Forest beetles, fires called climate fingerprints

Beetles and fire are consuming northern forests in what scientists say is a preview of the future: as the land grows drier, trees grow weaker and pests, abetted by milder winters, grow stronger.

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Climate Wizard of Oz condemns Kansas. There will soon be no place like home for the people of Kansas, according to a new interactive map launched by The Nature Conservancy. Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa will be hardest hit in the US, with temperatures soaring by over 5 °C under a middle-of-the-road scenario. [News Source]

Gary Doer boosts PM’s bid to go green. When it comes to climate change, Doer's appointment is actually another piece in a puzzle designed to reposition Harper's government within the international mainstream. [News Source]

Climate change: combating the enemy within. Observers believe Nigeria's development is climate constrained. From rapidly expanding desert in the North to recurrent floods, erosion and ocean surge in the South, climatic change represents a clear and present danger. [News Source]

Mystery disappearance of sockeye salmon is alarming. The Fraser River's Sockeye Salmon are in trouble. And when the salmon are in trouble, we're in trouble. [News Source]

Walk this way - urge ’sustainable development.’ While developers have oversupplied single-family detached homes with backyards, buyers looking for a home within walking distance of jobs, services, good schools, parks and public transit have few options in this state. [News Source]

Congress endangers Clean Air Act. Several sections of the House version of the American Clean Energy and Security Act require correction by the Senate, perhaps none with as much imperative as ACES' limiting of the scope of the 1970 Clean Air Act. [News Source]

Forest conservation will allow some breathing room. If a tree breathes in the forest, and no one is there, does anybody hear it? Trees do breathe: they breathe in the carbon dioxide that causes climate change and are one of our best - and cheapest - defenses against global warming. [News Source]

Polluters win no matter who is in power. The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme is structured so that most of the revenue it raises will be recycled back to Australia's largest polluters rather than used to finance a massive increase in investment in renewable energy. [News Source]

South Asian nations meet to combat climate threat to Himalayas. South Asian nations are discussing how to prevent climate change in the Himalayan mountains, the world’s highest range, bringing more natural disasters to an area where 750 million people regularly face floods and drought. [News Source]

Himalayan nations hold first climate talks. Nepal's prime minister opened the first climate change conference of Himalayan nations on Monday with a warning about the dangers of melting glaciers, floods and violent storms for the region. [News Source]