Study: Warming may turn Lake Tahoe green

A new study predicts water circulation in Lake Tahoe is being dramatically altered by global warming, threatening the lake's delicate ecosystem and famed clear waters.

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Australian wine industry feels heat from climate change (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Australian grape growers reckon they are the canary in the coalmine of global warming, as a long drought forces winemakers to rethink the styles of wine they can produce and the regions they can grow in. [News Source]

FEATURE-Australian wine industry feels heat from climate change (AlertNet) Source: Reuters By Victoria Thieberger MELBOURNE, March 25 (Reuters) - Australian grape growers reckon they are the canary in the coalmine of global warming, as a long drought forces winemakers to rethink the ... [News Source]

Australia’s Rudd Tours Globe on Climate Change, Iraq Withdrawal (Bloomberg.com) March 25 (Bloomberg) -- Kevin Rudd embarks on the most extensive world tour of any Australian prime minister in a generation this week with a 40,000-mile (64,000-kilometer) journey from Washington to Beijing in pursuit of deeper economic ties with Asia and a commitment from world leaders to combat global warming. [News Source]

Link to Global Warming in Frogs? Disappearance Is Challenged (New York Times) A new research paper argues that the die-offs of harlequin frogs reflect the spread and repeated introductions of the chytrid fungus, but questions the link to climate change. [News Source]

Australia’s Rudd Tours Globe on Climate Change, Iraq Withdrawal (Bloomberg.com) March 25 (Bloomberg) -- Kevin Rudd embarks on the most extensive world tour of any Australian prime minister in a generation this week with a 40,000-mile (64,000-kilometer) journey from Washington to Beijing in pursuit of deeper economic ties with Asia and a commitment from world leaders to combat global warming. [News Source]

Climate change could help bugs, hurt plants (The Champaign News-Gazette) Higher carbon dioxide levels associated with man-made emissions – generally thought to play into climate change and global warming – appear to make plants, soybeans anyway, more susceptible to insect damage by impairing their chemical defensive systems. Plants exposed to high carbon dioxide levels in a University of Illinois study lost their ability to produce jasmonic acid, a hormone which ... [News Source]

US Congressional hearing on global warming in April (Calcutta News) The energy independence and global warming committee of the US has announced that it will hold a Congressional hearing in Washington next month to focus on engaging developing countries like India in global warming solutions. [News Source]

Global warming threatens rice yields in future (New Kerala) London, March 24 : A new study has suggested that the yields of rice, which is a major food source, will drop in many areas in the future, as a result of increasing global warming. [News Source]

Delicate Partnership Between Coral And Algae Threatened By Global Warming (Science Daily) Over two hundred million humans depend for their subsistence on the fact that coral has an addiction to "junk food" -- and orders its partners, the symbiotic algae, to make it. This curious arrangement is one of nature's most delicate and complex partnerships -- a collaboration now facing grave threats from climate change. [News Source]

Climate change bad for natives (Adelaide Now) CLIMATE change poses a grave threat to native species and a boon for introduced pests like the cane toad, an environmental report says. [News Source]