"Climate Talks Open Amid Funding Spat"
"Subsistence farmers in Africa, victims of changing weather patterns, are caught in a stormy global debate over a special climate fund for which few want to pay."
Source: Wall St. Journal, 11/29/2011
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"Climate Change Boosts a Lethal Disease"
"For 17 years, the Hendra virus smoldered in its host bat population, only rarely crossing to humans. Then it exploded, likely triggered by heavy rains and floods in Australia earlier this year. And that has public health doctors nervous about climate change. "
Nancy Bazilchuk reports for the Daily Climate November 29, 2011.
Source: Daily Climate, 11/29/2011
"Gulf Oil Spill: BP Faces More Citations"
"The Obama administration says BP and two other companies are likely to face new citations for alleged safety and environmental violations stemming from last year's Gulf oil spill.
Michael Bromwich, head of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, says the upcoming notices stem from reviews that go beyond a federal government probe of the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon blast, which killed 11 workers and resulted in the nation's worst offshore oil spill.
Source: AP, 11/29/2011
Ringling Bros Agree To Fine For Alleged Animal Welfare Violations
"Life's no circus for the Ringling Brothers these days. The USDA announced Monday that an agreement was reached where Feld Entertainment, Inc., doing business as Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus (Feld), will pay a $270,000 fine for allegedly violating the Animal Welfare Act (AWA)."
Source: Huffington Post, 11/29/2011
"Laptop Wi-Fi Said To Nuke Sperm, But Caveats Abound"
"The digital age has left men's nether parts in a squeeze, if you believe the latest science on semen, laptops and wireless connections."
Source: Reuters, 11/29/2011
"Canada Says Kyoto Protocol 'Biggest Blunder,' May Withdraw"
"Global climate talks got an inauspicious start in Durban, South Africa, on Monday with reports that Canada planned to withdraw fully from the Kyoto Protocol, a carbon-limiting multinational treaty first adopted in 1997 and scheduled to expire in 2012."
Source: Huffington Post, 11/29/2011
"Increasingly Erratic Climate Menaces Africa's Cocoa"
"The weather may not always have been kind to cocoa farmers in West Africa, but until recently it was at least broadly predictable."
Source: Reuters, 11/29/2011
"Jacob Zuma Opens Durban Climate Negotiations With Plea To Delegates"
"Global warming already is causing suffering and conflict in Africa, from drought in Sudan and Somalia to flooding in South Africa, President Jacob Zuma said on Monday, urging delegates at an international climate conference to look beyond national interests for solutions."
Source: AP, 11/29/2011
"Global Warming: 2011 Tied For The 10th Hottest Year On Record"
"DURBAN, South Africa — World temperatures keep rising, and are heading for a threshold that could lead to irreversible changes of the Earth, the U.N. weather office said Tuesday."
Source: AP, 11/29/2011
"Report Highlights Obama's Broken Environmental Promises"
"Barack Obama has been just as zealous as George Bush in stripping away environmental, health and safety protection at the behest of industry, it turns out. Some environmental organisations were beginning to suspect this, after Obama over-ruled his scientific advisors and blocked stronger ozone standards. Now, a new report from the Centre for Progressive Reform has dug up some key data revealing that the White House in the age of Obama has been just as receptive to the pleadings of industry lobbyists as it was in the Bush era. And it goes far beyond ozone."
Source: Guardian, 11/29/2011
