Reef harm ‘would put $38b hole in tourism.’ The bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef caused by climate change would not only destroy one of the world's greatest natural wonders but would cost Australia $37.7 billion over the next century and devastate tourism in the north, a study has found. [News Source]

Flying frogs and the world’s oldest mushroom: a decade of Himalayan discovery. A flying frog and the world's oldest mushroom preserved in amber are among the 350 new species discovered in the Eastern Himalayas over the past 10 years. But experts warn the new discoveries are under pressure from demand for land and climate change. [News Source]

Getting sports events to go green. Stakeholders in the wide world of spectator sports are starting to pay at least some attention to the footprint they are leaving on the planet. [News Source]

Climate debate is shrouded in smog. This week will see the resumption of debate in the Senate on the Government's carbon pollution reduction scheme. On present indications, after a long series of speeches the scheme will be voted down. For several reasons, that is greatly regrettable. [News Source]

Coloradans grapple with promise, threat of uranium. The resurgence of uranium mining in Western Colorado rests on a few promises: This time, the government can be trusted to do its job; this time, regulators won't look the other way while men die in the mines and mills. [News Source]

Reef harm ‘would put $38b hole in tourism.’ The bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef caused by climate change would not only destroy one of the world's greatest natural wonders but would cost Australia $37.7 billion over the next century and devastate tourism in the north, a study has found. [News Source]

Flying frogs and the world’s oldest mushroom: a decade of Himalayan discovery. A flying frog and the world's oldest mushroom preserved in amber are among the 350 new species discovered in the Eastern Himalayas over the past 10 years. But experts warn the new discoveries are under pressure from demand for land and climate change. [News Source]

Vast expanses of Arctic ice melt in summer heat. The Arctic Ocean has given up tens of thousands more square miles (square kilometers) of ice in a relentless summer of melt, with scientists watching through satellite eyes for a possible record low polar ice cap. [News Source]

Getting sports events to go green. Stakeholders in the wide world of spectator sports are starting to pay at least some attention to the footprint they are leaving on the planet. [News Source]

Britain wants “radical rethink” on food production. Britain must find ways to grow more food while using less water, energy and fertilizers to help feed a growing world population and offset the effects of climate change on agriculture, the government said on Monday. [News Source]

China urged to cut CO2 with CCS technology. The huge costs required to capture carbon dioxide emitted by China's vast coal-fired power sector is a price worth paying to cut greenhouse gases to reasonable levels, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said. [News Source]