EU PAPER SHOWS OPTIONS ON WARMING EUROPE, etc.
Date: Sunday, July 01, 2007 @ 13:35:35 UTC
Topic: General
(AP) -- Water shortages in the Mediterranean, flash floods along the Rhine and
summers so hot that nuclear power stations can't cool down. This is what Europe
can expect as its climate warms over the next decades, a European Uni0n paper
warned Friday, as it laid out options for what governments can do now to prepare
for the effects of climate change.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news102393230.html
WEATHER EXTREMES WITHER LA, DROWN TEXAS, June 30
(AP) -- Barring a surprise
arrival of the kind of gully washers Texas is getting these days, Los Angeles'
driest year in 130 years of record-keeping will go into the books this
weekend.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news102393045.html
NUCLEAR ENERGY HOT TOPIC ONCE AGAIN, July 01
(AP) -- Thanks to global
warming, nuclear energy is hot again. Its promise of abundant, carbon
emissions-free power is being pushed by the president and newly considered by
environmentalists. But any expansion won't come cheap or easy.
Full story at
http://www.physorg.com/news102517413.html
WILSON: INSECTS ESSENTIAL TO HUMAN LIFE, July 01
Ant expert Edward O.
Wilson, in Washington for National Pollinator Week, is warning extinctions in
the insect world could threaten life as we know it.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news102517579.html
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