News
Links for items in the news from todays podcast.
Forest Fires
- BBC News on Russian forrest fires
- Toronto Sun on deaths in Russia from heatwave
- Telegraph on forest fires in Portugal
- UKPA on Greek fires
- BBC News on Spanish fires
- BBC News on Bolivian fires
- LA Times on state of emergency in Kern County
- CBC on fires in British Columbia
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
– Eisenhower
Drought
- AFP on drought and floods in Niger
- AFP on drought in Russia
- Grist on soaring food prices in Russia
- Hindustan Times on drought in West Bengal
- physorg.com on drought in south west Australia
- physorg.com on droughts increasing globally and the effect on plant productivity
Floods
- AP on Pakistan floods
- NY Times on Pakistan floods
- BBC in pictures on the China floods
- BBC in pictures on the China floods
- BBC news on floods in Europe
Rising Temperatures and Climate Change
- Guardian on 2010 breaking temperature records
- Guardian on ice island breaking away from Greenland
- Op-ed from Al Jazeera linking these events with climate change
- Another op-ed linking these events with climate change
