapidly rising sea levels could significantly shorten the expected lifespan of one of the world's biggest anti-flood structures.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/sea-levels-rising-too-fast-for-thames-barrier-799303.html

March 22, 2008
Missouri: Extreme storm flooding & heavy snow plague the Midwest.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/03/22/flooding_heavy_snow_plague_midwest/

March 22, 2008
Toronto: Canadians are unaware that the water they take for granted is being threatened by overuse and mismanagement, say experts who warn climate change could soon make water shortages an unmistakable reality across the country.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080322/water_climate_080322/20080322?hub=Canada&s_name=

March 21, 2008
Washington: The Bush administration has set aside its skepticism about global warming to begin planning for the possibility that major Washington-area infrastructure, including Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, could be inundated by rising seawaters.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080321/BUSINESS/384368286

March 20, 2008
NASA JPL: Sea level has risen about half an inch in the past four years - a significant rise - some of this water is apparently coming from a recent increase in the melting rate of glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88520025

March 19, 2008
ENN: 2008 is expected to end up among the top 10 warmest years since records began in the 1860s, despite an icy start.
http://www.enn.com/climate/article/33213

March 19, 2008
Missouri: Extreme storm flooding forced hundreds of people to flee their homes and closed roads in Missouri, Arkansas, Ohio & Texas as a storm system linked to nine deaths poured as much as a foot of rain on the region.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/storms/2008-03-18-missouri-floods_N.htm?csp=34

March 19, 2008
CSMonitor.com: China has become not just the world's manufacturer but its despoiler, on a scale as monumental as its economic expansion. A fourth of the country is now desert. More than three-fourths of its forests have disappeared. Each year, uncontrollable underground fires, sometimes triggered by lightning or mining accidents, consume 200 million tons of coal, contributing massively to global warming. A miasma of lead, mercury, sulfur dioxide, and other elements of coal-burning and car exhaust hovers over most Chinese cities.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0319/p09s01-coop.html

March 18, 2008
Washington: Global warming rushes timing of spring.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080319/ap_on_sc/warming_spring

March 18, 2008
Washington: CO2 emissions from U.S. power plants climbed 2.9 percent in 2007, the biggest single-year increase since 1998, according to new analysis by the Environmental Integrity Project of data from the U.S. EPA. Now the single largest factor in U.S. climate change pollution, the electric power industry's carbon dioxide emissions have risen 5.9 percent since 2002 and 11.7 percent since 1997.
http://www.reliableplant.com/article.asp?pagetitle=CO2%20emissions%20from%20U.S.%20power%20plants%20jump%202.9%25%20in%20'07&articleid=11050

March 18, 2008
Washington: Federal scientists found that critical Arctic sea ice this winter made a small recovery from last summer's record melt, but the thickest, oldest and toughest sea ice is undoubtedly melting — a bad sign for the future of the Arctic ice cap. "We're in for a world of hurt this summer," ice center senior scientist Mark Serreze told The Associated Press.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23695810/</