Icy weather making burials difficult - The Boston Globe

Deep snow, frozen ground, clogged roads complicate task

Cold weather was fatal to fish - Beaumont Enterprise

Fewer fish are alive in Texas bays today than were swimming in them just a week ago.

The UK must own up to the full scale of its emissions problem | Guy Shrubsole and Alex Randall | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Outsourced emissions are a growing problem that the government is failing to acknowledge

Definition of car-dependency: Using a car to steal a bike | Grist

Here's how car-dependent we are as a culture: Even bike thieves don't ride bikes.

China: the neverending traffic jam story | Grist

The problem is, there's barely enough space on the roads in China's largest cities for the 35 million cars that were bought during the past decade of frenzied consumerism, according to transportation experts at the University of California, Berkeley, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.