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"Ancient Seeds In Mexico Help Fight Warming Effects"

"More than 500 years after Spanish priests brought wheat seeds to Mexico to make wafers for the Catholic Mass, those seeds may bring a new kind of salvation to farmers hit by global warming. Scientists working in the farming hills outside Mexico City found the ancient wheat varieties have particular drought- and heat-resistant traits, like longer roots that suck up water and a capacity to store more nutrients in their stalks."

Source: Reuters, 09/20/2010

"Taming the Wild Tuna"

The Atlantic bluefin tuna, one of the wildest of wild fish, is in decline. Paradoxically, aquaculture scientists say a recent breakthrough in captive breeding of the fish may help save it.

Source: NYTimes, 09/10/2010

"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

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

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