Cold Snap Hurts Crops - ABC 4.com - Salt Lake City, Utah News

SANDY, Utah (ABC 4 News) - Monday night's temperatures got down right frosty, some temperatures even reached record lows. And one farmer says that's a little too cool, too quickly. "Every farmer knows we're at the mercy of mother nature," Farmer Leo J. Farnsworth told ABC on Monday.

The Farnsworth farm in Sandy temperatures reached 45 degrees and for a farm that grows a wide range of vegetables and fruit, some produce was harmed by the cold weather, "we'll be impacted economically by the melons, they're the most endanger and perhaps the tomatoes too, " Farnsworth continued. Turns out, cold weather harms the growth of produce and can even kill it.

Rana Sugars Sells Carbon [Swindle] Credits

(RTTNews) - Rana Sugars on Tuesday informed that it has sold 149230 carbon credits as granted by United Nations Framework Convention on climate change (UNFCC) for period up to 2008-09. The company has sold aforesaid carbon credits for Rs. 11.24 crore. It is for the first time in the history of the company that it has earned such huge amount after selling carbon credits.

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Fairbanks based PolarTrec program brings teachers to the Arctic

The seventh-grade science teacher spent three weeks in Barrow last summer through PolarTrec, a program run by the Fairbanks-based Arctic Research Consortium of the United States. PolarTrec, funded by the National Science Foundation, has sent about 50 mostly middle and high school teachers from across the United States on research trips in the Arctic and Antarctic in its three- year life.

“The polar regions are one of the regions that are changing the quickest in the world,” Wilkening said. “The desert southwest is being affected by climate change too, and people don’t really make that connection. I wanted to help my students make that connection.”

The Climber Dan Goodwin Scales Millennium Tower in San Francisco - NYTimes.com

The spectacle echoed the dramatic climbs of Alain Robert, a Frenchman known for scaling tall buildings. He ascended The New York Times building in June 2008 and displayed a banner reading “Global warming kills more people than 9/11 every week” near the top.