Mopping up after city’s deluge will cost millions. Millions of euro worth of damage was caused yesterday after Dublin was swamped by a record two weeks' worth of rain in one hour. The city's new Lord Mayor Councillor Emer Costello called the deluge "a direct consequence of climate change." [News Source]

Severe drought conditions in western Saskatchewan. Drought conditions in western Saskatchewan have left crop producers thinking they won't see any fruits of their many efforts this year and at least one expert pointing to billions in costs to Canada's economy. [News Source]

MMWD looks at plan for longer drought. Faced with the prospect of less frequent rainstorms due to global warming, Marin Municipal Water District planners are considering a more conservative approach to drought projections. [News Source]

Loss of world’s seagrass beds seen accelerating. The world's seagrass meadows, a critical habitat for marine life and profit-maker for the fishing industry, are in decline due to coastal development and the losses are accelerating, according to a new study. [News Source]

Activists decry state’s fossil fuel dependence. In the shadow of the NRG Energy power plant on Riverside Avenue, Environment Massachusetts, a citizen-funded environmental group, called for Massachusetts to refocus its efforts on clean and renewable energy for the future. [News Source]

Study on carbon-priced Singapore. The Energy Studies Institute (ESI) has embarked on what will be a landmark study to understand what Singapore would look like in a carbon-priced world. [News Source]

NZ scientist warns of Antarctic ice melt, sea rise. A New Zealand scientist warned on Thursday of rising sea levels due to Antarctic ice melt. Tim Naish said new evidence showed that changes to Antarctica's most vulnerable element, the West Antarctic ice sheet, could raise global sea levels by up to 5 metres. [News Source]

El Nino more like Los Ninos, weather study finds. Two distinct patterns of warming occur in the Pacific Ocean, according to researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and their frequencies have been changing in recent decades. [News Source]

New form of El Nino may increase Atlantic storms. El Nino may have a split personality. The warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean has long been known to affect weather around the world, but researchers now say it may come in two forms with different impacts. [News Source]

Predicting El Nino’s impacts. In a landmark report, scientists revisit the structure of the El Nino Southern Oscillation. The study has important consequences for the predictability of global weather patterns. [News Source]

Scientists solve mystery of Scotland’s shrinking sheep. Experts say shorter and milder winters mean that lambs do not need to put as much weight on during their first few months of life. Smaller animals that would have perished in harsh winters a few decades ago can now survive to their first birthday. [News Source]