Global Times - Climate change still out of sight and out of mind

As the world waits to see if China and the US can save the earth at the UN Climate Change Conference Copenhagen next month, I walk through my community in north Beijing shocked by the apparent lack of awareness of global warming.

Cold weather shakes up Chile’s production schedule | The Packer

David Schiro, president of Jac Vandenberg Inc., Yonkers, N.Y., said he expects grape losses in the Aconcagua Valley to total roughly 7 million boxes as a result of the freezes.

Early snow bodes well for B.C. resorts

The snow gods appear to smiling on B.C. this Olympic winter, with gobs of snow falling unseasonably early at resorts throughout the province.