"Heat Waves Are Bad For (Even The Healthiest) Lungs"
"It's been the hottest summer on record in many cities on the East Coast. And with that blistering weather has come a lot of days of unhealthy air."
Source: NPR, 09/02/2010
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Bedbugs: "They Crawl, They Bite, They Baffle Scientists"
Bedbugs, after almost vanishing from the U.S. for decades, have come back bigtime as The Bug That Ate New York. EPA and CDC have offered some advice on getting rid of them. But scientists know very little about them.
Source: NYTimes, 08/31/2010
"Big California Solar Energy Push Moves Forward"
"California's long-awaited boom in solar power plant construction took a major step forward Wednesday when state regulators approved the first in a string of projects that will soon blanket thousands of acres of desert with mirrors harnessing the energy of the sun."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 08/26/2010
"Oh Yeah, That's Why the Climate Bill Failed"
The fossil fuel industry outspent environmentalists eight to one on lobbying as the two forces battled over climate change legislation in 2009, according to a new report from the Center for Responsive Politics.
Source: Mother Jones, 08/25/2010
"Pakistan -- a Sad New Benchmark in Climate-Related Disasters"
"UNITED NATIONS -- Devastating flooding that has swamped one-fifth of Pakistan and left millions homeless is likely the worst natural disaster to date attributable to climate change, U.N. officials and climatologists are now openly saying.'
Source: ClimateWire, 08/19/2010
Extreme Weather Events Signal Global Warming to World's Meteorologists
"Fires across Russia, record floods in Pakistan, a huge Greenland iceberg -- this current unprecedented sequence of extreme weather events 'matches' scientific projections of more frequent and intense extreme weather events due to global warming, says an organization of meteorologists from 189 countries."
Source: ENS, 08/18/2010
As Russia Burns, Cover-Ups and Neglect Ignites Political Spot Fires
"Russia's record hot summer of forest fires and resulting air pollution has left the reputations of its politicians badly scorched. Public anger is mounting at state neglect that allowed the fires to spread and at a cover-up of the number of resultant deaths from heatstroke."
Source: Sydney Morning Herald, 08/17/2010
Climate Disaster: "UN Chief: Never Seen Anything Like Pakistan Floods"
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he has never seen anything like the flood disaster in Pakistan, and urged foreign donors to speed up assistance to the 20 million people affected."
Source: AP, 08/16/2010
"Huge Ice Island Could Pose Threat To Oil, Shipping"
"An island of ice more than four times the size of Manhattan is drifting across the Arctic Ocean after breaking off from a glacier in Greenland. Potentially in the path of this unstoppable giant are oil platforms and shipping lanes - and any collision could do untold damage."
Source: AP, 08/12/2010
"Dueling Pollsters Add Heat to Torpid Climate Debate"
"It has been the summer of polling discontent, or at least the dog days of disagreement on climate change."
Source: ClimateWire, 08/11/2010
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