Cyclists carry message about global warming [CO2 fails to kill at least 16 bears; your cell phone charger allegedly causes kids in Madagascar to drink out of gutters]

They saw 16 bears en route, including five grizzlies.
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Climate change has dramatically changed weather patterns in Madagascar, including unseasonable flooding of the rice paddies that has made them highly susceptible to invading weeds, said Faye.

Men figure they are already too busy to help control the weeds, so the women float through the paddies on planks, pulling weeds, she said.

Their extra duties make it that much harder to take the time needed to collect and boil water for their children, who commonly drink out of the gutters.

Congress is looking over Obama's shoulder at the 2010 elections

The health-care and cap-and-trade bills' futures are problematic. They will be able to attract almost no Republican votes. In the House, perhaps 50 Democrats have threatened to vote no and, in the Senate, a half-dozen could do so. That would kill legislation Obama has said is vital but which frightens moderate Democrats because of its price tag and the tax increases which would be necessary to finance it. A recent Kaiser Foundation national survey found that health care, once thought voters' primary 2009 concern, now ranked only fourth as a voter concern, lagging behind economic recovery, the financial plights of Social Security and Medicare, and the size of the federal deficit.

Obama has gone to a full court press to drive the legislation forward. If the two bills cannot clear the Congress by its August recess, their chances will diminish. So, watch closely what happens to these bills over the next two weeks. It will be a measure of Democratic legislators' confidence or anxiety going into the election cycle.

Hillary in Indian Climate Change Standoff - BusinessWeek

And also, as in all diplomatic encounters, the setting and the company makes all the difference. She was flanked by Todd Stern, Mrs Clinton envoy on Climate Change, whose presence on her team raised eyebrows, with oversensitive Indian newspapers registering surprise on his inclusion. And she went out of her way to visit, and then compare the “green building”, constructed by none other than a tobacco manufacturer, as the next Taj Mahal.
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To fully understand the impassioned Indian reactions, remember that India and China are being slowly wooed to join the WTO as full partners, a process that all parties have found rancorous.
So, as usually happens at these sort of things, nothing was settled, everybody bared their teeth and drew a line in the constantly shifting sand about their intentions, and retreated back to their corners. India still has no interest in agreeing to legal caps on emissions, and the U.S. registered how earnestly it wanted to that to change.