More Extreme Weather Recorded In Virginia We get our fair share of extreme weather, but can we link it to climate change or global warming? An environmental group in Virginia says it's crunched the numbers to prove just that.  [News Source]

Native American Communities Suffer Most from Climate Change Extreme weather, water scarcity, coastal erosion, and other devastating effects of climate change will bring disproportionate harm to Native American populations, as many indigenous communities rely heavily on natural resources for their livelihoods and ways of life, a report by PBS Newshour shows.   [News Source]

India’s northern and eastern power grids fail, leaving half country without electricity. India’s energy crisis spread over half the country Tuesday when both its eastern and northern electricity grids collapsed, leaving 600 million people without power in one of the world’s biggest-ever blackouts. [News Source]

Livestock groups seek drought relief with ethanol waiver. Hard-hit livestock and poultry producers petitioned the government on Monday to reduce or cancel the required use of ethanol in gasoline for a year, asking for "a little help" to ride out the worst drought in 56 years. [News Source]

1988 vs 2012: How heat waves and droughts fuel climate perception. Coming on the heels of decades of research, the 1988 North American drought bridged the gap between scientific and popular understanding, pulling climate change down out of the atmosphere and planting it firmly in the minds of the U.S. public. More than two decades later, the drought of 2012 has reignited national interest in global warming. [News Source]

India’s northern and eastern power grids fail, leaving half country without electricity. India’s blackout spread to cover more than half the country on Tuesday, as the electrical grid collapsed in 14 states in the country’s north and east, depriving at least 600 million people of power, many for a second day. [News Source]

Livestock groups seek drought relief with ethanol waiver. Hard-hit livestock and poultry producers petitioned the government on Monday to reduce or cancel the required use of ethanol in gasoline for a year, asking for "a little help" to ride out the worst drought in 56 years. [News Source]

1988 vs 2012: How heat waves and droughts fuel climate perception. Coming on the heels of decades of research, the 1988 North American drought bridged the gap between scientific and popular understanding, pulling climate change down out of the atmosphere and planting it firmly in the minds of the U.S. public. More than two decades later, the drought of 2012 has reignited national interest in global warming. [News Source]

Fracking boom lifts hopes for geothermal project at Oregon volcano. No matter what it may sound like, Susan Petty insists she's not trying to frack a volcano. Petty, the founder and president of the Seattle startup AltaRock Energy Inc., says she is just trying to do for geothermal energy what hydraulic fracturing has done for oil and gas. [News Source]

Extreme heat continues to plague South Central states. Dangerous heat is once again roasting South Central states, with heat advisories and warnings in effect through the end of the week in eight states. For some locations in the lower 48 states, July 2012 may go down in history as the warmest of any month on record. [News Source]

East Africa’s forests shrink, especially near parks. Forests in East Africa have shrunk over the past years, especially around the fringes of parks, complicating efforts to protect wildlife and fight climate change, a study showed on Monday. [News Source]