Emissions linked to end of 2,000-year Arctic trend. Human-generated greenhouse gas emissions have helped reverse a 2,000-year trend of cooling in the Arctic, prompting warmer average temperatures in the past decade that now rank higher than at any time since 1 B.C., finds a major new study. [News Source]

‘Climate change is here, it is a reality’. Droughts have affected millions in a vast area stretching across Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Chad, and into Burkina Faso and Mali, and tens of thousands of nomadic herders have had to give up their animals. Towns like Moyale in Kenya with more than 10,000 people are now desperate for water. [News Source]

Iraq’s new war is a fight for water. As bombs continue to tear apart its towns and villages, Iraq is now in the grip of an environmental crisis that experts and officials warn may do what decades of war have not been able to – destroy the country. The new war on Iraq, say some, “is a war of water”. [News Source]

Dutch learn to live with, instead of fight, rising seas. With scientists' predicting that sea levels will rise by about one meter (3.3 feet) this century, the Dutch are reversing centuries of tradition to create natural flood plains for rivers as well as rebuild mangrove swamps as buffers against the sea. [News Source]

Renewable energy, meet the new NIMBYs. Renewable-energy projects would reduce pollution and combat climate change. The trade-off is that many more people would have to see wind turbines, solar panels and other energy infrastructure near their homes in order to diminish the need for coal mines and other fossil-fuel facilities. [News Source]

Emissions linked to end of 2,000-year Arctic trend. Human-generated greenhouse gas emissions have helped reverse a 2,000-year trend of cooling in the Arctic, prompting warmer average temperatures in the past decade that now rank higher than at any time since 1 B.C., finds a major new study. [News Source]

‘Climate change is here, it is a reality’. Droughts have affected millions in a vast area stretching across Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Chad, and into Burkina Faso and Mali, and tens of thousands of nomadic herders have had to give up their animals. Towns like Moyale in Kenya with more than 10,000 people are now desperate for water. [News Source]

Iraq’s new war is a fight for water. As bombs continue to tear apart its towns and villages, Iraq is now in the grip of an environmental crisis that experts and officials warn may do what decades of war have not been able to – destroy the country. The new war on Iraq, say some, “is a war of water”. [News Source]

Dutch learn to live with, instead of fight, rising seas. With scientists' predicting that sea levels will rise by about one meter (3.3 feet) this century, the Dutch are reversing centuries of tradition to create natural flood plains for rivers as well as rebuild mangrove swamps as buffers against the sea. [News Source]

No safe harbor: Off the hook. When it comes to the pace of regulating deadly shipping emissions, not everyone is content to adopt a wait and see attitude. As it has done before, California recently passed its own regulation in the absence of federal standards. [News Source]

Renewable energy, meet the new NIMBYs. Renewable-energy projects would reduce pollution and combat climate change. The trade-off is that many more people would have to see wind turbines, solar panels and other energy infrastructure near their homes in order to diminish the need for coal mines and other fossil-fuel facilities. [News Source]