The real health effects of hurricane Gustav. Hurricane Gustav has landed in Louisiana and Dr. Manny Alavarez, detailed Monday morning the short- and long-term health effects that residents will face in the aftermath. [News Source]

Energy’s most dangerous game. All the energy America needs for the next 100 years lies under the sea off the coast of South Carolina. One problem: Digging it out could cause a global climate disaster. [News Source]

Hurricane Gustav prompts Louisiana couple to take flight — again. Shrimpers Neang Pum and Sobong In fled Cambodia and survived Hurricane Katrina. Now they're forced to leave the boat they call home, with little gas and no place to go. [News Source]

Oil industry waits to assess storm’s impact. With a quarter of the nation's crude oil production coming from the Gulf's waters, the United States has drilled offshore to sustain domestic output--but made itself more vulnerable to the vagaries of the weather. [News Source]

Officials quick to praise emergency response. As Hurricane Gustav ground through central Louisiana and authorities nervously awaited damage reports, Bush administration officials yesterday were already applauding their performance so far, three years after the misery of Hurricane Katrina. [News Source]

Sighs of relative relief as damage is limited. The much-talked-about Hurricane Gustav that threatened to overwhelm roads and levees never materialized. No deaths were reported, and there was no major flooding. [News Source]

Erosion chewing up Canada’s coastlines, researchers warn. Rising sea levels and storm surges are taking a bite out of Canada's 243,000 kilometres of coastlines from the Atlantic to the Far North to the Pacific, researchers warn. [News Source]

Wider study shows spike in warming. The decade ending in 2006 was the warmest such period in the Northern Hemisphere for at least the last 1,300 years and possibly longer, according to a new study. [News Source]

Sea level rises may accelerate due to melting ice sheet. The vast Greenland ice sheet could begin to melt more rapidly than expected towards the end of the century, accelerating the rise in sea levels as a result of global warming, scientists warned yesterday. [News Source]

Reefs will be dead within 30 years, expert warns. The world's reefs, including Australia's Great Barrier Reef, will be dead within 30 years unless human activity changes quickly, a leading researcher says. [News Source]

Glaciers need closer watch in poor countries: UNEP. Scientists are not paying enough attention to glacial melting in the Andes, the Himalayas and peaks in other developing countries, a United Nations-backed report found on Monday. [News Source]