————————————— ” ‘… the extreme scenarios that tend to fall out of the IPCC process may be exactly the ones we should most worry about,’ he says.” “Michael Schlesinger, a climate scientist at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, points to another example.  ‘Things are happening right now with the ice… Continue reading

============================================================= World Environment News – June 26th, 2007 from Planet Ark ============================================================= Here are today’s Reuters ‘World Environment News’ headlines, proudly brought to you by Planet Ark. Doing environmental research? Search our news archives at: http://www.planetark.org/searchhome.cfm TODAY’S NEWS STORIES: US: Miners Having a Blast in Utah Uranium Rush http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/42795/story.htm US:… Continue reading

TORONTO – A United Nations report says Canada will have to change its strategy for battling forest fires because climate change is causing larger, more intense blazes. The report says this development is expected to impact the country’s wood supply, the forest industry and forestry-dependent communities and alter the traditional… Continue reading

New York Times June 23, 2007 http://select.nytimes.com/2007/06/23/opinion/23egan.html?hp This Land Was My Land By TIMOTHY EGAN, MOUNT HOOD, OR. Most Americans don’t own a summer home on Cape Cod, or a McMansion in the Rockies, but they have this birthright: an area more than four times the size of France. If… Continue reading