Valley was the ‘bull's eye' for late April snowstorm | AspenTimes.com

About 12 to 14 inches of snow fell overnight at the top of Aspen Mountain, according to Aspen Skiing Co. Vice President of Mountain Operations Rich Burkley, but the wind created pockets twice that deep.

WATER: Big Sierra snowpack may ward off more drought restrictions

The snowpack has grown to 143 percent of normal for this time of year across the 400-mile Sierra Nevada, according to the California Department of Water Resources.

Carbon tax comes into effect today | Irish Examiner

The Government's carbon tax on oil and gas comes into effect today.

The carbon tax was one of the cornerstones of the Greens' shopping list when it entered government.

A Disaster's Silver Lining - Bill McKibben

Dirty as the water is off the Mississippi Delta, that’s barely the tip of the damage from fossil fuel. If that oil had traveled down a pipeline to a refinery and then into the fuel tank of a car, it would have wrecked the planet just as powerfully. We now realize, as we didn’t on the first Earth Day, that the slick of carbon dioxide spreading invisibly across the atmosphere is driving change on a massive scale: by raising the planet’s temperature, it’s melting everything frozen, raising the level of the ocean, powering ever stronger storms. In the Gulf, and in every other ocean on the planet, that extra carbon is turning seawater acid. You can’t see it, but it’s wrecking marine life far more effectively and insidiously even than the spreading oil.