WaterViews | Water Tops Climate Change as Global Priority | Circle of Blue | WaterNews

The survey, commissioned by Circle of Blue and conducted by Toronto and London-based GlobeScan was made public in Stockholm, Sweden, on August 18 during World Water Week. It found that people around the world view the fresh water crisis as the planet’s top environmental problem.

The fierce impediments to clean water and sanitation, and the millions of premature deaths from water-related disease are seen as having a greater influence on quality of life and the planet than air pollution, species extinction, depletion of natural resources, loss of habitat and climate change.

The Buzz: Weather models beginning to show signs of early frost.

Market Analyst Arlan Suderman noted that some weather models this week begin to hint at a frost for Canadian prairies towards the end of August, the first sign the market has seen for cold weather to damage late developing crops in North America.

Frost another challenge for this year’s crop quality - Grande Prairie Daily Herald Tribune - Alberta, CA

It will take at least a week to know if recent frost had any lasting damage on crops, a local agriculture expert says.

David Wong, a market specialist with Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development based out of Grande Prairie, said it’s too early to tell what effect – if any – the frost reported in some areas Friday morning may have had.

Heating beat-up has echoes of Y2K | The Australian

Aircraft could fall from the sky and businesses crash in a global digital catastrophe, we were warned. Panic set in and billions of dollars were spent across the world to head off this impending armageddon.

In this mad rush there was no room for sceptics. The evidence of the looming danger was overwhelming and undeniable, regardless of the fact that it sounded like something out of a science-fiction movie. Action had to be taken and no price was too high.