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Climate Change to Impact Lebanon’s Dwindling Cedars

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Climate change could hit Lebanon’s dwindling cedars
Wed Jul 30, 2008 4:53am EDT By Alistair Lyon, Special Correspondent

BAROUK, Lebanon (Reuters) – Sturdy cedars perched high in the mountains stand for many Lebanese as symbols of their fractured land’s survival. But some environmentalists worry that the trees face a new threat from global warming.

“The biggest challenge now for the cedars of Lebanon is climate change,” said Nizar Hani, scientific coordinator of the Barouk Cedar Nature Reserve in the Shouf mountains. Only murmuring insects and breezes rustling through cedar branches disturb the stillness of the sanctuary, about 90 minutes’ drive from the frenzied bustle of Beirut.

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EPA Silences Employees On Climate Change

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Published on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 by The Guardian/UK
EPA Silences Employees On Climate Change by Elana Schor

WASHINGTON – Amid intensifying scrutiny of its failure to act on climate change, the US environmental protection agency (EPA) has ordered employees not to talk to internal auditors, Congress or the media, according to a leaked email released yesterday by green campaigners.

The EPA has refused repeated requests from Congress to explain its December denial of California’s request to regulate greenhouse gas emissions – a move that overruled the agency’s own career scientists.

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Bush to Trample Colorado Forests

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 28, 2008  5:59 PM

 CONTACT: The Wilderness Society
Christopher Lancette, TWS communications director
(202) 429-2692;
chris_lancette@tws.org
 
Bush Does Texas Two-Step to trample Colorado’s Roadless Forests
Two public meetings in D.C. part of dance to ruin pristine lands
 
WASHINGTON – July 28 – The Bush administration is spearheading two separate meetings here this week that will examine plans for the proposed changes to the way roadless forests are managed in Colorado. The meetings are in response to the administration’s newly proposed rule change (published July 25 in the federal register) that would open the land to logging and ski resort expansions. The change could also allow 97 new oil and gas leases on 87,000 acres to be developed on national forests in Colorado that are currently protected from drilling by federal rule.

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